> On Jan 6, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 18:56:11 +0100 > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > The wireshark decoder really only handles files layouts right now. Dros > has some patches to add flexfiles support too (once the spec is a bit > more finalized) and at that point it shouldn't be too hard to fix it to > handle block layout as well. I should be publishing these patches soon. The only holdup is waiting on the IANA layout type assignment. -dros _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
