[Gluster-users] On making ctime generator enabled by default in stack

[Raghavendra Gowdappa]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 11:41 PM Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:31 PM Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:58 AM Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 7:56 PM Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> All,
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>>>> There is a patch [1] from Kotresh, which makes ctime generator as
>>>> default in stack. Currently ctime generator is being recommended only for
>>>> usecases where ctime is important (like for Elasticsearch). However, a
>>>> reliable (c)(m)time can fix many consistency issues within glusterfs stack
>>>> too. These are issues with caching layers having stale (meta)data
>>>> [2][3][4]. Basically just like applications, components within glusterfs
>>>> stack too need a time to find out which among racing ops (like write, stat,
>>>> etc) has latest (meta)data.
>>>>
>>>> Also note that a consistent (c)(m)time is not an optional feature, but
>>>> instead forms the core of the infrastructure. So, I am proposing to merge
>>>> this patch. If you've any objections, please voice out before Nov 13, 2018
>>>> (a week from today).
>>>>
>>>> As to the existing known issues/limitations with ctime generator, my
>>>> conversations with Kotresh, revealed following:
>>>> * Potential performance degradation (we don't yet have data to
>>>> conclusively prove it, preliminary basic tests from Kotresh didn't indicate
>>>> a significant perf drop).
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>>> Do we have this data captured somewhere? If not, would it be possible to
>>> share that data here?
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>> I misquoted Kotresh. He had measured impact of gfid2path and said both
>> features might've similar impact as major perf cost is related to storing
>> xattrs on backend fs. I am in the process of getting a fresh set of
>> numbers. Will post those numbers when available.
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> I observe that the patch under discussion has been merged now [1]. A quick
> search did not yield me any performance data. Do we have the performance
> numbers posted somewhere?
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No. Perf benchmarking is a task pending on me.


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> Thanks,
> Vijay
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> [1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21060/
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