Re: [PATCH 0/1] Enable inter server to server copies on a export

[Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 04:55:45PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 1, 2021, at 11:40 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 11:30:48AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >> Hey!
> >> 
> >> On 10/29/21 15:14, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 01:30:36PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >>>> On 10/29/21 12:40, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>>>> Let's just stick with that for now, and leave it off by default until
> >>>>> we're sure it's mature enough.  Let's not introduce new configuration to
> >>>>> work around problems that we haven't really analyzed yet.
> >>>> How is this going to find problems? At least with the export option
> >>>> it is documented
> >>> 
> >>> That sounds fixable.  We need documentation of module parameters anyway.
> >> Yeah I just took I don't see any documentation of module
> >> parameters anywhere for any of the modules. But by documentation
> >> I meant having the feature in the exports(5) manpage.
> > 
> > I think I'd probably create a new page for sysctls (this isn't the only
> > one needing documentation), and make sure it's listed in the "SEE ALSO"
> > section of the other man pages.
> 
> Aren't sysctls documented under Documentation/ ?

Sorry, I meant "module parameter".  Anyway, yes, looks like both are
listed in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

Might be nice if these were in a man page too somewhere, but maybe
that's not the most important thing these days.

--b.

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 91ba391f9b32..14bc3f0b0149 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3243,6 +3243,19 @@
 			driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
 			in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
 
+	nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable =
+			[NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support
+			server-to-server copies for which this server is
+			the destination of the copy.
+
+	nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout =
+			[NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a
+			server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts
+			the source server.  It caches the mount in case
+			it will be needed again, and discards it if not
+			used for the number of milliseconds specified by
+			this parameter.
+
 	nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
 			[NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
 			server will return only numeric uids and gids to
@@ -3250,6 +3263,7 @@
 			and gids from such clients.  This is intended to ease
 			migration from NFSv2/v3.
 
+
 	nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL]
 			Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an
 			NMI stack-backtrace request.