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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: pnfs block layout driver fixes V2
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:13:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140821161338.GA31352@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408637375-11343-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

For some reason the subject of the mail got lost, fixed it.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:09:16AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series fixes a wide range of issues with the pnfs block layout driver.
> 
> Before this we were seeing frequent silent data corruption, softlockups and
> kernel crashes when running both user applications and test cases like xfstests.
> 
> After this rewrite of the I/O path we've sorted out all issues under normal
> operations, although error handling in the block layout driver and its
> interaction with the core nfs and pnfs code still needs further work.
> 
> It was pointed out that the requirement for blocksizes smaller or equal to
> the page size conflicts with existing servers.  From the state of the code
> I'm very sure it was never used for real against those servers, but as
> soon as someone signs up to testing and fix support for these servers I'm
> happy to land a helping hand, although rock solid support probably is
> imposible.
> 
> This work was sponsored by NetApp, Inc.
> 
> Changes since V1:
>  - added two more layout stateid handling fixes
>  - change the layoutget path so that the layout driver is responsible for
>    freeing the spliced in payload.
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-21 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <pnfs block layout driver fixes V2>
2014-08-21 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 01/19] nfs: cap request size to fit a kmalloced page array Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 02/19] pnfs: do not pass uninitialized lsegs to ->free_lseg Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 03/19] pnfs: force a layout commit when encountering busy segments during recall Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-24 17:49     ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-24 19:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-26 14:10         ` [PATCH] pnfs: Kick a pnfs_layoutcommit_inode on recall Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 14:26           ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-26 14:37             ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 14:52               ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 14:55               ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-26 15:02                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 15:24                   ` Matt W. Benjamin
2014-08-26 15:36                     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-26 16:56                       ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 16:59                         ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-26 17:06                           ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 17:54                             ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-26 18:19                               ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 18:34                                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-26 18:41                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-26 19:46                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-27  8:50                                     ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-08-27  8:22                                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-09  0:37     ` [PATCH 03/19] pnfs: force a layout commit when encountering busy segments during recall Trond Myklebust
2014-09-09  5:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09 14:38         ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 04/19] pnfs: don't check sequence on new stateids in layoutget Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 05/19] pnfs: retry after a bad stateid error from layoutget Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 06/19] pnfs: avoid using stale stateids after layoutreturn Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 07/19] pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  3:50     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-09  5:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09 14:41         ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 08/19] pnfs: add return_range method Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-25 13:50     ` Anna Schumaker
2014-08-25 14:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-25 14:17         ` Anna Schumaker
2014-08-25 14:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  3:57     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 09/19] pnfs: allow splicing pre-encoded pages into the layoutcommit args Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 10/19] pnfs/blocklayout: reject pnfs blocksize larger than page size Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 11/19] pnfs/blocklayout: improve GETDEVICEINFO error reporting Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 12/19] pnfs/blocklayout: plug block queues Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 13/19] pnfs/blocklayout: correctly decrement extent length Christoph Hellwig
2015-02-09  6:01     ` NeilBrown
2015-02-09 18:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 14/19] pnfs/blocklayout: remove read-modify-write handling in bl_write_pagelist Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  4:43     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 15/19] pnfs/blocklayout: don't set pages uptodate Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  4:48     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 16/19] pnfs/blocklayout: rewrite extent tracking Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-25 14:36     ` Anna Schumaker
2014-08-25 14:43       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-26  9:06         ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-09  4:50     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 17/19] pnfs/blocklayout: implement the return_range method Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  4:03     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 18/19] pnfs/blocklayout: return layouts on setattr Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  4:09     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:09   ` [PATCH 19/19] pnfs/blocklayout: allocate separate pages for the layoutcommit payload Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09  4:52     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-08-21 16:13   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-09  4:12     ` pnfs block layout driver fixes V2 Trond Myklebust
2014-09-09  5:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09 14:40         ` Trond Myklebust

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