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* a simple and scalable pNFS block layout server V2
@ 2015-01-22 11:09 Christoph Hellwig
  2015-01-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 04/20] nfsd: factor out a helper to decode nfstime4 values Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2015-01-22 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: J. Bruce Fields; +Cc: Jeff Layton, linux-nfs, linux-fsdevel, xfs

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!

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   ` a simple and scalable pNFS block layout server V2 J. Bruce Fields
2015-01-22 20:06   ` 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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