[Gluster-devel] rpc problems when using syncops in callbacks

[Anand Avati]

Note that you need to place your syncop code in a synctask function
strictly within a syncenv (by calling synctask_new(). You're probably
calling syncop_XXX() directly in your xlator code?

Avati


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:40 AM, fog - <fog_is_my_name at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to use syncops in a custom translator to keep my code at least
> borderline readable, but I am having limited success.
>
> Problem Symptoms:
> Using a syncop in a regular fop is fine. However, in a callback it causes
> a 'freeze' (synctask_yield called by the SYNCOP macro doesn't return).
>
> What seems to be the Problem:
> Looking at the traces, there is no corresponding trace from
> rpc_clnt_reply_init on the client to the trace from rpcsvc_submit_generic
> on the server. In other words, the rpc reply gets sent but isn't correctly
> received. Obviously this is not really a networking problem but something
> else... I'd guess it's a deadlock somewhere on the client?
> From the point of the syncop call onwards the client doesn't 'get' any rpc
> replies any more (the next GlusterFS Handshake sent by the client, which is
> received by the server and replied to, leads to a disconnection
> accordingly).
>
> Again: This problem is only occurring when calling a syncop from a
> callback function inside my translator, if I call the same syncop in a fop
> call it completes fine.
>
> I hope you can make sense out of the above problem description.
> Thanks for your time ~
>
>
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