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nfsv3: Make v3 mounts fail with ETIMEDOUTs instead EIO on mountd timeouts
authorScott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:22:19 +0000 (13:22 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:14:21 +0000 (13:14 -0800)
commite4648b149c10256dbc4d4ce5d1c052e733d224f5
tree5ec87594f7b2a927e81d3261f136d924de940885
parent9c750c9809ddeb36dffc376ad26e7864d4c2a259
nfsv3: Make v3 mounts fail with ETIMEDOUTs instead EIO on mountd timeouts

commit acce94e68a0f346115fd41cdc298197d2d5a59ad upstream.

In very busy v3 environment, rpc.mountd can respond to the NULL
procedure but not the MNT procedure in a timely manner causing
the MNT procedure to time out. The problem is the mount system
call returns EIO which causes the mount to fail, instead of
ETIMEDOUT, which would cause the mount to be retried.

This patch sets the RPC_TASK_SOFT|RPC_TASK_TIMEOUT flags to
the rpc_call_sync() call in nfs_mount() which causes
ETIMEDOUT to be returned on timed out connections.

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/nfs/mount_clnt.c