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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2018-10-20 02:57:59 +0300
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2018-10-24 02:41:09 +0300
commit3bf0fb6f33dd545693da5e65f5b1b9b9f0bfc35e (patch)
treedf215e6a6ad11b6ac8158461144667e168591d28 /fs/afs/server_list.c
parent18ac61853cc4e44eb30e125fc8344a3b25c7b6fe (diff)
downloadlinux-3bf0fb6f33dd545693da5e65f5b1b9b9f0bfc35e.tar.xz
afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously
Send probes to all the unprobed fileservers in a fileserver list on all addresses simultaneously in an attempt to find out the fastest route whilst not getting stuck for 20s on any server or address that we don't get a reply from. This alleviates the problem whereby attempting to access a new server can take a long time because the rotation algorithm ends up rotating through all servers and addresses until it finds one that responds. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/afs/server_list.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/afs/server_list.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/afs/server_list.c b/fs/afs/server_list.c
index 8a5760aa5832..95d0761cdb34 100644
--- a/fs/afs/server_list.c
+++ b/fs/afs/server_list.c
@@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ bool afs_annotate_server_list(struct afs_server_list *new,
return false;
changed:
- /* Maintain the same current server as before if possible. */
- cur = old->servers[old->index].server;
+ /* Maintain the same preferred server as before if possible. */
+ cur = old->servers[old->preferred].server;
for (j = 0; j < new->nr_servers; j++) {
if (new->servers[j].server == cur) {
- new->index = j;
+ new->preferred = j;
break;
}
}