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From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@cjr.nz>
To: "Shyam Prasad N" <nspmangalore@gmail.com>,
	"Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>,
	"Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>,
	CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
	sribhat.msa@outlook.com, "rohiths msft" <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Multichannel patches
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:45:38 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yywp64t.fsf@cjr.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANT5p=oMLZei+OhXZ-8Hr2NCx=pRYWF1zQ0vRQ5D_NkvLGwJDg@mail.gmail.com>

Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com> writes:

> P.S. There is a logic in cifs_reconnect to switch between the targets
> for the server. I don't think these changes will break the DFS
> scenario. The code will likely take effect only for when the primary
> channel reconnects (as DFS server entries are cached with super block
> as the key). Perhaps more changes will be needed there to also switch
> between the targets for individual channels (maybe use superblock +
> channel num as the key for caching entries?). Folks with better
> knowledge than me with this code may want to check on this?

I don't think your changes would break it as well.  The super is only
used for providing cifs_sb_info::origin_fullpath as key to find the
corresponding failover targets in referral cache.

I can help you testing your changes with some DFS+multichannel failover
scenarios.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 12:43 Multichannel patches Shyam Prasad N
2021-06-02 15:57 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-06-02 18:55   ` Steve French
2021-06-02 16:45 ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
2021-06-04  9:13   ` Shyam Prasad N
2021-06-04 15:10     ` Steve French
2021-06-04 15:25     ` Paulo Alcantara
2021-06-05 14:08       ` Shyam Prasad N
2021-06-05 17:43         ` Steve French
2021-06-05 17:57           ` Steve French
2021-06-08  9:54             ` Shyam Prasad N

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