Depending on the allocation scheme and size, some files may have a large number of extents. This series fixes the handling of large extent arrays and allows the pNFS client to split large layoutcommits that exceed the maximum RPC size accepted by the server into multiple requests. Manually tested for the block layout driver: sudo mount.nfs4 -v -o minorversion=2,sync,hard,noatime, \ rsize=16384,wsize=16384,timeo=600, \ retrans=2 192.168.1.1:/mnt/export /mnt/pnfs sudo fio --name=test --filename=/mnt/pnfs/test6.raw --size=10M \ --rw=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --bs=4k \ --iodepth=128 --fallocate=none --verify=sha1 Trace: fio-1580 [012] 1258.595866: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=-28, found 372 ranges, lwb=1531903, not all ranges encoded fio-1580 [012] 1258.609534: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=-28, found 372 ranges, lwb=3104767, not all ranges encoded fio-1580 [012] 1258.655556: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=-28, found 372 ranges, lwb=4644863, not all ranges encoded fio-1580 [012] 1258.699603: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=-28, found 372 ranges, lwb=6176767, not all ranges encoded fio-1580 [012] 1258.743650: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=-28, found 372 ranges, lwb=7708671, not all ranges encoded fio-1580 [012] 1258.787605: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=-28, found 372 ranges, lwb=9236479, not all ranges encoded fio-1580 [012] 1258.817439: bl_ext_tree_prepare_commit: ret=0, found 295 ranges, lwb=10485759 Signed-off-by: Sergey Bashirov <sergeybashirov@xxxxxxxxx> --- Sergey Bashirov (4): pNFS: Fix uninited ptr deref in block/scsi layout pNFS: Fix extent encoding in block/scsi layout pNFS: Add prepare commit trace to block/scsi layout pNFS: Handle RPC size limit for layoutcommits fs/nfs/blocklayout/extent_tree.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/nfs/nfs4trace.c | 1 + fs/nfs/nfs4trace.h | 34 ++++++++++ fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 11 +++- 4 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0