At Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:52:16 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
>
> On 06/06/2012 06:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:56:53AM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
> >> The pros is simplification of code, but you don't say cons, I think we
> >> should know the perf number we lost by adding a network overhead for IOs
> >> happen to be local, this can be easily collected by built-in tracer.
> >
> > What kind of setup do you want to see this on, e.g. what number of
> > nodes?
> >
>
>
> At your convenience :) Maybe two (small cluster and bigger one) would
> suffice. With cached FD pool, we might not lose that much performance
> for a quick thought, though, but this is quite radical change of design,
> numbers will definitely help it in. Kazum, how do you think of this change?
I like the idea to remove object I/Os in the gateway worker threads.
How about something like the following change on top of the Christoph
patch? It still has a socket overhead, but the gateway can read
objects from local if they are available.
diff --git a/sheep/gateway.c b/sheep/gateway.c
index 8b7777c..1124f8d 100644
--- a/sheep/gateway.c
+++ b/sheep/gateway.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ int forward_read_obj_req(struct request *req)
struct sd_rsp *rsp = (struct sd_rsp *)&fwd_hdr;
uint64_t oid = req->rq.obj.oid;
int nr_copies, j;
+ struct sd_vnode *obj_vnodes[SD_MAX_COPIES];
memcpy(&fwd_hdr, &req->rq, sizeof(fwd_hdr));
fwd_hdr.flags |= SD_FLAG_CMD_IO_LOCAL;
@@ -37,6 +38,16 @@ int forward_read_obj_req(struct request *req)
* reading base VM's COW objects
*/
j = random();
+
+ /* Read from local if possible */
+ oid_to_vnodes(req->vnodes, oid, nr_copies, obj_vnodes);
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_copies; i++) {
+ if (vnode_is_local(obj_vnodes[i])) {
+ j = i;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < nr_copies; i++) {
int idx = (i + j) % nr_copies;
struct sd_vnode *v = oid_to_vnode(req->vnodes, oid, idx);
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