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Linus Torvalds 5df6b8e65a Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (42 commits)
  NFS: NFSv4.1 is no longer a "developer only" feature
  NFS: NFS_V4 is no longer an EXPERIMENTAL feature
  NFS: Fix /proc/mount for legacy binary interface
  NFS: Fix the locking in nfs4_callback_getattr
  SUNRPC: Defer deleting the security context until gss_do_free_ctx()
  SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt
  SUNRPC: Reduce asynchronous RPC task stack usage
  SUNRPC: Move the bound cred to struct rpc_rqst
  SUNRPC: Clean up of rpc_bindcred()
  SUNRPC: Move remaining RPC client related task initialisation into clnt.c
  SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_exit() always wakes up a sleeping task
  SUNRPC: Make the credential cache hashtable size configurable
  SUNRPC: Store the hashtable size in struct rpc_cred_cache
  NFS: Ensure the AUTH_UNIX credcache is allocated dynamically
  NFS: Fix the NFS users of rpc_restart_call()
  SUNRPC: The function rpc_restart_call() should return success/failure
  NFSv4: Get rid of the bogus RPC_ASSASSINATED(task) checks
  NFSv4: Clean up the process of renewing the NFSv4 lease
  NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY on SEQUENCE correctly
  NFS: nfs_rename() should not have to flush out writebacks
  ...
2010-08-07 13:19:36 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 77a63f3d1e NFS: Fix a typo in include/linux/nfs_fs.h
nfs_commit_inode() needs to be defined irrespectively of whether or not
we are supporting NFSv3 and NFSv4.

Allow the compiler to optimise away code in the NFSv2-only case by
converting it into an inlined stub function.

Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-01 15:10:01 -07:00
Trond Myklebust cfb506e1d3 NFS: Ensure that writepage respects the nonblock flag
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-07-30 15:38:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust b608b283a9 NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_page
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16056

If other processes are blocked waiting for kswapd to free up some memory so
that they can make progress, then we cannot allow kswapd to block on those
processes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-07-30 15:38:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust f11ac8db5d NFSv4: Ensure that we track the NFSv4 lock state in read/write requests.
This patch fixes bugzilla entry 14501:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-07-30 14:41:56 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 035168ab39 NFSv4.1: Make nfs4_setup_sequence take a nfs_server argument
In anticipation of the day when we have per-filesystem sessions, and also
in order to allow the session to change in the event of a filesystem
migration event.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-06-22 13:24:02 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 0522f6aded NFS: Fix another nfs_wb_page() deadlock
J.R. Okajima reports that the call to sync_inode() in nfs_wb_page() can
deadlock with other writeback flush calls. It boils down to the fact
that we cannot ever call writeback_single_inode() while holding a page
lock (even if we do set nr_to_write to zero) since another process may
already be waiting in the call to do_writepages(), and so will deny us
the I_SYNC lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-26 08:43:53 -04:00
Trond Myklebust c5efa5fc91 NFS: Ensure that we mark the inode as dirty if we exit early from commit
If we exit from nfs_commit_inode() without ensuring that the COMMIT rpc
call has been completed, we must re-mark the inode as dirty. Otherwise,
future calls to sync_inode() with the WB_SYNC_ALL flag set will fail to
ensure that the data is on the disk.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-26 08:43:52 -04:00
Trond Myklebust ba8b06e67e NFS: Ensure that nfs_wb_page() waits for Pg_writeback to clear
Neil Brown reports that he is seeing the BUG_ON(ret == 0) trigger in
nfs_page_async_flush. According to the trace in
     https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599628
the problem appears to be due to nfs_wb_page() not waiting for the
PG_writeback flag to clear.

There is a ditto problem in nfs_wb_page_cancel()

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-27 18:33:54 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 71d0a6112a NFS: Fix an unstable write data integrity race
Commit 2c61be0a94 (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE
and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible) exposed a race on file
close. In order to ensure correct close-to-open behaviour, we want to wait
for all outstanding background commit operations to complete.

This patch adds an inode flag that indicates if a commit operation is under
way, and provides a mechanism to allow ->write_inode() to wait for its
completion if this is a data integrity flush.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-22 15:35:57 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 2c61be0a94 NFS: Ensure that the WRITE and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible
We always want to ensure that WRITE and COMMIT completes, whether or not
the user presses ^C. Do this by making the call asynchronous, and allowing
the user to do an interruptible wait for rpc_task completion.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09 19:54:50 -04:00
Trond Myklebust a6305ddb08 NFS: Fix a race with the new commit code
This patch fixes a race which occurs due to the fact that we release the
PG_writeback flag while still holding the nfs_page locked.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09 19:08:17 -04:00
Trond Myklebust b80c3cb628 NFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() calls write_inode() when syncing
Since writeback_single_inode() checks the inode->i_state flags _before_ it
flushes out the data, we need to ensure that the I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag is
already set. Otherwise we risk not seeing a call to write_inode(), which
again means that we break fsync() et al...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09 19:08:17 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 7f2f12d963 NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust acdc53b214 NFS: Replace __nfs_write_mapping with sync_inode()
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>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust c988950eb6 NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page_cancel()
In all cases we should be able to just remove the request and call
cancel_dirty_page().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:55 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 2928db1ffe NFS: Ensure inode is always marked I_DIRTY_DATASYNC, if it has unstable pages
Since nfs_scan_list() doesn't wait for locked pages, we have a race in
which it is possible to end up with an inode that needs to send a COMMIT,
but which does not have the I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag set.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 5bad5abec4 NFS: Run COMMIT as an asynchronous RPC call when wbc->for_background is set
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 420e3646bb NFS: Reduce the number of unnecessary COMMIT calls
If the caller is doing a non-blocking flush, and there are still writebacks
pending on the wire, we can usually defer the COMMIT call until those
writes are done.

Also ensure that we honour the wbc->nonblocking flag.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05 15:44:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust ff778d02bf NFS: Add a count of the number of unstable writes carried by an inode
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>
2010-03-05 15:44:54 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 8fc795f703 NFS: Cleanup - move nfs_write_inode() into fs/nfs/write.c
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>
2010-03-05 15:44:53 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 7549ad5f9b NFS: Remove a redundant check for PageFsCache in nfs_migrate_page()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-02-09 14:29:21 -05:00
H Hartley Sweeten 0aa05887af NFS: Make nfs_commitdata_release static
The symbol nfs_commitdata_release is only used locally
in this file. Make it static to prevent the following sparse warning:

warning: symbol 'nfs_commitdata_release' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2010-01-26 15:42:03 -05:00
Trond Myklebust c9edda7140 NFS: Fix a reference leak in nfs_wb_cancel_page()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2010-01-26 15:41:34 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 52c9948b1f Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.33' 2009-12-13 13:56:27 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 190f38e5ce NFS: Fix nfs_migrate_page()
The call to migrate_page() will cause the page->private field to be
cleared.
Also fix up the locking around the page->private transfer, so that we ensure
that calls to nfs_page_find_request() don't end up racing.

Finally, fix up a double free bug: nfs_unlock_request() already calls
nfs_release_request() for us...

Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-10 09:05:55 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig 6b2f3d1f76 vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
O_DSYNC" comment.  This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics.  After Jan's O_SYNC
patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
vfs_fsync_range and when not.

This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
flag.  To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.

This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition.  Drivers and
network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set.  The few places setting O_SYNC for
lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.

We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
to make sure we always get these sane options.

Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op.  We try to repair it by using it for
the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
Trond Myklebust 0110ee152b NFS: Fix up the declaration of nfs4_restart_rpc when NFSv4 not configured
Also rename it: it is used in generic code, and so should not have a 'nfs4'
prefix.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-07 09:00:24 -05:00
Trond Myklebust d61e612a72 NFSv41: Clean up slot table management
We no longer need to maintain a distinction between nfs41_sequence_done and
nfs41_sequence_free_slot.

This fixes a number of slot table leakages in the NFSv4.1 code.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-05 19:32:19 -05:00
Andy Adamson e608e79f1b nfs41: call free slot from nfs4_restart_rpc
nfs41_sequence_free_slot can be called multiple times on SEQUENCE operation
errors.
No reason to inline nfs4_restart_rpc

Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@netapp.com>

nfs_writeback_done and nfs_readpage_retry call nfs4_restart_rpc outside the
error handler, and the slot is not freed prior to restarting in the rpc_prepare
state during session reset.

Fix this by moving the call to nfs41_sequence_free_slot from the error
path of nfs41_sequence_done into nfs4_restart_rpc, and by removing the test
for NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP.
Always free slot and goto the rpc prepare state on async errors.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-04 15:55:29 -05:00
Wu Fengguang b17621fed6 writeback: introduce wbc.for_background
It will lower the flush priority for NFS, and maybe more in future.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
Jens Axboe 1fe06ad892 writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
Trond Myklebust 6a396f67d2 Merge branch 'nfsv4_xdr_cleanups-for-2.6.32' into nfs-for-2.6.32
Conflicts:
	fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
2009-08-19 18:21:52 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 1ae88b2e44 NFS: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops...
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without
first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside
nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment()
causes an Oops.

We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in
those cases.

Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already
referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata
structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid
of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all
instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release().

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-12 08:21:39 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 074cc1deec NFS: Add a ->migratepage() aop for NFS
Make NFS a bit more friendly to NUMA and memory hot removal...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-10 08:54:13 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 81e4e1ba7e Revert "fuse: Fix build error" as unnecessary
This reverts commit 097041e576.

Trond had a better fix, which is the parent of this one ("Fix compile
error due to congestion_wait() changes")

Requested-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-11 11:22:34 -07:00
Larry Finger 097041e576 fuse: Fix build error
When building v2.6.31-rc2-344-g69ca06c, the following build errors are
found due to missing includes:

 CC [M]  fs/fuse/dev.o
fs/fuse/dev.c: In function ‘request_end’:
fs/fuse/dev.c:289: error: ‘BLK_RW_SYNC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
...
fs/nfs/write.c: In function ‘nfs_set_page_writeback’:
fs/nfs/write.c:207: error: ‘BLK_RW_ASYNC’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10 19:09:46 -07:00
Jens Axboe 8aa7e847d8 Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion
Commit 1faa16d228 accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-10 20:31:53 +02:00
Andy Adamson eedc020e71 nfs41: use rpc prepare call state for session reset
[nfs41: change nfs4_restart_rpc argument]
[nfs41: check for session not minorversion]
[nfs41: trigger the state manager for session reset]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[always define nfs4_restart_rpc]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 12:25:07 -07:00
Andy Adamson 21d9a851aa nfs41 commit sequence setup done support
Separate commit calls from nfs41: sequence setup/done support

Implement the commit rpc_call_prepare method for
asynchronuos nfs rpcs, call nfs41_setup_sequence from
respective rpc_call_validate_args methods.

Call nfs4_sequence_done from respective rpc_call_done methods.

Note that we need to pass a pointer to the nfs_server in calls data
for passing on to nfs4_sequence_done.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[pnfs: client data server write validate and release]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: Support sessions with O_DIRECT.]
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: separate free slot from sequence done]
[nfs41: nfs4_sequence_free_slot use nfs_client for data server]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 10:46:50 -07:00
Andy Adamson def6ed7ef4 nfs41 write sequence setup done support
Separate write calls from nfs41: sequence setup/done support

Implement the write rpc_call_prepare method for
asynchronuos nfs rpcs, call nfs41_setup_sequence from
respective rpc_call_validate_args methods.

Call nfs4_sequence_done from respective rpc_call_done methods.

Note that we need to pass a pointer to the nfs_server in calls data
for passing on to nfs4_sequence_done.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[pnfs: client data server write validate and release]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[move the nfs4_sequence_free_slot call in nfs_readpage_retry from]
[nfs41: separate free slot from sequence done
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: Support sessions with O_DIRECT.]
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: nfs4_sequence_free_slot use nfs_client for data server]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 10:46:49 -07:00
Andy Adamson 5f7dbd5c75 nfs41: set up seq_res.sr_slotid
Initialize nfs4_sequence_res sr_slotid to NFS4_MAX_SLOT_TABLE.

[was nfs41: sequence res use slotid]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[pulled definition of struct nfs4_sequence_res.sr_slotid to here]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17 10:46:30 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 47c6256420 NFS: Fix up a mismerged patch
Move the definition of nfs_need_commit() into the #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V3
section as originally intended in the patch "NFS: cleanup - remove
struct nfs_inode->ncommit"

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19 15:17:40 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 72cb77f4a5 NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to disk
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>
2009-03-11 14:10:30 -04:00
Trond Myklebust fb8a1f11b6 NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommit
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11 14:10:29 -04:00
Trond Myklebust d7fb120774 NFS: Don't use range_cyclic for data integrity syncs
It is more efficient to write linearly starting from the beginning of the
file.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-07 18:19:05 -04:00
Trond Myklebust a3d01454bc NFS: Remove BKL requirement from attribute updates
The main problem is dealing with inode->i_size: we need to set the
inode->i_lock on all attribute updates, and so vmtruncate won't cut it.
Make an NFS-private version of vmtruncate that has the necessary locking
semantics.

The result should be that the following inode attribute updates are
protected by inode->i_lock
	nfsi->cache_validity
	nfsi->read_cache_jiffies
	nfsi->attrtimeo
	nfsi->attrtimeo_timestamp
	nfsi->change_attr
	nfsi->last_updated
	nfsi->cache_change_attribute
	nfsi->access_cache
	nfsi->access_cache_entry_lru
	nfsi->access_cache_inode_lru
	nfsi->acl_access
	nfsi->acl_default
	nfsi->nfs_page_tree
	nfsi->ncommit
	nfsi->npages
	nfsi->open_files
	nfsi->silly_list
	nfsi->acl
	nfsi->open_states
	inode->i_size
	inode->i_atime
	inode->i_mtime
	inode->i_ctime
	inode->i_nlink
	inode->i_uid
	inode->i_gid

The following is protected by dir->i_mutex
	nfsi->cookieverf

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:51 -04:00
Trond Myklebust e468bae97d NFS: Allow redirtying of a completed unstable write.
Currently, if an unstable write completes, we cannot redirty the page in
order to reflect a new change in the page data until after we've sent a
COMMIT request.

This patch allows a page rewrite to proceed without the unnecessary COMMIT
step, putting it immediately back onto the dirty page list, undoing the
VM unstable write accounting, and removing the NFS_PAGE_TAG_COMMIT tag from
the NFS radix tree.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-09 12:09:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust e7d39069e3 NFS: Clean up nfs_update_request()
Simplify the loop in nfs_update_request by moving into a separate function
the code that attempts to update an existing cached NFS write.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-09 12:09:23 -04:00
Chuck Lever 48186c7d57 NFS: Fix trace debugging nits in write.c
Clean up: fix a few dprintk messages that still need to show the RPC task ID
correctly, and be sure we use the preferred %lld or %llu instead of %Ld or
%Lu.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-09 12:09:05 -04:00