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

NeilBrown
2025-05-14T00:11:14Z

On Tue, 13 May 2025, 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.
>
> 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 curious - why do you want it in stable?
If you just want the functionality you can apply the patches yourself,
or ask your kernel vendor to do that for you. What do you gain by
having us submit them to stable@?

Thanks,
NeilBrown