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2011-01-25NFS: nfs_wcc_update_inode() should set nfsi->attr_gencountTrond Myklebust1-9/+17
If the call to nfs_wcc_update_inode() results in an attribute update, we need to ensure that the inode's attr_gencount gets bumped too, otherwise we are not protected against races with other GETATTR calls. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-01-15NFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link()David Howells1-2/+2
Make NFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing follow_link() on directories. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-11Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.38' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
* 'nfs-for-2.6.38' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (89 commits) NFS fix the setting of exchange id flag NFS: Don't use vm_map_ram() in readdir NFSv4: Ensure continued open and lockowner name uniqueness NFS: Move cl_delegations to the nfs_server struct NFS: Introduce nfs_detach_delegations() NFS: Move cl_state_owners and related fields to the nfs_server struct NFS: Allow walking nfs_client.cl_superblocks list outside client.c pnfs: layout roc code pnfs: update nfs4_callback_recallany to handle layouts pnfs: add CB_LAYOUTRECALL handling pnfs: CB_LAYOUTRECALL xdr code pnfs: change lo refcounting to atomic_t pnfs: check that partial LAYOUTGET return is ignored pnfs: add layout to client list before sending rpc pnfs: serialize LAYOUTGET(openstateid) pnfs: layoutget rpc code cleanup pnfs: change how lsegs are removed from layout list pnfs: change layout state seqlock to a spinlock pnfs: add prefix to struct pnfs_layout_hdr fields pnfs: add prefix to struct pnfs_layout_segment fields ...
2011-01-07fs: icache RCU free inodesNick Piggin1-1/+8
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow: - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must. - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking. - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the page lock to follow page->mapping. The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts kicking over, this increases to about 20%. In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller. The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking, so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I doubt it will be a problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-06pnfs: change how lsegs are removed from layout listFred Isaman1-1/+1
This is to prepare the way for sensible io draining. Instead of just removing the lseg from the list, we instead clear the VALID flag (preventing new io from grabbing references to the lseg) and remove the reference holding it in the list. Thus the lseg will be removed once any io in progress completes and any references still held are dropped. Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-01-06NFS implement v4.0 callback_identAndy Adamson1-0/+1
Use the small id to pointer translator service to provide a unique callback identifier per SETCLIENTID call used to identify the v4.0 callback service associated with the clientid. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-12-02NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdirTrond Myklebust1-0/+1
We need to ensure that the entries in the nfs_cache_array get cleared when the page is removed from the page cache. To do so, we use the freepage address_space operation. Change nfs_readdir_clear_array to use kmap_atomic(), so that the function can be safely called from all contexts. Finally, modify the cache_page_release helper to call nfs_readdir_clear_array directly, when dealing with an anonymous page from 'uncached_readdir'. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-24NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cacheBenny Halevy1-0/+3
At the start of the io paths, try to grab the relevant layout information. This will initiate the inode's layout cache, but stubs ensure the cache stays empty. Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-23NFS: remove readdir plus limitBryan Schumaker1-5/+1
We will now use readdir plus even on directories that are very large. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-10-07NFS: new idmapperBryan Schumaker1-0/+7
This patch creates a new idmapper system that uses the request-key function to place a call into userspace to map user and group ids to names. The old idmapper was single threaded, which prevented more than one request from running at a single time. This means that a user would have to wait for an upcall to finish before accessing a cached result. The upcall result is stored on a keyring of type id_resolver. See the file Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt for instructions. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> [Trond: fix up the return value of nfs_idmap_lookup_name and clean up code] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-29NFS: Really fix put_nfs_open_context()Trond Myklebust1-2/+4
In nfs_open_revalidate(), if the open_context() call returns an inode that is not the same as dentry->d_inode, then we will call put_nfs_open_context() with a valid dentry->d_inode, but without the context being part of the nfsi->open_files list. In this case too, we want to just skip the list removal, but we do want to call the ->close_context() callback in order to close the NFSv4 state. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2010-09-23NFS: handle inode==NULL in __put_nfs_open_contextBenny Halevy1-4/+7
inode may be NULL when put_nfs_open_context is called from nfs_atomic_lookup before d_add_unique(dentry, inode) Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-21NFS: Convert nfsiod to use alloc_workqueue()Trond Myklebust1-1/+1
create_singlethread_workqueue() is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-17NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_atomic_openTrond Myklebust1-4/+4
Start moving the 'struct nameidata' dependent code out of the lower level NFS code in preparation for the removal of open intents. Instead of the struct nameidata, we pass down a partially initialised struct nfs_open_context that will be fully initialised by the atomic open upon success. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds1-2/+11
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-09convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()Al Viro1-2/+11
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-03NFS: Clean up the callers of nfs_wb_all()Trond Myklebust1-3/+1
There is no need to flush out writes before calling nfs_wb_all(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-07-30NFSv4: Ensure that we track the NFSv4 lock state in read/write requests.Trond Myklebust1-4/+66
This patch fixes bugzilla entry 14501: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14NFSv4: Allow attribute caching with 'noac' mounts if client holds a delegationTrond Myklebust1-3/+9
If the server has given us a delegation on a file, we _know_ that we can cache the attribute information even when the user has specified 'noac'. Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_setattr()Trond Myklebust1-4/+10
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_revalidate_inode()Trond Myklebust1-3/+9
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-14NFS: Add helper functions for allocating filehandles and fattr structsTrond Myklebust1-0/+20
NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them dynamically instead. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09NFS: Fix the mode calculation in nfs_find_open_contextTrond Myklebust1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.hTejun Heo1-0/+1
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-10NFSv4: Don't ignore the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag in nfs_revalidate_inode()Trond Myklebust1-1/+1
If the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag is set, that means that we don't yet have an up to date attribute cache. Even if we hold a delegation, we must put a GETATTR on the wire. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-03-05Merge branch 'writeback-for-2.6.34' into nfs-for-2.6.34Trond Myklebust1-79/+16
2010-03-05NFS: Remove requirement for inode->i_mutex from nfs_invalidate_mappingTrond Myklebust1-40/+1
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Clean up nfs_sync_mappingTrond Myklebust1-9/+5
Remove the redundant call to filemap_write_and_wait(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Replace __nfs_write_mapping with sync_inode()Trond Myklebust1-10/+5
Now that we have correct COMMIT semantics in writeback_single_inode, we can reduce and simplify nfs_wb_all(). Also replace nfs_wb_nocommit() with a call to filemap_write_and_wait(), which doesn't need to hold the inode->i_mutex. With that done, we can eliminate nfs_write_mapping() altogether. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Add a count of the number of unstable writes carried by an inodeTrond Myklebust1-0/+1
In order to know when we should do opportunistic commits of the unstable writes, when the VM is doing a background flush, we add a field to count the number of unstable writes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Cleanup - move nfs_write_inode() into fs/nfs/write.cTrond Myklebust1-12/+0
The sole purpose of nfs_write_inode is to commit unstable writes, so move it into fs/nfs/write.c, and make nfs_commit_inode static. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05pass writeback_control to ->write_inodeChristoph Hellwig1-2/+3
This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling, and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to distinguish between the different callers in more detail. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05make sure data is on disk before calling ->write_inodeChristoph Hellwig1-6/+1
Similar to the fsync issue fixed a while ago in commit 2daea67e966dc0c42067ebea015ddac6834cef88 we need to write for data to actually hit the disk before writing out the metadata to guarantee data integrity for filesystems that modify the inode in the data I/O completion path. Currently XFS and NFS handle this manually, and AFS has a write_inode method that does nothing but waiting for data, while others are possibly missing out on this. Fortunately this change has a lot less impact than the fsync change as none of the write_inode methods starts data writeout of any form by itself. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03Switch alloc_nfs_open_context() to struct pathAl Viro1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-10NFS: Make close(2) asynchronous when closing NFS O_DIRECT filesChuck Lever1-6/+1
For NFSv2 and v3: O_DIRECT writes are always synchronous, and aren't cached, so nothing should be flushed when closing an NFS O_DIRECT file descriptor. Thus there are no write errors to report on close(2). In addition, there's no cached data to verify on the next open(2), so we don't need clean GETATTR results at close time to compare with. Thus, there's no need for the nfs_revalidate_inode() call when closing an NFS O_DIRECT file. This reduces the number of synchronous on-the-wire requests for a simple open-write-close of an NFS O_DIRECT file by roughly 20%. For NFSv4: Call nfs4_do_close() with wait set to zero when closing an NFS O_DIRECT file. The CLOSE will go on the wire, but the application won't wait for it to complete. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-02-03NFS: Don't clobber the attribute type in nfs_update_inode()Trond Myklebust1-1/+3
If the NFS_ATTR_FATTR_TYPE field isn't set in fattr->valid, then we should not set the S_IFMT part of inode->i_mode. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-24truncate: use new helpersnpiggin@suse.de1-41/+13
Update some fs code to make use of new helper functions introduced in the previous patch. Should be no significant change in behaviour (except CIFS now calls send_sig under i_lock, via inode_newsize_ok). Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Cc: sfrench@samba.org Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-08-19NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migrationTrond Myklebust1-0/+8
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC client. We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with rpc_pipefs. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09NFSv4: Add 'server capability' flags for NFSv4 recommended attributesTrond Myklebust1-14/+78
If the NFSv4 server doesn't support a POSIX attribute, the generic NFS code needs to know that, so that it don't keep trying to poll for it. However, by the same count, if the NFSv4 server does support that attribute, then we should ensure that the inode metadata is appropriately labelled as being untrusted. For instance, if we don't know the correct value of the file's uid, we should certainly not be caching ACLs or ACCESS results. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-07-12headers: smp_lock.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+0
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!) * Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it * Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW) Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-03NFS: Use local disk inode cacheDavid Howells1-0/+6
Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level indexDavid Howells1-0/+8
Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-03-19NFS: Optimise NFS close()Trond Myklebust1-12/+29
Close-to-open cache consistency rules really only require us to flush out writes on calls to close(), and require us to revalidate attributes on the very last close of the file. Currently we appear to be doing a lot of extra attribute revalidation and cache flushes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to diskTrond Myklebust1-0/+12
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter Staubach. Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress. Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While this is compliant with all of the current protocol specifications, there are servers in the market which can not handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to be reduced when reading the file from the server. Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls generic_file_buffered_write which calls generic_perform_write which calls balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that pdflush happens to be working with. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> [modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommitTrond Myklebust1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFSv4: Support NFSv4 optional attributes in the struct nfs_fattrTrond Myklebust1-90/+153
Currently, filling struct nfs_fattr is more or less an all or nothing operation, since NFSv2 and NFSv3 have only mandatory attributes. In NFSv4, some attributes are optional, and so we may simply not be able to fill in those fields. Furthermore, NFSv4 allows you to specify which attributes you are interested in retrieving, thus permitting you to optimise away retrieval of attributes that you know will no change... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: flush cached directory information slightly more readily.NeilBrown1-2/+13
If cached directory contents becomes incorrect, there is no way to flush the contents. This contrasts with files where file locking is the recommended way to ensure cache consistency between multiple applications (a read-lock always flushes the cache). Also while changes to files often change the size of the file (thus triggering a cache flush), changes to directories often do not change the apparent size (as the size is often rounded to a block size). So it is particularly important with directories to avoid the possibility of an incorrect cache wherever possible. When the link count on a directory changes it implies a change in the number of child directories, and so a change in the contents of this directory. So use that as a trigger to flush cached contents. When the ctime changes but the mtime does not, there are two possible reasons. 1/ The owner/mode information has been changed. 2/ utimes has been used to set the mtime backwards. In the first case, a data-cache flush is not required. In the second case it is. So on the basis that correctness trumps performance, flush the directory contents cache in this case also. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: Minor __nfs_revalidate_inode cleanupSuresh Jayaraman1-3/+0
Remove redundant NFS_STALE() check, a leftover due to the commit 691beb13cdc88358334ef0ba867c080a247a760f Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23optimize attribute timeouts for "noac" and "actimeo=0"Peter Staubach1-9/+2
Hi. I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0" mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were seeing in the file attributes. It turned out that this solution did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out. (With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always appear to be timed out.) In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one error in it. It is assuming that the cache is valid in the region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo]. The cache should be considered valid only in the region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo). With this change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally expected. This problem was previously addressed by special casing the attrtimeo == 0 case. However, since the problem is only an off- by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one error and thus, not require the special case. Thanx... ps Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23NFSv4: Convert the open and close ops to use fmodeTrond Myklebust1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>