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2006-01-08[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interfaceChristoph Lameter2-0/+5
sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process. A process may have migrated to another node. Memory was allocated optimally for the prior context. sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node. sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory. Paul Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic migration if the cpuset of a process is changed. However, a user may decide to manually control the migration. This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and functions that are also needed for mbind and friends. The patch also provides a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically move memory. sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's implementation. The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing nodeset (which may be a cpuset). When direct page migration becomes available then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages between different nodesets. The current implementation simply evicts all pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset. Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: MPOL_MF_MOVE interfaceChristoph Lameter1-0/+3
Add page migration support via swap to the NUMA policy layer This patch adds page migration support to the NUMA policy layer. An additional flag MPOL_MF_MOVE is introduced for mbind. If MPOL_MF_MOVE is specified then pages that do not conform to the memory policy will be evicted from memory. When they get pages back in new pages will be allocated following the numa policy. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: Add CONFIG_MIGRATION for page migration supportChristoph Lameter1-0/+2
Include page migration if the system is NUMA or having a memory model that allows distinct areas of memory (SPARSEMEM, DISCONTIGMEM). And: - Only include lru_add_drain_per_cpu if building for an SMP system. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: migrate_pages() functionChristoph Lameter1-0/+2
This adds the basic page migration function with a minimal implementation that only allows the eviction of pages to swap space. Page eviction and migration may be useful to migrate pages, to suspend programs or for remapping single pages (useful for faulty pages or pages with soft ECC failures) The process is as follows: The function wanting to migrate pages must first build a list of pages to be migrated or evicted and take them off the lru lists via isolate_lru_page(). isolate_lru_page determines that a page is freeable based on the LRU bit set. Then the actual migration or swapout can happen by calling migrate_pages(). migrate_pages does its best to migrate or swapout the pages and does multiple passes over the list. Some pages may only be swappable if they are not dirty. migrate_pages may start writing out dirty pages in the initial passes over the pages. However, migrate_pages may not be able to migrate or evict all pages for a variety of reasons. The remaining pages may be returned to the LRU lists using putback_lru_pages(). Changelog V4->V5: - Use the lru caches to return pages to the LRU Changelog V3->V4: - Restructure code so that applying patches to support full migration does require minimal changes. Rename swapout_pages() to migrate_pages(). Changelog V2->V3: - Extract common code from shrink_list() and swapout_pages() Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swapChristoph Lameter1-0/+1
Add PF_SWAPWRITE to control a processes permission to write to swap. - Use PF_SWAPWRITE in may_write_to_queue() instead of checking for kswapd and pdflush - Set PF_SWAPWRITE flag for kswapd and pdflush Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: LRU operationsChristoph Lameter2-0/+25
This is the start of the `swap migration' patch series. Swap migration allows the moving of the physical location of pages between nodes in a numa system while the process is running. This means that the virtual addresses that the process sees do not change. However, the system rearranges the physical location of those pages. The main intent of page migration patches here is to reduce the latency of memory access by moving pages near to the processor where the process accessing that memory is running. The patchset allows a process to manually relocate the node on which its pages are located through the MF_MOVE and MF_MOVE_ALL options while setting a new memory policy. The pages of process can also be relocated from another process using the sys_migrate_pages() function call. Requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The migrate_pages function call takes two sets of nodes and moves pages of a process that are located on the from nodes to the destination nodes. Manual migration is very useful if for example the scheduler has relocated a process to a processor on a distant node. A batch scheduler or an administrator can detect the situation and move the pages of the process nearer to the new processor. sys_migrate_pages() could be used on non-numa machines as well, to force all of a particualr process's pages out to swap, if someone thinks that's useful. Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into sections of nodes. Paul has equipped cpusets with the ability to move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset. This allows automatic control over locality of a process. If a task is moved to a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the performance of the process does not sink dramatically (as is the case today). Swap migration works by simply evicting the page. The pages must be faulted back in. The pages are then typically reallocated by the system near the node where the process is executing. For swap migration the destination of the move is controlled by the allocation policy. Cpusets set the allocation policy before calling sys_migrate_pages() in order to move the pages as intended. No allocation policy changes are performed for sys_migrate_pages(). This means that the pages may not faulted in to the specified nodes if no allocation policy was set by other means. The pages will just end up near the node where the fault occurred. There's another patch series in the pipeline which implements "direct migration". The direct migration patchset extends the migration functionality to avoid going through swap. The destination node of the relation is controllable during the actual moving of pages. The crutch of using the allocation policy to relocate is not necessary and the pages are moved directly to the target. Its also faster since swap is not used. And sys_migrate_pages() can then move pages directly to the specified node. Implement functions to isolate pages from the LRU and put them back later. This patch: An earlier implementation was provided by Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> and IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp> for the memory hotplug project. From: Magnus This breaks out isolate_lru_page() and putpack_lru_page(). Needed for swap migration. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] add schedule_on_each_cpu()Christoph Lameter1-0/+1
swap migration's isolate_lru_page() currently uses an IPI to notify other processors that the lru caches need to be drained if the page cannot be found on the LRU. The IPI interrupt may interrupt a processor that is just processing lru requests and cause a race condition. This patch introduces a new function run_on_each_cpu() that uses the keventd() to run the LRU draining on each processor. Processors disable preemption when dealing the LRU caches (these are per processor) and thus executing LRU draining from another process is safe. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> for finding this race condition. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurableRohit Seth2-0/+3
As recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and high water marks for per_cpu_pagelists. This patch makes these two variables configurable through /proc interface. A new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added. This entry controls the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for each per cpu page list. The min value for this is 8. It means that we don't allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any single per_cpu_pagelist. The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It is set to pcp->high/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8) Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] drop-pagecacheAndrew Morton2-0/+8
Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis operation requires root permissions. It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first. Caveats: a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time. b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis. This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but it's less than 300 bytes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] slab: remove unused align parameter from alloc_percpuPekka Enberg1-4/+3
__alloc_percpu and alloc_percpu both take an 'align' argument which is completely ignored. snmp6_mib_init() in net/ipv6/af_inet6.c attempts to use it, but it will be ignored. Therefore, remove the 'align' argument and fixup the lone caller. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Fix compilation with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y and gcc41.Olaf Hering1-7/+1
Fix compilation with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y and gcc41. Also remove unneeded declations, add a public function. drivers/base/memory.c:53: error: static declaration of 'register_memory_notifier' follows non-static declaration include/linux/memory.h:85: error: previous declaration of 'register_memory_notifier' was here drivers/base/memory.c:58: error: static declaration of 'unregister_memory_notifier' follows non-static declaration include/linux/memory.h:86: error: previous declaration of 'unregister_memory_notifier' was here drivers/base/memory.c:68: error: static declaration of 'register_memory' follows non-static declaration include/linux/memory.h:73: error: previous declaration of 'register_memory' was here Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-07[NETFILTER]: Add dummy nf_hook{_thresh}() when NETFILTER is disabled.David S. Miller1-0/+15
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-07[NETFILTER]: Add ipt_policy/ip6t_policy matchesPatrick McHardy2-0/+104
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-07[NETFILTER]: Handle NAT in IPsec policy checksPatrick McHardy1-0/+16
Handle NAT of decapsulated IPsec packets by reconstructing the struct flowi of the original packet from the conntrack information for IPsec policy checks. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-07[NETFILTER]: Fix xfrm lookup in ip_route_me_harder/ip6_route_me_harderPatrick McHardy2-1/+4
ip_route_me_harder doesn't use the port numbers of the xfrm lookup and uses ip_route_input for non-local addresses which doesn't do a xfrm lookup, ip6_route_me_harder doesn't do a xfrm lookup at all. Use xfrm_decode_session and do the lookup manually, make sure both only do the lookup if the packet hasn't been transformed already. Makeing sure the lookup only happens once needs a new field in the IP6CB, which exceeds the size of skb->cb. The size of skb->cb is increased to 48b. Apparently the IPv6 mobile extensions need some more room anyway. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-07[IPV6]: Move nextheader offset to the IP6CBPatrick McHardy1-0/+1
Move nextheader offset to the IP6CB to make it possible to pass a packet to ip6_input_finish multiple times and have it skip already parsed headers. As a nice side effect this gets rid of the manual hopopts skipping in ip6_input_finish. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-07[XFRM]: Netfilter IPsec output hooksPatrick McHardy1-24/+37
Call netfilter hooks before IPsec transforms. Packets visit the FORWARD/LOCAL_OUT and POST_ROUTING hook before the first encapsulation and the LOCAL_OUT and POST_ROUTING hook before each following tunnel mode transform. Patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>: Move the loop from dst_output into xfrm4_output/xfrm6_output since they're the only ones who need to it. xfrm{4,6}_output_one() processes the first SA all subsequent transport mode SAs and is called in a loop that calls the netfilter hooks between each two calls. In order to avoid the tail call issue, I've added the inline function nf_hook which is nf_hook_slow plus the empty list check. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-07Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds5-0/+703
2006-01-07Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds1-0/+17
2006-01-07Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmcLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
2006-01-07[ARM] Move asm/hardware/clock.h to linux/clk.hRussell King1-0/+124
This is needs to be visible to other architectures using the AMBA bus and peripherals. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-07Merge with Linus' kernel.Russell King86-1178/+1933
2006-01-07[ARM] Move AMBA include files to include/linux/amba/Russell King4-0/+579
Since the ARM AMBA bus is used on MIPS as well as ARM, we need to make the bus available for other architectures to use. Move the AMBA include files from include/asm-arm/hardware/ to include/linux/amba/ Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-06Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds4-52/+16
2006-01-06Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds3-7/+7
2006-01-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
2006-01-06[NET]: Endian-annotate in_aton()Alexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06[NET]: Endian-annotate struct iphdrAlexey Dobriyan1-5/+5
And fix trivial warnings that emerged. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06[NET]: Change sk_run_filter()'s return type in net/core/filter.cKris Katterjohn1-1/+1
It should return an unsigned value, and fix sk_filter() as well. Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@ispwest.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06Merge ../torvalds-2.6/Greg Kroah-Hartman35-681/+1191
2006-01-06kbuild: un-stringnify KBUILD_MODNAMESam Ravnborg1-1/+1
Now when kbuild passes KBUILD_MODNAME with "" do not __stringify it when used. Remove __stringnify for all users. This also fixes the output of: $ ls -l /sys/module/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 pcmcia drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 pcmcia_core drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 "processor" drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 "psmouse" The quoting of the module names will be gone again. Thanks to GregKH + Kay Sievers for reproting this. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: Update the spkm3 code to use the make_checksum interfaceJ. Bruce Fields1-1/+1
Also update the tokenlen calculations to accomodate g_token_size(). Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFSv4: Allow entries in the idmap cache to expireTrond Myklebust1-0/+2
If someone changes the uid/gid mapping in userland, then we do eventually want those changes to be propagated to the kernel. Currently the kernel assumes that it may cache entries forever. Add an expiration time + garbage collector for idmap entries. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: Ensure client closes the socket when server initiates a closeTrond Myklebust1-0/+1
If the server decides to close the RPC socket, we currently don't actually respond until either another RPC call is scheduled, or until xprt_autoclose() gets called by the socket expiry timer (which may be up to 5 minutes later). This patch ensures that xprt_autoclose() is called much sooner if the server closes the socket. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: get rid of cl_chattyChuck Lever1-1/+0
Clean up: Every ULP that uses the in-kernel RPC client, except the NLM client, sets cl_chatty. There's no reason why NLM shouldn't set it, so just get rid of cl_chatty and always be verbose. Test-plan: Compile with CONFIG_NFS enabled. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: transport switch API for setting port numberChuck Lever1-0/+1
At some point, transport endpoint addresses will no longer be IPv4. To hide the structure of the rpc_xprt's address field from ULPs and port mappers, add an API for setting the port number during an RPC bind operation. Test-plan: Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily). Connectathon with UDP and TCP. NFSv2/3 and NFSv4 mounting should be carefully checked. Probably need to rig a server where certain services aren't running, or that returns an error for some typical operation. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: new interface to force an RPC rebindChuck Lever1-0/+1
We'd like to hide fields in rpc_xprt and rpc_clnt from upper layer protocols. Start by creating an API to force RPC rebind, replacing logic that simply sets cl_port to zero. Test-plan: Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily). Connectathon with UDP and TCP. NFSv2/3 and NFSv4 mounting should be carefully checked. Probably need to rig a server where certain services aren't running, or that returns an error for some typical operation. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: switchable buffer allocationChuck Lever2-7/+6
Add RPC client transport switch support for replacing buffer management on a per-transport basis. In the current IPv4 socket transport implementation, RPC buffers are allocated as needed for each RPC message that is sent. Some transport implementations may choose to use pre-allocated buffers for encoding, sending, receiving, and unmarshalling RPC messages, however. For transports capable of direct data placement, the buffers can be carved out of a pre-registered area of memory rather than from a slab cache. Test-plan: Millions of fsx operations. Performance characterization with "sio" and "iozone". Use oprofile and other tools to look for significant regression in CPU utilization. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NLM: Further cancel fixesJ. Bruce Fields1-1/+1
If the server receives an NLM cancel call and finds no waiting lock to cancel, then chances are the lock has already been applied, and the client just hadn't yet processed the NLM granted callback before it sent the cancel. The Open Group text, for example, perimts a server to return either success (LCK_GRANTED) or failure (LCK_DENIED) in this case. But returning an error seems more helpful; the client may be able to use it to recognize that a race has occurred and to recover from the race. So, modify the relevant functions to return an error in this case. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: net/sunrpc/xdr.c: remove xdr_decode_string()Adrian Bunk1-1/+0
This patch removes ths unused function xdr_decode_string(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Charles Lever <Charles.Lever@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFSv4: Allow user to set the port used by the NFSv4 callback channelTrond Myklebust1-0/+11
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFSv4: Ensure DELEGRETURN returns attributesTrond Myklebust1-0/+6
Upon return of a write delegation, the server will almost always bump the change attribute. Ensure that we pick up that change so that we don't invalidate our data cache unnecessarily. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFS: Make stat() return updated mtimes after a write()Trond Myklebust1-0/+1
The SuS states that a call to write() will cause mtime to be updated on the file. In order to satisfy that requirement, we need to flush out any cached writes in nfs_getattr(). Speed things up slightly by not committing the writes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFS: support large reads and writes on the wireChuck Lever3-24/+51
Most NFS server implementations allow up to 64KB reads and writes on the wire. The Solaris NFS server allows up to a megabyte, for instance. Now the Linux NFS client supports transfer sizes up to 1MB, too. This will help reduce protocol and context switch overhead on read/write intensive NFS workloads, and support larger atomic read and write operations on servers that support them. Test-plan: Connectathon and iozone on mount point with wsize=rsize>32768 over TCP. Tests with NFS over UDP to verify the maximum RPC payload size cap. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFS: simplify inlined bit ops in nfs_page.hChuck Lever1-9/+3
Minor cleanup: inlined bit ops in nfs_page.h can be simpler. Test plan: Write-intensive workload against a server that requires COMMITs. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFSv4: locking XDR cleanupTrond Myklebust1-28/+24
Get rid of some unnecessary intermediate structures Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFSv4: Make open_confirm() asynchronous tooTrond Myklebust1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06NFSv4: stateful NFSv4 RPC call interfaceTrond Myklebust1-2/+19
The NFSv4 model requires us to complete all RPC calls that might establish state on the server whether or not the user wants to interrupt it. We may also need to schedule new work (including new RPC calls) in order to cancel the new state. The asynchronous RPC model will allow us to ensure that RPC calls always complete, but in order to allow for "synchronous" RPC, we want to add the ability to wait for completion. The waits are, of course, interruptible. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06SUNRPC: Further cleanupsTrond Myklebust1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06RPC: Clean up RPC task structureTrond Myklebust4-13/+24
Shrink the RPC task structure. Instead of storing separate pointers for task->tk_exit and task->tk_release, put them in a structure. Also pass the user data pointer as a parameter instead of passing it via task->tk_calldata. This enables us to nest callbacks. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>