[Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] make ocfs2/o2net reliable

[Gang He]

Hello Changwei,

Base on your description, it looks make sense.
Since I uses fs/dlm kernel module, it looks stable.
Do you compare both dlm implementation? maybe can learn from each other.


Thanks
Gang


>>> 
> Hi all,
> As far as we know, ocfs2/o2net is not a reliable message mechanism. 
> Messages might get lost due to a sudden TCP socket connection shutdown. 
> And the only customer of o2net is ocfs2/dlm, so this may cause ocfs2/dlm 
> hang(missing AST and ASSERT MASTER). Sometimes it also causes 
> ocfs2/dlm's infinite wait for accomplishment of DLM recovery. But that 
> won't happen since target node is still heartbeating and no dlm recovery 
> procedure will be launched.
> 
> So I think above cases drive us to improve current ocfs2/o2net making it 
> more reliable. I already have a draft design for it. And we indeed need 
> to change o2net behavior.
> 
> To accomplish this goal, we tag each o2net message with a sequence 
> ::msg_seq to let receiver tell if the newly coming message is a 
> duplicated one or not and ::msg_seq will work as a key value for 
> searching a following key structure in a red-black tree.
> 
> A brandy new structure is added to o2net named as *Message Holder*, it 
> is responsible for _handle_status_ storing.
> 
> When TCP has to shutdown or reset due to unknown reason, although we 
> lose the packets in send or receive buffer, o2net still manages those 
> messages. This gives a chance to o2net to re-send the messages once TCP 
> connection is established again.
> 
> Below diagram demonstrates how it works:
> 
> SEND					RECV
> send message				
> tag message header with ::msg_seq	
> 					search for Message Holder with
> 					  ::msg_seq
> 					NOT FOUND - insert one
> 					(FOUND - means a duplicated one)
> 					handle message
> 					store status into Message Holder
> 					send back status
> instruct RECV to remove MH
> 					notify SEND that MH is already
> 					  removed
> return to caller
> 
> I am expecting your comments especially from @Mark, @Joseph and @Junxiao.
> 
> Thanks,
> Changwei.
> 
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