> On Aug 25, 2017, at 5:52 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This is my attempt to fix the NFS server so we don't unnecessarily > recall delegations when the operation breaking the delegation comes from > the same client that holds the delegation. > > To do that we need some way to pass the identity of the breaker down > through the VFS. > > I didn't feel like adding another argument to all the VFS functions that > this might need to be passed down through. But all of those functions > already take a struct inode **delegated inode, so instead I turned that > into a single-member struct deleg_ctrl *, which I then added a second > member to. > > I dunno, welcome any more straightforward ways of doing this if anyone > has suggestions. > > My first attempt was to do this by instead checking for conflicts in the > caller (nfsd) and then passing down one just one bit telling the lease > code conflicts had already been checked so it didn't need to. But > that's much too early to check for conflicts, since the caller doesn't > have the necessary inode locks yet. > > I'm still missing testing. Regression tests pass, but I haven't > actually confirmed that the self-conflicts are gone! Off to go hack on > pynfs.... FWIW, I observe a lot of delegation recall activity when running the git regression tests on an NFSv4.x mount. This is a single client. Unpack a recent release of the git tarball. $ cd src/git $ make clean $ make $ make test Easily scriptable, and you can "cd t/" and run individual regression tests if you like. > --b. > > J. Bruce Fields (3): > fs: cleanup to hide some details of delegation logic > fs: hide another detail of delegation logic > nfsd: clients don't need to break their own delegations > > Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 ++ > fs/attr.c | 10 +++--- > fs/locks.c | 7 +++- > fs/namei.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------- > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 26 ++++++++++++--- > fs/open.c | 24 ++++++-------- > fs/utimes.c | 12 +++---- > include/linux/fs.h | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++------------- > 9 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.13.5 > > -- > 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 -- Chuck Lever -- 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
