[PATCH] knfsd: svcrpc: remove another silent drop from deferral code
There's no point deferring something just to immediately fail the deferral,
especially now that we can do something more useful in the failure case by
returning an error.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 824e853..1427449 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -530,6 +530,13 @@
struct cache_deferred_req *dreq;
int hash = DFR_HASH(item);
+ if (cache_defer_cnt >= DFR_MAX) {
+ /* too much in the cache, randomly drop this one,
+ * or continue and drop the oldest below
+ */
+ if (net_random()&1)
+ return -ETIMEDOUT;
+ }
dreq = req->defer(req);
if (dreq == NULL)
return -ETIMEDOUT;
@@ -548,17 +555,8 @@
/* it is in, now maybe clean up */
dreq = NULL;
if (++cache_defer_cnt > DFR_MAX) {
- /* too much in the cache, randomly drop
- * first or last
- */
- if (net_random()&1)
- dreq = list_entry(cache_defer_list.next,
- struct cache_deferred_req,
- recent);
- else
- dreq = list_entry(cache_defer_list.prev,
- struct cache_deferred_req,
- recent);
+ dreq = list_entry(cache_defer_list.prev,
+ struct cache_deferred_req, recent);
list_del(&dreq->recent);
list_del(&dreq->hash);
cache_defer_cnt--;