There are several reasons why this is undesirable:
1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor
3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage
on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve
4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be
correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems
to be a black art.
5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually
contribute to solving the problem on average.
So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging
the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This looks like a lot of change, but in fact its not. Mostly its
things moving from one file to another. The change is just that
instead of queuing lock completions and callbacks from the DLM
we now pass them directly to GFS2.
This gives us a net loss of two list heads per glock (a fair
saving in memory) plus a reduction in the latency of delivering
the messages to GFS2, plus we now have one thread fewer as well.
There was a bug where callbacks and completions could be delivered
in the wrong order due to this unnecessary queuing which is fixed
by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
GFS2 wasn't invalidating its cache before it called into the lock manager
with a request that could potentially drop a lock. This was leaving a
window where the lock could be actually be held by another node, but the
file's page cache would still appear valid, causing coherency problems.
This patch moves the cache invalidation to before the lock manager call
when dropping a lock. It also adds the option to the lock_dlm lock
manager to not use conversion mode deadlock avoidance, which, on a
conversion from shared to exclusive, could internally drop the lock, and
then reacquire in. GFS2 now asks lock_dlm to not do this. Instead, GFS2
manually drops the lock and reacquires it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Use wait_event_interruptible() in the lock_dlm thread instead
of an open coded equivalent, and include a kthread_should_stop()
check in the wait test so we don't miss a kthread_stop().
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The problem boiled down to a race between the gdlm_init_threads()
function initializing thread1 and its setting of blist = 1.
Essentially, "if (current == ls->thread1)" was checked by the thread
before the thread creator set ls->thread1.
Since thread1 is the only thread who is allowed to work on the
blocking queue, and since neither thread thought it was thread1, no one
was working on the queue. So everything just sat.
This patch reuses the ls->async_lock spin_lock to fix the race,
and it fixes the problem. I've done more than 2000 iterations of the
loop that was recreating the failure and it seems to work.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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This patch removes the completion (which is rather large) from struct
gdlm_lock in favour of using the wait_on_bit() functions. We don't need
to add any extra fields to the structure to do this, so we save 32 bytes
(on x86_64) per structure. This adds up to quite a lot when we may
potentially have millions of these lock structures,
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
This removes one of the typedefs from the locking interface. It
is replaced by a forward declaration of the gfs2 superblock. The
other two are not so easy to solve since in their case, they
can refer to one of two possible structures.
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
"v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
declarations which are not required.
The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
and removed the unused lvb.[ch].
I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
struct gfs2_holder.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c: In function ‘process_complete’:
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c:56: warning: format ‘%llx’ expects type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘uint64_t’
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c:69: warning: format ‘%llx’ expects type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘uint64_t’
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c:102: warning: format ‘%llx’ expects type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘uint64_t’
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c:124: warning: format ‘%llx’ expects type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘uint64_t’
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c:146: warning: format ‘%llx’ expects type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘uint64_t’
fs/gfs2/locking/dlm/thread.c:148: warning: format ‘%llx’ expects type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 4 has type ‘uint64_t’
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
This is the second of two patches removing support for range
locks from the DLM
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This brings the lock modules uptodate and removes the stray
.mod.c file which accidently got included in the last check in.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch contains the pluggable locking modules
for GFS2.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Steven Whitehouse