nfs: Referrals should use the same proto setting as their parent
authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Mon, 4 Dec 2017 19:13:38 +0000 (14:13 -0500)
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:06:30 +0000 (23:06 -0500)
commit530ea4219231e62341f79a5517d7b4f12ec3b74f
treee0998b983e33b87a37627a9b2d42ff45facee9ea
parentfb455baad6fc4de77d762e89dae75c2e2aa98559
nfs: Referrals should use the same proto setting as their parent

Helen Chao <helen.chao@oracle.com> noticed that when a user
traverses a referral on an NFS/RDMA mount, the resulting submount
always uses TCP.

This behavior does not match the vers= setting when traversing
a referral (vers=4.1 is preserved). It also does not match the
behavior of crossing from the pseudofs into a real filesystem
(proto=rdma is preserved in that case).

The Linux NFS client does not currently support the
fs_locations_info attribute. The situation is similar for all
NFSv4 servers I know of. Therefore until the community has broad
support for fs_locations_info, when following a referral:

 - First try to connect with RPC-over-RDMA. This will fail quickly
   if the client has no RDMA-capable interfaces.

 - If connecting with RPC-over-RDMA fails, or the RPC-over-RDMA
   transport is not available, use TCP.

Reported-by: Helen Chao <helen.chao@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c