[pnfs] create session on data server

[Marc Eshel]

I am not sure how to do it without a file handle. The file handle tells us 
that this id a pNFS request and also provides us with the MDS id so we 
know who to ask for the state.




"William A. (Andy) Adamson" <andros at citi.umich.edu> 
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01/30/2007 09:30 AM

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create session on data server






The non-sessions server code uses the file handle to determine if an 
incoming request is a pNFS request, and therefore this server is acting as 
a data server. Now, in the sessions version the data-server needs to 
respond to a CREATE_SESSION with no preceeding EXCHANGE_ID, and no 
filehandle.

Can we use the existing get_state() interface? When the data server gets a 
clientid it doesn't know about, it calls get_state() with just the 
pnfs_get_state.clid field stuffed. How does the cluster fs know which node 
is the MDS? Is there some info in the clientid?  If the cluster fs can 
determine the MDS, then the MDS can check that the clientid is confirmed, 
and return the pnfs_get_state.clid with the clientid, and the 
pnfs_get_state.devid with the MDS devid.

This is similar to how the data server gets stateids.


/* pNFS Metadata to Data server state communication*/
struct pnfs_get_state {
        u32                     devid;    /* request */
        stateid_t               stid;     /* request;response */
        clientid_t              clid;     /* response */
        u32                     access;    /* response */
        u32                     stid_gen;    /* response */
        u32                     verifier[2]; /* response */
};

-->Andy