linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client updates

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:18:17 +0000
From:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFS mailing list <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client updates

Hi Linus,

The following pull request mainly contains some small readdir
optimisations that had dependencies on Al Viro's readdir rewrite. There
is also a fix for a nasty deadlock which surfaced earlier in this merge
window.

The following changes since commit a82a729f04232ccd0b59406574ba4cf20027a49d:

  Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) (2013-07-09 13:33:36 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs.git tags/nfs-for-3.11-2

for you to fetch changes up to eeee245268c951262b861bc1be4e9dc812352499:

  SUNRPC: Fix a deadlock in rpc_client_register() (2013-07-10 15:58:55 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
NFS client updates for Linux 3.11 (part 2)

Highlights include:
- Fix an_rpc pipefs regression that causes a deadlock on mount
- Readdir optimisations by Scott Mayhew and Jeff Layton
- clean up the rpc_pipefs dentry operation setup

----------------------------------------------------------------
Fengguang Wu (1):
      rpc_pipe: rpc_dir_inode_operations can be static

Jeff Layton (2):
      nfs: set verifier on existing dentries in nfs_prime_dcache
      rpc_pipe: set dentry operations at d_alloc time

Scott Mayhew (3):
      NFS: Make nfs_attribute_cache_expired() non-static
      NFS: Make nfs_readdir revalidate less often
      NFS: Allow nfs_updatepage to extend a write under additional circumstances

Trond Myklebust (1):
      SUNRPC: Fix a deadlock in rpc_client_register()

 fs/nfs/dir.c           |  6 ++++--
 fs/nfs/inode.c         |  2 +-
 fs/nfs/write.c         | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 include/linux/nfs_fs.h |  1 +
 net/sunrpc/clnt.c      | 16 +++++++++-------
 net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c  | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 6 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
www.netapp.com