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From: Lukas Razik <lukas@razik.de>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Maybe NFS bug since 2.6.37 on SPARC64
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:02:31 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320418951.17239.YahooMailNeo@web24716.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111104144617.GB911@umich.edu>

> Chuck Lever wrote:

> 
>   On Nov 4, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Jim Rees wrote:
>   
>   > As for a fix...  we're trying to move away from udp transport 
> anyway.  Maybe
>   > someone should figure out a way to get it to work with tcp?  I have zero
>   > experience with nfs over udp, at least on linux.  Just for fun, have you
>   > tried tcp transport (proto=tcp)?
>   
>   TCP is a real problem in this environment, because it deals poorly with
>   NIC initialization timing issues.  UDP is still the best approach (as long
>   as it is retransmitting appropriately).  To support TCP, ultimately what
>   we need to do is to introduce serialization to make the kernel wait for
>   the NIC to become ready before attempting network activity.
> 
> Agreed, but we're grasping at straws here, and this guy just wants it to
> work.  It's something to try.

Yes, this could be a fast workaround. I'll test it in some minutes.
Thanks for that and till later then...

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 19:43 [BUG?] Maybe NFS bug since 2.6.37 on SPARC64 Lukas Razik
2011-11-03 20:54 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-03 21:10   ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-03 21:11   ` Jim Rees
2011-11-03 21:16     ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-03 21:37       ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-03 21:51         ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-03 23:09           ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-03 23:59             ` Jim Rees
2011-11-04  0:59               ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04  1:06             ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-04  1:33               ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04  9:44               ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04 13:20                 ` Jim Rees
2011-11-04 14:01                   ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-04 14:09                     ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-11-04 14:24                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-11-04 14:46                     ` Jim Rees
2011-11-04 15:02                       ` Lukas Razik [this message]
2011-11-04 15:18                       ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-11-04 15:46                       ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04 22:55                         ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-04 23:17                           ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04 13:54                 ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-04 14:57                   ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04 16:56                   ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04 17:55                   ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-04 23:15                     ` NFSROOT mount fails on SPARC after 2.6.37 Chuck Lever
2011-11-05  2:03                       ` David Miller
2011-11-05  2:38                         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-04 23:40                   ` [BUG?] Maybe NFS bug since 2.6.37 on SPARC64 Lukas Razik
2011-11-05  1:19                     ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-05  1:52                       ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-05  2:14                       ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-05  2:30                         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-05  2:31                         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-05  2:31                         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-05  3:51                           ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-05 13:05                             ` Jim Rees
2011-11-12 11:35                               ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-12 18:49                                 ` Jim Rees
2011-11-12 21:06                                   ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-13  1:03                                     ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-13 19:32                                       ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-13 21:28                                         ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-13 22:19                                           ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-14 15:31                                             ` Chuck Lever
2011-11-03 21:18   ` Lukas Razik
2011-11-03 21:38     ` Jim Rees
2011-11-03 21:58       ` Lukas Razik

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