Re: 2.6.0 NFS-server low to 0 performance

[Andi Kleen]

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The correct solution to this problem is (b). I.e. we convert mount to
> use TCP as the default if it is available. That is consistent with what
> all other modern implementations do.

Please do that. Fragmented UDP with 16bit ipid is just russian roulette at 
today's network speeds.

One disadvantage is that some older (early 2.4) Linux nfsd servers that have
TCP enabled can cause problems. But I guess we can live with that, they
should be updated anyways.

-Andi
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