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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2008-10-29 00:47:57 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2008-10-29 00:47:57 +0000
commitedf1ae403896cb7750800508b14996ba6be39a53 (patch)
treeff792ea77e558d473a9f6515397728d31e73fd09 /fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
parent49fdf6785fd660e18a1eb4588928f47e9fa29a9a (diff)
[CIFS] Reduce number of socket retries in large write path
CIFS in some heavy stress conditions cifs could get EAGAIN repeatedly in smb_send2 which led to repeated retries and eventually failure of large writes which could lead to data corruption. There are three changes that were suggested by various network developers: 1) convert cifs from non-blocking to blocking tcp sendmsg (we left in the retry on failure) 2) change cifs to not set sendbuf and rcvbuf size for the socket (let tcp autotune the buffer sizes since that works much better in the TCP stack now) 3) if we have a partial frame sent in smb_send2, mark the tcp session as invalid (close the socket and reconnect) so we do not corrupt the remaining part of the SMB with the beginning of the next SMB. This does not appear to hurt performance measurably and has been run in various scenarios, but it definately removes a corruption that we were seeing in some high stress test cases. Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/cifsproto.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/cifsproto.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index 0cff7fe986e8..6f21ecb85ce5 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ extern void cifs_buf_release(void *);
extern struct smb_hdr *cifs_small_buf_get(void);
extern void cifs_small_buf_release(void *);
extern int smb_send(struct socket *, struct smb_hdr *,
- unsigned int /* length */ , struct sockaddr *);
+ unsigned int /* length */ , struct sockaddr *, bool);
extern unsigned int _GetXid(void);
extern void _FreeXid(unsigned int);
#define GetXid() (int)_GetXid(); cFYI(1,("CIFS VFS: in %s as Xid: %d with uid: %d",__func__, xid,current->fsuid));