When a fsnotify callback comes in, the server will encode the information directly as XDR in a buffer attached to the delegation. The CB_NOTIFY callback is then queued, which will scoop up that buffer and allocate another to start gathering more events. If it runs out of space to spool events, it will give up and trigger a recall of the delegation. This is still a work-in-progress however: The main thing missing at this point is support for sending attributes in the CB_NOTIFY, particularly on ADD events. The right set of fattrs would allow the client to instantiate a dentry and inode without having to contact the server. Still, it's getting close to the point where the server side is somewhat functional so it's a good time to post what I have so far. Anna has graciously agreed to work on the client-side pieces. I do have some patches, but that piece is still pretty rough: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux.git/log/?h=dir-deleg-clnt In a nutshell, the client-side GDD4 support is still simplistic, and there is no support for CB_NOTIFY yet. I also have a MR up for wireshark [4], and I have patches for some basic pynfs tests that I've been using to drive the server (to be posted soon). At this point I'm mainly interested in feedback on the VFS bits, particularly the delegated_inode changes. Also, I should make special mention of atomic_open since Al pointed it out in the last set: I think we can't reasonably support dir delegations on filesystems that support atomic_open. When we do a create on those filesystems, we don't know whether the file exists or not, so we can't know whether we need to break a dir delegation. It would be nice to have a compile-time check for that, but I'm not sure how we could reasonably do it. For now, I've settled for disabling directory leases in FUSE, NFS and CIFS, which should work around the potential problem. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20240315-dir-deleg-v1-0-a1d6209a3654@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdFyH3BN5pI [3]: https://linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/CITI_Experience_with_Directory_Delegations [4]: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/20048 Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - add support for ignoring certain break_lease() events - basic support for CB_NOTIFY - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240315-dir-deleg-v1-0-a1d6209a3654@xxxxxxxxxx --- Jeff Layton (28): filelock: push the S_ISREG check down to ->setlease handlers filelock: add a lm_may_setlease lease_manager callback vfs: add try_break_deleg calls for parents to vfs_{link,rename,unlink} vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent vfs: allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent vfs: break parent dir delegations in open(..., O_CREAT) codepath vfs: make vfs_create break delegations on parent directory vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory filelock: lift the ban on directory leases in generic_setlease nfsd: allow filecache to hold S_IFDIR files nfsd: allow DELEGRETURN on directories nfsd: check for delegation conflicts vs. the same client nfsd: wire up GET_DIR_DELEGATION handling filelock: rework the __break_lease API to use flags filelock: add struct delegated_inode filelock: add support for ignoring deleg breaks for dir change events filelock: add an inode_lease_ignore_mask helper nfsd: add protocol support for CB_NOTIFY nfsd: add callback encoding and decoding linkages for CB_NOTIFY nfsd: add data structures for handling CB_NOTIFY to directory delegation fsnotify: export fsnotify_recalc_mask() nfsd: update the fsnotify mark when setting or removing a dir delegation nfsd: make nfsd4_callback_ops->prepare operation bool return nfsd: add notification handlers for dir events nfsd: allow nfsd to get a dir lease with an ignore mask nfsd: add a tracepoint for nfsd_file_fsnotify_handle_dir_event() nfsd: add support for NOTIFY4_ADD_ENTRY events nfsd: add support for NOTIFY4_RENAME_ENTRY events Documentation/sunrpc/xdr/nfs4_1.x | 252 ++++++++++++++++- fs/attr.c | 4 +- fs/fuse/dir.c | 1 + fs/locks.c | 120 ++++++-- fs/namei.c | 296 ++++++++++++------- fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 2 + fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 103 +++++-- fs/nfsd/filecache.h | 2 + fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 60 +++- fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 24 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 535 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr_gen.c | 506 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr_gen.h | 17 +- fs/nfsd/state.h | 47 ++- fs/nfsd/trace.h | 26 +- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 5 +- fs/nfsd/vfs.h | 2 +- fs/nfsd/xdr4cb.h | 11 + fs/notify/mark.c | 1 + fs/open.c | 8 +- fs/posix_acl.c | 12 +- fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c | 3 + fs/utimes.c | 4 +- fs/xattr.c | 16 +- include/linux/filelock.h | 143 +++++++--- include/linux/fs.h | 9 +- include/linux/nfs4.h | 127 --------- include/linux/sunrpc/xdrgen/nfs4_1.h | 293 ++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/xattr.h | 4 +- include/uapi/linux/nfs4.h | 2 - 31 files changed, 2249 insertions(+), 389 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 22b71eb34051a70c39c86997657de92722ec1838 change-id: 20240215-dir-deleg-e212210ba9d4 Best regards, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>