Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfsd4: complete enforcement of 4.1 op ordering

[Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>]

On Apr. 27, 2010, 18:01 +0300, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:40:53PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> Bruce, Oddly enough I didn't receive the patch you're commenting on into
>> my inbox.  It already happened before on this list and I've no idea what
>> could have went wrong. (I also have a gmail account subscribed on this list
>> and I can't find it there, even in the spam folder :-/)
> 
> Huh.  I see it in various archives, so I'll assume the problem's on your
> end.
> 
>> comments below...
>>
>> On Apr. 24, 2010, 0:24 +0300, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> wrote:
>>> Benny--I coded up a simple (possibly incorrect) implementation of this,
>>> and then remembered that this was more or less what your
>>> state-lock-reduction-prep patch series did.  Do you have a more recent
>>> version of those patches?
>>
>> Yup.  though untested with latest bits.
>> I'll resend it as a reply to this message.
> 
> I think what we actually want is a mechanism with semantics like yours,
> but with multiple RENEW values so we can track how many users there are
> and have only the last one do the renew.
> 
> One possibility: 
> 
> 	- add a cl_users field, with:
> 		cl_user>0 meaning: somebody's using this client right
> 			now, don't expire it.  (Your RENEW state.)
> 		cl_user<0 meaning: this client is already being expired,
> 			don't try to use it (or any sessionid or other
> 			state associated with it). (Your EXPIRED state.)
> 		cl_user==0: fair game to either use or (if expiry time
> 			has passed) to expire. (Your NORMAL state.)
> 
> 	- add a cl_renewme boolean, meaning: last user of this client
> 	  (user to decrement to 0) should renew the client (reset the
> 	  expiry time and move it to the back of the lru).
> 
> So:
> 
> 	- in laundromat: 
> 		- atomically check whether cl_users is 0, and, if so,
> 		  decrement to -1.  (If positive, skip expiring this
> 		  client.)
> 
> 	- on looking up a sessionid (or, eventually, any state object
> 	  associated with a client), call get_client(), which:
> 		- atomically checks whether cl_users is >=0, and, if so,
> 		  increments it.  If <0, fail to find the object and
> 		  return an appropriate error (STALE?).
> 	- on renew:
> 		- BUG_ON(cl_user<=0)
> 		- set cl_renewme
> 	- on dropping reference to a sessionid (or, eventually, any
> 	  state object associated with a client), call put_client(),
> 	  which:
> 		- atomically decrements cl_users, checks whether it hits
> 		  zero, and (if so, and if cl_renewme set), renews the
> 		  client.
> 
> One possible implementation: make cl_users atomic, add a per-client
> spinlock, make the put_client() do an atomic_dec_and_lock(), etc.
> 
> --b.

Sounds good. I'll take a stab at it right away.
(Funny that my original implementation uses a counter but IIRC
I decided at the time it was too complicated but I agree it's much better)

Benny