Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-qc0-f171.google.com ([209.85.216.171]:63110 "EHLO mail-qc0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753162AbbAXL6D (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 06:58:03 -0500 Received: by mail-qc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id s11so1474141qcv.2 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 03:58:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 06:58:00 -0500 From: Jeff Layton To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Parallelise OPEN/OPEN_DOWNGRADE/CLOSE in NFSv4.x (x>0) Message-ID: <20150124065800.4e1900a1@tlielax.poochiereds.net> In-Reply-To: <1422077968-116473-1-git-send-email-trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> References: <1422077968-116473-1-git-send-email-trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:39:23 -0500 Trond Myklebust wrote: > Hi all, > > The following patchset improves the tracking of stateids in the CLOSE code > to ensure that we can rely on it in situations where we remove the NFSv4.0 > serialisation of state that shares the same open owners. > It then proceeds to add a series of changes to the NFSv4.0 seqid code to > ensure that it can be removed in the case of NFSv4.0 opens. > Only lightly tested so far, but it seems to be working... > > In principle there is nothing stopping us from doing the same with byte > range locks; we only need to add better atomicity of stateid updates, > so that we can track the seqid number in the stateid and ensure that it > never regresses. The exercise has been left for the reader... > > Cheers > Trond > > Trond Myklebust (5): > NFSv4: Fix an atomicity problem in CLOSE > NFSv4: More CLOSE/OPEN races > NFSv4: Convert nfs_alloc_seqid() to return an ERR_PTR() if allocation > fails > NFSv4: Check for NULL argument in nfs_*_seqid() functions > NFSv4.1: Allow parallel OPEN/OPEN_DOWNGRADE/CLOSE > > fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h | 3 +++ > fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++------------ > fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c | 9 ++++++--- > include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 2 +- > 5 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > Nice work! I gave it a once-over and it looks pretty sound. I'll plan to give it a good thrashing soon. -- Jeff Layton