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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 5/4] NFSD: Add basic CB_OFFLOAD support
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:36:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131029133611.GF29606@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131029073719.GB10889@infradead.org>

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:37:19AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:52:21PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:57:27AM -0400, Anna Schumaker wrote:
> > > This patch adds basic offload support to the WRITE_PLUS operation.
> > > Since I don't implement OFFLOAD_ABORT, OFFLOAD_REVOKE or OFFLOAD_STATUS
> > > this patch is NOT spec compliant and should not be applied without
> > > further work.
> > 
> > Ugh.  I don't understand why we need asynchronous modes for all these
> > operations.
> 
> Hole punches as implemented by any filesystem at the moement are pure
> metadata manipulations and should not require "async" versions that
> offload to a workqueue.

Yeah, understood, I'm glad we're not implementing that, I just wonder
why every one of these operations (COPY, WRITE_PLUS, etc.) has to have
this asynchronous option.

The client's still stuck implementing it even if the server does, it's
extra protocol verbage even if nobody uses it, and I'm not completely
clear what it's for.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-29 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-28 14:57 [PATCH 0/4] NFSD: Add support for WRITE_PLUS and SEEK Anna Schumaker
2013-10-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] NFSD: Update error codes Anna Schumaker
2013-10-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFSD: Create nfs v4.2 decode ops Anna Schumaker
2013-10-28 20:54   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-28 20:59     ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-10-28 21:11       ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29 12:43         ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29 13:33           ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] NFSD: Add WRITE_PLUS support for hole punches Anna Schumaker
2013-10-28 21:40   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29 12:49     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29 13:34       ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29 12:50     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29 13:06       ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29 13:11         ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29 13:23         ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-10-29 13:28           ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29 13:32           ` Dr Fields James Bruce
2013-11-02 13:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-02 14:44           ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-11-02 14:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-02 15:02               ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-11-02 15:07                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-02 15:20     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-02 13:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 16:41     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-11-04 17:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 17:23         ` Anna Schumaker
2013-11-04 18:53           ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 18:57             ` Anna Schumaker
2013-11-04 19:16             ` Chuck Lever
2013-11-04 19:19               ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 19:50                 ` Chuck Lever
2013-11-04 19:54                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 19:55                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-11-04 20:03                   ` Haynes, Tom
2013-11-04 20:13                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-05  9:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-05 14:23     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-11-05 15:11       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] NFSD: Implement SEEK Anna Schumaker
2013-10-28 21:51   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29 12:53     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29  7:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-29 13:00     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-29 13:07       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-29 13:30         ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-11-02 13:48           ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-02 14:37             ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-11-02 14:41               ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 16:46                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-11-04 17:05                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 17:22                     ` Chuck Lever
2013-11-05 12:33                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-04 21:56                   ` Thomas Haynes
2013-11-05  1:03                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-05  2:07                       ` Haynes, Tom
2013-11-05  8:23                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-31 16:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-31 16:07     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-31 16:17     ` Anna Schumaker
2013-10-31 17:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-28 14:57 ` [RFC 5/4] NFSD: Add basic CB_OFFLOAD support Anna Schumaker
2013-10-28 21:52   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29  7:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-29 13:36       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2013-10-29 13:38         ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-29 13:53           ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-29 15:11             ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-28 20:00 ` [PATCH 0/4] NFSD: Add support for WRITE_PLUS and SEEK Christoph Hellwig

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