24 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • Propagate the NFS 'fsc' mount option through NFS automounts of various types.

    This is now required as commit:

    commit c02d7adf8c5429727a98bad1d039bccad4c61c50
    Author: Trond Myklebust
    Date: Mon Jun 22 15:09:14 2009 -0400

    NFSv4: Replace nfs4_path_walk() with VFS path lookup in a private namespace

    uses VFS-driven automounting to reach all submounts barring the root, thus
    preventing fscaching from being enabled on any submount other than the root.

    This patch gets around that by propagating the NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE flag across
    automounts. If a uniquifier is supplied to a mount then this is propagated to
    all automounts of that mount too.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    [Trond: Fixed up the definition of nfs_fscache_get_super_cookie for the
    case of #undef CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE]
    Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

    David Howells
     

03 Apr, 2009

9 commits

  • Display the local caching state in /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Store pages from an NFS inode into the cache data storage object associated
    with that inode.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Read pages from an FS-Cache data storage object representing an inode into an
    NFS inode.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • FS-Cache page management for NFS. This includes hooking the releasing and
    invalidation of pages marked with PG_fscache (aka PG_private_2) and waiting for
    completion of the write-to-cache flag (PG_fscache_write aka PG_owner_priv_2).

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Bind data storage objects in the local cache to NFS inodes.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Define and create inode-level cache data storage objects (as managed by
    nfs_inode structs).

    Each inode-level object is created in a superblock-level index object and is
    itself a data storage object into which pages from the inode are stored.

    The inode object key is the NFS file handle for the inode.

    The inode object is given coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
    permitted by the cache. This is a sequence made up of:

    (1) i_mtime from the NFS inode.

    (2) i_ctime from the NFS inode.

    (3) i_size from the NFS inode.

    (4) change_attr from the NFSv4 attribute data.

    As the cache is a persistent cache, the auxiliary data is checked when a new
    NFS in-memory inode is set up that matches an already existing data storage
    object in the cache. If the coherency data is the same, the on-disk object is
    retained and used; if not, it is scrapped and a new one created.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Define and create superblock-level cache index objects (as managed by
    nfs_server structs).

    Each superblock object is created in a server level index object and is itself
    an index into which inode-level objects are inserted.

    Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former
    would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option
    exists this isn't possible.

    The superblock object key is a sequence consisting of:

    (1) Certain superblock s_flags.

    (2) Various connection parameters that serve to distinguish superblocks for
    sget().

    (3) The volume FSID.

    (4) The security flavour.

    (5) The uniquifier length.

    (6) The uniquifier text. This is normally an empty string, unless the fsc=xyz
    mount option was used to explicitly specify a uniquifier.

    The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (6).

    The superblock object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
    permitted by the cache. It is assumed that the superblock is always coherent.

    This patch also adds uniquification handling such that two otherwise identical
    superblocks, at least one of which is marked "nosharecache", won't end up
    trying to share the on-disk cache. It will be possible to manually provide a
    uniquifier through a mount option with a later patch to avoid the error
    otherwise produced.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Define and create server-level cache index objects (as managed by nfs_client
    structs).

    Each server object is created in the NFS top-level index object and is itself
    an index into which superblock-level objects are inserted.

    Ideally there would be one superblock-level object per server, and the former
    would be folded into the latter; however, since the "nosharecache" option
    exists this isn't possible.

    The server object key is a sequence consisting of:

    (1) NFS version

    (2) Server address family (eg: AF_INET or AF_INET6)

    (3) Server port.

    (4) Server IP address.

    The key blob is of variable length, depending on the length of (4).

    The server object is given no coherency data to carry in the auxiliary data
    permitted by the cache.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells
     
  • Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level cache index object cookie.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Acked-by: Trond Myklebust
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Tested-by: Daire Byrne

    David Howells