hast vs ggate+gmirror sychrnoisation speed

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 28 16:31:21 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:05:20PM +0300, Mikolaj Golub wrote:
> In hast_proto_send() we send header and then data. Couldn't it be that
> remote_send and sync threads interfere and their packets are mixed? May be some
> synchronization is needed here?
> 
> I set sleep(1) in hast_proto_send() between proto_send(header) and
> proto_send(data). The error started to occur frequently.

Synchronization requests are sent through the remote thread just like
regular I/O requests, exactly because of races that can occur.

I looked at the code and the keepalive packets arbe sent from another
thread. Could you try turning them off in primary.c and see if that
helps?

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