This section answers a new FAQ entry:
9. How does LOCALIO make certain that object lifetimes are managed
properly given NFSD and NFS operate in different contexts?
See the detailed "NFS Client and Server Interlock" section below.
The first half of the section details NeilBrown's elegant design
for LOCALIO's nfs_uuid_t based interlock and is heavily based on
Neil's "net namespace refcounting" description here:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=172498546024767&w=2
The second half of the section details the per-cpu-refcount introduced
to ensure NFSD's nfsd_serv isn't destroyed while in use by a LOCALIO
client.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Add a FAQ section to give answers to questions that have been raised
during review of the localio feature.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Co-developed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
This document gives an overview of the LOCALIO auxiliary RPC protocol
added to the Linux NFS client and server to allow them to reliably
handshake to determine if they are on the same host.
Once an NFS client and server handshake as "local", the client will
bypass the network RPC protocol for read, write and commit operations.
Due to this XDR and RPC bypass, these operations will operate faster.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
