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Commit e0639dc5 authored by Olga Kornievskaia's avatar Olga Kornievskaia Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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NFSD introduce async copy feature



Upon receiving a request for async copy, create a new kthread.  If we
get asynchronous request, make sure to copy the needed arguments/state
from the stack before starting the copy. Then start the thread and reply
back to the client indicating copy is asynchronous.

nfsd_copy_file_range() will copy in a loop over the total number of
bytes is needed to copy. In case a failure happens in the middle, we
ignore the error and return how much we copied so far. Once done
creating a workitem for the callback workqueue and send CB_OFFLOAD with
the results.

The lifetime of the copy stateid is bound to the vfs copy. This way we
don't need to keep the nfsd_net structure for the callback.  We could
keep it around longer so that an OFFLOAD_STATUS that came late would
still get results, but clients should be able to deal without that.

We handle OFFLOAD_CANCEL by sending a signal to the copy thread and
calling kthread_stop.

A client should cancel any ongoing copies before calling DESTROY_CLIENT;
if not, we return a CLIENT_BUSY error.

If the client is destroyed for some other reason (lease expiration, or
server shutdown), we must clean up any ongoing copies ourselves.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOlga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
[colin.king@canonical.com: fix leak in error case]
[bfields@fieldses.org: remove signalling, merge patches]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent 885e2bf3
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