Re: [RFC] DEPT(DEPendency Tracker) with DLM(Distributed Lock Manager)

[Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>]

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 02:24:53PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> We briefly talked about dept with DLM in an external channel.  However,
> it'd be great to discuss what to aim and how to make it in more detail,
> in this mailing list.
> 
> It's worth noting that dept doesn't track dependencies beyond different
> contexts to avoid adding false dependencies by any chance, which means
> though dept checks the dependency sanity *globally*, when it comes to
> creating dependencies, it happens only within e.g. each single system
> call context, each single irq context, each worker context, and so on,
> with its unique context id assigned to each independent context.
> 
> In order for dept to work on DLM, we need a way to assign a unique
> context id to each interesting context in DLM's point of view, and let
> dept know the id.  Once making it done, I think dept can work on DLM
> perfectly.

Plus, we need a way to share the global dependency graph used by dept
between nodes too.

	Byungchul
> 
> Thoughts or any concern?
> 
> 	Byungchul