From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: lifetime of DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentries
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:43:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112184353.GA32745@fieldses.org> (raw)
DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentries aren't always getting destroyed as soon as
I'd have expected in the NFSv4 case.
I'm not sure what the right fix is; any ideas? The below at least
demonstrates the problem.
--b.
commit bb125ffbe5fc3f80ac7a5b20f51cc542c175cd49
Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 11 19:22:00 2010 -0500
dput: free DCACHE_DISCONNECTED dentries sooner
DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentries are normally left around for the benefit of
future nfsd operations. But there's no point keeping them around once
the inode has been deleted.
Without this patch
client$ mount -tnfs4 server:/export/ /mnt/
client$ tail -f /mnt/FOO
...
server$ df -i /export
server$ rm /export/FOO
(^C the tail -f)
server$ df -i /export
server$ echo 2 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
server$ df -i /export
the df's will show that the inode is not freed on the filesystem until
the last step, when it could have been freed after killing the client's
tail -f. On-disk data won't be deallocated either, leading to possible
spurious ENOSPC.
This occurs because when the client does the close, it arrives in a
compound with a putfh and a close, processed like:
- putfh: look up the filehandle. The only alias found for the
inode will be DCACHE_UNHASHED alias referenced by the filp
associated with the nfsd open. d_obtain_alias() doesn't like
this, so it creates a new DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentry and
returns that instead.
- close: closes the existing filp, which is destroyed
immediately by dput() since it's DCACHE_UNHASHED.
- end of the compound: release the reference to the current
filehandle, and dput() the new DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentry,
which gets put on the unused list instead of being destroyed
immediately.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 28fa7e5..5132f13 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -241,6 +241,10 @@ repeat:
/* Unreachable? Get rid of it */
if (d_unhashed(dentry))
goto kill_it;
+ if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
+ && dentry->d_inode
+ && dentry->d_inode->i_nlink == 0)
+ goto kill_it;
if (list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
dentry_lru_add(dentry);
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 18:43 J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2010-11-13 11:53 ` lifetime of DCACHE_DISCONECTED dentries Nick Piggin
2010-11-15 17:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-11-16 6:45 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-29 3:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-29 19:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-11-30 1:00 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-30 18:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-03 22:33 ` [PATCH] nfsd4: allow __d_obtain_alias() to return unhashed dentries J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-13 5:19 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-14 22:01 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-17 17:53 ` [PATCH] fs/dcache: use standard list macro for d_find_alias J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-17 18:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/dcache: allow __d_obtain_alias() to return unhashed dentries J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-18 2:01 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 16:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-12-19 14:53 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-27 23:46 ` [PATCH] " J. Bruce Fields
2011-01-18 20:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-01-18 22:02 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-18 22:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-08 18:13 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-10 10:58 ` Al Viro
2011-03-11 4:07 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-14 17:03 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-02-15 16:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-02-16 3:06 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-16 11:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-02-16 16:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-02-16 22:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-02-17 16:34 ` Peng Tao
2012-03-13 20:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-13 20:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: stop d_splice_alias creating directory aliases J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-13 20:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] vfs: remove unused __d_splice_alias argument J. Bruce Fields
2012-02-20 2:55 ` [PATCH] fs/dcache: allow __d_obtain_alias() to return unhashed dentries NeilBrown
2012-02-29 23:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-28 13:59 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-29 20:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-29 20:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-01 23:15 ` NeilBrown
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