After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds.  If the COMMIT fails, the page will be
re-written.

These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either
in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a
'reclaimable' count.  This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT
required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g.  releasepage() used to
send a COMMIT).  However now that all writes generated by ->writepages()
will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a875
("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more
sense to treat them as writeback pages.

So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in
NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK.

A particular effect of this change is that when
wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter
will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no
longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do
about them anyway).

Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even
when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable
pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of
Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput.  With this
patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average.

Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics
virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as
zero.  static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this
counter no longer report it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>	[mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When we're doing pnfs then the credential being used for the RPC call
is not necessarily the same as the one used in the open context, so
don't use RPC_TASK_CRED_NOREF.

Fixes: 612965072020 ("NFSv4: Avoid referencing the cred unnecessarily during NFSv4 I/O")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

If we have to retransmit requests, try to join their page groups
first.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

Refactor nfs_lock_and_join_requests() in order to separate out the
subrequest merging into its own function nfs_lock_and_join_group()
that can be used by O_DIRECT.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

Clean up nfs_lock_and_join_requests() to simplify the calculation
of the range covered by the page group, taking into account the
presence of mirrors.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

When a subrequest is being detached from the subgroup, we want to
ensure that it is not holding the group lock, or in the process
of waiting for the group lock.

Fixes: 5b2b5187fa85 ("NFS: Fix nfs_page_group_destroy() and nfs_lock_and_join_requests() race cases")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

When we detach a subrequest from the list, we must also release the
reference it holds to the parent.

Fixes: 5b2b5187fa85 ("NFS: Fix nfs_page_group_destroy() and nfs_lock_and_join_requests() race cases")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

Instead of trying to save the commit verifiers and checking them against
previous writes, adopt the same strategy as for buffered writes, of
just checking the verifiers at commit time.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

Refactor pnfs_generic_commit_pagelist() to simplify the conversion
to layout segment based commit lists.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

In read/write/commit, we should be able to assume that the cred is
pinned by the open context.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>