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    nfsd: clients don't need to break their own delegations · 28df3d15
    J. Bruce Fields authored
    We currently revoke read delegations on any write open or any operation
    that modifies file data or metadata (including rename, link, and
    unlink).  But if the delegation in question is the only read delegation
    and is held by the client performing the operation, that's not really
    necessary.
    
    It's not always possible to prevent this in the NFSv4.0 case, because
    there's not always a way to determine which client an NFSv4.0 delegation
    came from.  (In theory we could try to guess this from the transport
    layer, e.g., by assuming all traffic on a given TCP connection comes
    from the same client.  But that's not really correct.)
    
    In the NFSv4.1 case the session layer always tells us the client.
    
    This patch should remove such self-conflicts in all cases where we can
    reliably determine the client from the compound.
    
    To do that we need to track "who" is performing a given (possibly
    lease-breaking) file operation.  We're doing that by storing the
    information in the svc_rqst and using kthread_data() to map the current
    task back to a svc_rqst.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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