Subject: Re: [BUG?] Maybe NFS bug since 2.6.37 on SPARC64
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: Lukas Razik <linux@razik.name>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:30:44 -0400
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On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 02:14 +0000, Lukas Razik wrote: 
> ***IMPORTANT HINT***
> 
> In the test belowI've tried to ping the NFS client (cluster2) as soon as I've got the
> 
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> message.
> 
> 
> And at first I've got no answers from the client. But 10-20sec later I've got pongs back.
> So the NIC comes up some seconds later than the message "link becomes ready" is shown...
> In the case of 'mountproto=tcp' it comes up after the kernel panic. So that's much too late.
> 

So, once again...

What kind of switch is this client connected to, and how is that switch
configured?

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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