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authorChristoph Hellwig2014-09-23 12:38:48 +0200
committerChristoph Hellwig2015-02-02 18:09:43 +0100
commitc5c707f96fc9a6e5a57ca5baac892673270abe3d (patch)
tree358247cff990d703ef8860e1e46e201d3974bf0b /firmware
parent9cf514ccfacb301f3b1b4509a8ce25dffad55880 (diff)
nfsd: implement pNFS layout recalls
Add support to issue layout recalls to clients. For now we only support full-file recalls to get a simple and stable implementation. This allows to embedd a nfsd4_callback structure in the layout_state and thus avoid any memory allocations under spinlocks during a recall. For normal use cases that do not intent to share a single file between multiple clients this implementation is fully sufficient. To ensure layouts are recalled on local filesystem access each layout state registers a new FL_LAYOUT lease with the kernel file locking code, which filesystems that support pNFS exports that require recalls need to break on conflicting access patterns. The XDR code is based on the old pNFS server implementation by Andy Adamson, Benny Halevy, Boaz Harrosh, Dean Hildebrand, Fred Isaman, Marc Eshel, Mike Sager and Ricardo Labiaga. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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