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Date:   Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:51:20 -0400
To:     Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: Spurious instability with NFSoRDMA under moderate load
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From:   bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 08:01:30PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> Perhaps instead of destroying the rpc_clnt, the server should
> retain it and simply recycle the underlying transport data
> structures.

I think there was more trunking supported added to the rpc client since
the callback code was written, so something like that might make sense
now.

--b.