Re: [PATCH] nfs: set block size according to pnfs_blksize first

[Gao Xiang]

Hi Trond,

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 02:20:49PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 22:06 +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:47:13PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 20:44 +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > > > When testing fstests with ext4 over nfs 4.2, I found generic/486
> > > > failed. The root cause is that the length of its xattr value is
> > > >   min(st_blksize * 3 / 4, XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
> > > > 
> > > > which is 4096 * 3 / 4 = 3072 for underlayfs ext4 rather than
> > > > XATTR_SIZE_MAX = 65536 for nfs since the block size would be
> > > > wsize
> > > > (=131072) if bsize is not specified.
> > > > 
> > > > Let's use pnfs_blksize first instead of using wsize directly if
> > > > bsize isn't specified. And the testcase itself can pass now.
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > Considering bsize is not specified, we might use pnfs_blksize
> > > > directly first rather than wsize.
> > > > 
> > > >  fs/nfs/super.c | 8 ++++++--
> > > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
> > > > index fe58525cfed4..5015edf0cd9a 100644
> > > > --- a/fs/nfs/super.c
> > > > +++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
> > > > @@ -1068,9 +1068,13 @@ static void nfs_fill_super(struct
> > > > super_block
> > > > *sb, struct nfs_fs_context *ctx)
> > > >         snprintf(sb->s_id, sizeof(sb->s_id),
> > > >                  "%u:%u", MAJOR(sb->s_dev), MINOR(sb->s_dev));
> > > >  
> > > > -       if (sb->s_blocksize == 0)
> > > > -               sb->s_blocksize = nfs_block_bits(server->wsize,
> > > > +       if (sb->s_blocksize == 0) {
> > > > +               unsigned int blksize = server->pnfs_blksize ?
> > > > +                       server->pnfs_blksize : server->wsize;
> > > 
> > > NACK. The pnfs block size is a layout driver-specific quantity, and
> > > should not be used to substitute for the server-advertised block
> > > size.
> > > It only applies to I/O _if_ the client is holding a layout for a
> > > specific file and is using pNFS to do I/O to that file.
> > 
> > Honestly, I'm not sure if it's ok as well.
> > 
> > > 
> > > It has nothing to do with xattrs at all.
> > 
> > Yet my question is how to deal with generic/486, should we just skip
> > the case directly? I cannot find some proper way to get underlayfs
> > block size or real xattr value limit.
> > 
> 
> RFC8276 provides no method for determining the xattr size limits. It
> just notes that such limits may exist, and provides the error code
> NFS4ERR_XATTR2BIG, that the server may use as a return value when those
> limits are exceeded.
> 
> > For now, generic/486 will return ENOSPC at
> > fsetxattr(fd, "user.world", value, 65536, XATTR_REPLACE);
> > when testing new nfs4.2 xattr support.
> > 
> 
> As noted above, the NFS server should really be returning
> NFS4ERR_XATTR2BIG in this case, which the client, again, should be
> transforming into -E2BIG. Where does ENOSPC come from?

Thanks for the detailed explanation...

I think that is due to ext4 returning ENOSPC since I tested

fsetxattr(fd, "user.world", value, 65536, XATTR_REPLACE);
with ext4 as well and it returned ENOSPC, and I think it's reasonable
since setxattr() will return ENOSPC for such cases.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/setxattr.2.html

should we transform it to E2BIG instead (at least in NFS
protocol)? but I'm still not sure that E2BIG is a valid return code for
setxattr()...

If necessary, I will look into it more tomorrow....

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> > Thanks,
> > Gao Xiang
> > 
> > > 
> > > > +
> > > > +               sb->s_blocksize = nfs_block_bits(blksize,
> > > >                                                  &sb-
> > > > > s_blocksize_bits);
> > > > +       }
> > > >  
> > > >         nfs_super_set_maxbytes(sb, server->maxfilesize);
> > > >         server->has_sec_mnt_opts = ctx->has_sec_mnt_opts;
> 
> -- 
> Trond Myklebust
> Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
> trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>