Myklebust, Trond Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com wrote:
Hmm... As far as I can see you are still doing an nfs_revalidate_inode() in the non-forced case. That will cause expired attributes to be retrieved from the server.
Revalidation is only done when you force it or explicitly ask for a basic stat or the data version number:
- if (need_atime) - err = __nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode); - else - err = nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode); - if (!err) { - generic_fillattr(inode, stat); - stat->ino = nfs_compat_user_ino64(NFS_FILEID(inode)); + if (force || stat->request_mask & (XSTAT_BASIC_STATS | XSTAT_VERSION)) { + if (force || need_atime) + err = __nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode); + else + err = nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode); + if (err) + goto out;
Unfortunately, I think I have to revalidate if any of XSTAT_BASIC_STATS are requested to maintain compatibility with stat() so that stat() can be done with xstat(). On the other hand, stat() could be done by userspace with xstat() and AT_FORCE_ATTR_SYNC, I suppose.
David