Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] un-deprecate nfsdcld

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

Thanks for doing this, we've really been wanting it.  I should be able
to get to it in the next few days....

Out of curiosity, what are you using for testing?

--b.

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:35:07PM -0500, Scott Mayhew wrote:
> When nfsdcld was released, it was quickly deprecated in favor of the
> nfsdcltrack usermodehelper, so as to not require another running daemon.
> That prevents NFSv4 clients from reclaiming locks from nfsd's running in
> containers, since neither nfsdcltrack nor the legacy client tracking
> code work in containers.  These patches un-deprecate the use of nfsdcld
> for NFSv4 client tracking.
> 
> These patches are intended to go alongside some nfs-utils patches that
> introduce an enhancement that allows nfsd to "slurp" up the client
> records during client tracking initialization and store them internally
> in hash table.  This enables nfsd to check whether an NFSv4 client is 
> allowed to reclaim without having to do an upcall to nfsdcld.  It also
> allows nfsd to decide to end the v4 grace period early if the number of
> RECLAIM_COMPLETE operations it has received from "known" clients is
> equal to the number of entries in the hash table.  It also allows nfsd
> to skip the v4 grace period altogether if it knows there are no clients
> allowed to reclaim.
> 
> There is a fallback to allow nfsd to continue to work with older nfsdcld
> daemons in the event that any are out in the wild (unlikely).
> Everything should work fine except nfsd will not be able to exit the
> grace period early or skip the grace period altogether.
> 
> Scott Mayhew (4):
>   nfsd: fix a warning in __cld_pipe_upcall()
>   nfsd: make nfs4_client_reclaim use an xdr_netobj instead of a fixed
>     char array
>   nfsd: un-deprecate nfsdcld
>   nfsd: keep a tally of RECLAIM_COMPLETE operations when using nfsdcld
> 
>  fs/nfsd/netns.h               |   3 +
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c         | 326 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c           |  82 +++++++--
>  fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c              |   1 +
>  fs/nfsd/state.h               |   8 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/nfsd/cld.h |   1 +
>  6 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.17.1