SUNRPC: Don't start the retransmission timer when out of socket space
authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:57:57 +0000 (14:57 -0500)
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:17:17 +0000 (15:17 -0500)
commita9a6b52ee1baa865283a91eb8d443ee91adfca56
treedb49569dc70d2a9d95d9d5b0d54371cba9f305d6
parent5a7a613a47a715711b3f2d3322a0eac21d459166
SUNRPC: Don't start the retransmission timer when out of socket space

If the socket is full, we're better off just waiting until it empties,
or until the connection is broken. The reason why we generally don't
want to time out is that the call to xprt->ops->release_xprt() will
trigger a connection reset, which isn't helpful...

Let's make an exception for soft RPC calls, since they have to provide
timeout guarantees.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
net/sunrpc/xprt.c