Re: [PATCH 2/2] exportfs: fix 32-bit nfsd handling of 64-bit inode numbers

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:56:56PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 06:15:22PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 06:12:16PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:28:14PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > @@ -268,6 +268,16 @@ static int get_name(const struct path *path, char *name, struct dentry *child)
> > > >  	if (!dir->i_fop)
> > > >  		goto out;
> > > >  	/*
> > > > +	 * inode->i_ino is unsigned long, kstat->ino is u64, so the
> > > > +	 * former would be insufficient on 32-bit hosts when the
> > > > +	 * filesystem supports 64-bit inode numbers.  So we need to
> > > > +	 * actually call ->getattr, not just read i_ino:
> > > > +	 */
> > > > +	error = vfs_getattr_nosec(path, &stat);
> > > 
> > > Doh, "path" here is for the parent....  The following works better!
> > 
> > By the way, I'm testing this with:
> > 
> > 	- create a bunch of nested subdirectories, use
> > 	  name_to_fhandle_at to get a handle for the bottom directory.
> > 	- echo 2 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> > 	- open_by_fhandle_at on the filehandle
> > 
> > But this only actually exercises the reconnect path on the first run
> > after boot.  Is there something obvious I'm missing here?
> 
> Looking at the code....  OK, most of the work of drop_caches is done by
> shrink_slab_node, which doesn't actually try to free every single thing
> that it could free--in particular, it won't try to free anything if it
> thinks there are less than shrinker->batch_size (1024 in the
> super_block->s_shrink case) objects to free.

That's not quite right. Yes, the shrinker won't be called if the
calculated scan count is less than the batch size, but the left over
is added back the shrinker scan count to carry over to the next call
to the shrinker. Hence if you repeated call the shrinker on a small
cache with a large batch size, it will eventually aggregate the scan
counts to over the batch size and trim the cache....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com