Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i_version rework and optimization

[NeilBrown]

On Thu, May 11 2017, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 02:14:09PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:05:51AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> > 1) Keep i_version as is, make clients also check for i_ctime.
>> 
>> That would be a protocol revision, which we'd definitely rather avoid.
>> 
>> But can't we accomplish the same by using something like
>> 
>> 	ctime * (some constant) + i_version
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> >    Pro: No on-disk format changes.
>> >    Cons: After a crash, i_version can go backwards (but when file changes
>> >    i_version, i_ctime pair should be still different) or not, data can be
>> >    old or not.
>> 
>> This is probably good enough for NFS purposes: typically on an NFS
>> filesystem, results of a read in the face of a concurrent write open are
>> undefined.  And writers sync before close.
>> 
>> So after a crash with a dirty inode, we're in a situation where an NFS
>> client still needs to resend some writes, sync, and close.  I'm OK with
>> things being inconsistent during this window.
>> 
>> I do expect things to return to normal once that client's has resent its
>> writes--hence the worry about actually resuing old values after boot
>> (such as if i_version regresses on boot and then increments back to the
>> same value after further writes).  Factoring in ctime fixes that.
>
> So for now I'm thinking of just doing something like the following.
>
> Only nfsd needs it for now, but it could be moved to a vfs helper for
> statx, or for individual filesystems that want to do something
> different.  (The NFSv4 client will want to use the server's change
> attribute instead, I think.  And other filesystems might want to try
> something more ambitious like Neil's proposal.)
>
> --b.
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
> index 12feac6ee2fd..9636c9a60aba 100644
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h b/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h
> index f84fe6bf9aee..14f09f1ef605 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h
> @@ -240,6 +240,16 @@ fh_clear_wcc(struct svc_fh *fhp)
>  	fhp->fh_pre_saved = false;
>  }
>  
> +static inline u64 nfsd4_change_attribute(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> +	u64 chattr;
> +
> +	chattr = inode->i_ctime.tv_sec << 30;
> +	chattr += inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec;
> +	chattr += inode->i_version;
> +	return chattr;

So if I chmod a file, all clients will need to flush the content from their cache?
Maybe they already do?  Maybe it is a boring corner case?

> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Fill in the pre_op attr for the wcc data
>   */
> @@ -253,7 +263,7 @@ fill_pre_wcc(struct svc_fh *fhp)
>  		fhp->fh_pre_mtime = inode->i_mtime;
>  		fhp->fh_pre_ctime = inode->i_ctime;
>  		fhp->fh_pre_size  = inode->i_size;
> -		fhp->fh_pre_change = inode->i_version;
> +		fhp->fh_pre_change = nfsd4_change_attribute(inode);
>  		fhp->fh_pre_saved = true;
>  	}
>  }
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ void fill_post_wcc(struct svc_fh *fhp)
>  		printk("nfsd: inode locked twice during operation.\n");
>  
>  	err = fh_getattr(fhp, &fhp->fh_post_attr);
> -	fhp->fh_post_change = d_inode(fhp->fh_dentry)->i_version;
> +	fhp->fh_post_change = nfsd4_change_attribute(d_inode(fhp->fh_dentry));
>  	if (err) {
>  		fhp->fh_post_saved = false;
>  		/* Grab the ctime anyway - set_change_info might use it */
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> index 26780d53a6f9..a09532d4a383 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> @@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ static __be32 *encode_change(__be32 *p, struct kstat *stat, struct inode *inode,
>  		*p++ = cpu_to_be32(convert_to_wallclock(exp->cd->flush_time));
>  		*p++ = 0;
>  	} else if (IS_I_VERSION(inode)) {
> -		p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, inode->i_version);
> +		p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, nfsd4_change_attribute(inode));
>  	} else {
>  		*p++ = cpu_to_be32(stat->ctime.tv_sec);
>  		*p++ = cpu_to_be32(stat->ctime.tv_nsec);

It is *really* confusing to find that fh_post_change is only set in nfs3
code, and only used in nfs4 code.
It is probably time to get a 'version' field in 'struct kstat'.
That would allow this code to get a little cleaner.

(to me, this exercise is just a reminder that the NFSv4 change attribute
is poorly designed ... so it just makes me grumpy).

NeilBrown


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