[PATCH 37/37] NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS

David Howells
2008-02-08T17:17:08Z

Add NFS mount options to allow the local caching support to be enabled.

The attached patch makes it possible for the NFS filesystem to be told to make
use of the network filesystem local caching service (FS-Cache).

To be able to use this, a recent nfsutils package is required.

There are three variant NFS mount options that can be added to a mount command
to control caching for a mount. Only the last one specified takes effect:

(*) Adding "fsc" will request caching.

(*) Adding "fsc=<string>" will request caching and also specify a uniquifier.

(*) Adding "nofsc" will disable caching.

For example:

mount warthog:/ /a -o fsc

The cache of a particular superblock (NFS FSID) will be shared between all
mounts of that volume, provided they have the same connection parameters and
are not marked 'nosharecache'.

Where it is otherwise impossible to distinguish superblocks because all the
parameters are identical, but the 'nosharecache' option is supplied, a
uniquifying string must be supplied, else only the first mount will be
permitted to use the cache.

If there's a key collision, then the second mount will disable caching and give
a warning into the kernel log.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

fs/nfs/client.c | 2 ++
fs/nfs/internal.h | 1 +
fs/nfs/super.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
index d67d52f..8357f68 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ static int nfs_init_server(struct nfs_server *server,

/* Initialise the client representation from the mount data */
server->flags = data->flags & NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK;
+ server->options = data->options;

if (data->rsize)
server->rsize = nfs_block_size(data->rsize, NULL);
@@ -1056,6 +1057,7 @@ static int nfs4_init_server(struct nfs_server *server,
/* Initialise the client representation from the mount data */
server->flags = data->flags & NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK;
server->caps |= NFS_CAP_ATOMIC_OPEN;
+ server->options = data->options;

if (data->rsize)
server->rsize = nfs_block_size(data->rsize, NULL);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index e49cb6e..f427b35 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct nfs_parsed_mount_data {
int acregmin, acregmax,
acdirmin, acdirmax;
int namlen;
+ unsigned int options;
unsigned int bsize;
unsigned int auth_flavor_len;
rpc_authflavor_t auth_flavors[1];
diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
index 437c3dd..96082a2 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ enum {
Opt_acl, Opt_noacl,
Opt_rdirplus, Opt_nordirplus,
Opt_sharecache, Opt_nosharecache,
+ Opt_fscache, Opt_nofscache,

/* Mount options that take integer arguments */
Opt_port,
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ enum {
/* Mount options that take string arguments */
Opt_sec, Opt_proto, Opt_mountproto, Opt_mounthost,
Opt_addr, Opt_mountaddr, Opt_clientaddr,
+ Opt_fscache_uniq,

/* Mount options that are ignored */
Opt_userspace, Opt_deprecated,
@@ -125,6 +127,9 @@ static match_table_t nfs_mount_option_tokens = {
{ Opt_nordirplus, "nordirplus" },
{ Opt_sharecache, "sharecache" },
{ Opt_nosharecache, "nosharecache" },
+ { Opt_fscache, "fsc" },
+ { Opt_fscache_uniq, "fsc=%s" },
+ { Opt_nofscache, "nofsc" },

{ Opt_port, "port=%u" },
{ Opt_rsize, "rsize=%u" },
@@ -482,6 +487,8 @@ static void nfs_show_mount_options(struct seq_file *m, struct nfs_server *nfss,
seq_printf(m, ",timeo=%lu", 10U * nfss->client->cl_timeout->to_initval / HZ);
seq_printf(m, ",retrans=%u", nfss->client->cl_timeout->to_retries);
seq_printf(m, ",sec=%s", nfs_pseudoflavour_to_name(nfss->client->cl_auth->au_flavor));
+ if (nfss->options & NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE)
+ seq_printf(m, ",fsc");
}

/*
@@ -776,6 +783,24 @@ static int nfs_parse_mount_options(char *raw,
case Opt_nosharecache:
mnt->flags |= NFS_MOUNT_UNSHARED;
break;
+ case Opt_fscache:
+ mnt->options |= NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE;
+ kfree(mnt->fscache_uniq);
+ mnt->fscache_uniq = NULL;
+ break;
+ case Opt_nofscache:
+ mnt->options &= ~NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE;
+ kfree(mnt->fscache_uniq);
+ mnt->fscache_uniq = NULL;
+ break;
+ case Opt_fscache_uniq:
+ string = match_strdup(args);
+ if (!string)
+ goto out_nomem;
+ kfree(mnt->fscache_uniq);
+ mnt->fscache_uniq = string;
+ mnt->options |= NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE;
+ break;

case Opt_port:
if (match_int(args, &option))