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* [PATCH 0/10] ocfs2_dlmfs improvements
@ 2010-02-05  0:54 Joel Becker
  2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] ocfs2_dlmfs: Add capabilities parameter Joel Becker
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From: Joel Becker @ 2010-02-05  0:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ocfs2-devel; +Cc: linux-kernel, mfasheh

ocfs2 ships with its own cluster stack, o2cb.  The dlm portion, o2dlm,
is accessible to userspace via a custom filesystem, ocfs2_dlmfs.  Files
in this filesytem represent cluster lock resources.  Open the file, and
you take the lock.  The libo2dlm library wraps this filesystem,
providing a very simplified cluster locking API to userspace programs.

One of the things left out of the simplified interface is the ability to
learn that other nodes want a lock.  Notification that another node
wants the lock is called a "blocking asynchronous system trap", or
"bast".  Kernel users of o2dlm can register basts as they please, but
programs using libo2dlm and ocfs2_dlmfs cannot.  Thus, they must not
hold a lock forever; other nodes will never get the lock.  

The first improvement in this series adds poll(2) support to
ocfs2_dlmfs.  POLLIN on an open ocfs2_dlmfs flie signals a bast.  Now
user programs can hold a lock until they are notified to release it.

Another limitation of ocfs2_dlmfs is its reliance on o2dlm and thus the
entire o2cb cluster stack.  The ocfs2 filesystem has a glue layer,
called "stackglue", that allows it to switch between o2cb+o2dlm and the
userspace cluster stacks that work with fs/dlm.  This means userspace
programs for ocfs2 have to know about libo2dlm when o2dlm is employed
and libdlm when fs/dlm is employed.

The second improvement is to make ocfs2_dlmfs use stackglue.  Instead of
directly calling o2dlm APIs, it uses stackglue to remain agnostic of the
cluster stack.  Now a system using a userspace cluster stack and fs/dlm
can mount ocfs2_dlmfs and use libo2dlm.  This benefits everyone.

Joel

[Pull]
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2.git dlmfs-stackglue
[View]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dlmfs-stackglue

 fs/ocfs2/Makefile                  |    1 +
 fs/ocfs2/dlm/Makefile              |    3 +-
 fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/Makefile            |    5 +
 fs/ocfs2/{dlm => dlmfs}/dlmfs.c    |   97 ++++++++++----
 fs/ocfs2/{dlm => dlmfs}/dlmfsver.c |    0
 fs/ocfs2/{dlm => dlmfs}/dlmfsver.h |    0
 fs/ocfs2/{dlm => dlmfs}/userdlm.c  |  253 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 fs/ocfs2/{dlm => dlmfs}/userdlm.h  |   10 +-
 fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c                 |  198 ++++++++++++++--------------
 fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h                   |    2 +-
 fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_lockingver.h        |    2 +
 fs/ocfs2/stack_o2cb.c              |   37 +++---
 fs/ocfs2/stack_user.c              |   49 +++-----
 fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c               |   98 +++++++++-----
 fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h               |   95 ++++++++------
 15 files changed, 464 insertions(+), 386 deletions(-)



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2010-02-05  0:54 [PATCH 0/10] ocfs2_dlmfs improvements Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] ocfs2_dlmfs: Add capabilities parameter Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] ocfs2_dlmfs: Use poll() to signify BASTs Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] ocfs2_dlmfs: Move to its own directory Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] ocfs2: Pass lksbs back from stackglue ast/bast functions Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] ocfs2: Attach the connection to the lksb Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] ocfs2: Hang the locking proto on the cluster conn and use it in asts Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:55 ` [PATCH 07/10] ocfs2: Remove the ast pointers from ocfs2_stack_plugins Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:55 ` [PATCH 08/10] ocfs2: Pass the locking protocol into ocfs2_cluster_connect() Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:55 ` [PATCH 09/10] ocfs2_dlmfs: Use the stackglue Joel Becker
2010-02-05  0:55 ` [PATCH 10/10] ocfs2_dlmfs: Enable the use of user cluster stacks Joel Becker

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