ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][Q:linux-oracle][PATCH 0/1] oracle: backport "sunrpc: allocate a separate bvec array for socket sends" to 6.17

[John Cabaj]

On 4/1/26 11:37 PM, Vinicius Peixoto wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2147073
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> Some OCI customers have been experiencing performance degradation on NFS mounts due to a known issue that has been fixed upstream in 6.19
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Backport the following commit from upstream into the Questing linux-oracle tree:

Patch applied cleanly, so perhaps change "Backport" in the LP bug to 
"Clean cherry-pick"

Acked-by: John Cabaj <john.cabaj at canonical.com>

> 6b3b697d65d4 ("sunrpc: allocate a separate bvec array for socket sends")
> 
> [Test plan]
> 
> The patch has been compiled-tested only, and since no reproducer is easily available, Oracle will validate the fix with the relevant customers on their side.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> This patch has a small regression risk, and any problems related to it would manifest themselves as crashes or performance issues for users running I/O heavy workloads on NFS mounts.
> 
> [Other info]
> SF #00428073
> 
> Jeff Layton (1):
>    sunrpc: allocate a separate bvec array for socket sends
> 
>   include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h |  3 ++
>   net/sunrpc/svcsock.c           | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>