Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 06:34:56PM -0500, Ira Cooper wrote: >> Kaleb KEITHLEY <kkeithle@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > On 12/03/2015 03:10 PM, Ira Cooper wrote: >> >> Poornima Gurusiddaiah <pgurusid@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> Brief Background: >> >>> ============ >> >>> For the below two features, we need ligfapi to take 2 other parameters from the applications for most number of fops. >> >>> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12014/ >> >>> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/11980/ >> >>> >> >>> For leases to work as explained in the above doc, every file data read/write fop needs to be associated with a lease ID. This is specially required for Samba and NFS-Ganesha as they inturn serve other clients who request for leases. For Gluster to identify the end client (which is not Samba/NFS Ganesha) we need lease ID to be filled by Samba/NFS Ganesha. >> >>> >> >>> For mandatory locks feature to work as explained, every file data read/write fop needs to be associated with a lk_owner. In linux Kernel VFS takes care of filling the lk_ownere for the file system. In libgfapi case, the applications calling into libgfapi should be providing lk_owner with every fop. This is again required mainly for Samba and NFS Ganesha, as they serve multiple clients. >> >>> >> >>> Possible solutions: >> >>> ============= >> >>> 1. Modify all the required APIs to take 2 other parameter, lease ID and lk_owner. But that would mean backward compatibility issues and is a programming overhead for applications not interested in Leases and mandatory lock feature. >> >>> 2. Add an API called glfs_set_fop_attrs (lease ID, lk_owner) which works similar to glfs_set_uid(uid). The API sets a thread local storage (pthread_key) with the values provided, the further fops on that thread will pick the lease ID and lk_owner from the thread local storage (pthread_key). There are few minor details that needs to be worked out: >> >>> - In case of async API will end up using lease ID and lk_owner from wrong thread. >> >>> - unset lease ID and lk_owner after every fop to ensure there is no stale lease ID or lk_owner set? >> >>> - For fd based fops we can store the lease ID and lk_owner in glfd, so that the application writed need not set it for every fop. But for handle based fops lease ID and lk_owner needs to be set explicitly every-time. >> >>> >> >>> Solution 2 is more preferable except for that it adds overhead of calling another API, for the libgfapi users who intends to use these features. >> >>> A prototype of solution 2 can be found at http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12876/ >> >>> >> > >> > why not use storage in the client_t instead of thread local? >> >> It comes down to the use case. For Samba, the right spot is almost >> certainly the fd, because lease keys are a per-handle (which we map to >> fd) property. >> >> client_t is a horror show, due to race conditions between threads, IMHO. > > If there are known races, should we not address that? Got a bug that > explains it in more detail? Niels, For samba, if we do multi-threaded open, Kaleb's proposal is a race-condition. I haven't gone through every use of client_t and seen if it is racy. The race here is pretty simple: Thread 1: Sets lease_id Thread 2: Sets lease_id Thread 1: Opens file. (wrong lease_id) If these two threads represent requests from different clients, client_t won't work, unless there's a client_t per-thread. For global things on the connection, client_t is fine, and appropriate. For this? No. This is a property per-open, and belongs in the glfs_fd and glfs_object, IMHO. Thanks, -Ira _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
