Re: [Gluster-devel] rpc problems when using syncops in callbacks

[Krishnan Parthasarathi]

Fog,

On 04/29/2013 01:57 PM, fog - wrote:

Hello Avati,

I am wrapping the syncop call in a synctask_new (otherwise glusterFS will run into a null pointer @ synctask_get in the SYNCOP macro & crash). Below is some code to show how I do it currently to test the syncops.

typedef struct{
    xlator_t *this;    loc_t *loc;    dict_t *dic;
}syncstore_args;

int32_t __xattr_store_sync(void* data)
{
    syncstore_args *args = (syncstore_args*)data;
    return syncop_setxattr(FIRST_CHILD(args->this), args->loc, args->dic, 0);
}

int32_t xattr_store_sync(xlator_t *this, call_frame_t *frame, loc_t *loc, dict_t *dic)
{
    syncstore_args args = {this, loc, dic};
    return synctask_new(this->ctx->env, __xattr_store_sync, NULL, NULL, &args);

If you don't provide a synctask_cbk_t to synctask_new, you are using synctask in a 'blocking' mode.
That is, the thread calling synctask_new would block until the synctask_fn_t function (ie, __xattr_store_sync) returns.
An alternative way to do this would be,

int32_t xattr_store_sync(xlator_t *this, call_frame_t *frame, loc_t *loc, dict_t *dic)
{
    syncstore_args args = {this, loc, dic};
    return synctask_new(this->ctx->env, __xattr_store_sync, __xattr_store_sync_cbk, NULL, &args);
}

int32_t __xattr_store_sync_cbk (int ret, /*and the other args*/)
{
    // Your code goes here
    return ret;
}

Now, all file operations performed using syncop_* inside __xattr_store_sync would have the synchronous flavour, while leaving the calling thread (thread calling xattr_store_sync fn) 'free'. This should avoid the hang issue.

HTH,
krish

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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:19:11 -0700
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] rpc problems when using syncops in callbacks
From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden

Note that you need to place your syncop code in a synctask function strictly within a syncenv (by calling synctask_new(). You're probably calling syncop_XXX() directly in your xlator code?

Avati

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:40 AM, fog - <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am trying to use syncops in a custom translator to keep my code at least borderline readable, but I am having limited success.

Problem Symptoms:
Using a syncop in a regular fop is fine. However, in a callback it causes a 'freeze' (synctask_yield called by the SYNCOP macro doesn't return).

What seems to be the Problem:

Looking at the traces, there is no corresponding trace from rpc_clnt_reply_init on the client to the trace from rpcsvc_submit_generic on the server. In other words, the rpc reply gets sent but isn't correctly received. Obviously this is not really a networking problem but something else... I'd guess it's a deadlock somewhere on the client?

From the point of the syncop call onwards the client doesn't 'get' any rpc replies any more (the next GlusterFS Handshake sent by the client, which is received by the server and replied to, leads to a disconnection accordingly).

Again: This problem is only occurring when calling a syncop from a callback function inside my translator, if I call the same syncop in a fop call it completes fine.

I hope you can make sense out of the above problem description.

Thanks for your time ~

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