Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] NFSD support for asynchronous COPY

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 7:48 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:01:02AM -0500, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> To do asynchronous copies, NFSD creates a new kthread to handle the request.
>> >> Upon receiving the COPY, it generates a unique copy stateid (stored in a
>> >> global list for keeping track of state for OFFLOAD_STATUS to be queried by),
>> >> starts the thread, and replies back to the client. nfsd4_copy arguments that
>> >> are allocated on the stack are copies for the kthread.
>> >>
>> >> For the async copy handler, copy is done in the loop for the requested
>> >> number of bytes. If an error is encountered and partial copy has happened,
>> >> a successful partial copy is returned in the CB_OFFLOAD. vfs_copy_file_range
>> >> is called with 4MB chunks for both async and sync, allowing for 4MB
>> >> granularity of OFFLOAD_STATUS queiry. Once copy is done, the results are
>> >> queued for the callback workqueue and sent via CB_OFFLOAD.
>> >>
>> >> When the server received an OFFLOAD_CANCEL, it will find the kthread running
>> >> the copy and will send a SIGPENDING and kthread_stop() and it will interrupt
>> >> the ongoing do_splice() and once vfs returns we are choosing not to send
>> >> the CB_OFFLOAD back to the client.
>> >>
>> >> When the server receives an OFFLOAD_STATUS, it will find the kthread running
>> >> the copy and will locate within the copy state the current number of bytes
>> >> copied so far.
>> >>
>> >> v6:
>> >> 1. if an error occured and partial bytes were copied, don't return the error
>> >> and instead return the successful partial copy.
>> >> 2. OFFLOAD_STATUS locates the on-going copy and looks up the number of bytes
>> >> copied so far.
>> >>
>> >> Olga Kornievskaia (10):
>> >>   NFSD CB_OFFLOAD xdr
>> >>   NFSD OFFLOAD_STATUS xdr
>> >>   NFSD OFFLOAD_CANCEL xdr
>> >>   NFSD xdr callback stateid in async COPY reply
>> >>   NFSD first draft of async copy
>> >>   NFSD return nfs4_stid in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op
>> >>   NFSD create new stateid for async copy
>> >>   NFSD handle OFFLOAD_CANCEL op
>> >>   NFSD support OFFLOAD_STATUS
>> >>   NFSD stop queued async copies on client shutdown
>> >>
>> >>  fs/nfsd/netns.h        |   8 ++
>> >>  fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c |  97 +++++++++++++++
>> >>  fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c     | 316 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>> >>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c    |  77 +++++++++++-
>> >>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c      |  50 ++++++--
>> >>  fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c       |   1 +
>> >>  fs/nfsd/state.h        |  21 +++-
>> >>  fs/nfsd/xdr4.h         |  28 +++++
>> >>  fs/nfsd/xdr4cb.h       |  10 ++
>> >>  9 files changed, 571 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Bruce, any comments on this version?
>>
>> Bruce, do you have any comments on this version?
>
> I don't yet, apologies.  It is on my list to look at.
>

Any ideas as to when that would be?
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