[pnfs] Updated implementation of backchannel client response

Benny Halevy bhalevy at panasas.com
Mon Feb 4 12:46:15 EST 2008


Applied onto the (new) rlabiaga-bc-response-v1 branch
to be merged into nfs41 modulo some more testing.

Benny

Ricardo Labiaga wrote:
> This second patchset implements the response path to backchannel
> requests on the client.  It addresses comments provided by Benny.  The
> original submission did not use the RPC state machine on the backchannel
> reply.  Instead, it submitted the reply directly to the transport.  This
> has problems if the transport is busy, causing the reply to be put to
> sleep and never be requeued.  With this patch, the RPC state machine
> will reschedule the message to be sent in case the transport was busy.
> 
> The most relevant changes since the first submission are in patches:
> 0005 and 0010.
> 
> This patchset replaces the "origin/rlabiaga-bc-response" branch.
> 
> - ricardo
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