operations. The glocks are basically a lock plus some routines which deal
with cache management. The following rules apply for the cache:
-========== ========== ============== ========== ==============
-Glock mode Cache data Cache Metadata Dirty Data Dirty Metadata
-========== ========== ============== ========== ==============
- UN No No No No
- SH Yes Yes No No
- DF No Yes No No
- EX Yes Yes Yes Yes
-========== ========== ============== ========== ==============
+========== ============== ========== ========== ==============
+Glock mode Cache Metadata Cache data Dirty Data Dirty Metadata
+========== ============== ========== ========== ==============
+ UN No No No No
+ DF Yes No No No
+ SH Yes Yes No No
+ EX Yes Yes Yes Yes
+========== ============== ========== ========== ==============
These rules are implemented using the various glock operations which
are defined for each type of glock. Not all types of glocks use
Table of glock operations and per type constants:
-============= =============================================================
+============== =============================================================
Field Purpose
-============= =============================================================
-go_xmote_th Called before remote state change (e.g. to sync dirty data)
+============== =============================================================
+go_sync Called before remote state change (e.g. to sync dirty data)
go_xmote_bh Called after remote state change (e.g. to refill cache)
go_inval Called if remote state change requires invalidating the cache
go_demote_ok Returns boolean value of whether its ok to demote a glock
(e.g. checks timeout, and that there is no cached data)
-go_lock Called for the first local holder of a lock
-go_unlock Called on the final local unlock of a lock
+go_instantiate Called when a glock has been acquired
+go_held Called every time a glock holder is acquired
go_dump Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on
error to dump glock to the log.
-go_type The type of the glock, ``LM_TYPE_*``
go_callback Called if the DLM sends a callback to drop this lock
+go_unlocked Called when a glock is unlocked (dlm_unlock())
+go_type The type of the glock, ``LM_TYPE_*``
go_flags GLOF_ASPACE is set, if the glock has an address space
associated with it
-============= =============================================================
+============== =============================================================
The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock
grant for which we ignore remote demote requests. This is in order to
remote callback, that gives the userspace program time to make
some progress before the pages are unmapped.
-There is a plan to try and remove the go_lock and go_unlock callbacks
-if possible, in order to try and speed up the fast path though the locking.
-Also, eventually we hope to make the glock "EX" mode locally shared
-such that any local locking will be done with the i_mutex as required
-rather than via the glock.
+Eventually, we hope to make the glock "EX" mode locally shared such that any
+local locking will be done with the i_mutex as required rather than via the
+glock.
Locking rules for glock operations:
-============= ====================== =============================
+============== ====================== =============================
Operation GLF_LOCK bit lock held gl_lockref.lock spinlock held
-============= ====================== =============================
-go_xmote_th Yes No
+============== ====================== =============================
+go_sync Yes No
go_xmote_bh Yes No
go_inval Yes No
go_demote_ok Sometimes Yes
-go_lock Yes No
-go_unlock Yes No
+go_instantiate No No
+go_held No No
go_dump Sometimes Yes
go_callback Sometimes (N/A) Yes
-============= ====================== =============================
+go_unlocked Yes No
+============== ====================== =============================
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