[CIFS] cifs: reconnect unresponsive servers
authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:06:34 +0000 (18:06 +0000)
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:06:34 +0000 (18:06 +0000)
commitfda3594362184383e73f0a2a5fa5b38ac0e04fd8
treec196d4a5211044760debd89eec810053f0025e45
parentc74093b694998d30105d9904686da5e3576497c4
[CIFS] cifs: reconnect unresponsive servers

If the server isn't responding to echoes, we don't want to leave tasks
hung waiting for it to reply. At that point, we'll want to reconnect
so that soft mounts can return an error to userspace quickly.

If the client hasn't received a reply after a specified number of echo
intervals, assume that the transport is down and attempt to reconnect
the socket.

The number of echo_intervals to wait before attempting to reconnect is
tunable via a module parameter. Setting it to 0, means that the client
will never attempt to reconnect. The default is 5.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
fs/cifs/connect.c