cifs: Reduce number of socket retries in large write path

Backport of upstream commit edf1ae403896cb7750800508b14996ba6be39a53
for -stable.

[CIFS] Reduce number of socket retries in large write path

CIFS in some heavy stress conditions cifs could get EAGAIN
repeatedly in smb_send2 which led to repeated retries and eventually
failure of large writes which could lead to data corruption.

There are three changes that were suggested by various network
developers:

1) convert cifs from non-blocking to blocking tcp sendmsg
(we left in the retry on failure)
2) change cifs to not set sendbuf and rcvbuf size for the socket
(let tcp autotune the buffer sizes since that works much better
in the TCP stack now)
3) if we have a partial frame sent in smb_send2, mark the tcp
session as invalid (close the socket and reconnect) so we do
not corrupt the remaining part of the SMB with the beginning
of the next SMB.

This does not appear to hurt performance measurably and has
been run in various scenarios, but it definately removes
a corruption that we were seeing in some high stress
test cases.

Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index a729d083e6f..ca91f162364 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ extern void cifs_buf_release(void *);
 extern struct smb_hdr *cifs_small_buf_get(void);
 extern void cifs_small_buf_release(void *);
 extern int smb_send(struct socket *, struct smb_hdr *,
-			unsigned int /* length */ , struct sockaddr *);
+			unsigned int /* length */ , struct sockaddr *, bool);
 extern unsigned int _GetXid(void);
 extern void _FreeXid(unsigned int);
 #define GetXid() (int)_GetXid(); cFYI(1,("CIFS VFS: in %s as Xid: %d with uid: %d",__func__, xid,current->fsuid));