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    NFS: nfs4_do_open should add negative results to the dcache. · 4fa2c54b
    NeilBrown authored
    If you have an NFSv4 mounted directory which does not container 'foo'
    and:
    
      ls -l foo
      ssh $server touch foo
      cat foo
    
    then the 'cat' will fail (usually, depending a bit on the various
    cache ages).  This is correct as negative looks are cached by default.
    However with the same initial conditions:
    
      cat foo
      ssh $server touch foo
      cat foo
    
    will usually succeed.  This is because an "open" does not add a
    negative dentry to the dcache, while a "lookup" does.
    
    This can have negative performance effects.  When "gcc" searches for
    an include file, it will try to "open" the file in every director in
    the search path.  Without caching of negative "open" results, this
    generates much more traffic to the server than it should (or than
    NFSv3 does).
    
    The root of the problem is that _nfs4_open_and_get_state() will call
    d_add_unique() on a positive result, but not on a negative result.
    Compare with nfs_lookup() which calls d_materialise_unique on both
    a positive result and on ENOENT.
    
    This patch adds a call d_add() in the ENOENT case for
    _nfs4_open_and_get_state() and also calls nfs_set_verifier().
    
    With it, many fewer "open" requests for known-non-existent files are
    sent to the server.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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nfs4proc.c 230 KB