Re: Failure! Re: [PATCH 0/4] 2.6.21-rc7 NFS writes: fix a series of issues

Trond Myklebust
2007-04-19T21:30:49Z

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 14:58 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:09:42PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > See
> > http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.21-rc7/
> >
> > I'm giving the first 5 patches of that series (i.e.
> > linux-2.6.21-001-cleanup_unstable_write.dif to
> > linux-2.6.21-005-fix_nfsv4_resend.dif) an extra beating since those are
> > the ones that I feel should go into 2.6.21 final in order to fix the
> > read/write regressions that have been reported. They should be identical
> > to the patches that I posted on lkml in the past 3 days.
> >
> > Please feel free to grab them and give them a test.
>
> The copy completed some time ago, but now I cannot ssh into the box!
> This is a new development, as before I was always able to ssh into,
> even when the copy slowed down to a trickle.
>
> I'm far from the machine right now, so I will do some more tests
> tonight, but right now, the new patchset is not good. What is the
> difference between reverting the patch you sent yesterday and your
> current fifth patch? I assume the other four are identical, right?

The only difference is the way in which we handle retries of an NFSv4
request: the new patch disconnects if and only if a timeout has
occurred, or the server sends us garbage.

Trond