[OpenAFS-devel] Retry transaction creates on transient problems

Harald Barth haba@kth.se
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:38:49 +0200 (CEST)


> Raising thread count is not a solution.  More to the point, this patch
> introduces a trivially-exploitable (by rxnull conns, no less) thread
> DoS against the volume server, and that's just not acceptable.

But we need something that takes care of a lot of "vos listvol
$server", too. Maybe a litte bit more sofisticated on the server
side, like X < T and something on the client side, too?

X: number of calls for this
T: Total number of threads

Harald.