From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: atimes not updated over NFS Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:34:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20080129083402.GN15220@kernel.dk> References: <20080114083435.GA24215@janus> <1200325393.7470.6.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20080114175122.GB2768@janus> <20080121190638.GL17468@fieldses.org> <1200943865.25562.56.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20080121210230.GA22046@janus> <20080121210925.GQ17468@fieldses.org> <20080122171717.GD24697@fieldses.org> <20080129025940.GI16785@fieldses.org> <20080129041411.GC1190@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Frank van Maarseveen , Trond Myklebust , Andre Majorel , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:11667 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752296AbYA2IeF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:34:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080129041411.GC1190@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 28 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:59:40PM -0500, bfields wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:17:17PM -0500, bfields wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:09:25PM -0500, bfields wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:02:30PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > > > > > 2.6.22.10: > > > > > t > > > > > t + 2 > > > > > t + 2 > > > > > > > > > > (same behavior) > > > > > > > > > > 2.6.23.12: > > > > > t > > > > > t > > > > > t > > > > > > > > > > definately not good. "cat" on the server updates atime again. > > > > > > > > Yes, that looks like a server bug, and this:... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Trying a different combination of kernels: > > > > > > > > > > server 2.6.23.12, client 2.6.22.10: > > > > > t > > > > > t > > > > > t > > > > > > > > > > server 2.6.22.10, client 2.6.23.12: > > > > > t > > > > > t + 2 > > > > > t + 2 > > > > > > > > ...confirms that since the results appear to depend only on the server > > > > version, not on the client version. > > > > > > And I can confirm this here on 2.6.24-rc8 (+ a few patches). > > > Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestion better right now than > > > bisecting.... > > > > It looks like this happened in the switch from sendfile to sparse. > ^^^^^^ > err, splice > > > Jens, any advice? What happened was nfsd reads stopped updating the > > atime after the following commit. > > Erm, sorry, wrong commit--it's the following one that touches nfsd, > below. Probably because do_generic_mapping_read() does a file_accessed() on the input file. Does this fixup current -git? diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 56b802b..c212fde 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -1090,8 +1090,10 @@ long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct file *out, long ret; ret = splice_direct_to_actor(in, &sd, direct_splice_actor); - if (ret > 0) + if (ret > 0) { *ppos += ret; + file_accessed(in); + } return ret; } -- Jens Axboe