[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Ocfs2: Add a mount option "coherency=*" to handle cluster coherency for O_DIRECT writes.
Joel Becker
Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Mon Oct 11 14:16:43 PDT 2010
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:46:39PM +0800, Tristan Ye wrote:
> Currently, default behavior of O_DIRECT writes was allowing
> concurrent writing among nodes, no cluster coherency guaranteed
> (no EX locks was taken), it hurts buffered reads on other nodes
> by reading stale data from cache.
>
> The new mount option introduce a chance to choose two different
> behaviors for O_DIRECT writes:
>
> * coherency=full, as the default value, will disallow
> concurrent O_DIRECT writes by taking
> EX locks.
>
> * coherency=buffered, allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes
> without EX lock among nodes, which
> gains high performance at risk of
> getting stale data on other nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye at oracle.com>
This patch is now in the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git.
Joel
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