[LU-10948] client cache open lock after N opens

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Minor
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.9.0
• Environment: cent server/sles client

Epic/Theme

Performance

• Assignee: Oleg Drokin
• Reporter: Bob Ciotti (Inactive)

Description

listed as minor but when a user does this, we start to get phone calls form other users and then page POC to identify code/user. Workaround is to terminate user job(s).

Oleg has said that Lustre has an existing feature for a client to acquire open lock but off by default. This to mimic NFS behavior.

Ideal change would be that we can specify a number of times that a file is opened on single client at which time lock is acquired. (e.g. 10th time)

Use case is naive user who loop in this way on like 5000+ threads in java:

do until till the sun turns black()

{ fd = open(*my_thread_ID, O_APPEND) calculate_something_small_but_useful() write(fd, *fortytwo, 42) close(fd }

Users often don't have complete control over the code they run and as a result may not be able to quickly make even simple changes.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: LU-5426 Add more controls for open file cache
• is related to: LU-12262 Improve sbi_flags checking
• is related to: LU-14694 racer timeouts with LU-10948
• is related to: LU-14743 Interop: sanity test 429 fails with 'multiop failed'
• is related to: LU-16463 llapi_open_by_fid open should not be cached systematically
• is related to: LU-7915 investigate heuristics for SPARK client getting MDS openlock
• is related to: LU-10957 Return more lock bits from MDS for open-create
• is related to: LU-11623 Allow caching of open-created dentries
• is related to: LU-4398 mdt_object_open_lock() may not flush conflicting handles
• is related to: LU-10269 Fixes for selective trybits
• is related to: LU-11199 mdsrate open() performance degradation
• is related to: LU-7915 investigate heuristics for SPARK client getting MDS openlock
• is related to: LU-8585 All Lustre test suites should pass with subdirectory mount
• is related to: LU-10955 Cancel open lock as part of close request