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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt | 119 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 123 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt index 0494f78d87e4..fcc79957be63 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt @@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ go_unlock | Called on the final local unlock of a lock go_dump | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on | error to dump glock to the log. go_type | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_..... -go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time +go_callback | Called if the DLM sends a callback to drop this lock +go_flags | GLOF_ASPACE is set, if the glock has an address space + | associated with it The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock grant for which we ignore remote demote requests. This is in order to @@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ go_demote_ok | Sometimes | Yes go_lock | Yes | No go_unlock | Yes | No go_dump | Sometimes | Yes +go_callback | Sometimes (N/A) | Yes N.B. Operations must not drop either the bit lock or the spinlock if its held on entry. go_dump and do_demote_ok must never block. @@ -111,4 +114,118 @@ itself (locking order as above), and the other, known as the iopen glock is used in conjunction with the i_nlink field in the inode to determine the lifetime of the inode in question. Locking of inodes is on a per-inode basis. Locking of rgrps is on a per rgrp basis. +In general we prefer to lock local locks prior to cluster locks. + + Glock Statistics + ------------------ + +The stats are divided into two sets: those relating to the +super block and those relating to an individual glock. The +super block stats are done on a per cpu basis in order to +try and reduce the overhead of gathering them. They are also +further divided by glock type. All timings are in nanoseconds. + +In the case of both the super block and glock statistics, +the same information is gathered in each case. The super +block timing statistics are used to provide default values for +the glock timing statistics, so that newly created glocks +should have, as far as possible, a sensible starting point. +The per-glock counters are initialised to zero when the +glock is created. The per-glock statistics are lost when +the glock is ejected from memory. + +The statistics are divided into three pairs of mean and +variance, plus two counters. The mean/variance pairs are +smoothed exponential estimates and the algorithm used is +one which will be very familiar to those used to calculation +of round trip times in network code. See "TCP/IP Illustrated, +Volume 1", W. Richard Stevens, sect 21.3, "Round-Trip Time Measurement", +p. 299 and onwards. Also, Volume 2, Sect. 25.10, p. 838 and onwards. +Unlike the TCP/IP Illustrated case, the mean and variance are +not scaled, but are in units of integer nanoseconds. + +The three pairs of mean/variance measure the following +things: + + 1. DLM lock time (non-blocking requests) + 2. DLM lock time (blocking requests) + 3. Inter-request time (again to the DLM) + +A non-blocking request is one which will complete right +away, whatever the state of the DLM lock in question. That +currently means any requests when (a) the current state of +the lock is exclusive, i.e. a lock demotion (b) the requested +state is either null or unlocked (again, a demotion) or (c) the +"try lock" flag is set. A blocking request covers all the other +lock requests. + +There are two counters. The first is there primarily to show +how many lock requests have been made, and thus how much data +has gone into the mean/variance calculations. The other counter +is counting queuing of holders at the top layer of the glock +code. Hopefully that number will be a lot larger than the number +of dlm lock requests issued. + +So why gather these statistics? There are several reasons +we'd like to get a better idea of these timings: + +1. To be able to better set the glock "min hold time" +2. To spot performance issues more easily +3. To improve the algorithm for selecting resource groups for +allocation (to base it on lock wait time, rather than blindly +using a "try lock") + +Due to the smoothing action of the updates, a step change in +some input quantity being sampled will only fully be taken +into account after 8 samples (or 4 for the variance) and this +needs to be carefully considered when interpreting the +results. + +Knowing both the time it takes a lock request to complete and +the average time between lock requests for a glock means we +can compute the total percentage of the time for which the +node is able to use a glock vs. time that the rest of the +cluster has its share. That will be very useful when setting +the lock min hold time. + +Great care has been taken to ensure that we +measure exactly the quantities that we want, as accurately +as possible. There are always inaccuracies in any +measuring system, but I hope this is as accurate as we +can reasonably make it. + +Per sb stats can be found here: +/sys/kernel/debug/gfs2/<fsname>/sbstats +Per glock stats can be found here: +/sys/kernel/debug/gfs2/<fsname>/glstats + +Assuming that debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug and also +that <fsname> is replaced with the name of the gfs2 filesystem +in question. + +The abbreviations used in the output as are follows: + +srtt - Smoothed round trip time for non-blocking dlm requests +srttvar - Variance estimate for srtt +srttb - Smoothed round trip time for (potentially) blocking dlm requests +srttvarb - Variance estimate for srttb +sirt - Smoothed inter-request time (for dlm requests) +sirtvar - Variance estimate for sirt +dlm - Number of dlm requests made (dcnt in glstats file) +queue - Number of glock requests queued (qcnt in glstats file) + +The sbstats file contains a set of these stats for each glock type (so 8 lines +for each type) and for each cpu (one column per cpu). The glstats file contains +a set of these stats for each glock in a similar format to the glocks file, but +using the format mean/variance for each of the timing stats. + +The gfs2_glock_lock_time tracepoint prints out the current values of the stats +for the glock in question, along with some addition information on each dlm +reply that is received: + +status - The status of the dlm request +flags - The dlm request flags +tdiff - The time taken by this specific request +(remaining fields as per above list) + diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt index 4cda926628aa..cc4f2306609e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Global File System ------------------ -http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/ +https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ needed, simply: If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package -and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. +and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. For F17 and above +cman has been replaced by the dlm package. GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it is pretty close. @@ -39,8 +40,6 @@ The following man pages can be found at the URL above: fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online - gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem - gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem + tunegfs2 to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place - mount.gfs2 to help mount(8) mount a filesystem mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index b7413cb46dcb..ef088e55ab2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -996,7 +996,6 @@ Table 1-9: Network info in /proc/net snmp SNMP data sockstat Socket statistics tcp TCP sockets - tr_rif Token ring RIF routing table udp UDP sockets unix UNIX domain sockets wireless Wireless interface data (Wavelan etc) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index e916e3d36488..0d0492028082 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ members are defined: struct file_system_type { const char *name; int fs_flags; - struct dentry (*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int, + struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int, const char *, void *); void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *); struct module *owner; |