replicate: add hashed read-child method.

Both the first-to-respond method and the round-robin method are susceptible
to clients repeatedly choosing the same servers across a series of opens,
creating hot spots.  Also, the code to handle a replica being down will
ignore both methods and just choose the first remaining (which is not an
issue for two-way but can be otherwise).  The hashed method more reliably
avoids such hot spots.  There are three values/modes.

0: use the old (broken) methods.

1: select a read-child based on a hash of the file's GFID, so all clients
   will choose the same subvolume for a file (ensuring maximum consistency)
   but will distribute load for a set of files.

2: select a read-child based on a hash of the file's GFID plus the client's
   PID, so different children will distribute load even for one file.

Mode 2 will probably be optimal for most cases.  Using response time when we
open the file is problematic, both because a single sample might not have
been representative even then and because load might have shifted in the
hours or days since (for long-lived files).  Trying to use more current load
information can lead to "herd following" behavior which is just as bad.
Pseudo-random distribution is likely to be the best we can reasonably do,
just as it is for DHT.

Change-Id: I798c2760411eacf32e82a85f03bb7b08a4a49461
BUG: 802513
Signed-off-by: Jeff Darcy <jdarcy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/2926
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-self-heal.h b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-self-heal.h
index 627a2115a09..2efc1116d33 100644
--- a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-self-heal.h
+++ b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-self-heal.h
@@ -45,5 +45,6 @@ afr_self_heal (call_frame_t *frame, xlator_t *this, inode_t *inode);
 int
 afr_lookup_select_read_child_by_txn_type (xlator_t *this, afr_local_t *local,
                                           dict_t **xattr,
-                                          afr_transaction_type txn_type);
+                                          afr_transaction_type txn_type,
+                                          uuid_t gfid);
 #endif /* __AFR_SELF_HEAL_H__ */