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From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, steved@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Update nfs(5) manpage - timeo for NFS/TCP
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:40:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110805124015.GA16926@merit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110805021903.C84608198734@regina.usersys.redhat.com>

Max Matveev wrote:

  NFS/TCP does linear backoff then retransmiting - the manpage
  was mistakenly asserting the "no backoff" theory.

Actually, now that I made you change the wording, I think the original
wording was correct.  "Backoff" refers to an increase in the interval
between retries.  Since the interval is constant, there is no backoff.

I could be wrong.  I think the term "backoff" was first used this way in
ALOHA.  I've got some papers around here somewhere and can check.

But maybe the best thing would be to remove any reference to backoff, and
talk about retry instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04  5:47 [PATCH v2] Update nfs(5) manpage - timeo for NFS/TCP Max Matveev
2011-08-05 12:40 ` Jim Rees [this message]
2011-08-05 13:34   ` Jim Rees
2011-08-05 20:33   ` Chuck Lever
2011-08-08  0:50     ` Max Matveev
2011-08-06  1:40   ` Max Matveev
2011-08-06 12:43     ` Jim Rees
     [not found] <201108300245.p7U2jN4j011424@ns3.rdu.redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <201108300245.p7U2jN4j011424-K5Dt2rfd30Yf7BdofF/totBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-30 12:41   ` Steve Dickson

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