From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>,
linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
xfs-VZNHf3L845pBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: a simple and scalable pNFS block layout server V2
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:01:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150122200130.GH898@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421925006-24231-1-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:09:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series adds support for the pNFS operations in NFS v4.1, as well
> as a block layout driver that can export block based filesystems that
> implement a few additional export operations. Support for XFS is
> provided in this series, but other filesystems could be added easily.
>
> The core pNFS code of course owns its heritage to the existing Linux
> pNFS server prototype, but except for a few bits and pieces in the
> XDR path nothing is left from it.
>
> The design of this new pNFS server is fairly different from the old
> one - while the old one implemented very little semantics in nfsd
> and left almost everything to filesystems my implementation implements
> as much as possible in common nfsd code, then dispatches to a layout
> driver that still is part of nfsd and only then calls into the
> filesystem, thus keeping it free from intimate pNFS knowledge.
>
> This version of the code has been rebased to the locks-for-3.20
> tree which adds a new lock context structure to the inode. For now
> we still (ab)use the lease list like in the last version. Adding
> a pNFS-specific list would duplicate a lot of code without much
> benefit. But during this research I came up with way to associate
> a nfs4_file with a struct file at open time which should allow
> to greatly simplify the pNFS and delegation code. So stay tuned
> for some patches in this area!
Good, that could definitely use simplification.--b.
>
> For now this also doesn't take errata 3901 for rfc 5661 into account
> yet and sticks to the verified errata. The changes in 3901 seem
> useful in the longer run one verified and will be implemented
> eventually. Note that the only existing pNFS block client (Linux)
> would not benefit from the longer layout lifetimes anyway.
>
> More details are document in the individual patch descriptions and
> code comments.
>
> This code is also available from:
>
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/pnfs.git pnfsd-for-3.20-2
>
> Changes since V1:
> - rebased to the locks-for-3.20 tree
> - fixed a memory leak in the nfsd4_encode_getdeviceinfo error path
> - removed the always one lg_roc field
> - added a nopnfs export option
> - use a synchronous transaction in layoutget to simplify recovery
> - various XFS fixes pointed out by Dave
> - various documentation typo fixes
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2015-01-22 11:09 a simple and scalable pNFS block layout server V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 04/20] nfsd: factor out a helper to decode nfstime4 values Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-5-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-22 20:15 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 05/20] nfsd: move nfsd_fh_match to nfsfh.h Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 09/20] nfsd: make find_any_file available outside nfs4state.c Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 12/20] nfsd: update documentation for pNFS support Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 13/20] nfsd: add trace events Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 15/20] nfsd: pNFS block layout driver Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 18/20] xfs: factor out a xfs_update_prealloc_flags() helper Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-19-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-01 23:06 ` Dave Chinner
2015-01-22 16:04 ` a simple and scalable pNFS block layout server V2 Chuck Lever
2015-01-22 16:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-1-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 01/20] nfs: add LAYOUT_TYPE_MAX enum value Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 02/20] fs: track fl_owner for leases Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 03/20] fs: add FL_LAYOUT lease type Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 15:45 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-4-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-22 20:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20150122201442.GJ898-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-22 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 06/20] nfsd: add fh_fsid_match helper Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 07/20] nfsd: make lookup/alloc/unhash_stid available outside nfs4state.c Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 08/20] nfsd: make find/get/put file " Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 10/20] nfsd: implement pNFS operations Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-11-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-29 20:33 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20150129203346.GA11064-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-02 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-02-02 14:28 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20150202142832.GC22301-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-02 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150202145619.GA18387-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-02 15:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20150202150032.GD22301-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-02 18:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150202185638.GB23319-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-03 16:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 11/20] nfsd: implement pNFS layout recalls Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 14/20] exportfs: add methods for block layout exports Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 16/20] xfs: pass a 64-bit count argument to xfs_iomap_write_unwritten Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-29 20:52 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-02 7:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-02-02 19:24 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-02 19:43 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-02 19:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-03 18:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150203183533.GA16929-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-11 22:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-11 22:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-04 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150204075756.GA763-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-04 20:02 ` Dave Chinner
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 17/20] xfs: update the superblock using a synchronous transaction in growfs Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 19/20] xfs: implement pNFS export operations Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-20-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-05 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-05 7:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150205070858.GA593-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-05 13:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150205135756.GA6386-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-06 22:20 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-06 22:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-08 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150208133435.GA27081-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-08 14:09 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20150208090942.51e99687-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-09 20:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20150209201154.GA27746-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-10 0:04 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-13 1:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-13 1:54 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-13 2:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-02-15 23:25 ` Dave Chinner
2015-01-22 11:10 ` [PATCH 20/20] xfs: recall pNFS layouts on conflicting access Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <1421925006-24231-21-git-send-email-hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-05 0:51 ` Dave Chinner
2015-01-22 20:01 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2015-01-22 20:06 ` a simple and scalable pNFS block layout server V2 J. Bruce Fields
2015-01-22 20:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20150122200618.GI898-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-22 20:20 ` Jeff Layton
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