- 18 7月, 2014 4 次提交
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
This patch allows flock glocks to use a non-blocking dequeue rather than dq_wait. It also reverts the previous patch I had posted regarding dq_wait. The reverted patch isn't necessarily a bad idea, but I decided this might avoid unforeseen side effects, and was therefore safer. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
Normally GFP_KERNEL is ok here, but there is now a rarely used code path relating to deallocation of unlinked inodes (in certain corner cases) which if hit at times of memory shortage can cause recursion while trying to free memory. One solution would be to try and move the gfs2_glock_get() call so that it is no longer called while another glock is held, but that doesn't look at all easy, so GFP_NOFS is the best solution for the time being. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
We must not leave items on the LRU list with GLF_LOCK set, since they can be removed if the glock is brought back into use, which may then potentially result in a hang, waiting for GLF_LOCK to clear. It doesn't happen very often, since it requires a glock that has not been used for a long time to be brought back into use at the same moment that the shrinker is part way through disposing of glocks. The fix is to set GLF_LOCK at a later time, when we already know that the other locks can be obtained. Also, we now only release the lru_lock in case a resched is needed, rather than on every iteration. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
Function gfs2_glock_dq_wait is supposed to dequeue a glock and then wait for the lock to be demoted. The problem is, if this is a shared lock, its demote will depend on the other holders, which means you might end up waiting forever because the other process is blocked. This problem is especially apparent when dealing with nested flocks. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 18 4月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 12 3月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
This patch closes a small timing window whereby a request to hold the transaction glock can get stuck. The problem is that after the DLM has granted the lock, it can get into a state whereby it doesn't transition the glock to a held state, due to not having requeued the glock state machine to finish the transition. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 07 3月, 2014 2 次提交
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由 Joe Perches 提交于
Add pr_fmt, remove embedded "GFS2: " prefixes. This now consistently emits lower case "gfs2: " for each message. Other miscellanea around these changes: o Add missing newlines o Coalesce formats o Realign arguments Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Fabian Frederick 提交于
-All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo(). -Messages updated to fit in 80 columns. -fs_macros converted as well. -fs_printk removed. Signed-off-by: NFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 16 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
Al Viro has tactfully pointed out that we are using the incorrect error code in some cases. This patch fixes that, and also removes the (unused) return value for glock dumping. > * gfs2_iget() - ENOBUFS instead of ENOMEM. ENOBUFS is > "No buffer space available (POSIX.1 (XSI STREAMS option))" and since > we don't support STREAMS it's probably fair game, but... what the hell? Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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- 02 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Tetsuo Handa 提交于
GLOCK_BUG_ON() might call this function without RCU read lock. Make sure that RCU read lock is held when using task_struct returned from pid_task(). Signed-off-by: NTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 21 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Michal Nazarewicz 提交于
Commit [e66cf161: GFS2: Use lockref for glocks] replaced call: atomic_read(&gi->gl->gl_ref) == 0 with: __lockref_is_dead(&gl->gl_lockref) therefore changing how gl is accessed, from gi->gl to plan gl. However, gl can be a NULL pointer, and so gi->gl needs to be used instead (which is guaranteed not to be NULL because fo the while loop checking that condition). Signed-off-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 15 10月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
Currently glocks have an atomic reference count and also a spinlock which covers various internal fields, such as the state. This intent of this patch is to replace the spinlock and the atomic reference count with a lockref structure. This contains a spinlock which we can continue to use as before, and a reference counter which is used in conjuction with the spinlock to replace the previous atomic counter. As a result of this there are some new rules for reference counting on glocks. We need to distinguish between reference count changes under gl_spin (which are now just increment or decrement of the new counter, provided the count cannot hit zero) and those which are outside of gl_spin, but which now take gl_spin internally. The conversion is relatively straight forward. There is probably some further clean up which can be done, but the priority at this stage is to make the change in as simple a manner as possible. A consequence of this change is that the reference count is being decoupled from the lru list processing. This should allow future adoption of the lru_list code with glocks in due course. The reason for using the "dead" state and not just relying on 0 being the "invalid state" is so that in due course 0 ref counts can be allowable. The intent is to eventually be able to remove the ref count changes which are currently hidden away in state_change(). Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 11 9月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Dave Chinner 提交于
Convert the filesystem shrinkers to use the new API, and standardise some of the behaviours of the shrinkers at the same time. For example, nr_to_scan means the number of objects to scan, not the number of objects to free. I refactored the CIFS idmap shrinker a little - it really needs to be broken up into a shrinker per tree and keep an item count with the tree root so that we don't need to walk the tree every time the shrinker needs to count the number of objects in the tree (i.e. all the time under memory pressure). [glommer@openvz.org: fixes for ext4, ubifs, nfs, cifs and glock. Fixes are needed mainly due to new code merged in the tree] [assorted fixes folded in] Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: NArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Glauber Costa 提交于
The sysctl knob sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure is used to determine which percentage of the shrinkable objects in our cache we should actively try to shrink. It works great in situations in which we have many objects (at least more than 100), because the aproximation errors will be negligible. But if this is not the case, specially when total_objects < 100, we may end up concluding that we have no objects at all (total / 100 = 0, if total < 100). This is certainly not the biggest killer in the world, but may matter in very low kernel memory situations. Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: NCarlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Acked-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 04 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
Function test_and_clear_bit implies a memory barrier, so subsequent memory barriers are unnecessary. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 20 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
We need to check the glock ref counter in a race free way in order to ensure that the gfs2_glock_hold() call will succeed. The easiest way to do that is to simply take the reference count early in the common code of examine_bucket, skipping any glocks with zero ref count. That means that the examiner functions all need to put their reference on the glock once they've performed their function. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Reported-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Tested-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
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- 19 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Dan Carpenter 提交于
alloc_workqueue() returns a NULL on error, it doesn't return an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 29 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Joe Perches 提交于
Use the new vsprintf extension to avoid any possible message interleaving. Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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- 26 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
There was a timing window when a GFS2 file system was unmounted that caused GFS2 to call BUG() and panic the kernel. The call to BUG() is meant to ensure that the glock reference count, gl_ref, never gets down to zero and bounce back up again. What was happening during umount is that function gfs2_put_super was dequeing its glocks for well-known files. In particular, we saw it on the journal glock, sd_jinode_gh. The dequeue caused delayed work to be queued for the glock state machine, to transition the lock to an "unlocked" state. While the work was still queued, gfs2_put_super called gfs2_gl_hash_clear to clear out the glock hash tables. If the timing was just so, the glock work function would drop the reference count at the time when it was being checked for zero, and that caused BUG() to be called. This patch calls flush_workqueue before clearing the glock hash tables, thereby ensuring that the delayed work is executed before the hash tables are cleared, and therefore the reference count never goes to zero until the glock is cleared. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 10 4月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
This adds the origin indicator to the trace point for glock demotion, so that it is possible to see where demote requests have come from. Note that requests generated from the demote_rq sysfs interface will show as remote, since they are intended to replicate exactly the effect of a demote reuqest from a remote node. It is still possible to tell these apart by looking at the process which initiated the demote request. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
This patch adds a bool indicating whether the demote request was originated locally or remotely. This is then used by the iopen ->go_callback() to make 100% sure that it will only respond to remote callbacks. Since ->evict_inode() uses GL_NOCACHE when it attempts to get an exclusive lock on the iopen lock, this may result in extra scheduling of the workqueue in case that the exclusive promotion request failed. This patch prevents that from happening. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 08 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
The original method for creating inodes used in GFS2 was to fill out a buffer, with all the information, and then to read that buffer into the in-core inode, using gfs2_refresh_inode() The problem with this approach is that all the inode's fields need to be calculated ahead of time, and were stored in various variables making the code rather complicated. The new approach is simply to allocate the in-core inode earlier and fill in as many fields as possible ahead of time. These can then be used to initilise the on disk representation. The code has been working towards the point where it is possible to remove gfs2_refresh_inode() because all the fields are correctly initialised ahead of time. We've now reached that milestone, and have reversed the order of setting up the in core and on disk inodes. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 02 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
The intent here is to split the processing of the glock lru list into two parts, so that the selection of glocks and the disposal are separate functions. The plan is then, that further updates can then be made to these functions in the future to improve the selection of glocks and also the efficiency of glock disposal. The new feature which this patch brings is sorting the glocks to be disposed of into glock number (and thus also disk block number) order. Not all glocks will need i/o in order to dispose of them, but some will, and at least we'll generate mostly disk block order i/o now. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 29 1月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
This breaks out the LRU scanning function from the shrinker in preparation for adding other callers to the LRU scanner. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 12 12月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Rafael Aquini 提交于
Overhaul struct address_space.assoc_mapping renaming it to address_space.private_data and its type is redefined to void*. By this approach we consistently name the .private_* elements from struct address_space as well as allow extended usage for address_space association with other data structures through ->private_data. Also, all users of old ->assoc_mapping element are converted to reflect its new name and type change (->private_data). Signed-off-by: NRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 11月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 David Teigland 提交于
The lksb struct already contains a pointer to the lvb, so another directly from the glock struct is not needed. Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 David Teigland 提交于
Save the effort of allocating, reading and writing the lvb for most glocks that do not use it. Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 14 11月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 David Teigland 提交于
When unmounting, gfs2 does a full dlm_unlock operation on every cached lock. This can create a very large amount of work and can take a long time to complete. However, the vast majority of these dlm unlock operations are unnecessary because after all the unlocks are done, gfs2 leaves the dlm lockspace, which automatically clears the locks of the leaving node, without unlocking each one individually. So, gfs2 can skip explicit dlm unlocks, and use dlm_release_lockspace to remove the locks implicitly. The one exception is when the lock's lvb is being used. In this case, dlm_unlock is called because it may update the lvb of the resource. Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 07 11月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
[Editorial: This is a nit, but has been a minor irritation for a long time:] This patch renames glops structure item for go_xmote_th to go_sync. The functionality is unchanged; it's just for readability. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
Two of the bug traps here could really be warnings. The others are converted from BUG() to GLOCK_BUG_ON() since we'll most likely need to know the glock state in order to debug any issues which arise. As a result of this, __dump_glock has to be renamed and is no longer static. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 24 9月, 2012 4 次提交
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
Function add_to_queue was checking may_grant for the passed-in holder for every iteration of its gh2 loop. Now it only checks it once at the beginning to see if a try lock is futile. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
Function gfs2_glock_dq_wait called two-line function wait_on_demote, so they were combined. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
Function gfs2_glock_wait only called function wait_on_holder and returned its return code, so they were combined for readability. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Bob Peterson 提交于
Since function gfs2_glock_schedule_for_reclaim is only two significant lines, we can eliminate it, simplifying the code and making it more readable. Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 11 6月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
This places a limit on the buffer size for archs with larger PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Reported-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
Make use of the newly added seq_vprintf() function. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Reported-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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- 08 6月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Benjamin Marzinski 提交于
Instead of reading in the resource groups when gfs2 is checking for free space to allocate from, gfs2 can store the necessary infromation in the resource group's lvb. Also, instead of searching for unlinked inodes in every resource group that's checked for free space, gfs2 can store the number of unlinked but inodes in the lvb, and only check for unlinked inodes if it will find some. The first time a resource group is locked, the lvb must initialized. Since this involves counting the unlinked inodes in the resource group, this takes a little extra time. But after that, if the resource group is locked with GL_SKIP, the buffer head won't be read in unless it's actually needed. Enabling the resource groups lvbs is done via the rgrplvb mount option. If this option isn't set, the lvbs will still be set and updated, but they won't be verfied or used by the filesystem. To safely turn on this option, all of the nodes mounting the filesystem must be running code with this patch, and the filesystem must have been completely unmounted since they were updated. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
For the glocks and glstats seq_files, which are exposed via debugfs we should cache the most recent hash bucket, along with the offset into that bucket. This allows us to restart from that point, rather than having to begin at the beginning each time. This is an idea from Eric Dumazet, however I've slightly extended it so that if the position from which we are due to start is at any point beyond the last cached point, we start from the last cached point, plus whatever is the appropriate offset. I don't really expect people to be lseeking around these files, but if they did so with only positive offsets, then we'd still get some of the benefit of using a cached offset. With my simple test of around 200k entries in the file, I'm seeing an approx 10x speed up. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 07 6月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
As per Al Viro's suggestion, this increases the buffer size used for these two files. This provides a speed up of slightly less than 8x (i.e. proportional to the buffer size) for cases when we have large numbers of glocks. Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 29 2月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
The stats are divided into two sets: those relating to the super block and those relating to an individual glock. The super block stats are done on a per cpu basis in order to try and reduce the overhead of gathering them. They are also further divided by glock type. In the case of both the super block and glock statistics, the same information is gathered in each case. The super block statistics are used to provide default values for most of the glock statistics, so that newly created glocks should have, as far as possible, a sensible starting point. The statistics are divided into three pairs of mean and variance, plus two counters. The mean/variance pairs are smoothed exponential estimates and the algorithm used is one which will be very familiar to those used to calculation of round trip times in network code. The three pairs of mean/variance measure the following things: 1. DLM lock time (non-blocking requests) 2. DLM lock time (blocking requests) 3. Inter-request time (again to the DLM) A non-blocking request is one which will complete right away, whatever the state of the DLM lock in question. That currently means any requests when (a) the current state of the lock is exclusive (b) the requested state is either null or unlocked or (c) the "try lock" flag is set. A blocking request covers all the other lock requests. There are two counters. The first is there primarily to show how many lock requests have been made, and thus how much data has gone into the mean/variance calculations. The other counter is counting queueing of holders at the top layer of the glock code. Hopefully that number will be a lot larger than the number of dlm lock requests issued. So why gather these statistics? There are several reasons we'd like to get a better idea of these timings: 1. To be able to better set the glock "min hold time" 2. To spot performance issues more easily 3. To improve the algorithm for selecting resource groups for allocation (to base it on lock wait time, rather than blindly using a "try lock") Due to the smoothing action of the updates, a step change in some input quantity being sampled will only fully be taken into account after 8 samples (or 4 for the variance) and this needs to be carefully considered when interpreting the results. Knowing both the time it takes a lock request to complete and the average time between lock requests for a glock means we can compute the total percentage of the time for which the node is able to use a glock vs. time that the rest of the cluster has its share. That will be very useful when setting the lock min hold time. The other point to remember is that all times are in nanoseconds. Great care has been taken to ensure that we measure exactly the quantities that we want, as accurately as possible. There are always inaccuracies in any measuring system, but I hope this is as accurate as we can reasonably make it. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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