NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed

Servers have a finite amount of memory to store NFSv4 open and lock
owners.  Moreover, servers may have a difficult time determining when
they can reap their state owner table, thanks to gray areas in the
NFSv4 protocol specification.  Thus clients should be careful to reuse
state owners when possible.

Currently Linux is not too careful.  When a user has closed all her
files on one mount point, the state owner's reference count goes to
zero, and it is released.  The next OPEN allocates a new one.  A
workload that serially opens and closes files can run through a large
number of open owners this way.

When a state owner's reference count goes to zero, slap it onto a free
list for that nfs_server, with an expiry time.  Garbage collect before
looking for a state owner.  This makes state owners for active users
available for re-use.

Now that there can be unused state owners remaining at umount time,
purge the state owner free list when a server is destroyed.  Also be
sure not to reclaim unused state owners during state recovery.

This change has benefits for the client as well.  For some workloads,
this approach drops the number of OPEN_CONFIRM calls from the same as
the number of OPEN calls, down to just one.  This reduces wire traffic
and thus open(2) latency.  Before this patch, untarring a kernel
source tarball shows the OPEN_CONFIRM call counter steadily increasing
through the test.  With the patch, the OPEN_CONFIRM count remains at 1
throughout the entire untar.

As long as the expiry time is kept short, I don't think garbage
collection should be terribly expensive, although it does bounce the
clp->cl_lock around a bit.

[ At some point we should rationalize the use of the nfs_server
->destroy method. ]

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
[Trond: Fixed a garbage collection race and a few efficiency issues]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h b/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h
index 693ae22f873..4d7d0aedc10 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ struct nfs_unique_id {
 struct nfs4_state_owner {
 	struct nfs_unique_id so_owner_id;
 	struct nfs_server    *so_server;
+	struct list_head     so_lru;
+	unsigned long        so_expires;
 	struct rb_node	     so_server_node;
 
 	struct rpc_cred	     *so_cred;	 /* Associated cred */
@@ -319,6 +321,7 @@ static inline void nfs4_schedule_session_recovery(struct nfs4_session *session)
 
 extern struct nfs4_state_owner * nfs4_get_state_owner(struct nfs_server *, struct rpc_cred *);
 extern void nfs4_put_state_owner(struct nfs4_state_owner *);
+extern void nfs4_purge_state_owners(struct nfs_server *);
 extern struct nfs4_state * nfs4_get_open_state(struct inode *, struct nfs4_state_owner *);
 extern void nfs4_put_open_state(struct nfs4_state *);
 extern void nfs4_close_state(struct nfs4_state *, fmode_t);