Re: [PATCH] lockd: convert reclaimer thread to kthread interface

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 13:42 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> While we're on the subject of signals...
> 
> Do you have any thoughts/objections to just making the reclaimer thread
> ignore them altogether? That would simplify the code a bit.

How does the administrator then get out of the situation where the
server dies (permanently) in the middle of a reclaim?

Forced unmounts won't help here, since they only signal the NFS
requests, and are in any case per-filesystem, not per-server.

I suppose one could use soft RPC calls, but what should the retry policy
be for that case?

Trond

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