On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:32:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > - do we have evidence that this is useful in its current form? What is your threshold for usefulness? It passes xfstests fine, and shows linear scalability with multiple clients that each have 10GB links. > - any advice on testing? Is there was some simple virtual setup > that would allow any loser with no special hardware (e.g., me) > to check whether they've broken the block server? Run two kvm VMs that share the same disk. Create an XFS filesystem on the MDS, and export it. If the client has blkmapd running (on Debian it needs to be started manually) it will use pNFS for accessing the filesystem. Verify that using the per-operation counters in /proc/self/mounstats. Repeat with additional clients as nessecary. Alternatively set up a simple iSCSI target using tgt or lio and connect to it from multiple clients. > - any debugging advice? E.g., have you checked if current > wireshark can handle the MDS traffic? The wireshare version I've used decoded the generic pNFS operations fine, but just dumps the layout specifics as hex data. Enable the trace points added in this series, they track all stateid interactions in the server. Additіonally the pnfs debug printks on client and server dump a lot of information. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
