[Lustre-devel] [RFC] parallel enqueue
Eric Barton
eeb at sun.com
Mon Feb 11 15:07:42 PST 2008
This sounds great!
But are there any livelock issues?
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> [mailto:lustre-devel-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of
> Alex Zhuravlev
> Sent: 08 February 2008 3:32 PM
> To: lustre-devel at lists.lustre.org
> Subject: [Lustre-devel] [RFC] parallel enqueue
>
> Hi,
>
> in some cases (truncate, append) we still use serialized enqueue
> when all locks have to be enqueued synchronously one by one.
>
> what if we could mark all locks issued by single client with some
> unique tag (timestamp + nid?), then enqueue them all and then, in
> case of conflict, in blocking ast handler compare tag of conflicting
> lock with own tag, cancel our granted locks if our tag is greater
> than tag of conflicting lock and enqueue them again?
>
> thanks, Alex
>
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