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GFS2: Update glock doc to add new stats info

We recently added some glock statistics to GFS2, so this is
a docs update to explain what they all mean. It is based
upon the checkin comment of the patch in question.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Steven Whitehouse 13 年之前
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      Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt

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Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt

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