NFS client patches for Linux 2.4.7 and 2.4.8

linux-2.4.7-memalloc.dif:

A patch that implements GFP_NOFS allocation in order to stop ordinary NFS read/write completion causing writepage() avalanches.

linux-2.4.7-file.dif:

A patch for fixing a highmem leak that can sometimes occur when a signal interrupts a write.

linux-2.4.7-mmap.dif:

A patch for fixing the problem of shared mmap writes getting corrupted.

linux-2.4.7-stale.dif:

A patch for fixing a problem of root inodes being marked as stale while a server is down for maintenance.

linux-2.4.7-seekdir.dif:

An experimental patch for fixing a problem that is due to NFSv(2|3) readdir returning (32|64) bit unsigned offsets.

If you are seeing problems involving files that mysteriously disappear from your directory listings, then please consider applying this patch.

NOTE: this patch should no longer require any extra patching to glibc.

linux-2.4.7-cto.dif:

A patch --initially by Chuck Lever, but now heavily changed by me-- which improves the NFS clients ability to cache lookups. This can make quite a difference to the performance of "make" and other such utilities.

patch_hjl_locks.dif:

Fix the generic Linux file locking code to conform more closely to the UNIX 98 specifications. Also fix NLM to accept F_(GETLK|SETLK|SETLKW)64.

This patch was contributed by H.J. Lu.

linux-2.4.7-reclaim.dif:

Fix the NLM lock reclaiming code. If a server goes down, any locks that were held on that machine will be lost. In order to for this, the NLM protocol relies on the 'rpc.statd' program to notify it whenever the server comes up again. At that point, the client has a grace period during which it can reclaim any locks it thinks it is holding.

This code was in large part contributed by the folks of MissionCritical Linux.

linux-2.4.7-rdplus.dif:

Implements the dirent->d_off field in getdents64() by means of the NFSv3 READDIRPLUS function (and further cleans up the readdir code).

Once `find' and friends learn how to use d_off, this should significantly improve the act of recursing through directories.

This patch assumes you have already applied the preceeding readdir fixes in linux-2.4.7-seekdir.dif

linux-2.4.7-rpc_smpfixes.dif:

Assorted SMP locking fixes for the SunRPC code. Primarily designed to fix up the TCP code.

linux-2.4.7-ping.dif:

The RPC ping code for improving stability on UDP.

This patch assumes you have already applied the SunRPC SMP fixes linux-2.4.7-rpc_smpfixes.dif.

linux-2.4.7-rpc_sched.dif:

A patch that slightly optimizes the low memory behaviour of RPC

linux-2.4.7-NFS_ALL.dif:

A patch containing all of the above

	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
	Parent Directory		-
	linux-2.4.7-NFS_ALL.dif	2001-07-21 15:55	86K
	linux-2.4.7-cto.dif	2001-07-04 19:11	9.0K
	linux-2.4.7-file.dif	2001-06-22 22:30	669
	linux-2.4.7-locks.dif	2001-07-10 10:02	5.2K
	linux-2.4.7-memalloc..>	2001-07-21 14:56	2.2K
	linux-2.4.7-mmap.dif	2001-07-16 12:52	19K
	linux-2.4.7-ping.dif	2001-06-22 22:37	19K
	linux-2.4.7-rdplus.dif	2001-06-22 22:34	5.6K
	linux-2.4.7-reclaim.dif	2001-07-19 12:17	10K
	linux-2.4.7-rpc_sche..>	2001-07-17 12:29	1.0K
	linux-2.4.7-rpc_smpf..>	2001-06-22 22:35	15K
	linux-2.4.7-seekdir.dif	2001-05-21 13:15	3.7K
	linux-2.4.7-stale.dif	2001-07-04 19:07	1.8K