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From: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS/TCP timeout sequence
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:05:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990.40467.487035.962976@regina.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310048213.3863.37.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:16:53 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> Anyway, why shouldn't we back off if the server is failing to respond?

Wasn't it the no-backoff/drop-connection approach what Mike Eisler was
advocating back in '06 during Connectathon?

http://www.connectathon.org/talks06/eisler.pdf

I think this was the trigger to go from exponential backoff to linear.

max

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07  8:11 NFS/TCP timeout sequence Max Matveev
2011-07-07 13:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-07-07 14:04   ` Chuck Lever
2011-07-07 14:16     ` Trond Myklebust
2011-07-07 14:44       ` Chuck Lever
2011-07-07 14:59         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-08-04  5:54           ` Max Matveev
2011-08-04  5:42             ` [PATCH] NFS: allow enough time for timeouts to run Max Matveev
2011-08-04  5:47             ` [PATCH] Update nfs(5) manpage - timeo for NFS/TCP Max Matveev
2011-08-04 12:04               ` Jim Rees
2011-08-05  0:57                 ` Max Matveev
2011-08-05  1:39                   ` Jim Rees
2011-08-05  2:14                     ` Max Matveev
2011-07-08  6:05       ` Max Matveev [this message]
2011-07-08  0:20   ` NFS/TCP timeout sequence Max Matveev

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