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Peng Tao
92407e75ce nfs4: serialize layoutcommit
Current pnfs_layoutcommit_inode can not handle parallel layoutcommit.
And as Trond suggested , there is no need for client to optimize for
parallel layoutcommit. So add NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMITTING flag to
mark inflight layoutcommit and serialize lalyoutcommit with it.
Also mark_inode_dirty_sync if pnfs_layoutcommit_inode fails to issue
layoutcommit.

Reported-by: Vitaliy Gusev <gusev.vitaliy@nexenta.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-31 11:51:28 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a9a4a87a59 NFS: Use the inode->i_version to cache NFSv4 change attribute information
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:14:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1b8e94993c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  xfs: Fix build breakage in xfs_iops.c when CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
  VFS: Reorganise shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() after demise of dcache_lock
  VFS: Remove dentry->d_lock locking from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
  VFS: Remove detached-dentry counter from shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
  switch posix_acl_chmod() to umode_t
  switch posix_acl_from_mode() to umode_t
  switch posix_acl_equiv_mode() to umode_t *
  switch posix_acl_create() to umode_t *
  block: initialise bd_super in bdget()
  vfs: avoid call to inode_lru_list_del() if possible
  vfs: avoid taking inode_hash_lock on pipes and sockets
  vfs: conditionally call inode_wb_list_del()
  VFS: Fix automount for negative autofs dentries
  Btrfs: load the key from the dir item in readdir into a fake dentry
  devtmpfs: missing initialialization in never-hit case
  hppfs: missing include
2011-08-01 13:48:31 -10:00
Al Viro
d3fb612076 switch posix_acl_create() to umode_t *
so we can pass &inode->i_mode to it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-08-01 02:09:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
0c0308066c NFS: Fix spurious readdir cookie loop messages
If the directory contents change, then we have to accept that the
file->f_pos value may shrink if we do a 'search-by-cookie'. In that
case, we should turn off the loop detection and let the NFS client
try to recover.

The patch also fixes a second loop detection bug by ensuring
that after turning on the ctx->duped flag, we read at least one new
cookie into ctx->dir_cookie before attempting to match with
ctx->dup_cookie.

Reported-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.39+]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-07-30 14:34:50 -04:00
Al Viro
3d4ff43d89 nfs_open_context doesn't need struct path either
just dentry, please...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:44 -04:00
Al Viro
10556cb21a ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()
not used by the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:24 -04:00
Andy Adamson
863a3c6c68 NFSv4.1: layoutcommit
The filelayout driver sends LAYOUTCOMMIT only when COMMIT goes to
the data server (as opposed to the MDS) and the data server WRITE
is not NFS_FILE_SYNC.

Only whole file layout support means that there is only one IOMODE_RW layout
segment.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mingyang Guo <guomingyang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Jingwang <zhangjingwang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Tested-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-23 15:29:04 -04:00
Fred Isaman
e0c2b38018 NFSv4.1: filelayout driver specific code for COMMIT
Implement all the hooks created in the previous patches.
This requires exporting quite a few functions and adding a few
structure fields.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-23 15:29:04 -04:00
Fred Isaman
a861a1e1c3 NFSv4.1: add generic layer hooks for pnfs COMMIT
We create three major hooks for the pnfs code.

pnfs_mark_request_commit() is called during writeback_done from
nfs_mark_request_commit, which gives the driver an opportunity to
claim it wants control over commiting a particular req.

pnfs_choose_commit_list() is called from nfs_scan_list
to choose which list a given req should be added to, based on
where we intend to send it for COMMIT.  It is up to the driver
to have preallocated list headers for each destination it may need.

pnfs_commit_list() is how the driver actually takes control, it is
used instead of nfs_commit_list().

In order to pass information between the above functions, we create
a union in nfs_page to hold a lseg (which is possible because the req is
not on any list while in transition), and add some flags to indicate
if we need to use the pnfs code.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-23 15:29:03 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker
8ef2ce3e16 NFS: Detect loops in a readdir due to bad cookies
Some filesystems (such as ext4) can return the same cookie value for
multiple files.  If we try to start a readdir with one of these cookies,
the server will return the first file found with a cookie of the same
value.  This can cause the client to enter an infinite loop.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-23 15:14:27 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker
480c2006eb NFS: Create nfs_open_dir_context
nfs_opendir() created a context that held much more information than we
need for a readdir.  This patch introduces a slimmed-down
nfs_open_dir_context that contains only the cookie and the cred used for
RPC operations.  The new context will eventually be used to help detect
readdir loops.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-23 15:13:11 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
b31268ac79 FS: Use stable writes when not doing a bulk flush
If we're only doing a single write, and there are no other unstable
writes being queued up, we might want to just flip to using a stable
write RPC call.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-21 21:08:17 -04:00
Fred Isaman
136028967a NFS: change nfs_writeback_done to return void
The return values are not used by any callers.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-11 15:38:40 -05:00
David Howells
36d43a4376 NFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()
Make NFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:34 -05:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Trond Myklebust
11de3b11e0 NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
We need to ensure that the entries in the nfs_cache_array get cleared
when the page is removed from the page cache. To do so, we use the
freepage address_space operation.

Change nfs_readdir_clear_array to use kmap_atomic(), so that the
function can be safely called from all contexts.

Finally, modify the cache_page_release helper to call
nfs_readdir_clear_array directly, when dealing with an anonymous
page from 'uncached_readdir'.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-12-02 09:58:00 -05:00
Jeff Layton
5685b97136 nfs: trivial: remove unused nfs_wait_event macro
Nothing uses this macro anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-11-16 11:56:24 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
a4dd8dce14 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays
  nfs4: fix channel attribute sanity-checks
  NFSv4.1: Use more sensible names for 'initialize_mountpoint'
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
  NFS: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts
  NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
  NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure
  NFS: set layout driver
  NFS: ask for layouttypes during v4 fsinfo call
  NFS: change stateid to be a union
  NFSv4.1: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants
  SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed
  NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE
2010-10-26 09:52:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
74eb94b218 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
  SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
  nfs: fix unchecked value
  Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
  Revalidate caches on lock
  SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
  NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
  NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
  NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
  NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
  NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
  NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
  NFS: Readdir plus in v4
  NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
  NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
  NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
  NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
  NFS: remove page size checking code
  NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
  SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
  NFS: remove readdir plus limit
  ...
2010-10-25 13:48:29 -07:00
Benny Halevy
e5e940170b NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
At the start of the io paths, try to grab the relevant layout
information.  This will initiate the inode's layout cache, but
stubs ensure the cache stays empty.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-24 18:07:10 -04:00
Dean Hildebrand
7ab672ce31 NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
This driver just registers itself and supplies trivial mount/umount functions.

Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-24 18:07:10 -04:00
Ricardo Labiaga
85e174ba6b NFS: set layout driver
Put in the infrastructure that uses information returned from the
server at mount to select a layout driver module.

In this patch, a stub is used that always returns "no driver found".

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-24 18:07:10 -04:00
Jeff Layton
779c51795b nfs: move nfs_sillyrename to unlink.c
...since that's where most of the sillyrenaming code lives. A comment
block is added to the beginning as well to clarify how sillyrenaming
works. Also, make nfs_async_unlink static as nfs_sillyrename is the only
caller.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17 17:31:30 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cd9a1c0e5a NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_atomic_open
Start moving the 'struct nameidata' dependent code out of the lower level
NFS code in preparation for the removal of open intents.

Instead of the struct nameidata, we pass down a partially initialised
struct nfs_open_context that will be fully initialised by the atomic open
upon success.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17 10:56:50 -04:00
Chuck Lever
56463e50d1 NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing
Replace duplicate code in NFSROOT for mounting an NFS server on '/'
with logic that uses the existing mainline text-based logic in the NFS
client.

Add documenting comments where appropriate.

Note that this means NFSROOT mounts now use the same default settings
as v2/v3 mounts done via mount(2) from user space.

  vers=3,tcp,rsize=<negotiated default>,wsize=<negotiated default>

As before, however, no version/protocol negotiation with the server is
done.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17 10:54:37 -04:00
Arnd Bergmann
5b22216e11 nfs: __rcu annotations
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-08-19 17:18:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5df6b8e65a Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (42 commits)
  NFS: NFSv4.1 is no longer a "developer only" feature
  NFS: NFS_V4 is no longer an EXPERIMENTAL feature
  NFS: Fix /proc/mount for legacy binary interface
  NFS: Fix the locking in nfs4_callback_getattr
  SUNRPC: Defer deleting the security context until gss_do_free_ctx()
  SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt
  SUNRPC: Reduce asynchronous RPC task stack usage
  SUNRPC: Move the bound cred to struct rpc_rqst
  SUNRPC: Clean up of rpc_bindcred()
  SUNRPC: Move remaining RPC client related task initialisation into clnt.c
  SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_exit() always wakes up a sleeping task
  SUNRPC: Make the credential cache hashtable size configurable
  SUNRPC: Store the hashtable size in struct rpc_cred_cache
  NFS: Ensure the AUTH_UNIX credcache is allocated dynamically
  NFS: Fix the NFS users of rpc_restart_call()
  SUNRPC: The function rpc_restart_call() should return success/failure
  NFSv4: Get rid of the bogus RPC_ASSASSINATED(task) checks
  NFSv4: Clean up the process of renewing the NFSv4 lease
  NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY on SEQUENCE correctly
  NFS: nfs_rename() should not have to flush out writebacks
  ...
2010-08-07 13:19:36 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
77a63f3d1e NFS: Fix a typo in include/linux/nfs_fs.h
nfs_commit_inode() needs to be defined irrespectively of whether or not
we are supporting NFSv3 and NFSv4.

Allow the compiler to optimise away code in the NFSv2-only case by
converting it into an inlined stub function.

Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-01 15:10:01 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
b608b283a9 NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_page
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16056

If other processes are blocked waiting for kswapd to free up some memory so
that they can make progress, then we cannot allow kswapd to block on those
processes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-07-30 15:38:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f11ac8db5d NFSv4: Ensure that we track the NFSv4 lock state in read/write requests.
This patch fixes bugzilla entry 14501:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-07-30 14:41:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
2d36bfde85 NFS: Add helper functions for allocating filehandles and fattr structs
NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on
the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them
dynamically instead.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14 15:09:21 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
71d0a6112a NFS: Fix an unstable write data integrity race
Commit 2c61be0a94 (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE
and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible) exposed a race on file
close. In order to ensure correct close-to-open behaviour, we want to wait
for all outstanding background commit operations to complete.

This patch adds an inode flag that indicates if a commit operation is under
way, and provides a mechanism to allow ->write_inode() to wait for its
completion if this is a data integrity flush.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-22 15:35:57 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
1cda707d52 NFS: Remove requirement for inode->i_mutex from nfs_invalidate_mapping
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
7f2f12d963 NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
acdc53b214 NFS: Replace __nfs_write_mapping with sync_inode()
Now that we have correct COMMIT semantics in writeback_single_inode, we can
reduce and simplify nfs_wb_all(). Also replace nfs_wb_nocommit() with a
call to filemap_write_and_wait(), which doesn't need to hold the
inode->i_mutex.

With that done, we can eliminate nfs_write_mapping() altogether.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
c988950eb6 NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page_cancel()
In all cases we should be able to just remove the request and call
cancel_dirty_page().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
ff778d02bf NFS: Add a count of the number of unstable writes carried by an inode
In order to know when we should do opportunistic commits of the unstable
writes, when the VM is doing a background flush, we add a field to count
the number of unstable writes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
8fc795f703 NFS: Cleanup - move nfs_write_inode() into fs/nfs/write.c
The sole purpose of nfs_write_inode is to commit unstable writes, so
move it into fs/nfs/write.c, and make nfs_commit_inode static.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:53 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
1d1764c398 headers: kref.h redux
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from kref.h -- not needed, linux/types.h
  is enough for atomic_t
* remove linux/kref.h inclusion from files which do not need it.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-26 10:17:19 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
1ae88b2e44 NFS: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops...
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without
first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside
nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment()
causes an Oops.

We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in
those cases.

Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already
referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata
structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid
of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all
instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release().

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-12 08:21:39 -07:00
David Howells
f42b293d6d NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
nfs_readpage_async() needs to be non-static so that it can be used as a
fallback for the local on-disk caching should an EIO crop up when reading the
cache.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:44 +01:00
David Howells
ef79c097bb NFS: Use local disk inode cache
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:43 +01:00
David Howells
c6a6f19e22 NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit
Add FS-Cache option bit to nfs_server struct.  This is set to indicate local
on-disk caching is enabled for a particular superblock.

Also add debug bit for local caching operations.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:42 +01:00
Trond Myklebust
cc85906110 Merge branch 'devel' into for-linus 2009-04-01 13:28:15 -04:00
Al Viro
f786aa90e0 constify dentry_operations: NFS
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:43:59 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
72cb77f4a5 NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to disk
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter
Staubach.

Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing
a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress.

Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with
the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests.  While
this is compliant with all of the current protocol
specifications, there are servers in the market which can not
handle out of order WRITE requests very well.  Also, this may
lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file
system on the server.  This may cause the read throughputs to
be reduced when reading the file from the server.

Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of
order issues on a systemic level.  However, the NFS client is
still susceptible to the problem.  Out of order WRITE
requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing
out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls
generic_file_buffered_write which calls
generic_perform_write which calls
balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling
writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS
client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that
pdflush happens to be working with.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
[modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:30 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fb8a1f11b6 NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommit
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:29 -04:00
Peter Staubach
64672d55d9 optimize attribute timeouts for "noac" and "actimeo=0"
Hi.

I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes.  It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)

In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it.  It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo].  The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo).  With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.

This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case.  However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.

    Thanx...

        ps

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
dc0b027dfa NFSv4: Convert the open and close ops to use fmode
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00