Re: Tunable timeout in cifs module.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Sachin Prabhu wrote: > Hello Steve/linux-cifs, > > We have received a request to make the timeout in the cifs module > tunable. > > I have gone through the code to understand timeouts in the cifs client. >

Re: Tunable timeout in cifs module.

This reconnect discussion should probably be broadened to see how it would change (the retry/timeout/reconnect) when we are tied into the (samba, user space) Witness protocol client that Guenther and others have been experimenting with. Perhaps ioctls down to cifs.ko from the witness protocol