[Gluster-devel] making frame->root->unique more effective in debugging hung frames

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:57 PM FNU Raghavendra Manjunath <
rabhat at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> The idea looks OK. One of the things that probably need to be considered
> (more of an implementation detail though) is how to generate
> frame->root->unique.
>
> Because, for fuse, frame->root->unique is obtained by finh->unique which
> IIUC is got from the incoming fop from kernel itself.
> For protocol/server IIUC frame->root->unique is got from req->xit of the
> rpc request, which itself is obtained from transport->xid of the
> rpc_transport_t structure (and from my understanding, the transport->xid is
> just incremented by everytime a
> new rpc request is created).
>
> Overall the suggestion looks fine though.
>

I am planning to do the same thing transport->xid does. I will send out the
patch


> Regards,
> Raghavendra
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 2:27 AM Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
> pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>         At the moment new stack doesn't populate frame->root->unique in
>> all cases. This makes it difficult to debug hung frames by examining
>> successive state dumps. Fuse and server xlator populate it whenever they
>> can, but other xlators won't be able to assign one when they need to create
>> a new frame/stack. Is it okay to change create_frame() code to always
>> populate it with an increasing number for this purpose?
>>      I checked both fuse and server xlator use it only in gf_log() so it
>> doesn't seem like there is any other link between frame->root->unique and
>> the functionality of fuse, server xlators.
>>       Do let me know if I missed anything before sending this change.
>>
>> --
>> Pranith
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Pranith
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