Re: [PATCH 2/2] NFS: Limit the number of retries

[Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>]

On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 00:24 +0800, Wenle Chen wrote:
>   We can't wait forever, even if the state
> is always delayed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenle Chen <chenwenle@huawei.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
> index f6b5dc792b33..bb2316bf13f6 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
> @@ -7390,15 +7390,17 @@ int nfs4_lock_delegation_recall(struct
> file_lock *fl, struct nfs4_state *state,
>  {
>         struct nfs_server *server = NFS_SERVER(state->inode);
>         int err;
> +       int retry = 3;
>  
>         err = nfs4_set_lock_state(state, fl);
>         if (err != 0)
>                 return err;
>         do {
>                 err = _nfs4_do_setlk(state, F_SETLK, fl,
> NFS_LOCK_NEW);
> -               if (err != -NFS4ERR_DELAY)
> +               if (err != -NFS4ERR_DELAY || retry == 0)
>                         break;
>                 ssleep(1);
> +               --retry;
>         } while (1);
>         return nfs4_handle_delegation_recall_error(server, state,
> stateid, fl, err);
>  }

This patch will just cause the locks to be silently lost, no?

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com