From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: RPC client's TCP transport ignores errors during connect Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:21:13 -0400 Message-ID: <1207686073.11699.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <20080408173602.21776.60671.stgit@manray.1015granger.net> <1207677350.11699.9.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:36283 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753179AbYDHUVm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:21:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:35 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > Last week, you claimed: > > > The client currently doesn't retry in the case of a connection > > failing for a soft RPC request. > > In fact, it does retry a connection attempt on soft RPC requests > until a *major* timeout occurs. You're right. I forgot that we changed that. > So is the actual bug in call_timeout? I'm confused. What should call_timeout be doing differently? -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com