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Benny Halevy
dd453dfd70 nfsd: pass nfsd4_compound_state* to nfs4_preprocess_{state,seq}id_op
Currently we only use cstate->current_fh,
will also be used by nfsd41 code.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:19 -07:00
Benny Halevy
e10e0cfc2f nfsd41: destroy_session operation
Implement the destory_session operation confoming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-26

[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:19 -07:00
Andy Adamson
bf864a31d5 nfsd41: non-page DRC for solo sequence responses
A session inactivity time compound (lease renewal) or a compound where the
sequence operation has sa_cachethis set to FALSE do not require any pages
to be held in the v4.1 DRC. This is because struct nfsd4_slot is already
caching the session information.

Add logic to the nfs41 server to not cache response pages for solo sequence
responses.

Return nfserr_replay_uncached_rep on the operation following the sequence
operation when sa_cachethis is FALSE.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfsd4_replay_cache_entry]
[nfsd41: rename nfsd4_no_page_in_cache]
[nfsd41 rename nfsd4_enc_no_page_replay]
[nfsd41 nfsd4_is_solo_sequence]
[nfsd41 change nfsd4_not_cached return]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[changed return type to bool]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 drop parens in nfsd4_is_solo_sequence call]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[changed "== 0" to "!"]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:19 -07:00
Andy Adamson
38eb76a54d nfsd41: Add a create session replay cache
Replace the nfs4_client cl_seqid field with a single struct nfs41_slot used
for the create session replay cache.

The CREATE_SESSION slot sets the sl_session pointer to NULL. Otherwise, the
slot and it's replay cache are used just like the session slots.

Fix unconfirmed create_session replay response by initializing the
create_session slot sequence id to 0.

A future patch will set the CREATE_SESSION cache when a SEQUENCE operation
preceeds the CREATE_SESSION operation. This compound is currently only cached
in the session slot table.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: revert portion of nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netpp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:18 -07:00
Andy Adamson
ec6b5d7b50 nfsd41: create_session operation
Implement the create_session operation confoming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-26

Look up the client id (generated by the server on exchange_id,
given by the client on create_session).
If neither a confirmed or unconfirmed client is found
then the client id is stale
If a confirmed cilent is found (i.e. we already received
create_session for it) then compare the sequence id
to determine if it's a replay or possibly a mis-ordered rpc.
If the seqid is in order, update the confirmed client seqid
and procedd with updating the session parameters.

If an unconfirmed client_id is found then verify the creds
and seqid.  If both match move the client id to confirmed state
and proceed with processing the create_session.

Currently, we do not support persistent sessions, and RDMA.

alloc_init_session generates a new sessionid and creates
a session structure.

NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT is used for the max response cached calculation, and for
the counting of DRC pages using the hard limits set in struct srv_serv.

A note on NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT:

Other patches in this series allow for NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT + 1 pages to be
cached in a DRC slot when the response size is less than NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT *
PAGE_SIZE but xdr_buf pages are used. e.g. a READDIR operation will encode a
small amount of data in the xdr_buf head, and then the READDIR in the xdr_buf
pages.  So, the hard limit calculation use of pages by a session is
underestimated by the number of cached operations using the xdr_buf pages.

Yet another patch caches no pages for the solo sequence operation, or any
compound where cache_this is False.  So the hard limit calculation use of
pages by a session is overestimated by the number of these operations in the
cache.

TODO: improve resource pre-allocation and negotiate session
parameters accordingly.  Respect and possibly adjust
backchannel attributes.

Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
[nfsd41: remove headerpadsz from channel attributes]
Our client and server only support a headerpadsz of 0.
[nfsd41: use DRC limits in fore channel init]
[nfsd41: do not change CREATE_SESSION back channel attrs]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 remove sl_session from alloc_init_session]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[simplify nfsd4_encode_create_session error handling]
[nfsd41: fix comment style in init_forechannel_attrs]
[nfsd41: allocate struct nfsd4_session and slot table in one piece]
[nfsd41: no need to INIT_LIST_HEAD in alloc_init_session just prior to list_add]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:18 -07:00
Andy Adamson
da3846a286 nfsd41: nfsd DRC logic
Replay a request in nfsd4_sequence.
Add a minorversion to struct nfsd4_compound_state.

Pass the current slot to nfs4svc_encode_compound res via struct
nfsd4_compoundres to set an NFSv4.1 DRC entry.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfs4svc_encode_compoundres]
[nfsd41 replace nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:17 -07:00
Andy Adamson
c3d06f9ce8 nfsd41: hard page limit for DRC
Use no more than 1/128th of the number of free pages at nfsd startup for the
v4.1 DRC.

This is an arbitrary default which should probably end up under the control
of an administrator.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[moved added fields in struct svc_serv under CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[fix set_max_drc calculation of sv_drc_max_pages]
[moved NFSD_DRC_SIZE_SHIFT's declaration up in header file]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:17 -07:00
Andy Adamson
074fe89753 nfsd41: DRC save, restore, and clear functions
Cache all the result pages, including the rpc header in rq_respages[0],
for a request in the slot table cache entry.

Cache the statp pointer from nfsd_dispatch which points into rq_respages[0]
just past the rpc header. When setting a cache entry, calculate and save the
length of the nfs data minus the rpc header for rq_respages[0].

When replaying a cache entry, replace the cached rpc header with the
replayed request rpc result header, unless there is not enough room in the
cached results first page. In that case, use the cached rpc header.

The sessions fore channel maxresponse size cached is set to NFSD_PAGES_PER_SLOT
* PAGE_SIZE. For compounds we are cacheing with operations such as READDIR
that use the xdr_buf->pages to hold data, we choose to cache the extra page of
data rather than copying data from xdr_buf->pages into the xdr_buf->head page.

[nfsd41: limit cache to maxresponsesize_cached]
[nfsd41: mv nfsd4_set_statp under CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
[nfsd41: rename nfsd4_move_pages]
[nfsd41: rename page_no variable]
[nfsd41: rename nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
[nfsd41: fix nfsd41_copy_replay_data comment]
[nfsd41: add to nfsd4_set_cache_entry]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:17 -07:00
Benny Halevy
b85d4c01b7 nfsd41: sequence operation
Implement the sequence operation conforming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-26

Check for stale clientid (as derived from the sessionid).
Enforce slotid range and exactly-once semantics using
the slotid and seqid.

If everything went well renew the client lease and
mark the slot INPROGRESS.

Add a struct nfsd4_slot pointer to struct nfsd4_compound_state.
To be used for sessions DRC replay.

[nfsd41: rename sequence catchthis to cachethis]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
[pulled some code to set cstate->slot from "nfsd DRC logic"]
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd: add a struct nfsd4_slot pointer to struct nfsd4_compound_state]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: add nfsd4_session pointer to nfsd4_compound_state]
[nfsd41: set cstate session]
[nfsd41: use cstate session in nfsd4_sequence]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[simplify nfsd4_encode_sequence error handling]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:16 -07:00
Andy Adamson
a1bcecd29c nfsd41: match clientid establishment method
We need to distinguish between client names provided by NFSv4.0 clients
SETCLIENTID and those provided by NFSv4.1 via EXCHANGE_ID when looking
up the clientid by string.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[nfsd41: use boolean values for use_exchange_id argument]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: simplify match_clientid_establishment logic]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:15 -07:00
Andy Adamson
0733d21338 nfsd41: exchange_id operation
Implement the exchange_id operation confoming to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-28

Based on the client provided name, hash a client id.
If a confirmed one is found, compare the op's creds and
verifier.  If the creds match and the verifier is different
then expire the old client (client re-incarnated), otherwise,
if both match, assume it's a replay and ignore it.

If an unconfirmed client is found, then copy the new creds
and verifer if need update, otherwise assume replay.

The client is moved to a confirmed state on create_session.

In the nfs41 branch set the exchange_id flags to
EXCHGID4_FLAG_USE_NON_PNFS | EXCHGID4_FLAG_SUPP_MOVED_REFER
(pNFS is not supported, Referrals are supported,
Migration is not.).

Address various scenarios from section 18.35 of the spec:

1. Check for EXCHGID4_FLAG_UPD_CONFIRMED_REC_A and set
   EXCHGID4_FLAG_CONFIRMED_R as appropriate.

2. Return error codes per 18.35.4 scenarios.

3. Update client records or generate new client ids depending on
   scenario.

Note: 18.35.4 case 3 probably still needs revisiting.  The handling
seems not quite right.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamosn <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use utsname for major_id (and copy to server_scope)]
[nfsd41: fix handling of various exchange id scenarios]
Signed-off-by: Mike Sager <sager@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: reverse use of EXCHGID4_INVAL_FLAG_MASK_A]
[simplify nfsd4_encode_exchange_id error handling]
[nfsd41: embed an xdr_netobj in nfsd4_exchange_id]
[nfsd41: return nfserr_serverfault for spa_how == SP4_MACH_CRED]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:15 -07:00
Andy Adamson
069b6ad4bb nfsd41: proc stubs
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:14 -07:00
Andy Adamson
2db134eb3b nfsd41: xdr infrastructure
Define nfsd41_dec_ops vector and add it to nfsd4_minorversion for
minorversion 1.

Note: nfsd4_enc_ops vector is shared for v4.0 and v4.1
since we don't need to filter out obsolete ops as this is
done in the decoding phase.

exchange_id, create_session, destroy_session, and sequence ops are
implemented as stubs returning nfserr_opnotsupp at this stage.

[was nfsd41: xdr stubs]
[get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:14 -07:00
Marc Eshel
5282fd724b nfsd41: sessionid hashing
Simple sessionid hashing using its monotonically increasing sequence number.

Locking considerations:
sessionid_hashtbl access is controlled by the sessionid_lock spin lock.
It must be taken for insert, delete, and lookup.
nfsd4_sequence looks up the session id and if the session is found,
it calls nfsd4_get_session (still under the sessionid_lock).
nfsd4_destroy_session calls nfsd4_put_session after unhashing
it, so when the session's kref reaches zero it's going to get freed.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[we don't use a prime for sessionid hash table size]
[use sessionid_lock spin lock]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:14 -07:00
Marc Eshel
9fb870702d nfsd41: introduce nfs4_client cl_sessions list
[get rid of CONFIG_NFSD_V4_1]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:13 -07:00
Andy Adamson
7116ed6b99 nfsd41: sessions basic data types
This patch provides basic data structures representing the nfs41
sessions and slots, plus helpers for keeping a reference count
on the session and freeing it.

Note that our server only support a headerpadsz of 0 and
it ignores backchannel attributes at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: remove headerpadsz from channel attributes]
[nfsd41: embed nfsd4_channel in nfsd4_session]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: use bool inuse for slot state]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41 remove sl_session from nfsd4_slot]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:13 -07:00
Marc Eshel
10add806c3 nfsd41: define nfs41 error codes
Define all error code present in
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-29.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: clean up error code definitions]
[nfsd41: change NFSERR_REPLAY_ME]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:12 -07:00
Benny Halevy
18df1884a8 nfs41: common protocol definitions
Define all NFSv4.1 common operation and error code constants.

Note that some of the definitions are used by both the nfs41 client
and the server code. This patch is duplicated in the nfs41 and nfsd41
sessions patchset.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: add exchange id flags]
Signed-off-by: Mike Sager <sager@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[removed server-only hunk changing NFSERR_REPLAY_ME]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: add SEQ4_XX to nfs41-common-protocol]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: generic error code update]
[nfs41: reverse EXCHGID4_INVAL_FLAG_MASK_{A,R}]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:12 -07:00
Andy Adamson
2f425878b6 nfsd: don't use the deferral service, return NFS4ERR_DELAY
On an NFSv4.1 server cache miss that causes an upcall, NFS4ERR_DELAY will be
returned. It is up to the NFSv4.1 client to resend only the operations that
have not been processed.

Initialize rq_usedeferral to 1 in svc_process(). It sill be turned off in
nfsd4_proc_compound() only when NFSv4.1 Sessions are used.

Note: this isn't an adequate solution on its own. It's acceptable as a way
to get some minimal 4.1 up and working, but we're going to have to find a
way to avoid returning DELAY in all common cases before 4.1 can really be
considered ready.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfsd41: reverse rq_nodeferral negative logic]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[sunrpc: initialize rq_usedeferral]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-04-03 17:41:12 -07:00
Andy Adamson
e354d571bb nfsd: embed nfsd4_current_state in nfsd4_compoundres
Remove the allocation of struct nfsd4_compound_state.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-29 16:20:12 -04:00
Greg Banks
42d671c78f Fix a build warning about leaking CONFIG_NFSD to userspace.
Fix a build warning about leaking CONFIG_NFSD to userspace.

The nfsd_stats data structure does not need to be available to
userspace; no kernel interface uses it.  So move it inside #ifdef
__KERNEL__ and the warning goes away.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-27 19:48:36 -04:00
Chuck Lever
2795e53b4e SUNRPC: Clean up static inline functions in svc_xprt.h
Clean up:  Enable the use of const arguments in higher level svc_ APIs
by adding const to the arguments of the helper functions in svc_xprt.h

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-18 18:13:28 -04:00
Greg Banks
03cf6c9f49 knfsd: add file to export stats about nfsd pools
Add /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats to export to userspace various
statistics about the operation of rpc server thread pools.

This patch is based on a forward-ported version of
knfsd-add-pool-thread-stats which has been shipping in the SGI
"Enhanced NFS" product since 2006 and which was previously
posted:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/10375

It has also been updated thus:

 * moved EXPORT_SYMBOL() to near the function it exports
 * made the new struct struct seq_operations const
 * used SEQ_START_TOKEN instead of ((void *)1)
 * merged fix from SGI PV 990526 "sunrpc: use dprintk instead of
   printk in svc_pool_stats_*()" by Harshula Jayasuriya.
 * merged fix from SGI PV 964001 "Crash reading pool_stats before
   nfsds are started".

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-18 17:38:42 -04:00
Greg Banks
59a252ff8c knfsd: avoid overloading the CPU scheduler with enormous load averages
Avoid overloading the CPU scheduler with enormous load averages
when handling high call-rate NFS loads.  When the knfsd bottom half
is made aware of an incoming call by the socket layer, it tries to
choose an nfsd thread and wake it up.  As long as there are idle
threads, one will be woken up.

If there are lot of nfsd threads (a sensible configuration when
the server is disk-bound or is running an HSM), there will be many
more nfsd threads than CPUs to run them.  Under a high call-rate
low service-time workload, the result is that almost every nfsd is
runnable, but only a handful are actually able to run.  This situation
causes two significant problems:

1. The CPU scheduler takes over 10% of each CPU, which is robbing
   the nfsd threads of valuable CPU time.

2. At a high enough load, the nfsd threads starve userspace threads
   of CPU time, to the point where daemons like portmap and rpc.mountd
   do not schedule for tens of seconds at a time.  Clients attempting
   to mount an NFS filesystem timeout at the very first step (opening
   a TCP connection to portmap) because portmap cannot wake up from
   select() and call accept() in time.

Disclaimer: these effects were observed on a SLES9 kernel, modern
kernels' schedulers may behave more gracefully.

The solution is simple: keep in each svc_pool a counter of the number
of threads which have been woken but have not yet run, and do not wake
any more if that count reaches an arbitrary small threshold.

Testing was on a 4 CPU 4 NIC Altix using 4 IRIX clients, each with 16
synthetic client threads simulating an rsync (i.e. recursive directory
listing) workload reading from an i386 RH9 install image (161480
regular files in 10841 directories) on the server.  That tree is small
enough to fill in the server's RAM so no disk traffic was involved.
This setup gives a sustained call rate in excess of 60000 calls/sec
before being CPU-bound on the server.  The server was running 128 nfsds.

Profiling showed schedule() taking 6.7% of every CPU, and __wake_up()
taking 5.2%.  This patch drops those contributions to 3.0% and 2.2%.
Load average was over 120 before the patch, and 20.9 after.

This patch is a forward-ported version of knfsd-avoid-nfsd-overload
which has been shipping in the SGI "Enhanced NFS" product since 2006.
It has been posted before:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/10374

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-18 17:38:41 -04:00
David Shaw
31dec2538e Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client
If a filesystem being written to via NFS returns a short write count
(as opposed to an error) to nfsd, nfsd treats that as a success for
the entire write, rather than the short count that actually succeeded.

For example, given a 8192 byte write, if the underlying filesystem
only writes 4096 bytes, nfsd will ack back to the nfs client that all
8192 bytes were written.  The nfs client does have retry logic for
short writes, but this is never called as the client is told the
complete write succeeded.

There are probably other ways it could happen, but in my case it
happened with a fuse (filesystem in userspace) filesystem which can
rather easily have a partial write.

Here is a patch to properly return the short write count to the
client.

Signed-off-by: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00