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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd/blocklayout: accept any minlength
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:45:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151009174556.GA8188@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151009170400.GA7482@lst.de>

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 07:04:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 11:28:03AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > OK, planning to apply for 4.3 just on the assumption that you know what
> > you're doing, but: I don't get it--it looks like the worst that can
> > happen here is we just reuturn LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE to LAYOUTGET.
> > Shouldn't the client then just fall back on normal NFS IO?  Why the
> > hang?
> 
> I've just retested with Trond's latest tree and can't reproduce the
> hang anymore.  It used to fence the client due to a lack of response,
> but that might have been a different client bug that has now been fixed.

OK, makes sense.

This still looks like a harmless enough change, but is it still stable
and 4.3 material?

If it affected a released client then it's probably worth it even if
it's really a client bug.  If it's just something you saw once against
an -rc1, I'd rather leave it for 4.4.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-09 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-09 13:03 [PATCH] nfsd/blocklayout: accept any minlength Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-09 15:28 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-10-09 17:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-09 17:45     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2015-10-09 17:54       ` Trond Myklebust
2015-10-09 20:04         ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-10-09 20:14           ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-10-11 13:08           ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-10-12 20:18             ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-10-11 13:03       ` Christoph Hellwig

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