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* asynchronous locks for cluster exports
@ 2006-12-06  5:34 J. Bruce Fields
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From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2006-12-06  5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel; +Cc: nfs, Marc Eshel

We'd like an asynchronous posix locking interface so that we can provide NFS
clients with cluster-coherent locking without blocking lockd while the
filesystem goes off and talks to other nodes.

So, here's one attempt.  It also includes an draft implementation of the
filesystem side for GFS2, which may well be wrong--it's not even tested
yet--but hopefully gives some idea what would be necessary.

A few points, among others, that I'm unsure of:

	- We added a new ->lock() export operation, figuring this was a feature
	  that only lockd and nfsd care about for now, and that we'd rather not
	  muck about with common locking code.  But the export operation is
	  pretty much identical to the file ->lock() operation; would it make
	  more sense to use that?

	- The filesystem returns the lock results to lockd using the
	  ->fl_notify() callback.  We add a few arguments to fl_notify() to
	  pass the results, and add a return value so the filesystem can
	  recognize the case where the callback comes after lockd has given up
	  waiting and returned an error to the user.  Presumably the filesystem
	  needs to have a way to cancel the lock in this case.  (Our GFS code
	  ignores this problem for now.)  Maybe it would be better to just poke
	  lockd when the result is ready and let it discover what happened by
	  retrying the original ->lock() call?  Or maybe we should use a
	  separate callback?

	- We're ignoring the blocking lock case for now under the assumption
	  it's always OK for lockd to return an immediate "denied" in that
	  case, then use the granted callback, even in cases where it doesn't
	  know for sure that there's a conflicting lock.

Thoughts?  Better ideas?

--b.

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* asynchronous locks for cluster exports
@ 2007-02-03  5:30 J. Bruce Fields
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From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2007-02-03  5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel; +Cc: nfs, Marc Eshel


This is another attempt at a posix locking interface that allows us to
provide NFS clients with cluster-coherent locking without blocking lockd
while the filesystem goes off and talks to other nodes.

This time we're using the existing file ->lock operation instead of
defining a new export operation for the purpose, and factoring out the
code that switches between calling ->lock or the default local
operation, so that lock managers and local callers go through the same
code.

I find the existing interfaces a little odd, and while I think I managed
to combine them correctly, I'd certainly appreciate any review.

The gfs2 implementation in the last patch is (unfortunately) still just
a rough draft that needs some more thought and some testing.

--b.

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* asynchronous locks for cluster exports
@ 2007-02-03  5:30 J. Bruce Fields
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2007-02-03  5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel; +Cc: nfs, Marc Eshel


This is another attempt at a posix locking interface that allows us to
provide NFS clients with cluster-coherent locking without blocking lockd
while the filesystem goes off and talks to other nodes.

This time we're using the existing file ->lock operation instead of
defining a new export operation for the purpose, and factoring out the
code that switches between calling ->lock or the default local
operation, so that lock managers and local callers go through the same
code.

I find the existing interfaces a little odd, and while I think I managed
to combine them correctly, I'd certainly appreciate any review.

The gfs2 implementation in the last patch is (unfortunately) still just
a rough draft that needs some more thought and some testing.

--b.

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* Re: asynchronous locks for cluster exports
@ 2007-02-03  8:39 Christoph Hellwig
  2007-02-04  1:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 51+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2007-02-03  8:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: J. Bruce Fields; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, nfs, Marc Eshel

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:30:55AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> The gfs2 implementation in the last patch is (unfortunately) still just
> a rough draft that needs some more thought and some testing.

So what exactly in this patch is tested?


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* Re: asynchronous locks for cluster exports
@ 2007-02-26 19:52 J. Bruce Fields
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 51+ messages in thread
From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2007-02-26 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel; +Cc: nfs, Marc Eshel

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:30:55AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> This is another attempt at a posix locking interface that allows us to
> provide NFS clients with cluster-coherent locking without blocking lockd
> while the filesystem goes off and talks to other nodes.

Marc and I have an updated version of this at:

	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git

(See the server-cluster-locking-api branch.)

Changes include:

	- bugfixes for GFS2; thanks to some setup help from Wendy Chang
	  and others, Marc has been able to run locking tests against an
	  nfs-exported GFS2 filesystem
	- preallocation of storage for conflicting lock in lockd's
	  testlock implementation, to avoid a race identified by Trond
	- Cleanup suggested by Christoph and others, including:
		- creation of posix-to-flock helper functions
		- rewrite of posix_test_lock interface to agree with
		  ->lock( ,F_GETLK, )
		- removal of some unnecessary parentheses, untangling of
		  some slightly tortured logic

We're hoping to get a detailed review from Trond sometime in the coming
month, after which we'll probably mailbomb linux-fsdevel again, but
any comments are welcome in the meantime.

--b.

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2006-12-06  5:34     ` [PATCH 10/10] gfs2: nfs lock support for gfs2 J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-06  5:34     ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-06  6:00       ` [NFS] " Wendy Cheng
2006-12-06 13:26         ` Wendy Cheng
2006-12-06 12:02     ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-12-06 15:49     ` David Teigland
2006-12-06 19:57       ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-06 20:08         ` [NFS] " J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-06 20:58         ` David Teigland
2006-12-06 21:23           ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-06 21:42             ` David Teigland
2006-12-06 22:00               ` [NFS] " J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-07 15:30                 ` David Teigland
2006-12-08 17:35                   ` [NFS] " J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-07  6:47           ` Marc Eshel
2006-12-07 15:23             ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-07 15:43               ` [NFS] " Marc Eshel
2006-12-07 16:21                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-07 18:52                   ` [NFS] " Trond Myklebust
2006-12-14 23:04   ` [PATCH 1/10] lockd: add new export operation for nfsv4/lockd locking J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-15  5:52     ` Marc Eshel
2006-12-15  7:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-07 16:51 ` asynchronous locks for cluster exports Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 22:51   ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-15 19:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
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