The primary part of this patchset, is intended to help deal with the effects of using an AFS client that is communicating with a server through some sort of NAT or firewall, whereby if the just right amount of time lapses before a third party change is made, the client thinks it still has a valid callback, but the server's attempt to notify the client of the change bounces because the NAT/firewall window has closed. The problem is that kafs does insufficient probing to maintain the firewall window. The effect is mitigated in the following ways: (1) When an FS.InlineBulkStatus op is sent to the server during a file lookup, the FID of the directory being looked up in will now get included in the list of vnodes to query. This will find out more quickly if the dir has changed. (2) The fileserver is now polled regularly by an independent, timed manager rather than only being polled by the rotation algorithm when someone does a VFS operation that performs an RPC call. I have included some other bits in the patchset also: (1) Apply uninterruptibility a bit more thoroughly. There are more places that need it yet, but they're harder to fix. (2) Use the serverUnique field from the VLDB record to trigger a recheck of a fileserver's endpoints rather than doing it on a timed basis separately for each fileserver. This reduces the number of VL RPCs performed, albeit it's a minor reduction. (3) Note when we have detected the epoch from the fileserver so that the code that checks it actually does its stuff. (4) Remove some unused bits in the code. Note that I've spotted some bugs in the fileserver rotation algorithm, but that's going to need its own rewrite as the structure of it is wrong. David --- David Howells (8): afs: Always include dir in bulk status fetch from afs_do_lookup() afs: Make record checking use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE when appropriate afs: Use the serverUnique field in the UVLDB record to reduce rpc ops afs: Fix to actually set AFS_SERVER_FL_HAVE_EPOCH afs: Remove some unused bits afs: Split the usage count on struct afs_server afs: Actively poll fileservers to maintain NAT or firewall openings afs: Show more information in /proc/net/afs/servers fs/afs/cmservice.c | 8 + fs/afs/dir.c | 9 + fs/afs/fs_probe.c | 280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- fs/afs/fsclient.c | 24 ++-- fs/afs/internal.h | 58 ++++++--- fs/afs/main.c | 5 + fs/afs/proc.c | 18 ++- fs/afs/rotate.c | 13 +- fs/afs/rxrpc.c | 2 fs/afs/server.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++------------- fs/afs/server_list.c | 7 + fs/afs/vl_rotate.c | 4 - fs/afs/vlclient.c | 1 fs/afs/volume.c | 32 +++-- include/trace/events/afs.h | 22 +++ 15 files changed, 455 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)