[sheepdog] [PATCH 0/2] avoid heavy disk I/O in the main thread

[Hitoshi Mitake]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Hitoshi Mitake
<mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> Recently, Philip and Tsuji-san reported a problem of critical request
> block caused by recovery process. I found a problematic behavior
> purge_directory() of libsheepdog which can cause long stop of the main
> thread. It would be a root cause of the problem. This patchset solves
> it.
>
> Hitoshi Mitake (2):
>   lib: add an interface for registering workqueue for libsheepdog
>   lib: call rmdir(2) and unlink(2) in worker threads during purging
>     directory
>
>  include/util.h |  3 +++
>  lib/util.c     | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  sheep/sheep.c  |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Tsuji-san, could you test this patchset on your test environment? The
request blocking time depends on a number of stored object, so testing
with large disks is ideal (e.g. preparing a cluster which consists 3
node with 2TB disk, let nodes have more than 1TB objects, and adding
one node to the cluster).

This would require amount of time, sorry for that...

Thanks,
Hitoshi