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Overhaul the AFS callback handling by the following means: (1) Don't give up callback promises on vnodes that we are no longer using, rather let them just expire on the server or let the server break them. This is actually more efficient for the server as the callback lookup is expensive if there are lots of extant callbacks. (2) Only give up the callback promises we have from a server when the server record is destroyed. Then we can just give up *all* the callback promises on it in one go. (3) Servers can end up being shared between cells if cells are aliased, so don't add all the vnodes being backed by a particular server into a big FID-indexed tree on that server as there may be duplicates. Instead have each volume instance (~= superblock) register an interest in a server as it starts to make use of it and use this to allow the processor for callbacks from the server to find the superblock and thence the inode corresponding to the FID being broken by means of ilookup_nowait(). (4) Rather than iterating over the entire callback list when a mass-break comes in from the server, maintain a counter of mass-breaks in afs_server (cb_seq) and make afs_validate() check it against the copy in afs_vnode. It would be nice not to have to take a read_lock whilst doing this, but that's tricky without using RCU. (5) Save a ref on the fileserver we're using for a call in the afs_call struct so that we can access its cb_s_break during call decoding. (6) Write-lock around callback and status storage in a vnode and read-lock around getattr so that we don't see the status mid-update. This has the following consequences: (1) Data invalidation isn't seen until someone calls afs_validate() on a vnode. Unfortunately, we need to use a key to query the server, but getting one from a background thread is tricky without caching loads of keys all over the place. (2) Mass invalidation isn't seen until someone calls afs_validate(). (3) Callback breaking is going to hit the inode_hash_lock quite a bit. Could this be replaced with rcu_read_lock() since inodes are destroyed under RCU conditions. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.