[Gluster-devel] [RFC] alter inode table lock from mutex to rwlock

[Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan]

Hi Changwei Ge,

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:57 PM Changwei Ge <chge at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Now inode_table_t:lock is type of mutex which I think we can use
> ‘pthread_rwlock' to replace it for a better concurrency.
>
> Because phread_rwlock allows more than one thread accessing inode table
> at the same time.
> Moreover, the critical section the lock is protecting won't take many
> CPU cycles and no I/O and CPU fault/exception involved after a quick
> glance at glusterfs code.
> I hope I didn't miss something.
> If I would get an ACK from major glusterfs developer, I will try to do it.
>
>
You are right. I believe this is possible. No harm in trying this out.

Xavier, Raghavendra, Pranith, Nithya, do you think this is possible?

Regards,



> Thanks.
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