David Teigland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:10:49AM +0100, Jan Friesse wrote:
>> I'll give you example.
>> Let's say, you have 3 nodes (a,b,c). B,C are joined in group EXAMPLE.
>> Now, A will fall ... you will not get normal confchg, because A was not
>> in group. Now on B, you will run new cpg process joined to group. If you
>> will call cpg_ringid_get, you will get different result, then before A fall.
>>
>> So, main question is, WHEN ringid should change? From my point of view
>> (because CPG is lightweight membership), it should change when group
>> change. But group change doesn't mean totem membership change (both case
>> can really happen. Group change without Totem membership change and
>> Totem membership change without group change). Of course, if we rely on
>> group change, totem ringid really doesn't make sense no longer. If we
>> rely only on Totem membership change, we need something like I
>> implemented in cpg_totem_confchg.
> 
> The existing totem ring id already has a defined behavior, and I wasn't
> expecting anything beyond that.  i.e. cpg_ringid_get would not tell us
> anything new about cpg memb changes, only abut totem changes.  So, when a
> totem memb change caused a cpg memb change, then it would be useful.
> But, it's not really necessary to have this with your other patch, so
> let's just leave out the cpg_ringid_get.
> 
>>> I've started working on the code to use this, and it might be nice if the
>>> parameters matched the normal confchg parameters as closely as possible,
>>> i.e. include cpg_name, and use cpg_address instead of uint32_t.
>> I was thinking about that, but:
>> - cpg_name of what? We are talking about Totem membership change. Totem
>> doesn't know anything about groups. If you want group_name of
>> pid/nodeid/group unique triple, it can be implemented, but ... can you
>> feel it doesn't fit very well?
> 
> OK, it's probably not necessary.  Is there a totem confchg callback per
> handle then?  And I still get all normal cpg confchg callbacks before the
> totem_confchg callback?
> 

Ya. Every cpg handle will get that callback. And yes, normal cpg confchg
callbacks are delivered before totem_confchg.

>> Only thing from that structure which is used in Totem membership change
>> is nodeid (what we are returning currently. True is that
>> member_list_entries is really not good name and should be something like
>> node_list_entries).
>>
>> - What should be filled in pid? Totem doesn't know about client pids.
> 
> Ah, right, I'd not considered that.  It's probably better to keep them
> nodeids then.
> 
>> - Very similar is reason field. I can imagine to return only
>> CPG_REASON_NODEDOWN and/or CPG_REASON_NODEUP.
> 
> I don't expect I'll need reason.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 

Regards,
  Honza
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