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| author | Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> | 2022-06-06 12:17:56 +0300 |
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| committer | Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> | 2022-06-23 03:51:43 +0300 |
| commit | 6e1c1c08cdf3d7d7b8c571c0f032a283af6ca024 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ee1a07b667229231b055c0225d3f7e28cbc9cc5 /mm/slob.c | |
| parent | b54034a73baf9fe31fb3f218c17bd5308a27a1ca (diff) | |
| download | linux-6e1c1c08cdf3d7d7b8c571c0f032a283af6ca024.tar.xz | |
cifs: periodically query network interfaces from server
Currently, we only query the server for network interfaces
information at the time of mount, and never afterwards.
This can be a problem, especially for services like Azure,
where the IP address of the channel endpoints can change
over time.
With this change, we schedule a 600s polling of this info
from the server for each tree connect.
An alternative for periodic polling was to do this only at
the time of reconnect. But this could delay the reconnect
time slightly. Also, there are some challenges w.r.t how
we have cifs_reconnect implemented today.
Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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