NFSv4.1: layoutcommit

The filelayout driver sends LAYOUTCOMMIT only when COMMIT goes to
the data server (as opposed to the MDS) and the data server WRITE
is not NFS_FILE_SYNC.

Only whole file layout support means that there is only one IOMODE_RW layout
segment.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mingyang Guo <guomingyang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Jingwang <zhangjingwang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Tested-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index d85a534b15cd..85cb95de5df5 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -326,6 +326,9 @@ nfs_file_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync)
                 ret = xchg(&ctx->error, 0);
         if (!ret && status < 0)
                 ret = status;
+        if (!ret && !datasync)
+                /* application has asked for meta-data sync */
+                ret = pnfs_layoutcommit_inode(inode, 1);
         return ret;
 }