Re: [BUG?] Maybe NFS bug since 2.6.37 on SPARC64

Lukas Razik
2011-11-04T15:02:35Z

> 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...