Subject: Re: kern/25279: NFS read doesn't update atime
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/26/2005 21:08:19
--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:23:29PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> quoting kern/25279:
> 	nfsd doesn't update atime of the file for READ RPCs
> 	because recently nfsd uses VOP_GETPAGES to serve them.
> 
> This is hightly annoying in some environnement, and because of this
> I'm stuck with 1.6.x on my production NFS servers.
> It looks like it shoudln't be too hard to make VOP_GETPAGES update the
> atime at last for UFS-like filesystems (FFS and LFS already have their
> own getpage vnode operation, I can easily add one for ext2fs), but is it
> the right way to go ? would updating the atime from getpage have
> bad side effects, or break a traditionnal behavior ?

Here is a patch that makes VOP_GETPAGES update atime for UFS-like filesystems.
This fixes the mailbox issue for me.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--

--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="diff.getpage"

Index: ext2fs/ext2fs_vnops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/ufs/ext2fs/ext2fs_vnops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -r1.59 ext2fs_vnops.c
--- ext2fs/ext2fs_vnops.c	26 Feb 2005 22:32:20 -0000	1.59
+++ ext2fs/ext2fs_vnops.c	26 Jun 2005 18:27:39 -0000
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 	__P((struct vnode *, int, struct ucred *, struct proc *));
 static int ext2fs_chown
 	__P((struct vnode *, uid_t, gid_t, struct ucred *, struct proc *));
+static int ext2fs_getpages __P((void *));
 
 union _qcvt {
 	int64_t	qcvt;
@@ -1475,6 +1476,27 @@
 	return (0);
 }
 
+static int
+ext2fs_getpages(void *v)
+{
+	struct vop_getpages_args /* {
+		struct vnode *a_vp;
+		voff_t a_offset;
+		struct vm_page **a_m;
+		int *a_count;
+		int a_centeridx;
+		vm_prot_t a_access_type;
+		int a_advice;
+		int a_flags;
+	} */ *ap = v;
+	struct vnode *vp = ap->a_vp;
+	struct inode *ip = VTOI(vp);
+
+	if (!(vp->v_mount->mnt_flag & MNT_NOATIME))
+		ip->i_flag |= IN_ACCESS;
+	return genfs_getpages(v);
+}
+
 /* Global vfs data structures for ext2fs. */
 int (**ext2fs_vnodeop_p) __P((void *));
 const struct vnodeopv_entry_desc ext2fs_vnodeop_entries[] = {
@@ -1523,7 +1545,7 @@
 	{ &vop_truncate_desc, ext2fs_truncate },	/* truncate */
 	{ &vop_update_desc, ext2fs_update },		/* update */
 	{ &vop_bwrite_desc, vn_bwrite },		/* bwrite */
-	{ &vop_getpages_desc, genfs_getpages },		/* getpages */
+	{ &vop_getpages_desc, ext2fs_getpages },	/* getpages */
 	{ &vop_putpages_desc, genfs_putpages },		/* putpages */
 	{ NULL, NULL }
 };
Index: ffs/ffs_vnops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -r1.69 ffs_vnops.c
--- ffs/ffs_vnops.c	26 Feb 2005 22:32:20 -0000	1.69
+++ ffs/ffs_vnops.c	26 Jun 2005 18:27:39 -0000
@@ -535,6 +535,8 @@
 		}
 		return EINVAL;
 	}
+	if (!(vp->v_mount->mnt_flag & MNT_NOATIME))
+		ip->i_flag |= IN_ACCESS;
 	return genfs_getpages(v);
 }
 
Index: lfs/lfs_vnops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/ufs/lfs/lfs_vnops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.152
diff -u -r1.152 lfs_vnops.c
--- lfs/lfs_vnops.c	29 May 2005 21:25:24 -0000	1.152
+++ lfs/lfs_vnops.c	26 Jun 2005 18:27:39 -0000
@@ -1424,6 +1424,8 @@
 	if ((ap->a_access_type & VM_PROT_WRITE) != 0) {
 		LFS_SET_UINO(VTOI(ap->a_vp), IN_MODIFIED);
 	}
+	if (!(ap->a_vp->v_mount->mnt_flag & MNT_NOATIME))
+		VTOI(ap->a_vp)->i_flag |= IN_ACCESS;
 
 	/*
 	 * we're relying on the fact that genfs_getpages() always read in

--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--