sunrpc/cache: allow threads to block while waiting for cache update.
The current practice of waiting for cache updates by queueing the
whole request to be retried has (at least) two problems.
1/ With NFSv4, requests can be quite complex and re-trying a whole
request when a later part fails should only be a last-resort, not a
normal practice.
2/ Large requests, and in particular any 'write' request, will not be
queued by the current code and doing so would be undesirable.
In many cases only a very sort wait is needed before the cache gets
valid data.
So, providing the underlying transport permits it by setting
->thread_wait,
arrange to wait briefly for an upcall to be completed (as reflected in
the clearing of CACHE_PENDING).
If the short wait was not long enough and CACHE_PENDING is still set,
fall back on the old approach.
The 'thread_wait' value is set to 5 seconds when there are spare
threads, and 1 second when there are no spare threads.
These values are probably much higher than needed, but will ensure
some forward progress.
Note that as we only request an update for a non-valid item, and as
non-valid items are updated in place it is extremely unlikely that
cache_check will return -ETIMEDOUT. Normally cache_defer_req will
sleep for a short while and then find that the item is_valid.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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