Hi Trond-
I'm looking at this logic in nfs_revalidate_file_size:
if (server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_NOAC)
goto force_reval;
if (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
goto force_reval;
if (nfsi->npages != 0)
return 0;
if (!(nfsi->cache_validity & NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE) &&
!nfs_attribute_timeout(inode))
return 0;
force_reval:
return __nfs_revalidate_inode(server, inode);
There are problems with this when there are concurrent writers or
there happen to be outstanding writes.
If "noac" is set and there are concurrent (O_SYNC) writers, the
getattr may not see the correct file size on the server if it is done
while some other process is in the middle of a write.
The logic should be looking at acregmin/max not at the "noac" flag.
If someone sets "actimeo=0" this logic will continue to use a cached
file size if there happen to be outstanding dirty pages.
If this is an O_APPEND write, the client will potentially miss file
size changes on the server if there happen to be outstanding dirty
pages on this client.
These cases could be improved by using the same technique as
nfs_getattr: Causing all writers to wait, flushing out the writes
without a commit, then doing the getattr.
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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com