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Message-Id: <D0A93FED-2522-44DA-830D-C86E21D68B4F@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:15:12 -0400
From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To: Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@...il.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Revert NFSROOT default mount options
On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Belisko Marek wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com> wrote:
>> Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...il.com> reports that recent attempts
>> to fix regressions in NFSROOT have broken his configuration:
>>
>>> After update from 2.6.38-rc8 to 2.6.38 is mounting rootfs over nfs not possible.
>>> Log:
>>> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:14.
>>> Freeing init memory: 132K
>>> nfs: server 10.146.1.21 not responding, still trying
>>> nfs: server 10.146.1.21 not responding, still trying
>>>
>>> This is never ending. I make short bisect (not too much commits
>>> between versions)
>>> and bad commit was reported: 53d4737580535e073963b91ce87d4216e434fab5
>>>
>>> NFS: NFSROOT should default to "proto=udp"
>>>
>>> I've tested on mini2440 board (DM9000, static IP).
>>> Is there some missing option or something else to be checked?
>>
>> An examination of a network trace captured during the failure shows
>> that the mount is actually succeeding, but that the client is not
>> seeing READ replies larger than 16KB.
>>
>> Last fall we removed the ad hoc mount option parser in fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
>> in favor of using the main parser in fs/nfs/super.c (see commit
>> 56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing"). That
>> commit changed the default NFSROOT mount options to be the same as
>> those employed by user space mounts. As it turns out, that change is
>> not tolerated by many embedded systems.
>>
>> Subsequently, commit 53d47375 introduced a clean way to specify
>> default mount options for NFSROOT, so we can restore the traditional
>> defaults for NFSROOT easily now:
>>
>> vers=2,udp,rsize=4096,wsize=4096
>>
>> This should revert the changed default NFSROOT mount options
>> introduced with commit 56463e50.
> Work fine with below patch.
> You can add my Tested by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...n-nandra.com>
Will do, thanks for your testing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Hi-
>>
>> Please test this, as I no longer have an NFSROOT rig here.
>>
>> Can some responsible maintainer type see that this gets into
>> linux-next quickly for broader testing?
>>
>> fs/nfs/nfsroot.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c b/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
>> index c541093..c4744e1 100644
>> --- a/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
>> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
>> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
>> #define NFS_ROOT "/tftpboot/%s"
>>
>> /* Default NFSROOT mount options. */
>> -#define NFS_DEF_OPTIONS "udp"
>> +#define NFS_DEF_OPTIONS "vers=2,udp,rsize=4096,wsize=4096"
>>
>> /* Parameters passed from the kernel command line */
>> static char nfs_root_parms[256] __initdata = "";
>>
>>
>
> regards,
>
> marek
>
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Chuck Lever
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