And for the 'Xs' caps for getxattr we will also choose the auth MDS, because the MDS side code is buggy due to setxattr won't notify the replica MDSes when the values changed and the replica MDS will return the old values. Though we will fix it in MDS code, but this still makes sense for old ceph. URL: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/55331 Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/inode.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/inode.c b/fs/ceph/inode.c index 9d1add59bc17..09665b82330e 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/inode.c +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c @@ -2276,9 +2276,15 @@ int ceph_try_to_choose_auth_mds(struct inode *inode, int mask) * * This cost much when doing the Locker state transition and * usually will need to revoke caps from clients. + * + * And for the 'Xs' caps for getxattr we will also choose the + * auth MDS, because the MDS side code is buggy due to setxattr + * won't notify the replica MDSes when the values changed and + * the replica MDS will return the old values. Though we will + * fix it in MDS code, but this still makes sense for old ceph. */ if (((mask & CEPH_CAP_ANY_SHARED) && (issued & CEPH_CAP_ANY_EXCL)) - || (mask & CEPH_STAT_RSTAT)) + || (mask & (CEPH_STAT_RSTAT | CEPH_STAT_CAP_XATTR))) return USE_AUTH_MDS; else return USE_ANY_MDS; -- 2.36.0.rc1