Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] server-side support for "inter" SSC copy

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:03 PM Olga Kornievskaia
<olga.kornievskaia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch series adds support for NFSv4.2 copy offload feature
> allowing copy between two different NFS servers.
>
> This functionality depends on the VFS ability to support generic
> copy_file_range() where a copy is done between an NFS file and
> a local file system.
>
> This feature is enabled by the kernel module parameter --
> inter_copy_offload_enable -- and by default is disabled. There is
> also a kernel compile configuration of NFSD_V4_2_INTER_SSC that
> adds dependency on the NFS client side functions called from the
> server.
>
> These patches work on top of existing async intra copy offload
> patches. For the "inter" SSC, the implementation only supports
> asynchronous inter copy.
>
> On the source server, upon receiving a COPY_NOTIFY, it generate a
> unique stateid that's kept in the global list. Upon receiving a READ
> with a stateid, the code checks the normal list of open stateid and
> now additionally, it'll check the copy state list as well before
> deciding to either fail with BAD_STATEID or find one that matches.
> The stored stateid is only valid to be used for the first time
> with a choosen lease period (90s currently). When the source server
> received an OFFLOAD_CANCEL, it will remove the stateid from the
> global list. Otherwise, the copy stateid is removed upon the removal
> of its "parent" stateid (open/lock/delegation stateid).
>
> On the destination server, upon receiving a COPY request, the server
> establishes the necessary clientid/session with the source server.
> It calls into the NFS client code to establish the necessary
> open stateid, filehandle, file description (without doing an NFS open).
> Then the server calls into the copy_file_range() to preform the copy
> where the source file will issue NFS READs and then do local file
> system writes (this depends on the VFS ability to do cross device
> copy_file_range().
>
> v2:
> -- in on top of 4.20-rc4 + client side inter patch series
> -- VFS changes to do enable generic copy_file_range() and then NFS
> falls back on generic_copy_file_range() for previous EXDEV/OPNOTSUPP
> errors
> -- hopefully addressed Bruce's review comments (highlights are):
>    --- copy_notify patch: addressed naming, sc_cp_list access is
> now protected by s2s_cp_lock
>    --- fillin netloc4 patch: address the size and added WARN_ON
>    --- add ca_source to COPY: decode only 1 address, dont allocate
> memory (the rest into dummy)
>    --- check stateid against stored: moved the refcount under lock
>    --- allow stale filehandle: adding a loop to go thru the ops in
> the compound, store/manage puttfh if copy is present in the compound
> mark the source putfh as "no verify".
>
> All the patches (client inter) and this patch series is available
> from git://linux-nfs.org/projects/aglo/linux.git under the "linux-ssc"
> branch
>

Bruce,

Do you have comments on this v2? Once VFS has the patches for the
generic copy_file_range() functionality, NFS should be all set to just
used it.

> Olga Kornievskaia (10):
>   VFS generic copy_file_range() support
>   NFS fallback to generic_copy_file_range
>   NFSD fill-in netloc4 structure
>   NFSD add ca_source_server<> to COPY
>   NFSD return nfs4_stid in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op
>   NFSD add COPY_NOTIFY operation
>   NFSD check stateids against copy stateids
>   NFSD generalize nfsd4_compound_state flag names
>   NFSD: allow inter server COPY to have a STALE source server fh
>   NFSD add nfs4 inter ssc to nfsd4_copy
>
>  fs/nfs/nfs4file.c    |   9 +-
>  fs/nfsd/Kconfig      |  10 ++
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c   | 406 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c  | 124 ++++++++++++++--
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c    | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  fs/nfsd/nfsd.h       |  32 ++++
>  fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h      |   5 +-
>  fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c     |   6 +
>  fs/nfsd/state.h      |  21 ++-
>  fs/nfsd/xdr4.h       |  37 ++++-
>  fs/read_write.c      |  66 +++++++--
>  include/linux/fs.h   |   7 +
>  include/linux/nfs4.h |   1 +
>  mm/filemap.c         |   6 +-
>  14 files changed, 810 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>



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