pnfs/NFSv4.1: Add multipath capabilities to pNFS flexfiles servers ov…

…er NFSv3 This adds multipathing to pNFS over NFSv3 as described in the flexfiles draft spec. Ideally, we'd like to do the same for pNFS files, but the NFSv4.1 protocol requires a call to EXCHANGE_ID in order to test that the connection can do session trunking. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
zubinmehta · Feb 5, 2016 · fc821d5 · fc821d5
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commit fc821d5
Showing 1 changed file with 13 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c
@@ -606,12 +606,22 @@ static int _nfs4_pnfs_v3_ds_connect(struct nfs_server *mds_srv,
 		dprintk("%s: DS %s: trying address %s\n",
 			__func__, ds->ds_remotestr, da->da_remotestr);
 
-		clp = get_v3_ds_connect(mds_srv->nfs_client,
+		if (!IS_ERR(clp)) {
+			struct xprt_create xprt_args = {
+				.ident = XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP,
+				.net = clp->cl_net,
+				.dstaddr = (struct sockaddr *)&da->da_addr,
+				.addrlen = da->da_addrlen,
+				.servername = clp->cl_hostname,
+			};
+			/* Add this address as an alias */
+			rpc_clnt_add_xprt(clp->cl_rpcclient, &xprt_args,
+					rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt, NULL);
+		} else
+			clp = get_v3_ds_connect(mds_srv->nfs_client,
 					(struct sockaddr *)&da->da_addr,
 					da->da_addrlen, IPPROTO_TCP,
 					timeo, retrans, au_flavor);
-		if (!IS_ERR(clp))
-			break;
 	}
 
 	if (IS_ERR(clp)) {