From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] NFS client packet storm on 2.6.27.x Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:20:01 -0700 Message-ID: <20090713172001.GA22775@kroah.com> References: <20090116104802.GF47559@fit.vutbr.cz> <20090118130835.GH47559@fit.vutbr.cz> <20090120150301.GG47559@fit.vutbr.cz> <1232465547.7055.3.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20090303120848.GV89843@fit.vutbr.cz> <1236089767.9631.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20090418051739.GL64731@fit.vutbr.cz> <20090422172707.GC57877@fit.vutbr.cz> <20090625055532.GC50277@fit.vutbr.cz> <20090713111214.GC30754@fit.vutbr.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org To: Kasparek Tomas Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:52283 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756635AbZGMRXb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:23:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090713111214.GC30754@fit.vutbr.cz> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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