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ocfs2: o2net: fix packets lost issue when reconnect

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Cover letter [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ocfs2: o2net: fix packets lost issue when reconnect
Quoted 17 lines · Junxiao Bi

Hi,

After the tcp connection is established between two ocfs2 nodes, an idle timer will be set to check its state periodically, if no messages are received during this time, idle timer will timeout, it will shutdown the connection and try to rebuild, so pending message in tcp queues will be lost. This may cause the whole ocfs2 cluster hung.
This is very possible to happen when network state goes bad. Do the reconnect is useless, it will fail if network state doesn't recover. Just waiting there for network recovering may be a good idea, it will not lost messages and some node will be fenced until cluster goes into split-brain state, for this case, Tcp user timeout is used to override the tcp retransmit timeout. It will timeout after 25 days, user should have notice this through the provided log and fix the network, if they don't, ocfs2 will fall back to original reconnect way.
The following is the serial of patches to fix the bug. Please help review.

TCP RTT is auto-regressive, that means the following case may take place:
Suppose current retransmission interval is ?T (somewhat long), network recovers but down again before the next retransmission windows comes (< ?T), so the network recovery won't be detected and ocfs2 cluster still hungs.

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Thanks,
Junxiao.

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