Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:42:01 +0000
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Reply-To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
        Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Fatal crash with NFS, AIO & tcp retransmit
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Trond,

--On 23 January 2013 17:37:08 +0000 "Myklebust, Trond" 
<Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:

>> If you break the connection, and the written data is now not available
>> to dom0 (as it's been mapped out), how would it ever get resent? IE
>> it's not going to be available to the RPC layer either.
>
> There are typically more than 1 outstanding RPC call at any one time.
> Breaking the connection would affect those other RPC calls.

I understand that. I meant 'how does the write which failed ever
get retransmitted now the data to be written has been lost?'

-- 
Alex Bligh