APPLIED: [PATCH 0/2] [focal/impish/jammy linux-azure] Add sunrpc module parameters for NFSv3 nconnect

[Tim Gardner]

Applied to focal/linux-azure, focal/linux-azure-5.11, 
impish/linux-azure, jammy/linux-azure. Thanks.

-rtg

On 1/25/22 6:54 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1958990
> 
> SRU Justification
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> Microsoft has requested the addition of 2 module parameters to sunrpc.
> The primary purpose of which is to restrict or pin NFSv3 TCP connections
> to one server in order to take advantage of local server connection caching.
> In the presence of a load balancer, round robin connection requests defeats
> the advantages of local caching.
> 
> This patch also fixes a race condition when setting RPC message values and
> adding a client connection to the task list. Before, client connections were
> added to the task list before the associated RPC message was fully setup.
> 
> With the author's permission I have changed the default value of enable_azure_nconnect
> to false in order to preserve the original logic of this module with the exception
> of the above mentioned race condition.
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> Microsoft tested
> 
> [Where things could go wrong]
> 
> NFSv3 connection attempts could be slow or fail altogether.
> 
> [Other Info]
> 
> SF: #00312346
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc