Re: Make sm-notify faster if there are no servers to notify

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:30:03PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote:
>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:13:20AM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote:
>>>> Dear Experts,
>>>>
>>>> sm-notify was taking a long time while my laptop booted.  This was 
>>>> odd because I use NFS only rarely - via autofs - on that machine, and 
>>>> sm-notify actually has no-one to notify most of the time.  So I have 
>>>> patched it as follows.  Is this a legitimate thing to do?
>>> It looks like your patch was committed to nfs-utils a couple weeks ago:
>>> see c8d18e26d2a53d9036a32c2dafebccaf4ce1634d from
>>>
>>> 	git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils
>>>
>>> --b.
>> How curious.  I guess someone saw my Debian bug report.  No mention of  
>> it on this list as far as I can see though.
>>
>> I presume from this that it is considered a safe thing to do.
> 
> It looks right to me.  Hopefully somebody actually has tested this on a
> client that holds locks when it reboots?
I did... things worked as expected....

steved.