[Gluster-Maintainers] Update on experimental branch (was Re: Jenkins build is back to normal : experimental-periodic #21)

[Atin Mukherjee]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Amar Tumballi <atumball at redhat.com> wrote:

> Experimental branch is back to successful build now. So I think its a good
> time to update everyone about it.
>
> Currently the branch has changes for:
>
>
>    1. Added new on wire XDR changes.
>       - All is working as expected with newer protocol.
>       - So, if there is a change required for 4.0, I encourage everyone
>       to propose it and send a patch so we can test it out.
>    2. Changes in STACK_WIND/UNWIND to measure count and latency.
>    3. A separate way to dump metrics
>    - Similar to statedump, but only metrics, ie, a key and a value (as
>       int/float) as entries in the file.
>       - Some more improvements planned to provide functions in xlator_t
>       itself for all translator to dump their private metrics if any.
>       - I got a project going to draw these metrics in graphite/grafana @
>       https://github.com/amarts/glustermetrics
>       <https://github.com/amarts/glustermetrics>
>       4. Subdir mount
>       - Still waiting for authentication handling in
>       xlator/protocol/auth/addr to send it to master.
>       - Will take CLI changes after handling auth, thought for now is,
>       same auth.allow volume set option can be reused in early state.
>       5. New discover fop.
>       - Currently its implemented at xlator_t, defaults and all the place.
>       - Saw major regressions with DHT / AFR by using it.
>       - Hence reverted the consumption of the discover fop for now.
>    6. Global Inode table.
>       - Most of the work was done and changes were present mainly in
>       inode/fd files of libglusterfs.
>       - Saw issues with regression tests, and some behaviour at the
>       moment, and have reverted the patch.
>
>
> Also it has one patch from Hari on tier add-brick/remove-brick.
>
>
> Considering I don't have more traffic on the branch yet, I am planning to
> branch out from master and rebasing all these changes on master again to
> stick with 3 months branch out timelines.
>

I believe rebasing these changes to master will be done post 3.12
branching, right?

Regards,
> Amar
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:07 AM, <jenkins at build.gluster.org> wrote:
>
>> See <https://build.gluster.org/job/experimental-periodic/21/disp
>> lay/redirect?page=changes>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>
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