Some servers want to be able to control the frequency with which clients
report layoutstats, for instance, in order to monitor QoS for a particular
file or set of file. In order to support this, the flexfiles layout allows
the server to pass this info as a hint in the layout payload.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
For loosely coupled pNFS/flexfiles systems, there is often no advantage
at all in going through the MDS for I/O, since the MDS is subject to
the same limitations as all other clients when talking to DSes. If a
DS is unresponsive, I/O through the MDS will fail.
For such systems, the only scalable solution is to have the pNFS clients
retry doing pNFS, and so the protocol now provides a flag that allows
the pNFS server to signal this.
If LAYOUTGET returns FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS, then we should assume that
the MDS wants the client to retry using these devices, even if they were
previously marked as being unavailable. To do so, we add a helper,
ff_layout_mark_devices_valid() that will be called from layoutget.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Keep the full list of mirrors in the struct nfs4_ff_layout_mirror so that
they can be shared among the layout segments that use them.
Also ensure that we send out only one copy of the layoutstats per mirror.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
We do want to share mirrors between layout segments, so add a refcount
to enable that.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
This patch ensures that we record the value of 'ffl_flags' from
the layout, and then checks for the presence of the
FF_FLAGS_NO_LAYOUTCOMMIT flag before deciding whether or not to
call pnfs_set_layoutcommit().
The effect is that servers now can decide whether or not they want
the client to call layoutcommit before returning a writeable layout.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
As a simple scheme, report every minute if IO is still going on.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
So that we can report cumulative time since the beginning
of statistics collection of the layout.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
The flexfile layout is a new layout that extends the
file layout. It is currently being drafted as a specification at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-layout-types/
Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Haynes <loghyr@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Peng <bergwolf@primarydata.com>
