On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/24/2018 06:30 PM, Ravishankar N wrote:
On 07/24/2018 02:56 PM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote:
All,I was trying to debug regression failures on [1] and observed that split-brain-resolution.t was failing consistently.
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TEST 45 (line 88): 0 get_pending_heal_count patchy
./tests/basic/afr/split-brain-resolution.t .. 45/45 RESULT 45: 1
./tests/basic/afr/split-brain-resolution.t .. Failed 17/45 subtests
Test Summary Report
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./tests/basic/afr/split-brain-resolution.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 45 Failed: 17)
Failed tests: 24-26, 28-36, 41-45
On probing deeper, I observed a curious fact - on most of the failures stat was not served from md-cache, but instead was wound down to afr which failed stat with EIO as the file was in split brain. So, I did another test:* disabled md-cache* mount glusterfs with attribute-timeout 0 and entry-timeout 0
Now the test fails always. So, I think the test relied on stat requests being absorbed either by kernel attribute cache or md-cache. When its not happening stats are reaching afr and resulting in failures of cmds like getfattr etc.
This indeed seems to be the case. Is there any way we can avoid the stat? When a getfattr is performed on the mount, aren't lookup + getfattr are the only fops that need to be hit in gluster?
Or should afr allow (f)stat even for replica-2 split-brains because it is allowing lookup anyway (lookup cbk contains stat information from one of its children) ?
I think the question here should be what kind of access we've to provide for files in split-brain. Once that broader question is answered, we should think about what fops come under those kinds of access. If setfattr/getfattr cmd access has to be provided I guess lookup, stat, setxattr, getxattr need to work with split-brain files.
-Ravi
-Ravi
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