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Commit 66af2579 authored by Dai Ngo's avatar Dai Ngo Committed by Chuck Lever
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NFSD: add courteous server support for thread with only delegation


This patch provides courteous server support for delegation only.
Only expired client with delegation but no conflict and no open
or lock state is allowed to be in COURTESY state.

Delegation conflict with COURTESY/EXPIRABLE client is resolved by
setting it to EXPIRABLE, queue work for the laundromat and return
delay to the caller. Conflict is resolved when the laudromat runs
and expires the EXIRABLE client while the NFS client retries the
OPEN request. Local thread request that gets conflict is doing the
retry in _break_lease.

Client in COURTESY or EXPIRABLE state is allowed to reconnect and
continues to have access to its state. Access to the nfs4_client by
the reconnecting thread and the laundromat is serialized via the
client_lock.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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