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Message-ID: <4E6F39F1.3010008@parallels.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:09:37 +0400
From:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
CC:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"neilb@...e.de" <neilb@...e.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bfields@...ldses.org" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] SUNRPC: make RPC service dependable on rpcbind
 clients creation

12.09.2011 15:22, Stanislav Kinsbursky пишет:
> 09.09.2011 23:25, Trond Myklebust пишет:
>> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 15:01 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:44:34 -0400
>>> Trond Myklebust<Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 20:41 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
>>>>> 09.09.2011 18:07, Jeff Layton пишет:
>>>>>> On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:08:44 +0400
>>>>>> Stanislav Kinsbursky<skinsbursky@...allels.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Create rcbind clients or increase rpcbind users counter during RPC service
>>>>>>> creation and decrease this counter (and possibly destroy those clients) on RPC
>>>>>>> service destruction.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky<skinsbursky@...allels.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>     include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h |    2 ++
>>>>>>>     net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c      |    2 +-
>>>>>>>     net/sunrpc/svc.c            |   13 +++++++++++--
>>>>>>>     3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
>>>>>>> index db7bcaf..65a8115 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
>>>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
>>>>>>> @@ -135,10 +135,12 @@ void		rpc_shutdown_client(struct rpc_clnt *);
>>>>>>>     void		rpc_release_client(struct rpc_clnt *);
>>>>>>>     void		rpc_task_release_client(struct rpc_task *);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +int		rpcb_create_local(void);
>>>>>>>     int		rpcb_register(u32, u32, int, unsigned short);
>>>>>>>     int		rpcb_v4_register(const u32 program, const u32 version,
>>>>>>>     				 const struct sockaddr *address,
>>>>>>>     				 const char *netid);
>>>>>>> +void		rpcb_put_local(void);
>>>>>>>     void		rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task *);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     void		rpc_call_start(struct rpc_task *);
>>>>>>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
>>>>>>> index b4cc0f1..437ec60 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
>>>>>>> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ out:
>>>>>>>      * Returns zero on success, otherwise a negative errno value
>>>>>>>      * is returned.
>>>>>>>      */
>>>>>>> -static int rpcb_create_local(void)
>>>>>>> +int rpcb_create_local(void)
>>>>>>>     {
>>>>>>>     	static DEFINE_MUTEX(rpcb_create_local_mutex);
>>>>>>>     	int result = 0;
>>>>>>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
>>>>>>> index 6a69a11..9095c0e 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
>>>>>>> @@ -367,8 +367,11 @@ __svc_create(struct svc_program *prog, unsigned int bufsize, int npools,
>>>>>>>     	unsigned int xdrsize;
>>>>>>>     	unsigned int i;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -	if (!(serv = kzalloc(sizeof(*serv), GFP_KERNEL)))
>>>>>>> +	if (rpcb_create_local()<    0)
>>>>>>>     		return NULL;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	if (!(serv = kzalloc(sizeof(*serv), GFP_KERNEL)))
>>>>>>> +		goto out_err;
>>>>>>>     	serv->sv_name      = prog->pg_name;
>>>>>>>     	serv->sv_program   = prog;
>>>>>>>     	serv->sv_nrthreads = 1;
>>>>>>> @@ -403,7 +406,7 @@ __svc_create(struct svc_program *prog, unsigned int bufsize, int npools,
>>>>>>>     			GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>>>>     	if (!serv->sv_pools) {
>>>>>>>     		kfree(serv);
>>>>>>> -		return NULL;
>>>>>>> +		goto out_err;
>>>>>>>     	}
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     	for (i = 0; i<    serv->sv_nrpools; i++) {
>>>>>>> @@ -423,6 +426,10 @@ __svc_create(struct svc_program *prog, unsigned int bufsize, int npools,
>>>>>>>     	svc_unregister(serv);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     	return serv;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +out_err:
>>>>>>> +	rpcb_put_local();
>>>>>>> +	return NULL;
>>>>>>>     }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     struct svc_serv *
>>>>>>> @@ -491,6 +498,8 @@ svc_destroy(struct svc_serv *serv)
>>>>>>>     	svc_unregister(serv);
>>>>>>>     	kfree(serv->sv_pools);
>>>>>>>     	kfree(serv);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	rpcb_put_local();
>>>>>>>     }
>>>>>>>     EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(svc_destroy);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't get it -- what's the advantage of creating rpcbind clients in
>>>>>> __svc_create vs. the old way of creating them just before we plan to
>>>>>> use them?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The main problem here is not in creation, but in destroying those clients.
>>>>> Now rpcbind clients are created during rpcb_register(). I.e. once per every family, program version and so on.
>>>>> But can be unregistered for all protocol families by one call. So it's impossible to put reference counting for those clients in the place, where they are created now.
>>>>
>>>> Could we perhaps set up a 'struct pernet_operations' to create a
>>>> destructor for them?
>>>>
>>>
>>> An even easier idea might be to just not take a reference to the
>>> rpcbind client for svc_programs that have vs_hidden set on every
>>> version.
>>
>> Isn't the problem that Stanislav is trying to solve that we need to be
>> able to register and unregister RPC services to the correct rpcbind
>> server, depending on which net namespace we are in?
>>
>
> Yes, it is.
> I'm going to make rpcbind clients per net namespace.
>
>> My understanding is that the current code will register everything to
>> whatever rpcbind server is running in the init net namespace because
>> that's what rpcb_create_local() uses.
>>
>> My suggestion is to use a struct pernet_operations to detect when a net
>> namespace is being created or destroyed, so that the rpcbind client code
>> knows when to create or destroy a connection to the server that is
>> running in that namespace.
>>
>
> But as Pavel mentioned already, we can't use netns destructor for rpcbind
> clients because they holds netns reference.
> That's why we have to untie netns from rpbind clients first.
> Another solution is to not increment netns ref counter for rpcbind sockets as,
> again, Pavel already mentioned.
> But first approach looks clearer from my pow. That's why I'm trying to make
> rcpbind client's self-destructible.After achieving this we can just make this
> rpcbind clients per netns and then we can virtualize lockd.
>
> I've tried to find some better place for creating rpcbind clients (instead of
> __svc_create()). But this place looks like the best one for current solution.
>
> About avoiding of creation of rpcbind clients for nfs 4.* callbacks.
> Probably, we can implement init-fini calls for svc_program structure
> (rpcb_create_local() and rpcb_put_local() will be used in our case) and then
> inherit them for svc_serv. This will allow us to call this hooks only if they
> defined and thus avoid rpcbind clients creation for nfs callbacks.
>
> What all of you think about this hook's idea?
>

Since we already have sv_shutdown callback, we can use it to put rpcbind clients.
Creation of rpcbind clients can be performed in lockd_up() and 
nfsd_create_serv() before calling svc_create(_pooled)().

>> Cheers
>>     Trond
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky
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