From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Massive NFS problems on large cluster with large number of mounts Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:48:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20080717144852.GA11759@fieldses.org> References: <4869E8AB.4060905@aei.mpg.de> <20080701182250.GB21807@fieldses.org> <486B89F5.9000109@aei.mpg.de> <20080702203130.GA24850@fieldses.org> <1215032676.7087.30.camel@localhost> <487DC43F.8040408@aei.mpg.de> <20080716190658.GF20298@fieldses.org> <76bd70e30807170747r31af3280icf0bd3fdbde17bac@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Carsten Aulbert , Trond Myklebust , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Henning Fehrmann , Steffen Grunewald To: chucklever@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:46956 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752818AbYGQOs4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:48:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <76bd70e30807170747r31af3280icf0bd3fdbde17bac-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:47:25AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > The immediate problem seems like a kernel bug to me--it seems to me that > > the calls to local daemons should be ignoring {min_,max}_resvport. (Or > > is there some way the daemons can still know that those calls come from > > the local kernel?) > > I tend to agree. The rpcbind client (at least) does specifically > require a privileged port, so a large min/max port range would be out > of the question for those rpc_clients. Any chance I could talk you into doing a patch for that? --b.