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@@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ go_unlock | Called on the final local unlock of a lock
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go_dump | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on
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| error to dump glock to the log.
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go_type | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_.....
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-go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time
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+go_callback | Called if the DLM sends a callback to drop this lock
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+go_flags | GLOF_ASPACE is set, if the glock has an address space
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+ | associated with it
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The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock
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grant for which we ignore remote demote requests. This is in order to
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@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ go_demote_ok | Sometimes | Yes
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go_lock | Yes | No
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go_unlock | Yes | No
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go_dump | Sometimes | Yes
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+go_callback | Sometimes (N/A) | Yes
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N.B. Operations must not drop either the bit lock or the spinlock
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if its held on entry. go_dump and do_demote_ok must never block.
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@@ -111,4 +114,118 @@ itself (locking order as above), and the other, known as the iopen
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glock is used in conjunction with the i_nlink field in the inode to
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determine the lifetime of the inode in question. Locking of inodes
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is on a per-inode basis. Locking of rgrps is on a per rgrp basis.
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+In general we prefer to lock local locks prior to cluster locks.
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+
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+ Glock Statistics
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+ ------------------
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+
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+The stats are divided into two sets: those relating to the
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+super block and those relating to an individual glock. The
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+super block stats are done on a per cpu basis in order to
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+try and reduce the overhead of gathering them. They are also
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+further divided by glock type. All timings are in nanoseconds.
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+
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+In the case of both the super block and glock statistics,
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+the same information is gathered in each case. The super
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+block timing statistics are used to provide default values for
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+the glock timing statistics, so that newly created glocks
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+should have, as far as possible, a sensible starting point.
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+The per-glock counters are initialised to zero when the
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+glock is created. The per-glock statistics are lost when
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+the glock is ejected from memory.
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+
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+The statistics are divided into three pairs of mean and
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+variance, plus two counters. The mean/variance pairs are
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+smoothed exponential estimates and the algorithm used is
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+one which will be very familiar to those used to calculation
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+of round trip times in network code. See "TCP/IP Illustrated,
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+Volume 1", W. Richard Stevens, sect 21.3, "Round-Trip Time Measurement",
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+p. 299 and onwards. Also, Volume 2, Sect. 25.10, p. 838 and onwards.
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+Unlike the TCP/IP Illustrated case, the mean and variance are
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+not scaled, but are in units of integer nanoseconds.
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+
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+The three pairs of mean/variance measure the following
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+things:
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+
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+ 1. DLM lock time (non-blocking requests)
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+ 2. DLM lock time (blocking requests)
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+ 3. Inter-request time (again to the DLM)
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+
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+A non-blocking request is one which will complete right
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+away, whatever the state of the DLM lock in question. That
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+currently means any requests when (a) the current state of
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+the lock is exclusive, i.e. a lock demotion (b) the requested
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+state is either null or unlocked (again, a demotion) or (c) the
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+"try lock" flag is set. A blocking request covers all the other
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+lock requests.
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+
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+There are two counters. The first is there primarily to show
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+how many lock requests have been made, and thus how much data
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+has gone into the mean/variance calculations. The other counter
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+is counting queuing of holders at the top layer of the glock
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+code. Hopefully that number will be a lot larger than the number
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+of dlm lock requests issued.
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+
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+So why gather these statistics? There are several reasons
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+we'd like to get a better idea of these timings:
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+
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+1. To be able to better set the glock "min hold time"
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+2. To spot performance issues more easily
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+3. To improve the algorithm for selecting resource groups for
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+allocation (to base it on lock wait time, rather than blindly
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+using a "try lock")
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+
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+Due to the smoothing action of the updates, a step change in
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+some input quantity being sampled will only fully be taken
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+into account after 8 samples (or 4 for the variance) and this
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+needs to be carefully considered when interpreting the
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+results.
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+
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+Knowing both the time it takes a lock request to complete and
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+the average time between lock requests for a glock means we
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+can compute the total percentage of the time for which the
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+node is able to use a glock vs. time that the rest of the
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+cluster has its share. That will be very useful when setting
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+the lock min hold time.
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+
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+Great care has been taken to ensure that we
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+measure exactly the quantities that we want, as accurately
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+as possible. There are always inaccuracies in any
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+measuring system, but I hope this is as accurate as we
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+can reasonably make it.
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+
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+Per sb stats can be found here:
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+/sys/kernel/debug/gfs2/<fsname>/sbstats
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+Per glock stats can be found here:
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+/sys/kernel/debug/gfs2/<fsname>/glstats
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+
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+Assuming that debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug and also
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+that <fsname> is replaced with the name of the gfs2 filesystem
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+in question.
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+
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+The abbreviations used in the output as are follows:
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+srtt - Smoothed round trip time for non-blocking dlm requests
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+srttvar - Variance estimate for srtt
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+srttb - Smoothed round trip time for (potentially) blocking dlm requests
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+srttvarb - Variance estimate for srttb
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+sirt - Smoothed inter-request time (for dlm requests)
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+sirtvar - Variance estimate for sirt
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+dlm - Number of dlm requests made (dcnt in glstats file)
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+queue - Number of glock requests queued (qcnt in glstats file)
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+
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+The sbstats file contains a set of these stats for each glock type (so 8 lines
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+for each type) and for each cpu (one column per cpu). The glstats file contains
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+a set of these stats for each glock in a similar format to the glocks file, but
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+using the format mean/variance for each of the timing stats.
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+
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+The gfs2_glock_lock_time tracepoint prints out the current values of the stats
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+for the glock in question, along with some addition information on each dlm
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+reply that is received:
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+
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+status - The status of the dlm request
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+flags - The dlm request flags
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+tdiff - The time taken by this specific request
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+(remaining fields as per above list)
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+
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