[Gluster-devel] libgfapi changes to add lk_owner and lease ID

[Poornima Gurusiddaiah]

Hi, 

Brief Background: 
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For the below two features, we need ligfapi to take 2 other parameters from the applications for most number of fops. 
http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12014/ 
http://review.gluster.org/#/c/11980/ 

For leases to work as explained in the above doc, every file data read/write fop needs to be associated with a lease ID. This is specially required for Samba and NFS-Ganesha as they inturn serve other clients who request for leases. For Gluster to identify the end client (which is not Samba/NFS Ganesha) we need lease ID to be filled by Samba/NFS Ganesha. 

For mandatory locks feature to work as explained, every file data read/write fop needs to be associated with a lk_owner. In linux Kernel VFS takes care of filling the lk_ownere for the file system. In libgfapi case, the applications calling into libgfapi should be providing lk_owner with every fop. This is again required mainly for Samba and NFS Ganesha, as they serve multiple clients. 

Possible solutions: 
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1. Modify all the required APIs to take 2 other parameter, lease ID and lk_owner. But that would mean backward compatibility issues and is a programming overhead for applications not interested in Leases and mandatory lock feature. 
2. Add an API called glfs_set_fop_attrs (lease ID, lk_owner) which works similar to glfs_set_uid(uid). The API sets a thread local storage (pthread_key) with the values provided, the further fops on that thread will pick the lease ID and lk_owner from the thread local storage (pthread_key). There are few minor details that needs to be worked out: 
- In case of async API will end up using lease ID and lk_owner from wrong thread. 
- unset lease ID and lk_owner after every fop to ensure there is no stale lease ID or lk_owner set? 
- For fd based fops we can store the lease ID and lk_owner in glfd, so that the application writed need not set it for every fop. But for handle based fops lease ID and lk_owner needs to be set explicitly every-time. 

Solution 2 is more preferable except for that it adds overhead of calling another API, for the libgfapi users who intends to use these features. 
A prototype of solution 2 can be found at http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12876/ 

Please let me know if you have any suggestions. 

Thanks, 
Poorninma 

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