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authorTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>2023-09-09 12:23:01 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>2023-10-22 19:47:56 -0400
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NFSv4: Add a parameter to limit the number of retries after NFS4ERR_DELAY
When using a 'softerr' mount, the NFSv4 client can get stuck waiting forever while the server just returns NFS4ERR_DELAY. Among other things, this causes the knfsd server threads to busy wait. Add a parameter that tells the NFSv4 client how many times to retry before giving up. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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[NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
channel should listen.
+ nfs.delay_retrans=
+ [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client
+ retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error,
+ after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server.
+ Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled,
+ and the specified value is >= 0.
+
nfs.enable_ino64=
[NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode