[CIFS] cifs: reconnect unresponsive servers

If the server isn't responding to echoes, we don't want to leave tasks
hung waiting for it to reply. At that point, we'll want to reconnect
so that soft mounts can return an error to userspace quickly.

If the client hasn't received a reply after a specified number of echo
intervals, assume that the transport is down and attempt to reconnect
the socket.

The number of echo_intervals to wait before attempting to reconnect is
tunable via a module parameter. Setting it to 0, means that the client
will never attempt to reconnect. The default is 5.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index d9f652a522a6..99d777a03dd0 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -77,7 +77,11 @@ unsigned int cifs_max_pending = CIFS_MAX_REQ;
 module_param(cifs_max_pending, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(cifs_max_pending, "Simultaneous requests to server. "
                                    "Default: 50 Range: 2 to 256");
-
+unsigned short echo_retries = 5;
+module_param(echo_retries, ushort, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(echo_retries, "Number of echo attempts before giving up and "
+                               "reconnecting server. Default: 5. 0 means "
+                               "never reconnect.");
 extern mempool_t *cifs_sm_req_poolp;
 extern mempool_t *cifs_req_poolp;
 extern mempool_t *cifs_mid_poolp;