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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam@citrix.com>,
	Dave Scott <dave@recoil.org>,
	Euan Harris <euan.harris@citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] oxenstored: improve transaction conflict handling
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:33:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160318143335.GD27285@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458237075-13777-1-git-send-email-jonathan.davies@citrix.com>

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?

Thought oddly I didn't see any discussion on xen-devel for this?

> 
> Jonathan Davies (7):
>   oxenstored: refactor putting response on wire
>   oxenstored: remove some unused parameters
>   oxenstored: refactor request processing
>   oxenstored: keep track of each transaction's operations
>   oxenstored: move functions that process simple operations
>   oxenstored: replay transaction upon conflict
>   oxenstored: log request and response during transaction replay
> 
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/Makefile        |    1 +
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/connection.ml   |    5 +-
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/define.ml       |    1 +
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/oxenstored.conf |    1 +
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/process.ml      |  344 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/transaction.ml  |   21 +-
>  tools/ocaml/xenstored/xenstored.ml    |    1 +
>  7 files changed, 239 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-18 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17 17:51 [PATCH 0/7] oxenstored: improve transaction conflict handling 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 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-03-18 16:21   ` [PATCH 0/7] oxenstored: improve transaction conflict handling Jonathan Davies
2016-03-18 16:36   ` Wei Liu
2016-03-19 11:30     ` David Scott

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