On Oct 12, 2022, at 5:18 PM, NeilBrown [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, Chuck Lever III wrote:

quoted

I think I stopped at the non-list variant of rhashtable because
using rhl was more complex, and the non-list variant seemed to
work fine. There's no architectural reason either file_hashtbl
or the filecache must use the non-list variant.

In any event, it's worth taking the trouble now to change the
nfs4_file implementation proposed here as you suggest.

If you like you could leave it as-is for now and I can provide a patch
to convert to rhl-tables later (won't be until late October).
There is one thing I would need to understand though: why are the
nfsd_files per-filehandle instead of per-inode?  There is probably a
good reason, but I cannot think of one.

I'm not clear on your offer: do you mean converting the nfsd_file
cache from rhashtable to rhl, or converting the proposed nfs4_file
rework? I had planned to do the latter myself and post a refresh.

The nfsd_file_acquire API is the only place that seems to want a
filehandle, and it's just to lookup the underlying inode. Perhaps
I don't understand your question?


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Chuck Lever