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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Timo Rothenpieler <timo@rothenpieler.org>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFSD Regression: client observing a file while other client writes to it leads to stale local cache
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 09:42:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210304144228.GD17512@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d4e7965-903f-2319-d2d2-65116f50400c@rothenpieler.org>

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 02:23:05AM +0100, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> Server and reading client disagreeing about the files size and
> contents is 100% reproducible, even after the writing client has
> long and definitely closed the file.

OK, I reproduced this myself and watched the network traffic in
Wireshark.

The server is *not* giving out a read delegation to the writer (which is
what the commit you bisected to should have allowed).  It *is* giving
out a delegation to the reader.  Which is a truly awful bug.
Investigating....

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-28 22:27 NFSD Regression: client observing a file while other client writes to it leads to stale local cache Timo Rothenpieler
2021-03-01 18:46 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-02  1:03   ` Timo Rothenpieler
2021-03-02  1:06     ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-02  1:23       ` Timo Rothenpieler
2021-03-04 14:42         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2021-03-05 22:31           ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-06  0:01             ` Timo Rothenpieler

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