Bug 459152
| Summary: | [RFE] add asynchronous version of mcast_joined to CPG | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Alan Conway <aconway> | ||||
| Component: | corosync | Assignee: | Angus Salkeld <asalkeld> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Cluster QE <mspqa-list> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | bstevens, ccaulfie, cluster-maint, iannis, sdake, snagar | ||||
| Target Milestone: | beta | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Reopened | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-02-15 16:58:54 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Forward to Steve as he is working on the new IPC layer that is needed to support this. reassigning to rhel6 since that is the new upstream version for corosync. If you would like this in a rhel5 release please open a separate bz. thanks This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. It would mean a performance improvement for MRG but it's not a critical requirement in the short term. Honza asked to implement this feature. reassigned. Development Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request. |
Created attachment 314341 [details] modified cpg.c to make mcast asynchrnous. Description of problem: cpg_mcast_joined is a synchronous call, i.e. the caller has to wait for the IPC round-trip to the aisexec daemon before proceeding. An asynchronous call from the client library would give much better throughput. This is to support the MRG project in order to use CPG as its replication protocol. Further work needed to determine the extent of the benefit, but inital experiment below showed a threefold speedup. I hacked lib/cpg.c (attached) to ignore the response in mcast_joined and instead retrieve and discard them in the dispatch poll. This almost triples throughput of the cpgbench test on my laptop. I'm not proposing this hack as an implementation, it was just to get an idea of possible performance impact. At least the following things are wrong with it: - async_mcast should be a new API, existing sync mcast should remain. - wrong locking around response_fd - polling 2 fd's in dispatch so cpg_fd_get() is no longer sufficient. - cpgbench goes into flow control quickly (not surprising) but then never gets out, I think I missed something about resetting flow control. A neater solution might be to drop the responses at the daemon for successful mcasts and send an error response to the dispatch_fd for failed mcasts so there's only 1 fd that needs to be polled. Flow control changes as a result of async mcasts would also need to be sent to dispatch_fd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openais-0.80.3-17.fc9.i386 Steps to Reproduce: Run cpgbench against normal AIS and with the attached changes to see the throughput difference. I saw almost a factor of 3 improvement. Additional info: