If we hold a delegation then we know that it should be safe to continue to cache the data beyond the close(). However since the process that wrote the data may die after close(), we may still want to send the data to server before those RPCSEC_GSS credentials expire. We therefore compromise by starting writeback to the server, but don't wait for completion. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/file.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c index aa9b709..8eda8a6 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/file.c +++ b/fs/nfs/file.c @@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ nfs_file_flush(struct file *file, fl_owner_t id) if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) == 0) return 0; + /* + * If we're holding a write delegation, then just start the i/o + * but don't wait for completion (or send a commit). + */ + if (nfs_have_delegation(inode, FMODE_WRITE)) + return filemap_fdatawrite(file->f_mapping); + /* Flush writes to the server and return any errors */ return vfs_fsync(file, 0); } -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
