https://jira.whamcloud.com This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 9.4.14 940014 05-12-2023 https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5267 Lustre <p>Bugs such as <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5259" title="request gets stuck in UNREGISTERING phase" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-5259"><del>LU-5259</del></a> indicate that the ptlrpc state machine is fragile. In order to prevent similar regressions being introduced the expected behavior of the state machine should be documented. We can then use the documentation, and requisite understanding, to improve the code.</p> LU-5267

Document ptlrpc state machine

Task Minor Open Unresolved WC Triage Chris Horn Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:47:14 +0000 Sun, 30 Jan 2022 10:23:14 +0000 0 4 <p>Ideally we'd have a visual state machine drawing, but it would be tough to put that into ASCII art for Documentation/ptlrpc_state_machine.txt or some such thing. Can we put a PDF in Documentation instead?</p> <p>We could start with the LID at <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/lid/agi/agi_ptlrpc.html#index-490" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://wiki.lustre.org/lid/agi/agi_ptlrpc.html#index-490</a> for the written content.</p> <p>The LID is still accessible on old.lustre.org at <a href="http://wiki.old.lustre.org/lid/agi/agi_ptlrpc.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://wiki.old.lustre.org/lid/agi/agi_ptlrpc.html</a>.</p> Related LU-5259 Development Rank 1|hzwq4f: Rank (Obsolete) 14696