summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/md-cluster.txt
AgeCommit message (Collapse)AuthorFilesLines
2016-05-04md-cluster: change array_sectors and update size are not supportedGuoqing Jiang1-0/+6
Currently, some features are not supported yet, such as change array_sectors and update size, so return EINVAL for them and listed it in document. Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-01-06md-cluster: update the documentationGuoqing Jiang1-86/+228
Update design documentation based on recent development. original version comes from Neil. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-08-31md-cluster: fix deadlock issue on message lockGuoqing Jiang1-2/+2
There is problem with previous communication mechanism, and we got below deadlock scenario with cluster which has 3 nodes. Sender Receiver Receiver token(EX) message(EX) writes message downconverts message(CR) requests ack(EX) get message(CR) gets message(CR) reads message reads message requests EX on message requests EX on message To fix this problem, we do the following changes: 1. the sender downconverts MESSAGE to CW rather than CR. 2. and the receiver request PR lock not EX lock on message. And in case we failed to down-convert EX to CW on message, it is better to unlock message otherthan still hold the lock. Reviewed-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Lidong Zhong <ldzhong@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-02-23md-cluster: Design DocumentationGoldwyn Rodrigues1-0/+176
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>