NFSv4: use exponential retry on NFS4ERR_DELAY for async requests.
Currently asynchronous NFSv4 request will be retried with exponential timeout (from 1/10 to 15 seconds), but async requests will always use a 15second retry. Some "async" requests are really synchronous though. The async mechanism is used to allow the request to continue if the requesting process is killed. In those cases, an exponential retry is appropriate. For example, if two different clients both open a file and get a READ delegation, and one client then unlinks the file (while still holding an open file descriptor), that unlink will used the "silly-rename" handling which is async. The first rename will result in NFS4ERR_DELAY while the delegation is reclaimed from the other client. The rename will not be retried for 15 seconds, causing an unlink to take 15 seconds rather than 100msec. This patch only added exponential timeout for async unlink and async rename. Other async calls, such as 'close' are sometimes waited for so they might benefit from exponential timeout too. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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