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authorRaghavendra G <rgowdapp@redhat.com>2016-09-27 16:35:08 +0530
committerRaghavendra G <rgowdapp@redhat.com>2016-10-16 21:53:10 -0700
commita8b2a981881221925bb5edfe7bb65b25ad855c04 (patch)
tree01881b345b6779d404daefc8ba01b0b528ffd068 /xlators/performance/write-behind/src
parent91c353001c0acf6b6a4c08181fa9a582ae3f880b (diff)
performance/write-behind: remove the request from liability queue in
wb_fulfill_request Before this patch, a request is removed from liability queue only when ref count of request hits 0. Though, wb_fulfill_request does an unref, it need not be the last unref and hence the request may survive in liability queue till the last unref. Let, T1: the time at which wb_fulfill_request is invoked T2: the time at which last unref is done on request Let's consider a case of T2 > T1. In the time window between T1 and T2, any other request (waiter) conflicting with request in liability queue (blocker - basically a write which has been lied) is blocked from winding. If T2 happens to be when wb_do_unwinds is invoked, no further processing of request list happens and "waiter" would get blocked forever. An example imaginary sequence of events is given below: 1. A write request w1 is picked up for unwinding in __wb_pick_unwinds (but unwind is not done _yet_ and hence reference remains). However, w1 is moved to liability queue. Let's call this invocation of wb_process_queue by wb_writev as PQ1. 2. A flush (f1) request hits write behind. Since the liability queue of inode is not empty, f1 is not picked for unwinding. Let's call the invocation of wb_process_queue by wb_flush as PQ2. 3. PQ2 continues and picks w1 for fulfilling and invokes wb_fulfill. As part of successful wb_fulfill_cbk, wb_fulfill_request (w1) is invoked. But, w1 is not freed (and hence not removed from liability queue) as w1 is not unwound _yet_ and a ref remains (PQ1 has not invoked wb_do_unwinds _yet_). 4. wb_fulfill_cbk (triggered by PQ2) invokes a wb_process_queue (let's say PQ3). f1 is not resumed in PQ3 as w1 is still in liability queue. At this time, PQ2 and PQ3 are complete. 5. PQ1 continues, unwinds w1 and does last unref on w1 and w1 is freed (and removed from liability queue). Since PQ1 didn't invoke wb_fulfill on any other write requests, there won't be any future codepaths that would invoke wb_process_queue and f1 is stuck forever. With this fix, w1 is removed from liability queue in step 3 above and PQ3 resumes f1 in step 4 (as there are no requests conflicting with f1 in liability queue during execution of PQ3). Signed-off-by: Raghavendra G <rgowdapp@redhat.com> BUG: 1379655 Change-Id: Idacda1fcd520ac27f30224f8dfe8360dba6ac6cb Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/15579 CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org> NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org> Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'xlators/performance/write-behind/src')
-rw-r--r--xlators/performance/write-behind/src/write-behind.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/xlators/performance/write-behind/src/write-behind.c b/xlators/performance/write-behind/src/write-behind.c
index 98b448be332..042fbd797bf 100644
--- a/xlators/performance/write-behind/src/write-behind.c
+++ b/xlators/performance/write-behind/src/write-behind.c
@@ -302,7 +302,11 @@ wb_liability_has_conflict (wb_inode_t *wb_inode, wb_request_t *req)
wb_request_t *each = NULL;
list_for_each_entry (each, &wb_inode->liability, lie) {
- if (wb_requests_conflict (each, req))
+ if (wb_requests_conflict (each, req)
+ && (!each->ordering.fulfilled))
+ /* A fulfilled request shouldn't block another
+ * request (even a dependent one) from winding.
+ */
return each;
}
@@ -668,7 +672,14 @@ __wb_fulfill_request (wb_request_t *req)
wb_inode->window_current -= req->total_size;
wb_inode->transit -= req->total_size;
- if (!req->ordering.lied) {
+ if (req->ordering.lied) {
+ /* 1. If yes, request is in liability queue and hence can be
+ safely removed from list.
+ 2. If no, request is in temptation queue and hence should be
+ left in the queue so that wb_pick_unwinds picks it up
+ */
+ list_del_init (&req->lie);
+ } else {
/* TODO: fail the req->frame with error if
necessary
*/