Merge PAGE_CACHE_SIZE removal patches from Kirill Shutemov:
"PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.
Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are
not.
The first patch with most changes has been done with coccinelle. The
second is manual fixups on top.
The third patch removes macros definition"
[ I was planning to apply this just before rc2, but then I spaced out,
so here it is right _after_ rc2 instead.
As Kirill suggested as a possibility, I could have decided to only
merge the first two patches, and leave the old interfaces for
compatibility, but I'd rather get it all done and any out-of-tree
modules and patches can trivially do the converstion while still also
working with older kernels, so there is little reason to try to
maintain the redundant legacy model. - Linus ]
* PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-removal:
mm: drop PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} definition
mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage
mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.
We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.
Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.
Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are
not.
The changes are pretty straight-forward:
- <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
- <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
- PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};
- page_cache_get() -> get_page();
- page_cache_release() -> put_page();
This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.
The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.
There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.
virtual patch
@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E
@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK
@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)
@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)
@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was quite an oversight. After a readdir, the module could not be
unloaded, the number of slots is wrong, and memory near the slot bitmap
is possibly corrupt. Oops.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
* switch orangefs_remount() to taking ORANGEFS_SB(sb) instead of sb
* remove from the list _before_ orangefs_unmount() - request_mutex
in the latter will make sure that nothing observed in the loop in
ORANGEFS_DEV_REMOUNT_ALL handling will get freed until the end
of loop
* on removal, keep the forward pointer and zero the back one. That
way we can drop and regain the spinlock in the loop body (again,
ORANGEFS_DEV_REMOUNT_ALL one) and still be able to get to the
rest of the list.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Error should only be returned if nothing had been read/written.
Otherwise we need to report a short read/write instead.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
a) open files can't have NULL inodes
b) it's SEEK_END, not ORANGEFS_SEEK_END; no need to get cute.
c) make_bad_inode() on lseek()?
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
just have it return the slot number or -E... - the caller checks
the sign anyway
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
no point, really - we couldn't keep those across the calls of
getdents(); it would be too easy to DoS, having all slots exhausted.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Everything else setting inode->i_ values is in there.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
This is motivated by orangefs_inode_old_getattr's habit of writing over
live inodes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Previously the client-core detected this condition by sheer luck!
Since we used strncpy, no NUL byte would be included on the name. The
client-core would call strlen, which would read past the end of its
buffer, but return a number large enough that the client-core would
return ENAMETOOLONG.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Al Viro has cleaned up the way ops are processed and waited for,
now orangefs.txt has an overview of how it works. Several recent
related commits have added to the comments in the code as well.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
orangefs contains a helper function to calculate the difference
between two timeval structures. We are trying to remove all
instances of timespec from the kernel, and this one is not
used at all, so let's remove it now.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
The new orangefs code uses a helper function to read a time field to
its private structures from struct iattr. This will conflict with the
move to 64-bit timestamps in the kernel and is generally not necessary.
This replaces the conversion with a simple cast to time64_t that shows
what is going on. As the orangefs-internal representation already uses
64-bit timestamps, there should be no ambiguity to negative values,
and the cast ensures that we treat them as times before 1970 on both
32-bit and 64-bit architectures, rather than times after 2038. This
patch keeps that behavior.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Size and type are read-only and not in the mask. The times were left
unset despite being in the mask.
We zero-fill the times since the server will fill them in and we will
get the correct time when we fill the inode with getattr.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
I have verified that there is nothing in the userspace daemon version we
are implementing this protocol against that ever looks at this field.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
We only need it while the service operation is actually in progress
since it is only used to co-ordinate the client-core's memory use. The
kernel allocates its own space.
Also clean up some comments which mislead the reader into thinking
the readdir buffers are shared memory.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
* turn all those list_del(&op->list) into list_del_init()
* don't pick ops that are already given up in control device
->read()/->write_iter().
* have orangefs_clean_interrupted_operation() notice if op is currently
being copied to/from daemon (by said ->read()/->write_iter()) and
wait for that to finish.
* when we are done copying to/from daemon and find that it had been
given up while we were doing that, wake the waiting ..._clean_interrupted_...
As the result, we are guaranteed that orangefs_clean_interrupted_operation(op)
doesn't return until nobody else can see op. Moreover, we don't need to play
with op refcounts anymore.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
... and clean the end of control device ->write_iter() while we are at it
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
new waiting-for-slot logics:
* make request for slot wait for bufmap to be set up if it
comes before it's installed *OR* while it's running down
* make closing control device wait for all slots to be freed
* waiting itself rewritten to (open-coded) analogues of wait_event_...
primitives - we would need wait_event_locked() and, pardon an obscenely
long name, wait_event_interruptible_exclusive_timeout_locked().
* we never wait for more than slot_timeout_secs in total and,
if during the wait the daemon goes away, we only allow
ORANGEFS_BUFMAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECS for it to come back.
* (cosmetical) bitmap is used instead of an array of zeroes and ones
* old (and only reached if we are about to corrupt memory) waiting
for daemon restart in service_operation() removed.
[Martin's fixes folded]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
... just hold the spinlock while fetching the field in question.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
* checking that daemon is running (to decide whether we want to limit
the timeout) should be done *after* the damn thing is included into
the list; doing that before means that if the daemon gets shut down
in between, we'll end up waiting indefinitely (== up to kill -9).
* cancels should go into the head of the queue - the sooner they
are picked, the less work daemon has to do and the sooner we get to
free the slot held by aborted operation.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Make cancels reuse the aborted read/write op, to make sure they do not
fail on lack of memory.
Don't issue a cancel unless the daemon has seen our read/write, has not
replied and isn't being shut down.
If cancel *is* issued, don't wait for it to complete; stash the slot
in there and just have it freed when cancel is finally replied to or
purged (and delay dropping the reference until then, obviously).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
it's always equal to __orangefs_bufmap and the latter can't change
until we are done
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Thus d_revalidate is not obliged to check on as much, which will
eventually lead the way to hammering the filesystem servers much less.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
A couple of caches were no longer needed:
- iov_iter improvements to orangefs_devreq_write_iter eliminated
the need for the dev_req_cache.
- removal (months ago) of the old AIO code eliminated the need
for the kiocb_cache.
Also, deobfuscation of use of GFP_KERNEL when calling kmem_cache_(z)alloc
for remaining caches.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
There were two just alike, making it hard maybe to tell which one
you were looking at in syslog... so I changed it a little by adding
some extra interesting tidbits to it...
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Previously, it would update a live inode. This was fixed, but it did not
ever check that the inode attributes in the dcache are correct. This
checks all inode attributes and rejects any that are not correct, which
causes a lookup and thus a new getattr.
Perhaps inode_operations->permission should replace or augment some of
this.
There is no actual caching, and this does a rather excessive amount of
network operations back to the filesystem server.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
fold orangefs_op_initialize() in there, don't bother locking something
nobody else could've seen yet, use kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of
explicit memset()...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
... we are not going to get woken up anyway, so it's just going to time out
and whine.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
All timeouts are in _seconds_, so all calls are of form
MSECS_TO_JIFFIES(n * 1000), which is a convoluted way to
spell n * HZ.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
* create with refcount 1
* make op_release() decrement and free if zero (i.e. old put_op()
has become that).
* mark when submitter has given up waiting; from that point nobody
else can move between the lists, change state, etc.
* have daemon read/write_iter grab a reference when picking op
and *always* give it up in the end
* don't put into hash until we know it's been successfully passed to
daemon
* move op->lock _lower_ than htab_in_progress_lock (and make sure
to take it in purge_inprogress_ops())
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
... otherwise some thread is running in .text that is about to
be freed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Until now, orangefs_devreq_write_iter has just been a wrapper for
the old-fashioned orangefs_devreq_writev... linux would call
.write_iter with "struct kiocb *iocb" and "struct iov_iter *iter"
and .write_iter would just:
return pvfs2_devreq_writev(iocb->ki_filp,
iter->iov,
iter->nr_segs,
&iocb->ki_pos);
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
This only changes the names of things, so there is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Prefix public functions with "orangefs_" do don't
pollute the global namespace.
This fixes a build issue on UML which also has block_signals().
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
This export_operations structure is never modified, so declare it as const.
Most other structures of this type are already const.
Done with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Orangefs fails to build on 32-bit SMP configurations due to a simple
misspelling, this does the obvious fix.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 575e946125 ("Orangefs: change pvfs2 filenames to orangefs")
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
This is an API consolidation only. The use of kmalloc + memset to 0
should be equivalent to kzalloc in this case.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
All callers were outside of the file these functions were declared in,
so nothing was ever inlined anyway.
Further this happens before I/O and any speedup by not having to do a
call will be dwarfed by the time it takes to talk to the server.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
There was previously MAX_ALIGNED_DEV_REQ_(UP|DOWN)SIZE macros which
evaluated to MAX_DEV_REQ_(UP|DOWN)SIZE+8. As it is unclear what this is
for, other than creating a situation where we accept more data than we
can parse, it is removed.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
AV dislikes many parts of orangefs_devreq_writev. Besides making
orangefs_devreq_writev more easily readable and better commented,
this patch makes an effort to address some of the problems:
> The 5th is quietly ignored unless trailer_size is positive and
> status is zero. If trailer_size > 0 && status == 0, you verify that
> the length of the 5th segment is no more than trailer_size and copy
> it to vmalloc'ed buffer. Without bothering to zero the rest of that
> buffer out.
It was just wrong to allow a 5th segment that is not exactly equal to
trailer_size. Now that that's fixed, there's nothing to zero out in
the vmalloced buffer - it is exactly the right size to hold the
5th segment.
> Another API bogosity: when the 5th segment is present, successful writev()
> returns the sum of sizes of the first 4.
Added size of 5th segment to writev return...
> if concatenation of the first 4 segments is longer than
> 16 + sizeof(struct pvfs2_downcall_s) by no more than sizeof(long) => whine
> and proceed with garbage.
If 4th segment isn't exactly sizeof(struct pvfs2_downcall_s), whine and fail.
> if the 32bit value 4 bytes into op->downcall is zero and 64bit
> value following it is non-zero, the latter is interpreted as the size of
> trailer data.
The latter is what userspace claimed was the length of the trailer data.
The kernel module now compares it to the trailer iovec's iov_len as a
sanity check.
> if there's no trailer, the 5th segment (if present) is completely ignored.
Whine and fail if there should be no trailer, yet a 5th segment is present.
> if vmalloc fails, act as if status (32bit at offset 5 into
> op->downcall) had been -ENOMEM and don't look at the 5th segment at all.
whine and fail with -ENOMEM.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
OrangeFS was formerly known as PVFS2 and retains the name in many places.
I leave the device /dev/pvfs2-req since this affects userspace.
I leave the filesystem type pvfs2 since this affects userspace. Further
the OrangeFS sysint library reads fstab for an entry of type pvfs2
independently of kernel mounts.
I leave extended attribute keys user.pvfs2 and system.pvfs2 as the
sysint library understands these.
I leave references to userspace binaries still named pvfs2.
I leave the filenames.
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi9@clemson.edu>
[martin@omnibond.com: clairify above constraints and merge]
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:19:48AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> I'll cook the minimal fixup for API change after I get some sleep and
> send it your way, unless somebody gets there first...
This should do it - switches ->ioctl() to pvfs2_inode_[gs]etxattr() and
converts xattr_handler ->[gs]et() to new API.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
* Kick invalid arguments out early, so handling them does not clutter
the code.
* Avoid possibility of race by not releasing lock until completely done.
* Do not leak ops (memory) in certain error condition.
* Check for more error conditions.
* Put module name in all error and debug logs.
* Document behavior.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Also removes remnants of iox (readx/writex) which previously used
trailers, but no longer exist.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
minimal fix; it would be better to reject such requests outright.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
The latter is never used, the former has one user and would be
better off spelled out right there.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
The only reason for that thing used to be the API of mount_nodev()
callback; since we are calling pvfs2_fill_sb() ourselves now,
we don't have to shove everything into a single structure.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
... and make the only caller use page-backed iov_iter,
getting rid of kmap/kunmap *and* of the bug with
attempted use of iovec-backed copy_page_to_iter()
on a kernel pointer.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
no need to build a copy of what the caller already has;
what's more, we want the one given to caller properly
advanced *and* we shouldn't depend upon it being an
iovec-backed one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
copy_page_{to,from}_iter() advances it just fine *and* it has no
problem with partially consumed segments.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
incidentally, insane or compromised server returning *more* than
requested on read should not oops the kernel - initialize the
iov_iter for read according to the iovec we've got. That's why
pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_iovec() needed a separate size argument - we
shouldn't abuse iov_iter_count(iter) for passing that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Errors from the server need to be decoded. A bunch of code was imported from
the server to do this but much of it is convoluted and not even needed. The
result is better but still as convoluted as required by the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Previously the code silently failed to update the disk. Now it will not
allow writable and shared mmaps.
Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Al Viro glanced at readdir and surmised that getdents
would misbehave the way it was written... and sure enough.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
replace opencoded pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_kernel_iovec,
pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_user_iovec, pvfs_bufmap_copy_iovec_from_kernel,
and pvfs_bufmap_copy_iovec_from_user with pvfs_bufmap_copy_to_iovec
and pvfs_bufmap_copy_from_iovec, which both use the iov_iter
interface.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
spinlock_types.h requires types from linux/types.h.
Including spinlock_types.h first may result in the following build errors,
as seen with arm:allmodconfig.
arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock_types.h:12:3: error: unknown type name 'u32'
arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock_types.h:16:4: error: unknown type name 'u16'
Fixes: deb4fb58ff73 ("Orangefs: kernel client part 2")
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
This makes no sense and causes warnings on boot.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
make.cross ARCH=tile doesn't like "inode->i_bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;",
so cast PAGE_CACHE_SIZE to unsigned short.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Don't check for negative rc from boolean.
Don't pointlessly initialize variables, it short-circuits
gcc's uninitialized variable warnings. And max_new_nr_segs
can never be zero, so don't check for it.
Preserve original kstrdup pointer for freeing later.
Don't check for negative value in unsigned variable.
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
OrangeFS (formerly PVFS) is an lgpl licensed userspace networked parallel
file system. OrangeFS can be accessed through included system utilities,
user integration libraries, MPI-IO and can be used by the Hadoop
ecosystem as an alternative to the HDFS filesystem. OrangeFS is used
widely for parallel science, data analytics and engineering applications.
While applications often don't require Orangefs to be mounted into
the VFS, users do like to be able to access their files in the normal way.
The Orangefs kernel client allows Orangefs filesystems to be mounted as
a VFS. The kernel client communicates with a userspace daemon which in
turn communicates with the Orangefs server daemons that implement the
filesystem. The server daemons (there's almost always more than one)
need not be running on the same host as the kernel client.
Orangefs filesystems can also be mounted with FUSE, and we
ship code and instructions to facilitate that, but most of our users
report preferring to use our kernel module instead. Further, as an example
of a problem we can't solve with fuse, we have in the works a
not-yet-ready-for-prime-time version of a file_operations lock function
that accounts for the server daemons being distributed across more
than one running kernel.
Many people and organizations, including Clemson University,
Argonne National Laboratories and Acxiom Corporation have
helped to create what has become Orangefs over more than twenty
years. Some of the more recent contributors to the kernel client
include:
Mike Marshall
Christoph Hellwig
Randy Martin
Becky Ligon
Walt Ligon
Michael Moore
Rob Ross
Phil Carnes
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Linus Torvalds