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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2018-04-04 13:41:28 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2018-04-04 13:41:28 +0100
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fscache: Attach the index key and aux data to the cookie
Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so that: (1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated. This can simplify things in the cache as the information is still available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie. (2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us. (3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk. As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes. (4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily available. This allows: (a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend. (b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated. A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it. The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com> Tested-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/fs/nfs/fscache.h b/fs/nfs/fscache.h
index d7fe3e799f2f..96e989f579d1 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/fscache.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/fscache.h
@@ -57,6 +57,22 @@ struct nfs_fscache_key {
};
/*
+ * Definition of the auxiliary data attached to NFS inode storage objects
+ * within the cache.
+ *
+ * The contents of this struct are recorded in the on-disk local cache in the
+ * auxiliary data attached to the data storage object backing an inode. This
+ * permits coherency to be managed when a new inode binds to an already extant
+ * cache object.
+ */
+struct nfs_fscache_inode_auxdata {
+ struct timespec mtime;
+ struct timespec ctime;
+ loff_t size;
+ u64 change_attr;
+};
+
+/*
* fscache-index.c
*/
extern struct fscache_netfs nfs_fscache_netfs;