sunrpc/cache: allow threads to block while waiting for cache update.

The current practice of waiting for cache updates by queueing the
whole request to be retried has (at least) two problems.

1/ With NFSv4, requests can be quite complex and re-trying a whole
  request when a later part fails should only be a last-resort, not a
  normal practice.

2/ Large requests, and in particular any 'write' request, will not be
  queued by the current code and doing so would be undesirable.

In many cases only a very sort wait is needed before the cache gets
valid data.

So, providing the underlying transport permits it by setting
 ->thread_wait,
arrange to wait briefly for an upcall to be completed (as reflected in
the clearing of CACHE_PENDING).
If the short wait was not long enough and CACHE_PENDING is still set,
fall back on the old approach.

The 'thread_wait' value is set to 5 seconds when there are spare
threads, and 1 second when there are no spare threads.

These values are probably much higher than needed, but will ensure
some forward progress.

Note that as we only request an update for a non-valid item, and as
non-valid items are updated in place it is extremely unlikely that
cache_check will return -ETIMEDOUT.  Normally cache_defer_req will
sleep for a short while and then find that the item is_valid.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
index ece432b7f87f..52a7d7224e90 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ struct cache_detail {
  */
 struct cache_req {
         struct cache_deferred_req *(*defer)(struct cache_req *req);
+        int thread_wait;  /* How long (jiffies) we can block the
+                           * current thread to wait for updates.
+                           */
 };
 /* this must be embedded in a deferred_request that is being
  * delayed awaiting cache-fill