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authorXavi Hernandez <xhernandez@redhat.com>2019-01-24 18:44:06 +0100
committerAmar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>2019-02-18 02:58:24 +0000
commitdddcf52020004d98f688ebef968de51d76cbf9a6 (patch)
tree01ee4c39a7859a76562e15aa7045c5bd86417a60 /libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/glusterfs.h
parentec273a46820ba17f46488c082c65cd1aa6739be3 (diff)
core: implement a global thread pool
This patch implements a thread pool that is wait-free for adding jobs to the queue and uses a very small locked region to get jobs. This makes it possible to decrease contention drastically. It's based on wfcqueue structure provided by urcu library. It automatically enables more threads when load demands it, and stops them when not needed. There's a maximum number of threads that can be used. This value can be configured. Depending on the workload, the maximum number of threads plays an important role. So it needs to be configured for optimal performance. Currently the thread pool doesn't self adjust the maximum for the workload, so this configuration needs to be changed manually. For this reason, the global thread pool has been made optional, so that volumes can still use the thread pool provided by io-threads. To enable it for bricks, the following option needs to be set: config.global-threading = on This option has no effect if bricks are already running. A restart is required to activate it. It's recommended to also enable the following option when running bricks with the global thread pool: performance.iot-pass-through = on To enable it for a FUSE mount point, the option '--global-threading' must be added to the mount command. To change it, an umount and remount is needed. It's recommended to disable the following option when using global threading on a mount point: performance.client-io-threads = off To enable it for services managed by glusterd, glusterd needs to be started with option '--global-threading'. In this case all daemons, like self-heal, will be using the global thread pool. Currently it can only be enabled for bricks, FUSE mounts and glusterd services. The maximum number of threads for clients and bricks can be configured using the following options: config.client-threads config.brick-threads These options can be applied online and its effect is immediate most of the times. If one of them is set to 0, the maximum number of threads will be calcutated as #cores * 2. Some distributions use a very old userspace-rcu library (version 0.7) for this reason, some header files from version 0.10 have been copied into contrib/userspace-rcu and are used if the detected version is 0.7 or older. An additional change has been made to io-threads to prevent that threads are started when iot-pass-through is set. Change-Id: I09d19e246b9e6d53c6247b29dfca6af6ee00a24b updates: #532 Signed-off-by: Xavi Hernandez <xhernandez@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/glusterfs.h b/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/glusterfs.h
index 7c6af090fd8..9d140c18ee3 100644
--- a/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/glusterfs.h
+++ b/libglusterfs/src/glusterfs/glusterfs.h
@@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ struct _cmd_args {
int fuse_flush_handle_interrupt;
int fuse_auto_inval;
+
+ bool global_threading;
};
typedef struct _cmd_args cmd_args_t;