[sheepdog] [PATCH] sheep: stop special casing local objects on gateways

[Liu Yuan]

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?

Thanks,
Yuan