Re: [PATCH v5 19/19] SUNRPC: Bump the maximum payload size for the server

Chuck Lever
2025-05-13T12:08:48Z

On 5/13/25 4:42 AM, Aurélien Couderc wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/12/25 12:44 PM, Aurélien Couderc wrote:
>>> Could this patch series - minus the change to the default of 1MB - be
>>> promoted to Linux 6.6 LongTermSupport, please?
>>
>> It has to be merged upstream first.
>>
>> But, new features are generally not backported to stable. At this time,
>> this feature is intended only for future kernels.

To be utterly clear, I don't set the rules about what goes into the LTS
kernels.

> 1. I could argue that this patch series - minus the change to the
> default of 1MB - is a "necessary cleanup", removing half broken buffer
> size limits
> 2. The patch series makes /proc/fs/nfsd/max_block_size usable
>
> IMO this qualifies the patch series for stable@

I'm not aware of any misbehavior in this area that qualifies as a
security issue, a crasher, or a performance regression. Those are
the kind of issues that would qualify this series for backport.

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Chuck Lever