glusterfs.git/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs, branch testing-regression-job

glusterd: change the op-version

2019-03-11T06:12:36+00:00

as commit 073444 is backported to release-5.4 branch, op-version
for this change should 5.4 instead of 6.

fixes: bz#1685120

Change-Id: Id504b9a1446125cea7c6a32117ccc44f28e73aa7
Signed-off-by: Sanju Rakonde

core: make compute_cksum function op_version compatible

2019-03-07T05:01:04+00:00

Problem: commit 5a152a changed the mechansim of computing the
checksum. In heterogeneous cluster, peers are running into
rejected state because we have different cksum computation
mechansims in upgraded and non-upgraded nodes.

Solution: add a check for op-version so that all the nodes
in the cluster follow the same mechanism for computing the
cksum.

Change-Id: I1508f000e8c9895588b6011b8b6cc0eda7102193
fixes: bz#1685120
Signed-off-by: Sanju Rakonde

core: implement a global thread pool

2019-02-18T02:58:24+00:00

This patch implements a thread pool that is wait-free for adding jobs to
the queue and uses a very small locked region to get jobs. This makes it
possible to decrease contention drastically. It's based on wfcqueue
structure provided by urcu library.

It automatically enables more threads when load demands it, and stops
them when not needed. There's a maximum number of threads that can be
used. This value can be configured.

Depending on the workload, the maximum number of threads plays an
important role. So it needs to be configured for optimal performance.
Currently the thread pool doesn't self adjust the maximum for the
workload, so this configuration needs to be changed manually.

For this reason, the global thread pool has been made optional, so that
volumes can still use the thread pool provided by io-threads.

To enable it for bricks, the following option needs to be set:

   config.global-threading = on

This option has no effect if bricks are already running. A restart is
required to activate it. It's recommended to also enable the following
option when running bricks with the global thread pool:

   performance.iot-pass-through = on

To enable it for a FUSE mount point, the option '--global-threading'
must be added to the mount command. To change it, an umount and remount
is needed. It's recommended to disable the following option when using
global threading on a mount point:

   performance.client-io-threads = off

To enable it for services managed by glusterd, glusterd needs to be
started with option '--global-threading'. In this case all daemons, like
self-heal, will be using the global thread pool.

Currently it can only be enabled for bricks, FUSE mounts and glusterd
services.

The maximum number of threads for clients and bricks can be configured
using the following options:

   config.client-threads
   config.brick-threads

These options can be applied online and its effect is immediate most of
the times. If one of them is set to 0, the maximum number of threads
will be calcutated as #cores * 2.

Some distributions use a very old userspace-rcu library (version 0.7)
for this reason, some header files from version 0.10 have been copied
into contrib/userspace-rcu and are used if the detected version is 0.7
or older.

An additional change has been made to io-threads to prevent that threads
are started when iot-pass-through is set.

Change-Id: I09d19e246b9e6d53c6247b29dfca6af6ee00a24b
updates: #532
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez

socket: socket event handlers now return void

2019-02-18T02:45:40+00:00

Problem:
Returning any value from socket event handlers to the event sub-system
doesn't make sense since event sub-system cannot handle socket
sub-system errors.

Solution:
Change return type of all socket event handlers to 'void'

Change-Id: I70dc2c57f12b7ea2fae41120f71aa0d7fe0b2b6f
Fixes: bz#1651246
Signed-off-by: Milind Changire

inode: make critical section smaller

2019-02-13T17:32:25+00:00

do all the 'static' tasks outside of locked region.

* hash_dentry() and hash_gfid() are now called outside locked region.
* remove extra __dentry_hash exported in libglusterfs.sym
* avoid checks in locked functions, if the check is done in calling
  function.
* implement dentry_destroy(), which handles freeing of dentry separately,
  from that of dentry_unset (which takes care of separating dentry from
  inode, and table)

Updates: bz#1670031
Change-Id: I584213e0748464bb427fbdef3c4ab6615d7d5eb0
Signed-off-by: Amar Tumballi

fuse: correctly handle setxattr values

2019-02-07T10:56:33+00:00

The setxattr function receives a pointer to raw data, which may not be
null-terminated. When this data needs to be interpreted as a string, an
explicit null termination needs to be added before using the value.

Change-Id: Id110f9b215b22786da5782adec9449ce38d0d563
updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez

glusterd: Update op-version for release 7

2019-02-06T01:16:29+00:00

Change-Id: I0f3978d7e603e6e767dc7aa2a23ef35b1f2b43f7
Updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: ShyamsundarR

mount/fuse: expose auto-invalidation as a mount option

2019-02-02T03:07:35+00:00

Auto invalidation is necessary when same (meta)data is shared/access
across multiple mounts. However, if (meta)data is not shared, all
relevant I/O goes through the cache of single mount and hence is
coherent with (meta)data on bricks always. So, fuse-auto-invalidation
can be disabled for this case which gives a huge performance boost for
workloads that write data and then immediately read the data they just
wrote.

From glusterfs --help,


      --auto-invalidation[=BOOL]   controls whether fuse-kernel can
                             auto-invalidate attribute, dentry and page-cache.
                             Disable this only if same files/directories are
                             not accessed across two different mounts
                             concurrently [default: "on"]


Details on how disabling auto-invalidation helped to reduce pgbench
init times can be found at [1]. Time taken for pgbench init of scale
8000 was 8340s. That will be an improvement of 86% (59280s vs 8340s)
with auto-invalidations turned off along with other
optimizations. Just disabling auto-invalidation contributed 56%
improvement by reducing the total time taken by 33260s.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/gluster-devel/msg25907.html

Change-Id: I0ed730dba9064bd9c576ad1800170a21e100e1ce
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Gowdappa 
updates: bz#1664934

core: make gf_thread_create() easier to use

2019-02-01T09:37:20+00:00

This patch creates a specific function to set the thread name using a
string format and a variable argument list, like printf().

This function is used to set the thread name from gf_thread_create(),
which now accepts a variable argument list to create the full name. It's
not necessary anymore to use a local array to build the name of the
thread. This is done automatically.

Change-Id: Idd8d01fd462c227359b96e98699f8c6d962dc17c
Updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez

syncop: remove unnecessary call to gf_backtrace_save()

2019-01-31T15:41:30+00:00

A call to gf_backtrace_save() was done on each context switch of a
synctask. The backtrace is generated writing to the filesystem, so it
can have an important impact on latency.

The generated backtrace was not used anywhere, so it's been removed.

Change-Id: I399a93b932c5b6e981c696c72c3e1ef44710ba52
Updates: bz#1193929
Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez