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Commit c5c707f9 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig
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nfsd: implement pNFS layout recalls



Add support to issue layout recalls to clients.  For now we only support
full-file recalls to get a simple and stable implementation.  This allows
to embedd a nfsd4_callback structure in the layout_state and thus avoid
any memory allocations under spinlocks during a recall.  For normal
use cases that do not intent to share a single file between multiple
clients this implementation is fully sufficient.

To ensure layouts are recalled on local filesystem access each layout
state registers a new FL_LAYOUT lease with the kernel file locking code,
which filesystems that support pNFS exports that require recalls need
to break on conflicting access patterns.

The XDR code is based on the old pNFS server implementation by
Andy Adamson, Benny Halevy, Boaz Harrosh, Dean Hildebrand, Fred Isaman,
Marc Eshel, Mike Sager and Ricardo Labiaga.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 9cf514cc
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