Bug#657078: patches to reduce the footprint of the nfs4 idmapper
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:22:50PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing the following Red Hat bug[1] on RHEL and also on
> Debian.
>
> I've noticed Fedora has started to ship an update with two patches
> that reduce the footprint of the nfs4 id mapper which should prevent
> this (or seriously limit the chance).
>
> NFSv4: Further reduce the footprint of the idmapper
> commit 685f50f9188ac1e8244d0340a9d6ea36b6136cec
>
> NFSv4: Reduce the footprint of the idmapper
> commit d073e9b541e1ac3f52d72c3a153855d9a9ee3278
>
> I believe Red Hat will have those patches in an upcoming RHEL 6.x
> release.
>
> I'm looking for feedback on if it would be possible to include
> these patches in a stable 3.2 update (and/or 3.0.x) so they
> will become part of the upcoming Debian 7.0 kernel (which is based
> on 3.2).
>
> Have these patches made it into the 3.3 and/or 3.4-rc kernels?
Both of these are in the 3.4-rc1 kernel release.
As for stable kernels, I don't see how they fit the rules outlined in
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, do you?
greg k-h
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