Re: [stable] NFS client packet storm on 2.6.27.x

Greg KH
2009-07-13T17:23:31Z

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Kasparek Tomas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:55:32AM +0200, Kasparek Tomas wrote:
> > http://www.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.27/
> >
> > .../fixups_4/linux-2.6.27-001-respond_promptly_to_socket_errors.dif
> > .../fixups_4/linux-2.6.27-002-respond_promptly_to_socket_errors_2.dif
> >
> > ...
> > Together with tcp_linger patch it seems to improve the situation a lot to
> > state when it is possible for me to use 2.6.27.x kernels.
> >
> > Trond, will it be possible to get tcp_linger and the upper twho patches to
> > 2.6.27.x stable queue so others get these fixes?
>
> I got no response so far, is there someone who could advise me what to do
> to get above patches to 2.6.27.x stable? Or is there some reason, why this
> is not possible at all?

Can you backport them and send them to stable@kernel.org with the git
commit ids of the orignal patches?

thanks,

greg k-h