From: David Scott <dave@recoil.org> To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Cc: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@citrix.com>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>, Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam@citrix.com>, Euan Harris <euan.harris@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] oxenstored: improve transaction conflict handling Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:30:26 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <073CDE9C-45D1-4D8A-8CAD-1BA838E2A37A@recoil.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20160318163621.GC23307@citrix.com> > On 18 Mar 2016, at 16:36, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:33:35AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 05:51:08PM +0000, Jonathan Davies wrote: >>> This patch series makes a substantial improvement to oxenstored's transaction >>> handling. >>> >>> The original design of oxenstored assumed that a transaction would only ever >>> span a small subtree. In practice this is rarely the case and means that other >>> xenstore traffic overlapping with a transaction can cause it to fail with >>> EAGAIN. This leads to significant performance problems with toolstack operations >>> when there is a certain level of xenstore traffic coming from other sources. >>> >>> Instead, we observe that, although the transaction may span a large subtree, it >>> is very unlikely to read or write the same keys as other xenstore traffic. This >>> observation leads to an improved transaction conflict-handling algorithm in >>> which the transaction is replayed to check it is serializable. This approach is >>> superior in performance. >>> >>> The sixth patch is the main one that changes the way transaction conflicts are >>> handled. The first five patches prepare the way by performing some refactoring >>> and addition of infrastructure that allows for transactions to be replayed. The >>> seventh patch adds some extra logging. >> >> All the patches have quite the Reviewed-by list already so I would think >> these can go in now? >> > > We need an ack from Dave. Thanks for the reminder! Acked-by: David Scott <dave@recoil.org> > But, FWIW, the result is impressive, and the changes are only internal > to oxenstored, so I think it's pretty safe interface-wise or > protocol-wise. Indeed — thanks, Jonathan, for putting this together and thanks to Andrew, Jon and Euan for the review! I’ve wanted to see this work for ages, so I’m really pleased that it’s finally happened :-) Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-19 11:30 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-03-17 17:51 Jonathan Davies 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/7] oxenstored: refactor putting response on wire Jonathan Davies 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/7] oxenstored: remove some unused parameters Jonathan Davies 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 3/7] oxenstored: refactor request processing Jonathan Davies 2016-03-24 22:22 ` Boris Ostrovsky 2016-03-24 22:49 ` Andrew Cooper 2016-03-24 23:57 ` Boris Ostrovsky 2016-03-29 9:08 ` Jonathan Davies 2016-03-29 12:45 ` Boris Ostrovsky 2016-03-29 16:38 ` Wei Liu 2016-03-29 19:41 ` David Scott 2016-03-30 15:46 ` Jonathan Davies 2016-03-30 15:53 ` Wei Liu 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 4/7] oxenstored: keep track of each transaction's operations Jonathan Davies 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 5/7] oxenstored: move functions that process simple operations Jonathan Davies 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 6/7] oxenstored: replay transaction upon conflict Jonathan Davies 2016-03-17 17:51 ` [PATCH 7/7] oxenstored: log request and response during transaction replay Jonathan Davies 2016-03-18 14:33 ` [PATCH 0/7] oxenstored: improve transaction conflict handling Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2016-03-18 16:21 ` Jonathan Davies 2016-03-18 16:36 ` Wei Liu 2016-03-19 11:30 ` David Scott [this message]
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