[Pvfs2-developers] Re: BMI TCP socket close for sock buf size

[Sam Lang]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Sam Lang wrote:

>
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
>
>> As discussed earlier, when setting the TCP socket buffer sizes in
>> the config file, the client already has one connection open to a
>> server to get the config file.  It's too late to change the buffer
>> size for this one connection.  So we need to close it and reopen it
>> to fix things.
>>
>> This little patch just adds the part where the client can get BMI to
>> close the socket.  One issue not handled in this patch is:  don't do
>> this unless the config file explicitly sets buffer sizes.
>
> I've attached the diff of your changes that does this, along with  
> some doc on the buffer size options.  I'd vote for committing both.
>

Woops.  Forgot something.  Maybe I'll just commit it. ;-)

> -sam
>
>> The
>> bigger problem that sockbuf sizes should not be global settings, but
>> rather per-mountpoint, is also not dealt with here.
>>
>> 		-- Pete
>> <bmi-tcp-close.diff>
>
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