I'm thrilled to announce that the Linux in-kernel NFS server now
offers NFSv4 write delegations. A write delegation enables a client
to cache data and metadata for a single file more aggressively,
reducing network round trips and server workload. Many thanks to Dai
Ngo for contributing this facility, and to Jeff Layton and Neil
Brown for reviewing and testing it.
This release also sees the removal of all support for DES- and
triple-DES-based Kerberos encryption types in the kernel's SunRPC
implementation. These encryption types have been deprecated by the
Internet community for years and are considered insecure. This
change affects both the in-kernel NFS client and server.
The server's UDP and TCP socket transports have now fully adopted
David Howells' new bio_vec iterator so that no more than one
sendmsg() call is needed to transmit each RPC message. In
particular, this helps kTLS optimize record boundaries when sending
RPC-with-TLS replies, and it takes the server a baby step closer to
handling file I/O via folios.
We've begun work on overhauling the SunRPC thread scheduler to
remove a costly linked-list walk when looking for an idle RPC
service thread to wake. The pre-requisites are included in this
release. Thanks to Neil Brown for his ongoing work on this
improvement.
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Merge tag 'nfsd-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux
Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
"I'm thrilled to announce that the Linux in-kernel NFS server now
offers NFSv4 write delegations. A write delegation enables a client to
cache data and metadata for a single file more aggressively, reducing
network round trips and server workload. Many thanks to Dai Ngo for
contributing this facility, and to Jeff Layton and Neil Brown for
reviewing and testing it.
This release also sees the removal of all support for DES- and
triple-DES-based Kerberos encryption types in the kernel's SunRPC
implementation. These encryption types have been deprecated by the
Internet community for years and are considered insecure. This change
affects both the in-kernel NFS client and server.
The server's UDP and TCP socket transports have now fully adopted
David Howells' new bio_vec iterator so that no more than one sendmsg()
call is needed to transmit each RPC message. In particular, this helps
kTLS optimize record boundaries when sending RPC-with-TLS replies, and
it takes the server a baby step closer to handling file I/O via
folios.
We've begun work on overhauling the SunRPC thread scheduler to remove
a costly linked-list walk when looking for an idle RPC service thread
to wake. The pre-requisites are included in this release. Thanks to
Neil Brown for his ongoing work on this improvement"
* tag 'nfsd-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (56 commits)
Documentation: Add missing documentation for EXPORT_OP flags
SUNRPC: Remove unused declaration rpc_modcount()
SUNRPC: Remove unused declarations
NFSD: da_addr_body field missing in some GETDEVICEINFO replies
SUNRPC: Remove return value of svc_pool_wake_idle_thread()
SUNRPC: make rqst_should_sleep() idempotent()
SUNRPC: Clean up svc_set_num_threads
SUNRPC: Count ingress RPC messages per svc_pool
SUNRPC: Deduplicate thread wake-up code
SUNRPC: Move trace_svc_xprt_enqueue
SUNRPC: Add enum svc_auth_status
SUNRPC: change svc_xprt::xpt_flags bits to enum
SUNRPC: change svc_rqst::rq_flags bits to enum
SUNRPC: change svc_pool::sp_flags bits to enum
SUNRPC: change cache_head.flags bits to enum
SUNRPC: remove timeout arg from svc_recv()
SUNRPC: change svc_recv() to return void.
SUNRPC: call svc_process() from svc_recv().
nfsd: separate nfsd_last_thread() from nfsd_put()
nfsd: Simplify code around svc_exit_thread() call in nfsd()
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