[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: don't drop silently on upcall deferral
authorJ.Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:35:25 +0000 (00:35 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:05:54 +0000 (09:05 -0800)
commite0bb89ef031f76dcb9c9d920d18b13948f1418da
tree6016032b160db2cf697eea19cd0f12ace946c7cc
parent021d3a72459191a76e8e482ee4937ba6bc9fd712
[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: don't drop silently on upcall deferral

To avoid tying up server threads when nfsd makes an upcall (to mountd, to get
export options, to idmapd, for nfsv4 name<->id mapping, etc.), we temporarily
"drop" the request and save enough information so that we can revisit it
later.

Certain failures during the deferral process can cause us to really drop the
request and never revisit it.

This is often less than ideal, and is unacceptable in the NFSv4 case--rfc 3530
forbids the server from dropping a request without also closing the
connection.

As a first step, we modify the deferral code to return -ETIMEDOUT (which is
translated to nfserr_jukebox in the v3 and v4 cases, and remains a drop in the
v2 case).

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/nfsd/export.c
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c
fs/nfsd/vfs.c
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
net/sunrpc/cache.c
net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c