NFS: Add support for eager writes

Support eager writing to the server, meaning that we write the data to
cache on the server, and wait for that to complete. This ensures that we
see ENOSPC errors immediately.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

fs/nfs/file.c

@@ -606,8 +606,8 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
-	unsigned long written = 0;
-	ssize_t result;
+	unsigned int mntflags = NFS_SERVER(inode)->flags;
+	ssize_t result, written;
 	errseq_t since;
 	int error;
 
@@ -648,6 +648,21 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 
 	written = result;
 	iocb->ki_pos += written;
+
+	if (mntflags & NFS_MOUNT_WRITE_EAGER) {
+		result = filemap_fdatawrite_range(file->f_mapping,
+						  iocb->ki_pos - written,
+						  iocb->ki_pos - 1);
+		if (result < 0)
+			goto out;
+	}
+	if (mntflags & NFS_MOUNT_WRITE_WAIT) {
+		result = filemap_fdatawait_range(file->f_mapping,
+						 iocb->ki_pos - written,
+						 iocb->ki_pos - 1);
+		if (result < 0)
+			goto out;
+	}
 	result = generic_write_sync(iocb, written);
 	if (result < 0)
 		goto out;

fs/nfs/write.c

@@ -712,16 +712,23 @@ int nfs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	struct nfs_pageio_descriptor pgio;
-	struct nfs_io_completion *ioc;
+	struct nfs_io_completion *ioc = NULL;
+	unsigned int mntflags = NFS_SERVER(inode)->flags;
+	int priority = 0;
 	int err;
 
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSWRITEPAGES);
 
-	ioc = nfs_io_completion_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (ioc)
-		nfs_io_completion_init(ioc, nfs_io_completion_commit, inode);
+	if (!(mntflags & NFS_MOUNT_WRITE_EAGER) || wbc->for_kupdate ||
+	    wbc->for_background || wbc->for_sync || wbc->for_reclaim) {
+		ioc = nfs_io_completion_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (ioc)
+			nfs_io_completion_init(ioc, nfs_io_completion_commit,
+					       inode);
+		priority = wb_priority(wbc);
+	}
 
-	nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, inode, wb_priority(wbc), false,
+	nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, inode, priority, false,
 				&nfs_async_write_completion_ops);
 	pgio.pg_io_completion = ioc;
 	err = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, nfs_writepages_callback, &pgio);

include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h

@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ struct nfs_server {
 #define NFS_MOUNT_LOCAL_FCNTL		0x200000
 #define NFS_MOUNT_SOFTERR		0x400000
 #define NFS_MOUNT_SOFTREVAL		0x800000
+#define NFS_MOUNT_WRITE_EAGER		0x01000000
+#define NFS_MOUNT_WRITE_WAIT		0x02000000
 
 	unsigned int		caps;		/* server capabilities */
 	unsigned int		rsize;		/* read size */