[Ocfs2-devel] OCFS2 cache coherent quesiton

[Gang He]

Hello Changwei,

You can take a look at dlm_lock related code, dlm_lock callback functions will handle how to make other nodes' certain inode page cache invalidate. Or, force the writing page cache to disk before read the data from other nodes.


Thanks
Gang


>>> 
> Hi OCFS2 experts,
> 
> According to OCFS2 user guide, OCFS2 supports cache consistency, which means 
> one node writes to shared disk while another node can get the newest data 
> just written.
> 
> I am working hard on OCFS2 kernel code. I am confused that OCFS2 also adopts 
> page cache provided by Linux Kernel, however, page cache does not know 
> anything about other nodes in cluster.
> 
> Well, my question is that if data is cached by page cache in one node, how 
> could another node read the newest data from it? At this scenario, the page 
> cache is dirty and the disk data is old. How OCFS2 can support cache 
> consistency?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> 
> Gechangwei
> H3C Technologies Co., Limited
> 
> 
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