tree 358247cff990d703ef8860e1e46e201d3974bf0b
parent 9cf514ccfacb301f3b1b4509a8ce25dffad55880
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 1411468728 +0200
committer Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 1422896983 +0100

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: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>