Re: [PATCH] NFSv4: Don't retry server trunking discovery on timeouts (v2)

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Trond,

On 03/07/2014 10:44 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> To allow background mounts to process into background,
> server trunking discovery needs to return the -ETIMEDOUT
> error to the mount command instead of endless retrying in
> the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Any chance of reconsidering this patch? Or come up
with a better a way for the kernel to start returning ETIMEOUTS
and ECONNREFUSEDs again? 

steved.
> ---
>  fs/nfs/nfs4state.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> index e1a4721..e0e4d34 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> @@ -2083,8 +2083,9 @@ again:
>  	switch (status) {
>  	case 0:
>  		break;
> -	case -NFS4ERR_DELAY:
>  	case -ETIMEDOUT:
> +		break;
> +	case -NFS4ERR_DELAY:
>  	case -EAGAIN:
>  		ssleep(1);
>  	case -NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID:
>