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Commit 43d78ef2 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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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: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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