svn commit: r192256 - head/sys/fs/nfsserver

Doug Rabson dfr at rabson.org
Wed May 20 18:26:47 UTC 2009


On 20 May 2009, at 16:07, Rick Macklem wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Doug Rabson wrote:
>
>> Thinking about this for a few more minutes, I think you probably  
>> want to allocate a sysid for each client and then for each  
>> lock_owner of that client allocate a 'pid'. The value doesn't have  
>> to be a process identifier but it does have to allow different lock  
>> owners from the same client to be distinguished.
>>
> Why do they need to be distinguished? The nfsv4 state subsystem  
> handles
> all conflicts between them, so they are just "nfsv4 locks".

Why? It seems a shame to re-implement all the record locking logic of  
the local lock manager in NFS.

>
> An nfsv4 lockowner is a ClientID + up to 1024 bytes of opaque name  
> and it
> might not persist in the server beyond the point where no locks are
> held and the associated OpenOwner no longer has any Opens. After this,
> the same lockowner could be "re-incarnated" (ie. create a new state
> data structure in the server with the same ClientID + up to 1024  
> bytes)
> when the client chooses to do more locking on it. If a pid is  
> generated
> sequentially, this second re-incarnation would end up with a different
> pid although it is the same lockowner. (To ensure this doesn't happen,
> the server would have to hold onto the lockowner state structure  
> "forever"
> and that obviously isn't practical.) Or a pid could be a 32bit  
> checksum
> on the ClientID + up to 1024 bytes instead of sequential assignment.  
> In that case the re-incarnation would get the same pid, but it  
> wouldn't be
> guaranteed to be unique across all different lockowners.
>
> As such, the most an assigned pid could be is a "hint" that the  
> lockowner
> is different/same. Is there some benefit to this over "held by nfsv4",
> which is what using one <l_sysid, l_pid> tuple gives you?

The lock manager doesn't care much about the interpretation of the  
'pid' (wrong name but we are stuck with it). Its perfectly fine to use  
a different pid for the same lock owner, if and only if all locks from  
the first pid are released before using a new one. If you are worried  
about pids wrapping, you could use the 'unit allocator' code in  
subr_unit.c to manage them. I think you could just allocate a pid the  
first time a server sees a lock owner and free it when the server  
garbage collects an unused lock owner.

>
>
>> You probably also want to record locks in the local lock manager on  
>> the client. In NLM, I use a different range of sysids starting at  
>> 0x100000 for this. This lets you do lock recovery after a server  
>> restart by asking the local lock manager to enumerate locks for the  
>> right sysid.
>>
> The lock state all lives in the nfsv4 client (some associated with a
> delegation and assigned locally, the rest tied to an associated  
> Open) with the "up to 1024 byte" owner names generated by the  
> client, etc. Maintaining the rather complex relationship between  
> Opens (with Openowners) and their associated locks is probably the  
> "most interesting"
> part of implementing nfsv4. Then you must recover the locks,  
> maintaining
> that relationship. (The relationship is established via the  
> open_to_lock_owner case of the Lock Op.) The recovery code uses  
> client side data structures that reflect the open/lock relationship.  
> The lock
> manager wouldn't be able to provide that information and I think there
> would be little gained by trying to make the major modifications that
> would be required so that it could do so.

Ok. I was able to use the lock manager to keep track of client lock  
state for NLM but if it needs extra stuff that doesn't fit with NFSv4,  
don't worry about it.

Note: there is also a lock manager call to trash all the locks  
associated with a given sysid which may be useful on the server side  
for cleaning up after a client which held locks restarts.

>
>
>> On 20 May 2009, at 09:26, Doug Rabson wrote:
>>
>>> This is incorrect. A sysid of zero is reserved for local locks on  
>>> local filesystems. You need to allocate a sysid when the client is  
>>> created and it needs to not conflict with the sysids used by NLM.  
>>> I suggest adding a function to nlm_prot_impl.c to return the next  
>>> available sysid (and bump the counter).
> Ok, when I looked at the code, l_sysid only seemed to be used when  
> F_REMOTE is set, so I didn't realize that l_sysid == 0 was reserved
> for local locks. I'll look at what you suggest and send you an nlm
> patch for review.

Thanks.



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