netdev - Re: [PATCH 09/10] nfs: use sk fragment destructors to delay I/O completion until page is released by network stack.

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:21:18 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] nfs: use sk fragment destructors to delay I/O
 completion until page is released by network stack.

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 15:01 +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:07 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: 
> > Thos prevents an issue where an ACK is delayed, a retransmit is queued (either
> > at the RPC or TCP level) and the ACK arrives before the retransmission hits the
> > wire. If this happens then the write() system call and the userspace process
> > can continue potentially modifying the data before the retransmission occurs.
> > 
> > NB: this only covers the O_DIRECT write() case. I expect other cases to need
> > handling as well.
> 
> That is why this belongs entirely in the RPC layer, and really should
> not touch the NFS layer.
> If you move your callback to the RPC layer and have it notify the
> rpc_task when the pages have been sent, then it should be possible to
> achieve the same thing.
> 
> IOW: Add an extra state machine step after call_decode() which checks if
> all the page data has been transmitted and if not, puts the rpc_task on
> a wait queue, and has it wait for the fragment destructor callback
> before calling rpc_exit_task().

Make sense, I'll do that.

Thanks,
Ian.


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