Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFSv4.0 allow nconnect for v4.0

[Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:09 PM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 09:16:54PM +0000, Schumaker, Anna wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 21:14 +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 21:09 +0000, Schumaker, Anna wrote:
> > > > Hi Olga,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 14:08 -0500, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> > > > > From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
> > > >
> > > > Have you done any testing with nconnect and the v4.0 replay caches? I
> > > > did some
> > > > digging on the mailing list and found this in one of the cover
> > > > letters from
> > > > Trond: "The feature is only enabled for NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.2 for now;
> > > > I don't
> > > > feel comfortable subjecting NFSv3/v4 replay caches to this treatment
> > > > yet."
> > > >
> > >
> > > That comment should be considered obsolete. The current code works hard
> > > to ensure that we replay using the same connection (or at least the
> > > same source/dest IP+ports) so that NFSv3/v4.0 DRCs work as expected.
> > > For that reason we've had NFSv3 support since the feature was merged.
> > > The NFSv4.0 support was just forgotten.
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation! I'll add the patch.
>
> What happened to this patch?  As far as I can tell, the conclusion of
> this thread was that it should be applied.

I decided not to submit this patch but anybody else is free to add
that patch to add support for 4.0 nconnect as there is no reason it
shouldn't be supported.

>
> --b.
>
> >
> > Anna
> >
> > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Anna
> > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 2 +-
> > > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
> > > > > index 460d625..4df3fb0 100644
> > > > > --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
> > > > > +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
> > > > > @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ static int nfs4_set_client(struct nfs_server
> > > > > *server,
> > > > >
> > > > >         if (minorversion == 0)
> > > > >                 __set_bit(NFS_CS_REUSEPORT, &cl_init.init_flags);
> > > > > -       else if (proto == XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP)
> > > > > +       if (proto == XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP)
> > > > >                 cl_init.nconnect = nconnect;
> > > > >
> > > > >         if (server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_NORESVPORT)
> > > --
> > > Trond Myklebust
> > > Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
> > > trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
> > >
> > >