program/GF-DUMP: Shield ping processing from traffic to Glusterfs

Program

Since poller thread bears the brunt of execution till the request is
handed over to io-threads, poller thread experiencies lock
contention(s) in the control flow till io-threads, which slows it
down. This delay invariably affects reading ping requests from network
and responding to them, resulting in increased ping latencies, which
sometimes results in a ping-timer-expiry on client leading to
disconnect of transport. So, this patch aims to free up poller thread
from executing code of Glusterfs Program. We do this by making

* Glusterfs Program registering itself asking rpcsvc to execute its
  actors in its own threads.
* GF-DUMP Program registering itself asking rpcsvc to _NOT_ execute
  its actors in its own threads. Otherwise program's ownthreads become
  bottleneck in processing ping traffic. This means that poller thread
  reads a ping packet, invokes its actor and hands the response msg to
  transport queue.

Change-Id: I526268c10bdd5ef93f322a4f95385137550a6a49
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra G <rgowdapp@redhat.com>
BUG: 1421938
Reviewed-on: https://review.gluster.org/17105
NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
Reviewed-by: Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Darcy <jeff@pl.atyp.us>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/xlators/protocol/server/src/server-helpers.c b/xlators/protocol/server/src/server-helpers.c
index 09e0012d70a..52d7f51a627 100644
--- a/xlators/protocol/server/src/server-helpers.c
+++ b/xlators/protocol/server/src/server-helpers.c
@@ -492,7 +492,6 @@ get_frame_from_request (rpcsvc_request_t *req)
         frame->root->uid      = req->uid;
         frame->root->gid      = req->gid;
         frame->root->pid      = req->pid;
-        gf_client_ref (client);
         frame->root->client   = client;
         frame->root->lk_owner = req->lk_owner;