staging: lustre: osc: Use SOFT_SYNC to urge server commit
authorPrakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:21:06 +0000 (18:21 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 04:51:58 +0000 (21:51 -0700)
commitad479287b4e637ac098e5ebd5dabfa2826e27d4c
treee9e9a53b59f0e3ad513de0bebacd8897d3b023c8
parentdece0b95dd358de8f5e36c605f079ce8e1aab23d
staging: lustre: osc: Use SOFT_SYNC to urge server commit

This change adds a BRW page flag, OBD_BRW_SOFT_SYNC. This flag is
intended to urge a server to commit a client's unstable pages to
stable storage. A client will add this flag to any BRW requests while
it is in a state where it has "many" unstable pages pinned in its cache.

The server, upon receiving a page with this flag set, *should* begin
an async commit. The idea being that, with the proactive async commit,
the client's pinned unstable pages will transition into a stable state
faster than they would have otherwise. Although, the server side portion
of this agreement is still unimplemented, so the OBD_BRW_SOFT_SYNC flag
will currently fall on deaf ears.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-2139
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/4375
Reviewed-by: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_idl.h
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_cache.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_internal.h
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_page.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_request.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/wiretest.c