From: "bfields@fieldses.org" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Cc: "linux-cachefs@redhat.com" <linux-cachefs@redhat.com>,
"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"jlayton@kernel.org" <jlayton@kernel.org>,
"daire@dneg.com" <daire@dneg.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-cachefs] Adventures in NFS re-exporting
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:51:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001195142.GG1496@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6294c25cb5eb98193f609a52aa8f4b5d4e81279.camel@hammerspace.com>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 07:29:51PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 15:26 -0400, bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 07:24:42PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > NFS4_CHANGE_TYPE_IS_MONOTONIC_INCR should normally be good enough
> > > to
> > > allow the above optimisation, yes. I'm less sure about whether or
> > > not
> > > we are correct in returning NFS4_CHANGE_TYPE_IS_MONOTONIC_INCR when
> > > in
> > > fact we are adding the ctime and filesystem-specific change
> > > attribute,
> > > but we could fix that too.
> >
> > Could you explain your concern?
> >
>
> Same as before: that the ctime could cause the value to regress if
> someone messes with the system time on the server. Yes, we do add in
> the change attribute, but the value of ctime.tv_sec dominates by a
> factor 2^30.
Got it.
I'd like to just tell people not to do that....
If we think it's too easy a mistake to make, I can think of other
approaches, though filesystem assistance might be required:
- Ideal would be just never to expose uncommitted change attributes to
the client. Absent persistant RAM that could be terribly expensive.
- It would help just to have any number that's guaranteed to increase
after a boot. Of course, if would to go forward at least as reliably
as the system time. We'd put it in the high bits of the on-disk
i_version. (We'd rather not just mix it into the returned change
attribute as we do with ctime, because that would cause clients to
discard all their caches unnecessarily after boot.)
--b.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 17:31 Adventures in NFS re-exporting Daire Byrne
2020-09-08 9:40 ` Mkrtchyan, Tigran
2020-09-08 11:06 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-15 17:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-09-15 19:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-16 16:01 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-19 16:19 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add NFSv3 emulation of the lookupp operation trondmy
2020-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] NFSv3: Refactor nfs3_proc_lookup() to split out the dentry trondmy
2020-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] NFSv3: Add emulation of the lookupp() operation trondmy
2020-10-19 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add NFSv3 emulation of the lookupp operation trondmy
2020-10-19 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] NFSv3: Refactor nfs3_proc_lookup() to split out the dentry trondmy
2020-10-19 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] NFSv3: Add emulation of the lookupp() operation trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Add NFSv3 emulation of the lookupp operation trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] NFSv3: Refactor nfs3_proc_lookup() to split out the dentry trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] NFSv3: Add emulation of the lookupp() operation trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] NFSv4: Observe the NFS_MOUNT_SOFTREVAL flag in _nfs4_proc_lookupp trondmy
2020-10-21 9:33 ` Adventures in NFS re-exporting Daire Byrne
2020-11-09 16:02 ` bfields
2020-11-12 13:01 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-12 13:57 ` bfields
2020-11-12 18:33 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-12 20:55 ` bfields
2020-11-12 23:05 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-13 14:50 ` bfields
2020-11-13 22:26 ` bfields
2020-11-14 12:57 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-16 15:18 ` bfields
2020-11-16 15:53 ` bfields
2020-11-16 19:21 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-16 15:29 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-16 15:56 ` bfields
2020-11-16 16:03 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-16 16:14 ` bfields
2020-11-16 16:38 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-16 19:03 ` bfields
2020-11-16 20:03 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-17 3:16 ` bfields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] nfsd: move fill_{pre,post}_wcc to nfsfh.c J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfsd: pre/post attr is using wrong change attribute J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 12:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-17 15:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 15:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-20 22:38 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] nfsd: only call inode_query_iversion in the I_VERSION case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/8] nfsd: simplify nfsd4_change_info J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] nfsd: minor nfsd4_change_attribute cleanup J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 0:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] nfsd4: don't query change attribute in v2/v3 case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] nfs: use change attribute for NFS re-exports J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] nfsd: move change attribute generation to filesystem J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 0:58 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-21 1:01 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 13:00 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] nfsd: skip some unnecessary stats in the v4 case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] Revert "nfsd4: support change_attr_type attribute" J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfsd: pre/post attr is using wrong change attribute J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 1:03 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-21 21:44 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-22 0:02 ` bfields
2020-11-22 1:55 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-22 3:03 ` bfields
2020-11-23 20:07 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-17 15:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] nfs: don't mangle i_version on NFS J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 12:27 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-17 14:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] nfs: support i_version in the NFSv4 case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 12:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-24 20:35 ` Adventures in NFS re-exporting Daire Byrne
2020-11-24 21:15 ` bfields
2020-11-24 22:15 ` Frank Filz
2020-11-25 14:47 ` 'bfields'
2020-11-25 16:25 ` Frank Filz
2020-11-25 19:03 ` 'bfields'
2020-11-26 0:04 ` Frank Filz
2020-11-25 17:14 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-25 19:31 ` bfields
2020-12-03 12:20 ` Daire Byrne
2020-12-03 18:51 ` bfields
2020-12-03 20:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 21:13 ` bfields
2020-12-03 21:32 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 21:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 21:45 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 21:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 22:04 ` bfields
2020-12-03 22:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 22:39 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 22:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 23:34 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 22:44 ` bfields
2020-12-03 21:54 ` bfields
2020-12-03 22:45 ` bfields
2020-12-03 22:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 23:16 ` bfields
2020-12-03 23:28 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-04 1:02 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-04 1:41 ` bfields
2020-12-04 2:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-17 16:01 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-17 19:09 ` bfields
2020-09-17 20:23 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-17 21:57 ` bfields
2020-09-19 11:08 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-22 16:43 ` Chuck Lever
2020-09-23 20:25 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-23 21:01 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-26 9:00 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-28 15:49 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-28 16:08 ` Chuck Lever
2020-09-28 17:42 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-22 12:31 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-22 13:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-23 12:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-09-23 13:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-23 17:07 ` bfields
2020-09-30 19:30 ` [Linux-cachefs] " Jeff Layton
2020-10-01 0:09 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-01 10:36 ` Jeff Layton
2020-10-01 12:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-10-01 16:39 ` Jeff Layton
2020-10-05 12:54 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-13 9:59 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-01 18:41 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-10-01 19:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-10-01 19:26 ` bfields
2020-10-01 19:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-10-01 19:51 ` bfields [this message]
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