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authorRicardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>2009-04-01 09:23:03 -0400
committerBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>2009-06-17 14:11:24 -0700
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nfs41: Add backchannel processing support to RPC state machine
Adds rpc_run_bc_task() which is called by the NFS callback service to process backchannel requests. It performs similar work to rpc_run_task() though "schedules" the backchannel task to be executed starting at the call_trasmit state in the RPC state machine. It also introduces some miscellaneous updates to the argument validation, call_transmit, and transport cleanup functions to take into account that there are now forechannel and backchannel tasks. Backchannel requests do not carry an RPC message structure, since the payload has already been XDR encoded using the existing NFSv4 callback mechanism. Introduce a new transmit state for the client to reply on to backchannel requests. This new state simply reserves the transport and issues the reply. In case of a connection related error, disconnects the transport and drops the reply. It requires the forechannel to re-establish the connection and the server to retransmit the request, as stated in NFSv4.1 section 2.9.2 "Client and Server Transport Behavior". Note: There is no need to loop attempting to reserve the transport. If EAGAIN is returned by xprt_prepare_transmit(), return with tk_status == 0, setting tk_action to call_bc_transmit. rpc_execute() will invoke it again after the task is taken off the sleep queue. [nfs41: rpc_run_bc_task() need not be exported outside RPC module] [nfs41: New call_bc_transmit RPC state] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: Backchannel: No need to loop in call_bc_transmit()] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [rpc_count_iostats incorrectly exits early] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [Convert rpc_reply_expected() to inline function] [Remove unnecessary BUG_ON()] [Rename variable] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
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