[PATCH 0/29] NFSv4.1 Server DRC rewrite

andros
2009-04-23T16:43:10Z

This is a rewrite of the NFSv4.1 DRC, switching from a page based cache to
a buffer based cache. The logic for the single slot clientid cache has been
separated from the session slot logic to handle the CREATE_SESSION call
preceeded by a SEQUENCE and all the replay combinations therein.

The session DRC now caches encoded operations with the exception of the
SEQUENCE operation which for a replay is encoded with the current slot and
session values. A review of message sizes indicates that a 1024 byte buffer
for the operations is more than adequate.

Not addressed is the necessary pre-operation processing estimate of the encoded
per operation result to check against the negotiated fore channel maximum
response size cached.

I've tested NFSv4.1 mounts using Connectathon and the new pynfs 4.1 tests,
where I added two new Clientid cache replay tests [to be submitted]to
st_create_session.py.

I've tested NFSv4.0 mounts using Connectathon and the pynfs v4.0 tests.

As always, comments and suggestions welcome.

-->Andy

Clientid single slot cache
0001-nfsd41-add-create-session-slot-buffer-to-struc-nfs4.patch
0002-nfsd41-encode-create_session-result-into-cache.patch
0003-nfsd41-create_session-check-replay-first.patch
0004-nfsd41-replay-solo-and-embedded-create-session.patch
0005-nfsd41-create_session-cache-hold-client-reference.patch
0006-nfsd41-no-nfsd4_release_respages-for-the-clientid-c.patch
0007-nfsd41-slots-are-freed-with-session.patch

Session slot cache
0008-nfsd41-protect-sv_drc_pages_used-with-spinlock.patch
0009-nfsd41-sanity-check-client-drc-maxreqs.patch
0010-nfsd41-change-from-page-to-memory-based-drc-limits.patch
0011-nfsd41-set-the-session-maximum-response-size-cached.patch
0012-nfsd41-allocate-and-use-drc-cache-buffers.patch
0013-nfsd41-free-drc-cache-buffers.patch
0014-nfsd41-obliterate-nfsd4_copy_pages.patch
0015-nfsd41-obliterate-nfsd41_copy_replay_data.patch
0016-nfsd41-obliterate-nfsd4_release_respages.patch
0017-nfsd41-remove-unused-nfsd4_cache_entry-fields.patch
0018-nfsd41-obliterate-nfsd4_set_statp.patch
0019-nfsd41-rename-nfsd4_enc_uncached_replay.patch
0020-nfsd41-encode-replay-sequence-from-the-slot-values.patch
0021-nfsd41-remove-iovlen-field-from-nfsd4_compound_stat.patch
0022-nfsd41-obliterate-nfsd41_copy_replay_data.patch
0023-nfsd41-fix-nfsd4_store_cache_entry-comments.patch
0024-nfsd41-support-16-slots-per-session.patch
0025-nfsd41-use-the-maximum-operations-per-compound-in-n.patch
0026-nfsd41-fix-nfsd4_store_cache_entry-dprintk.patch
0027-nfsd41-add-test-for-failed-sequence-operation.patch
0028-nfsd41-remove-redundant-failed-sequence-check.patch
0029-nfsd41-remove-check-for-session.patch