Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] nfsd: support for lifting grace period early

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:45 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:37:23PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:46 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > As I understand it, the rule for the client is: you're allowed to
>> > reclaim only the set locks that you held previously, where "the set of
>> > locks you held previously" is "the set of locks held by the clientid
>> > which last managed to send a reclaim OPEN or OPEN_CONFIRM".  So for
>> > example once client1 sends that unrelated OPEN reclaim it's giving up on
>> > anything else it doesn't manage to reclaim this time around.
>>
>> The rule for the client is very simple: "You may attempt to reclaim
>> any locks that were held immediately prior to the reboot of the
>> server."
>> It doesn't matter how those locks were established (ordinary OPEN,
>> delegated open, reclaim open, LOCK, reclaim lock...).
>>
>> However if the server reboots and the client did not manage to
>> re-establish a lease (SETCLIENTID+SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM and/or
>> EXCHANGE_ID+CREATE_SESSION) before the second reboot, then it is the
>> server's responsibility to block that client from reclaiming any
>> locks, since the client has no way to know how many times the server
>> has rebooted.
>> Ditto, of course, if the client tries to reclaim any locks outside the
>> grace period and the server isn't tracking whether or not those locks
>> have been handed out to another client.
>
> Agreed with everything except:
>
>         (SETCLIENTID+SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM and/or
>         EXCHANGE_ID+CREATE_SESSION)
>
> If I remember correctly: RFC 5661 says the point where this happens is
> actually RECLAIM_COMPLETE.  RFC 3530 was more vague but suggested first
> OPEN reclaim or OPEN_CONFIRM, and 3530bis makes that explicit.
>
> But the client can choose an earlier point without violating the
> protocol--it means it will decline reclaiming some things it could have,
> but that's safer than the reverse mistake.
>

Where is this documented? I'm not seeing it.

-- 
Trond Myklebust

Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData

trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
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




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux USB Development]     [Linux Media Development]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Info]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux