linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.0 114/148] nfsd/blocklayout: pretend we can send deviceid notifications

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Date:	Wed,  3 Jun 2015 21:09:44 +0900
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.0 114/148] nfsd/blocklayout: pretend we can send deviceid notifications

4.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

commit 40cdc7a530c7a075557651a071354bb42b99df08 upstream.

Commit df52699e4fcef ("NFSv4.1: Don't cache deviceids that have no
notifications") causes the Linux NFS client to stop caching deviceid's
unless a server pretends to support deviceid notifications.  While this
behavior is stupid and the language around this area in rfc5661 is a
mess carified by an errata that I submittted, Trond insists on this
behavior.  Not caching deviceids degrades block layout performance
massively as a GETDEVICEINFO is fairly expensive.

So add this hack to make the Linux client happy again.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c
@@ -181,6 +181,17 @@ nfsd4_block_proc_layoutcommit(struct ino
 }

 const struct nfsd4_layout_ops bl_layout_ops = {
+	/*
+	 * Pretend that we send notification to the client.  This is a blatant
+	 * lie to force recent Linux clients to cache our device IDs.
+	 * We rarely ever change the device ID, so the harm of leaking deviceids
+	 * for a while isn't too bad.  Unfortunately RFC5661 is a complete mess
+	 * in this regard, but I filed errata 4119 for this a while ago, and
+	 * hopefully the Linux client will eventually start caching deviceids
+	 * without this again.
+	 */
+	.notify_types		=
+			NOTIFY_DEVICEID4_DELETE | NOTIFY_DEVICEID4_CHANGE,
 	.proc_getdeviceinfo	= nfsd4_block_proc_getdeviceinfo,
 	.encode_getdeviceinfo	= nfsd4_block_encode_getdeviceinfo,
 	.proc_layoutget		= nfsd4_block_proc_layoutget,

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