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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2017-11-02 15:27:50 +0000 | 
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| committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2017-11-13 15:38:18 +0000 | 
| commit | 989782dcdc91a5e6d5999c7a52a84a60a0811e56 (patch) | |
| tree | 138ed46554536280e0d4d1834a16c28740e8cdae /scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | |
| parent | be080a6f43c40976afc950ee55e9b7f8e2b53525 (diff) | |
afs: Overhaul cell database management
Overhaul the way that the in-kernel AFS client keeps track of cells in the
following manner:
 (1) Cells are now held in an rbtree to make walking them quicker and RCU
     managed (though this is probably overkill).
 (2) Cells now have a manager work item that:
     (A) Looks after fetching and refreshing the VL server list.
     (B) Manages cell record lifetime, including initialising and
     	 destruction.
     (B) Manages cell record caching whereby threads are kept around for a
     	 certain time after last use and then destroyed.
     (C) Manages the FS-Cache index cookie for a cell.  It is not permitted
     	 for a cookie to be in use twice, so we have to be careful to not
     	 allow a new cell record to exist at the same time as an old record
     	 of the same name.
 (3) Each AFS network namespace is given a manager work item that manages
     the cells within it, maintaining a single timer to prod cells into
     updating their DNS records.
     This uses the reduce_timer() facility to make the timer expire at the
     soonest timed event that needs happening.
 (4) When a module is being unloaded, cells and cell managers are now
     counted out using dec_after_work() to make sure the module text is
     pinned until after the data structures have been cleaned up.
 (5) Each cell's VL server list is now protected by a seqlock rather than a
     semaphore.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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