On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> I've long hated the non-killability of tasks accessing a dead
> NFS server.  Linus had an idea for fixing this way back in 2002:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/0167.html which
> I've prototyped in this patch.

Hey, I obviously approve. And the patch looks simple.

Feel free to re-submit after 2.6.23 is out the door, I don't think 
anybody will really complain. Any NFS user will know why something like 
this can be really nice.

		Linus
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