[Gluster-devel] Full bore.

[Chris Johnson]

      Ok, hi.

      I think I'm committing a major blunder here which may be why I'm
not seeing better through put.

      These xlators should be stacked, is that right?  I defined the
following;

volume brick1
   type storage/posix
   option directory /home/sdm1
end-volume

volume server
   type protocol/server
   subvolumes brick1
   option transport-type tcp/server     # For TCP/IP transport
#  option client-volume-filename /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol
   option auth.ip.brick1.allow *
end-volume

volume writebehind
   type performance/write-behind
   option aggregate-size 131072 # in bytes
   subvolumes brick1
end-volume

volume readahead
   type performance/read-ahead
   option page-size 65536 ### in bytes
   option page-count 16 ### memory cache size is page-count x page-size
per file
   subvolumes brick1
end-volume

Should I have used the 'server' volume as the subvolume for read-ahead
and write-behind in the above?  Or should read-ahead and write-behind
be between the basic brick and the server volume?  Is there a
diffrence in performance?

      I grabbed 5 volumes from the SATA Beast.  I think the best way to
test this is with the real files and jobs.  So it's go for broke and
full bore time.

      If I have two front ends I need I'll need the postix lock deal,
the io threader is a must or why bother.  If I unify, both front ends
need access to the same namespace brick so it has to have locks on it
too, yes?

      Looking at the GlusterFS Translators v1.3 server examples.  Why
is the io thread xlator so high up in the stack?  Would it be better
farther down that stack closer to the basic bricks?  If not, why not?

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