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authorPranith Kumar K <pkarampu@redhat.com>2013-04-08 13:06:39 +0530
committerAnand Avati <avati@redhat.com>2013-04-22 22:46:21 -0700
commit86acc0f6176954fd687354d093e894636e5d6a73 (patch)
treeab63df796187abcb24f8f016165e97e00d7d9ebb /xlators
parent3f22b5bb7069cfff8607320c262702418c731c89 (diff)
cluster/afr: Added documentation for eager-lock check
Change-Id: Ifa42762adde8b55ef1e2b51a59c93cebd983343f BUG: 912581 Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar K <pkarampu@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/4792 Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com> Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'xlators')
-rw-r--r--xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-transaction.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-transaction.c b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-transaction.c
index 644544abcc7..217ff854852 100644
--- a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-transaction.c
+++ b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-transaction.c
@@ -1738,6 +1738,23 @@ afr_transaction_eager_lock_init (afr_local_t *local, xlator_t *this)
if (!fdctx)
return;
+ /*
+ * Once full file lock is acquired in eager-lock phase, overlapping
+ * writes do not compete for inode-locks, instead are transferred to the
+ * next writes. Because of this overlapping writes are not ordered.
+ * This can cause inconsistencies in replication.
+ * Example:
+ * Two overlapping writes w1, w2 are sent in parallel on same fd
+ * in two threads t1, t2.
+ * Both threads can execute afr_writev_wind in the following manner.
+ * t1 winds w1 on brick-0
+ * t2 winds w2 on brick-0
+ * t2 winds w2 on brick-1
+ * t1 winds w1 on brick-1
+ *
+ * This check makes sure the locks are not transferred for
+ * overlapping writes.
+ */
LOCK (&local->fd->lock);
{
list_for_each_entry (each, &fdctx->eager_locked,