[RFC,v6,0/2] nfsd: Initial implementation of NFSv4 Courteous Server

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Dai Ngo Dec. 6, 2021, 5:59 p.m. UTC

Hi Bruce,

This series of patches implement the NFSv4 Courteous Server.

A server which does not immediately expunge the state on lease expiration
is known as a Courteous Server.  A Courteous Server continues to recognize
previously generated state tokens as valid until conflict arises between
the expired state and the requests from another client, or the server
reboots.

The v2 patch includes the following:

. add new callback, lm_expire_lock, to lock_manager_operations to
  allow the lock manager to take appropriate action with conflict lock.

. handle conflicts of NFSv4 locks with NFSv3/NLM and local locks.

. expire courtesy client after 24hr if client has not reconnected.

. do not allow expired client to become courtesy client if there are
  waiters for client's locks.

. modify client_info_show to show courtesy client and seconds from
  last renew.

. fix a problem with NFSv4.1 server where the it keeps returning
  SEQ4_STATUS_CB_PATH_DOWN in the successful SEQUENCE reply, after
  the courtesy client re-connects, causing the client to keep sending
  BCTS requests to server.

The v3 patch includes the following:

. modified posix_test_lock to check and resolve conflict locks
  to handle NLM TEST and NFSv4 LOCKT requests.

. separate out fix for back channel stuck in SEQ4_STATUS_CB_PATH_DOWN.

The v4 patch includes:

. rework nfsd_check_courtesy to avoid dead lock of fl_lock and client_lock
  by asking the laudromat thread to destroy the courtesy client.

. handle NFSv4 share reservation conflicts with courtesy client. This
  includes conflicts between access mode and deny mode and vice versa.

. drop the patch for back channel stuck in SEQ4_STATUS_CB_PATH_DOWN.

The v5 patch includes:

. fix recursive locking of file_rwsem from posix_lock_file. 

. retest with LOCKDEP enabled.

The v6 patch includes:

. merge witn 5.15-rc7

. fix a bug in nfs4_check_deny_bmap that did not check for matched
  nfs4_file before checking for access/deny conflict. This bug causes
  pynfs OPEN18 to fail since the server taking too long to release
  lots of un-conflict clients' state.

. enhance share reservation conflict handler to handle case where
  a large number of conflict courtesy clients need to be expired.
  The 1st 100 clients are expired synchronously and the rest are
  expired in the background by the laundromat and NFS4ERR_DELAY
  is returned to the NFS client. This is needed to prevent the
  NFS client from timing out waiting got the reply.

. no regression wirh pynfs 4.0 and 4.1 tests.