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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2007-02-06 18:26:11 -0500
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-02-12 22:40:45 -0800
commit43d78ef2ba5bec26d0315859e8324bfc0be23766 (patch)
tree6ea576e0a20a11745c7a45b2a15dd855a45b655a /net
parenta301b777714087ea1d63dbec0173a13d416cd7a9 (diff)
downloadlinux-43d78ef2ba5bec26d0315859e8324bfc0be23766.tar.gz
NFS: disconnect before retrying NFSv4 requests over TCP
RFC3530 section 3.1.1 states an NFSv4 client MUST NOT send a request
twice on the same connection unless it is the NULL procedure.  Section
3.1.1 suggests that the client should disconnect and reconnect if it
wants to retry a request.

Implement this by adding an rpc_clnt flag that an ULP can use to
specify that the underlying transport should be disconnected on a
major timeout.  The NFSv4 client asserts this new flag, and requests
no retries after a minor retransmit timeout.

Note that disconnecting on a retransmit is in general not safe to do
if the RPC client does not reuse the TCP port number when reconnecting.

See http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/clnt.c2
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/xprt.c10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 393e70aee181..c21aa0a7f770 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ struct rpc_clnt *rpc_create(struct rpc_create_args *args)
 		clnt->cl_autobind = 1;
 	if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_ONESHOT)
 		clnt->cl_oneshot = 1;
+	if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_DISCRTRY)
+		clnt->cl_discrtry = 1;
 
 	return clnt;
 }
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index cf59f7d315d0..1975139b26e7 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -735,6 +735,16 @@ void xprt_transmit(struct rpc_task *task)
 			xprt_reset_majortimeo(req);
 			/* Turn off autodisconnect */
 			del_singleshot_timer_sync(&xprt->timer);
+		} else {
+			/* If all request bytes have been sent,
+			 * then we must be retransmitting this one */
+			if (!req->rq_bytes_sent) {
+				if (task->tk_client->cl_discrtry) {
+					xprt_disconnect(xprt);
+					task->tk_status = -ENOTCONN;
+					return;
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	} else if (!req->rq_bytes_sent)
 		return;