[Gluster-devel] questions on callstubs and "link-count" in index translator

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:55 PM Junsong Li <junsongli at fb.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
>
>
> I have a couple of questions on index translator implementation.
>
>    - Why does gluster need callstub and a different worker queue (and
>    thread) to process those call stubs? Is it just to lower the priority of
>    fops of internal inodes?
>
> It is to make sure parallel [f]xattrops on same inode doesn't happen.
Index xlator has to maintain indices in the internal directories based on
whether or not the xattrs it tracks on the file are non-zero.  When we
allow parallel [f]xattrops, callbacks of the fops may not reach index
xlator in the order they are wound to lower xlators. This can lead to index
xlator not maintain indices correctly.


>
>    -
>    - What’s the purpose of “link-count” in xdata? It’s being used only in
>    index_fstat and index_lookup. I see sometimes the key is assigned 0/1 after
>    callback, and sometimes AFR uses it to store flag GF_XATTROP_INDEX_COUNT.
>    Is the code purposely reusing the key?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Junsong
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Pranith
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