Dne 15.3.2013 15:51, Vladislav Bogdanov napsal(a):
15.03.2013 16:32, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
Dne 15.3.2013 13:53, Vladislav Bogdanov napsal(a):
15.03.2013 12:37, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
Dne 15.3.2013 10:29, Vladislav Bogdanov napsal(a):
15.03.2013 12:00, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
Dne 14.3.2013 22:57, Andreas Pflug napsal(a):
On 03/13/13 19:30, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote:
You could activate LVs with the above syntax [ael]
(there is a tag support - so you could exclusively activate LV on remote
node in via some configuration tags)
Could you please explain this - I do not see anything relevant in man
pages.
Let's say - you have 3 nodes A, B, C - each have a TAG_A, TAG_B, TAG_C,
then on node A you may exclusively activate LV which has TAG_B - this
will try to exclusively active LV on the node which has it configured
in lvm.conf (see the volume_list= [])
Aha, if I understand correctly this is absolutely not what I need.
I want all this to be fully dynamic without any "config-editing voodoo".
And you want to 'upgrade' remote locks to something else ?
Yes, shared-to-exclusive end vice verse.
So how do you convert the lock from shared to exclusive without unlock
(if I get it right - you keep the ConcurrentRead lock - and you want to
take Exlusive - to make change state from 'active' to 'active exlusive')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_lock_manager
I just pass LCKF_CONVERT to dlm_controld if requested and needed. And
that is dlm's task to either satisfy conversion or to refuse it.
So to understand myself better this thing -
the dlm sends 'unlock' requests to all other nodes except the one which
should be converted to exclusive mode and send exclusive lock to the prefered
node?
Clvmd 'communicates' via these locks.
Not exactly true.
clvmd does cluster communications with corosync, which implements
virtual synchrony, so all cluster nodes receive messages in the same order.
At the bottom, clvmd uses libdlm to communicate with dlm_controld and
request it to lock/unlock.
dlm_controld instances use corosync for membership and locally manages
in-kernel dlm counter-part, which uses tcp/sctp mesh-like connections to
communicate.
So request from one clvmd instance goes to another and goes to kernel
from there, and then it is distributed to other nodes. Actually that
does not matter where does it hits kernel space if it supports
delegation of locks to remote nodes, but I suspect it doesn't. But if it
doesn't support such thing, then the only option to manage lock on a
remote node is to request that's node dlm instance to do the locking job.
So the proper algorithm needs to be there for ending with some proper
state after locks changes (and sorry I'm not a dlm expert here)
That is what actually happens.
There is just no difference between running (to upgrade local lock to
exclusive on node <node>.
ssh <node> lvchange -aey --force VG/LV
or
lvchange -aey --node <node> --force VG/LV
--node is exactly what the tag is for - each node may have it's tag.
lvm doesn't work with cluster nodes.
The question is - could be the code transformed to use this logic ?
I guess you need to know dlm node name here right ?
The same command, it is just sent via different channels.
Again, I just send locking request to a remote clvmd instance through
corosync.
It asks its local dlm to convert (acquire, release) lock and returns its
answer back. After dlm answers, operation is either performed, and then
OK is send back to a initiator, or refused, and the error is sent back.
There is no other events on a destination node in ver3 migration
protocol, so I'm unable to convert lock to exclusive there after
migration is finished. So I do that from a source node, after it
released lock.
Is that supported by dlm (since lvm locks are mapped to dlm)?
Command just sent to a specific clvm instance and performed there.
As said - the 'lock' is the thing which controls the activation state.
So faking it on the software level may possible lead to inconsistency
between the dlm and clvmd view of the lock state.
No faking. Just a remote management of the same lock.
Could you repost patches against git ?
With some usage examples ?
Zdenek
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