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Commit ffe5a830 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFS: Slow down state manager after an unhandled error



If the state manager thread is not actually able to fully recover from
some situation, it wakes up waiters, who kick off a new state manager
thread.  Quite often the fresh invocation of the state manager is just
as successful.

This results in a livelock as the client dumps thousands of NFS
requests a second on the network in a vain attempt to recover.  Not
very friendly.

To mitigate this situation, add a delay in the state manager after
an unhandled error, so that the client sends just a few requests
every second in this case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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