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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..65805624e39b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +=============================== +NFS +=============================== + + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + pnfs + rpc-cache + rpc-server-gss + nfs41-server + knfsd-stats diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.rst index 1a5d82180b84..80bcf13550de 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.rst @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ - +============================ Kernel NFS Server Statistics ============================ +:Authors: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> - 26 Mar 2009 + This document describes the format and semantics of the statistics which the kernel NFS server makes available to userspace. These statistics are available in several text form pseudo files, each of @@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ by parsing routines. All other lines contain a sequence of fields separated by whitespace. /proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats ------------------------- +======================== This file is available in kernels from 2.6.30 onwards, if the /proc/fs/nfsd filesystem is mounted (it almost always should be). @@ -109,15 +111,12 @@ this case), or the transport can be enqueued for later attention (sockets-enqueued counts this case), or the packet can be temporarily deferred because the transport is currently being used by an nfsd thread. This last case is not very interesting and is not explicitly -counted, but can be inferred from the other counters thus: +counted, but can be inferred from the other counters thus:: -packets-deferred = packets-arrived - ( sockets-enqueued + threads-woken ) + packets-deferred = packets-arrived - ( sockets-enqueued + threads-woken ) More ----- -Descriptions of the other statistics file should go here. - +==== -Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> -26 Mar 2009 +Descriptions of the other statistics file should go here. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..16b5f02f81c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.rst @@ -0,0 +1,256 @@ +============================= +NFSv4.1 Server Implementation +============================= + +Server support for minorversion 1 can be controlled using the +/proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. The string output returned +by reading this file will contain either "+4.1" or "-4.1" +correspondingly. + +Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is enabled by default. +It can be disabled at run time by writing the string "-4.1" to +the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this +control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. You can use rpc.nfsd +for this; see rpc.nfsd(8). + +(Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and +"-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old +kernels must turn 4.1 on or off *before* turning support for version 4 +on or off; rpc.nfsd does this correctly.) + +The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based +on RFC 5661. + +From the many new features in NFSv4.1 the current implementation +focuses on the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions, providing +"exactly once" semantics and better control and throttling of the +resources allocated for each client. + +The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists +the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional +(OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI) +in minor version 1. The first column indicates the operations that +are not supported yet by the linux server implementation. + +The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows: + +- **pNFS** Parallel NFS +- **FDELG** File Delegations +- **DDELG** Directory Delegations + +The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status. + +- **I** Implemented NFSv4.1 operations. +- **NS** Not Supported. +- **NS\*** Unimplemented optional feature. + +Operations +========== + ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| Implementation status | Operation | REQ,REC, OPT or NMI | Feature (REQ, REC or OPT) | Definition | ++=======================+======================+=====================+===========================+================+ +| | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | CREATE_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.36 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| NS* | DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | DELEGRETURN | OPT | FDELG, | Section 18.6 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | | | DDELG, pNFS | | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | | | (REQ) | | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| NS* | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | GETFH | REQ | | Section 18.8 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| NS* | GET_DIR_DELEGATION | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 18.39 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | LINK | OPT | | Section 18.9 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | LOCK | REQ | | Section 18.10 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | LOCKT | REQ | | Section 18.11 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | LOCKU | REQ | | Section 18.12 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | LOOKUP | REQ | | Section 18.13 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | LOOKUPP | REQ | | Section 18.14 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | NVERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.15 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | OPEN | REQ | | Section 18.16 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| NS* | OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | OPEN_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | OPEN_DOWNGRADE | REQ | | Section 18.18 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | PUTFH | REQ | | Section 18.19 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | PUTPUBFH | REQ | | Section 18.20 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | PUTROOTFH | REQ | | Section 18.21 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | READ | REQ | | Section 18.22 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | READDIR | REQ | | Section 18.23 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | READLINK | OPT | | Section 18.24 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER | MNI | | N/A | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | REMOVE | REQ | | Section 18.25 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | RENAME | REQ | | Section 18.26 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | RENEW | MNI | | N/A | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| NS* | WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ +| | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | ++-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ + + +Callback Operations +=================== ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| Implementation status | Operation | REQ,REC, OPT or NMI | Feature (REQ, REC or OPT) | Definition | ++=======================+=========================+=====================+===========================+===============+ +| | CB_GETATTR | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| I | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_NOTIFY | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_NOTIFY_LOCK | OPT | | Section 20.11 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_PUSH_DELEG | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | CB_RECALL | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.2 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | DDELG, pNFS | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | (REQ) | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_RECALL_ANY | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.6 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | DDELG, pNFS | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | (REQ) | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS | CB_RECALL_SLOT | REQ | | Section 20.8 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_RECALLABLE_OBJ_AVAIL | OPT | DDELG, pNFS | Section 20.7 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | (REQ) | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| I | CB_SEQUENCE | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.9 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | DDELG, pNFS | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | (REQ) | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| NS* | CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | DDELG, pNFS | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ +| | | | (REQ) | | ++-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ + + +Implementation notes: +===================== + +SSV: + The spec claims this is mandatory, but we don't actually know of any + implementations, so we're ignoring it for now. The server returns + NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on EXCHANGE_ID, which should be future-proof. + +GSS on the backchannel: + Again, theoretically required but not widely implemented (in + particular, the current Linux client doesn't request it). We return + NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on CREATE_SESSION. + +DELEGPURGE: + mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or + CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that + persist across client reboots). Thus we need not implement this for + now. + +EXCHANGE_ID: + implementation ids are ignored + +CREATE_SESSION: + backchannel attributes are ignored + +SEQUENCE: + no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional) + +Nonstandard compound limitations: + No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a + ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may + fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel + negotiation. + +See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 682a59fabe3f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,173 +0,0 @@ -NFSv4.1 Server Implementation - -Server support for minorversion 1 can be controlled using the -/proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. The string output returned -by reading this file will contain either "+4.1" or "-4.1" -correspondingly. - -Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is enabled by default. -It can be disabled at run time by writing the string "-4.1" to -the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this -control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. You can use rpc.nfsd -for this; see rpc.nfsd(8). - -(Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and -"-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old -kernels must turn 4.1 on or off *before* turning support for version 4 -on or off; rpc.nfsd does this correctly.) - -The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based -on RFC 5661. - -From the many new features in NFSv4.1 the current implementation -focuses on the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions, providing -"exactly once" semantics and better control and throttling of the -resources allocated for each client. - -The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists -the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional -(OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI) -in minor version 1. The first column indicates the operations that -are not supported yet by the linux server implementation. - -The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows: - pNFS Parallel NFS - FDELG File Delegations - DDELG Directory Delegations - -The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status. - I Implemented NFSv4.1 operations. - NS Not Supported. - NS* Unimplemented optional feature. - -Operations - - +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ - | Operation | REQ, REC, | Feature | Definition | - | | OPT, or | (REQ, REC, | | - | | MNI | or OPT) | | - +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ - | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | -I | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | -I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | - | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | - | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | - | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | -I | CREATE_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.36 | -NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | - | DELEGRETURN | OPT | FDELG, | Section 18.6 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -I | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 | -I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 | -I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 | -I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | - | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | -I | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | -NS*| GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | - | GETFH | REQ | | Section 18.8 | -NS*| GET_DIR_DELEGATION | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 18.39 | -I | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 | -I | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 | -I | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 | - | LINK | OPT | | Section 18.9 | - | LOCK | REQ | | Section 18.10 | - | LOCKT | REQ | | Section 18.11 | - | LOCKU | REQ | | Section 18.12 | - | LOOKUP | REQ | | Section 18.13 | - | LOOKUPP | REQ | | Section 18.14 | - | NVERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.15 | - | OPEN | REQ | | Section 18.16 | -NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | - | OPEN_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | - | OPEN_DOWNGRADE | REQ | | Section 18.18 | - | PUTFH | REQ | | Section 18.19 | - | PUTPUBFH | REQ | | Section 18.20 | - | PUTROOTFH | REQ | | Section 18.21 | - | READ | REQ | | Section 18.22 | - | READDIR | REQ | | Section 18.23 | - | READLINK | OPT | | Section 18.24 | - | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 | - | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER | MNI | | N/A | - | REMOVE | REQ | | Section 18.25 | - | RENAME | REQ | | Section 18.26 | - | RENEW | MNI | | N/A | - | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 | - | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 | - | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 | -I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | - | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 | -I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 | - | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 | - | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A | - | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | -NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 | -I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | - | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | -NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | - | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | - -Callback Operations - - +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+ - | Operation | REQ, REC, | Feature | Definition | - | | OPT, or | (REQ, REC, | | - | | MNI | or OPT) | | - +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+ - | CB_GETATTR | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1 | -I | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 | -NS*| CB_NOTIFY | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4 | -NS*| CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 | -NS*| CB_NOTIFY_LOCK | OPT | | Section 20.11 | -NS*| CB_PUSH_DELEG | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5 | - | CB_RECALL | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.2 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -NS*| CB_RECALL_ANY | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.6 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -NS | CB_RECALL_SLOT | REQ | | Section 20.8 | -NS*| CB_RECALLABLE_OBJ_AVAIL | OPT | DDELG, pNFS | Section 20.7 | - | | | (REQ) | | -I | CB_SEQUENCE | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.9 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | - +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+ - -Implementation notes: - -SSV: -* The spec claims this is mandatory, but we don't actually know of any - implementations, so we're ignoring it for now. The server returns - NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on EXCHANGE_ID, which should be future-proof. - -GSS on the backchannel: -* Again, theoretically required but not widely implemented (in - particular, the current Linux client doesn't request it). We return - NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on CREATE_SESSION. - -DELEGPURGE: -* mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or - CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that - persist across client reboots). Thus we need not implement this for - now. - -EXCHANGE_ID: -* implementation ids are ignored - -CREATE_SESSION: -* backchannel attributes are ignored - -SEQUENCE: -* no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional) - -Nonstandard compound limitations: -* No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a - ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may - fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel - negotiation. - -See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.rst index 80dc0bdc302a..7c470ecdc3a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.rst @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ -Reference counting in pnfs: +========================== +Reference counting in pnfs ========================== The are several inter-related caches. We have layouts which can reference multiple devices, each of which can reference multiple data servers. Each data server can be referenced by multiple devices. Each device -can be referenced by multiple layouts. To keep all of this straight, +can be referenced by multiple layouts. To keep all of this straight, we need to reference count. struct pnfs_layout_hdr ----------------------- +====================== + The on-the-wire command LAYOUTGET corresponds to struct pnfs_layout_segment, usually referred to by the variable name lseg. Each nfs_inode may hold a pointer to a cache of these layout @@ -25,7 +27,8 @@ the reference count, as the layout is kept around by the lseg that keeps it in the list. deviceid_cache --------------- +============== + lsegs reference device ids, which are resolved per nfs_client and layout driver type. The device ids are held in a RCU cache (struct nfs4_deviceid_cache). The cache itself is referenced across each @@ -38,24 +41,26 @@ justification, but seems reasonable given that we can have multiple deviceid's per filesystem, and multiple filesystems per nfs_client. The hash code is copied from the nfsd code base. A discussion of -hashing and variations of this algorithm can be found at: -http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/9522965e2b8d3809 +hashing and variations of this algorithm can be found `here. +<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/9522965e2b8d3809>`_ data server cache ------------------ +================= + file driver devices refer to data servers, which are kept in a module level cache. Its reference is held over the lifetime of the deviceid pointing to it. lseg ----- +==== + lseg maintains an extra reference corresponding to the NFS_LSEG_VALID bit which holds it in the pnfs_layout_hdr's list. When the final lseg is removed from the pnfs_layout_hdr's list, the NFS_LAYOUT_DESTROYED bit is set, preventing any new lsegs from being added. layout drivers --------------- +============== PNFS utilizes what is called layout drivers. The STD defines 4 basic layout types: "files", "objects", "blocks", and "flexfiles". For each @@ -68,6 +73,6 @@ Blocks-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/blocklayout/.. directory Flexfiles-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/.. directory blocks-layout setup -------------------- +=================== TODO: Document the setup needs of the blocks layout driver diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.rst index c4dac829db0f..bb164eea969b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.rst @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ - This document gives a brief introduction to the caching +========= +RPC Cache +========= + +This document gives a brief introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer that is used, in particular, for NFS authentication. -CACHES +Caches ====== + The caching replaces the old exports table and allows for a wide variety of values to be caches. @@ -12,6 +17,7 @@ quite possibly very different in content and use. There is a corpus of common code for managing these caches. Examples of caches that are likely to be needed are: + - mapping from IP address to client name - mapping from client name and filesystem to export options - mapping from UID to list of GIDs, to work around NFS's limitation @@ -21,6 +27,7 @@ Examples of caches that are likely to be needed are: - mapping from network identify to public key for crypto authentication. The common code handles such things as: + - general cache lookup with correct locking - supporting 'NEGATIVE' as well as positive entries - allowing an EXPIRED time on cache items, and removing @@ -35,60 +42,66 @@ The common code handles such things as: Creating a Cache ---------------- -1/ A cache needs a datum to store. This is in the form of a - structure definition that must contain a - struct cache_head +- A cache needs a datum to store. This is in the form of a + structure definition that must contain a struct cache_head as an element, usually the first. It will also contain a key and some content. Each cache element is reference counted and contains expiry and update times for use in cache management. -2/ A cache needs a "cache_detail" structure that +- A cache needs a "cache_detail" structure that describes the cache. This stores the hash table, some parameters for cache management, and some operations detailing how to work with particular cache items. - The operations requires are: - struct cache_head *alloc(void) - This simply allocates appropriate memory and returns - a pointer to the cache_detail embedded within the - structure - void cache_put(struct kref *) - This is called when the last reference to an item is - dropped. The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field - in the cache_head. cache_put should release any - references create by 'cache_init' and, if CACHE_VALID - is set, any references created by cache_update. - It should then release the memory allocated by - 'alloc'. - int match(struct cache_head *orig, struct cache_head *new) - test if the keys in the two structures match. Return - 1 if they do, 0 if they don't. - void init(struct cache_head *orig, struct cache_head *new) - Set the 'key' fields in 'new' from 'orig'. This may - include taking references to shared objects. - void update(struct cache_head *orig, struct cache_head *new) - Set the 'content' fileds in 'new' from 'orig'. - int cache_show(struct seq_file *m, struct cache_detail *cd, - struct cache_head *h) - Optional. Used to provide a /proc file that lists the - contents of a cache. This should show one item, - usually on just one line. - int cache_request(struct cache_detail *cd, struct cache_head *h, - char **bpp, int *blen) - Format a request to be send to user-space for an item - to be instantiated. *bpp is a buffer of size *blen. - bpp should be moved forward over the encoded message, - and *blen should be reduced to show how much free - space remains. Return 0 on success or <0 if not - enough room or other problem. - int cache_parse(struct cache_detail *cd, char *buf, int len) - A message from user space has |