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authorJeff Darcy <jdarcy@redhat.com>2012-03-12 09:32:40 -0400
committerAnand Avati <avati@redhat.com>2012-05-31 17:29:01 -0700
commitddc044bfa2840981de4003c3b9efcac84387dc2b (patch)
treea83d476702cac7ecc7ae59057c368f622a51af4c /xlators/mgmt
parente066a5fea7bdaa5da78e49c9a5bf344af2f33d3c (diff)
replicate: add hashed read-child method.
Both the first-to-respond method and the round-robin method are susceptible to clients repeatedly choosing the same servers across a series of opens, creating hot spots. Also, the code to handle a replica being down will ignore both methods and just choose the first remaining (which is not an issue for two-way but can be otherwise). The hashed method more reliably avoids such hot spots. There are three values/modes. 0: use the old (broken) methods. 1: select a read-child based on a hash of the file's GFID, so all clients will choose the same subvolume for a file (ensuring maximum consistency) but will distribute load for a set of files. 2: select a read-child based on a hash of the file's GFID plus the client's PID, so different children will distribute load even for one file. Mode 2 will probably be optimal for most cases. Using response time when we open the file is problematic, both because a single sample might not have been representative even then and because load might have shifted in the hours or days since (for long-lived files). Trying to use more current load information can lead to "herd following" behavior which is just as bad. Pseudo-random distribution is likely to be the best we can reasonably do, just as it is for DHT. Change-Id: I798c2760411eacf32e82a85f03bb7b08a4a49461 BUG: 802513 Signed-off-by: Jeff Darcy <jdarcy@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/2926 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'xlators/mgmt')
-rw-r--r--xlators/mgmt/glusterd/src/glusterd-volgen.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/xlators/mgmt/glusterd/src/glusterd-volgen.c b/xlators/mgmt/glusterd/src/glusterd-volgen.c
index fdbc8c494..6acf3bbf6 100644
--- a/xlators/mgmt/glusterd/src/glusterd-volgen.c
+++ b/xlators/mgmt/glusterd/src/glusterd-volgen.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ static struct volopt_map_entry glusterd_volopt_map[] = {
{"cluster.entry-change-log", "cluster/replicate", NULL, NULL, NO_DOC, 0 },
{"cluster.read-subvolume", "cluster/replicate", NULL, NULL, NO_DOC, 0 },
+ {"cluster.read-hash-mode", "cluster/replicate", NULL, NULL, NO_DOC, 0},
{"cluster.background-self-heal-count", "cluster/replicate", NULL, NULL, NO_DOC, 0 },
{"cluster.metadata-self-heal", "cluster/replicate", NULL, NULL, NO_DOC, 0 },
{"cluster.data-self-heal", "cluster/replicate", NULL, NULL, NO_DOC, 0 },