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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 260006 28-Dec-2013 trociny

MFC r257155, r257582, r259191, r259192, r259193, r259194, r259195, r259196:

r257155:

Make hastctl list command output current queue sizes.

Reviewed by: pjd

r257582 (pjd):

Correct alignment.

r259191:

For memsync replication, hio_countdown is used not only as an
indication when a request can be moved to done queue, but also for
detecting the current state of memsync request.

This approach has problems, e.g. leaking a request if memsynk ack from
the secondary failed, or racy usage of write_complete, which should be
called only once per write request, but for memsync can be entered by
local_send_thread and ggate_send_thread simultaneously.

So the following approach is implemented instead:

1) Use hio_countdown only for counting components we waiting to
complete, i.e. initially it is always 2 for any replication mode.

2) To distinguish between "memsync ack" and "memsync fin" responses
from the secondary, add and use hio_memsyncacked field.

3) write_complete() in component threads is called only before
releasing hio_countdown (i.e. before the hio may be returned to the
done queue).

4) Add and use hio_writecount refcounter to detect when
write_complete() can be called in memsync case.

Reported by: Pete French petefrench ingresso.co.uk
Tested by: Pete French petefrench ingresso.co.uk

r259192:

Add some macros to make the code more readable (no functional chages).

r259193:

Fix compiler warnings.

r259194:

In remote_send_thread, if sending a request fails don't take the
request back from the receive queue -- it might already be processed
by remote_recv_thread, which lead to crashes like below:

(primary) Unable to receive reply header: Connection reset by peer.
(primary) Unable to send request (Connection reset by peer):
WRITE(954662912, 131072).
(primary) Disconnected from kopusha:7772.
(primary) Increasing localcnt to 1.
(primary) Assertion failed: (old > 0), function refcnt_release,
file refcnt.h, line 62.

Taking the request back was not necessary (it would properly be
processed by the remote_recv_thread) and only complicated things.

r259195:

Send wakeup to threads waiting on empty queue before releasing the
lock to decrease spurious wakeups.

Submitted by: davidxu

r259196:

Check remote protocol version only for the first connection (when it
is actually sent by the remote node).

Otherwise it generated confusing "Negotiated protocol version 1" debug
messages when processing the second connection.


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 255716 19-Sep-2013 trociny

When updating the map of dirty extents, most recently used extents are
kept dirty to reduce the number of on-disk metadata updates. The
sequence of operations is:

1) acquire the activemap lock;
2) update in-memory map;
3) if the list of keepdirty extents is changed, update on-disk metadata;
4) release the lock.

On-disk updates are not frequent in comparison with in-memory updates,
while require much more time. So situations are possible when one
thread is updating on-disk metadata and another one is waiting for the
activemap lock just to update the in-memory map.

Improve this by introducing additional, on-disk map lock: when
in-memory map is updated and it is detected that the on-disk map needs
update too, the on-disk map lock is acquired and the on-memory lock is
released before flushing the map.

Reported by: Yamagi Burmeister yamagi.org
Tested by: Yamagi Burmeister yamagi.org
Reviewed by: pjd
Approved by: re (marius)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 250914 22-May-2013 jkim

Improve compatibility with old flex and fix build with GCC.


# 247281 25-Feb-2013 trociny

Add i/o error counters to hastd(8) and make hastctl(8) display
them. This may be useful for detecting problems with HAST disks.

Discussed with and reviewed by: pjd
MFC after: 1 week


# 246922 17-Feb-2013 pjd

- Add support for 'memsync' mode. This is the fastest replication mode that's
why it will now be the default.
- Bump protocol version to 2 and add backward compatibility for version 1.
- Allow to specify hosts by kern.hostid as well (in addition to hostname and
kern.hostuuid) in configuration file.

Sponsored by: Panzura
Tested by: trociny


# 235789 22-May-2012 bapt

Fix world after byacc import:
- old yacc(1) use to magicially append stdlib.h, while new one don't
- new yacc(1) do declare yyparse by itself, fix redundant declaration of
'yyparse'

Approved by: des (mentor)


# 226463 17-Oct-2011 pjd

Allow to specify pidfile in HAST configuration file.

MFC after: 1 week


# 226462 17-Oct-2011 pjd

Remove redundant space.

MFC after: 1 week


# 225832 28-Sep-2011 pjd

If the underlying provider doesn't support BIO_FLUSH, log it only once
and don't bother trying in the future.

MFC after: 3 days


# 225830 28-Sep-2011 pjd

After every activemap change flush disk's write cache, so that write
reordering won't make the actual write to be committed before marking
the coresponding extent as dirty.

It can be disabled in configuration file.

If BIO_FLUSH is not supported by the underlying file system we log a warning
and never send BIO_FLUSH again to that GEOM provider.

MFC after: 3 days


# 222228 23-May-2011 pjd

Keep statistics on number of BIO_READ, BIO_WRITE, BIO_DELETE and BIO_FLUSH
requests as well as number of activemap updates.

Number of BIO_WRITEs and activemap updates are especially interesting, because
if those two are too close to each other, it means that your workload needs
bigger number of dirty extents. Activemap should be updated as rarely as
possible.

MFC after: 1 week


# 222119 20-May-2011 pjd

Rename ipv4/ipv6 to tcp4/tcp6.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 222108 19-May-2011 pjd

In preparation for IPv6 support allow to specify multiple addresses to
listen on.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# 220274 02-Apr-2011 pjd

Increase default timeout from 5 seconds to 20 seconds. 5 seconds is definitely
to short under heavy load and I was experiencing those timeouts in my recent
tests.

MFC after: 1 week


# 219873 22-Mar-2011 pjd

The proto API is a general purpose API, so don't use 'hast' in structures or
function names. It can now be used outside of HAST.

MFC after: 1 week


# 219818 21-Mar-2011 pjd

In hast.conf we define the other node's address in 'remote' variable.
This way we know how to connect to secondary node when we are primary.
The same variable is used by the secondary node - it only accepts
connections from the address stored in 'remote' variable.
In cluster configurations it is common that each node has its individual
IP address and there is one addtional shared IP address which is assigned
to primary node. It seems it is possible that if the shared IP address is
from the same network as the individual IP address it might be choosen by
the kernel as a source address for connection with the secondary node.
Such connection will be rejected by secondary, as it doesn't come from
primary node individual IP.

Add 'source' variable that allows to specify source IP address we want to
bind to before connecting to the secondary node.

MFC after: 1 week


# 219721 17-Mar-2011 trociny

For secondary, set 2 * HAST_KEEPALIVE seconds timeout for incoming
connection so the worker will exit if it does not receive packets from
the primary during this interval.

Reported by: Christian Vogt <Christian.Vogt@haw-hamburg.de>
Tested by: Christian Vogt <Christian.Vogt@haw-hamburg.de>
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week


# 219354 06-Mar-2011 pjd

Allow to compress on-the-wire data using two algorithms:
- HOLE - it simply turns all-zero blocks into few bytes header;
it is extremely fast, so it is turned on by default;
it is mostly intended to speed up initial synchronization
where we expect many zeros;
- LZF - very fast algorithm by Marc Alexander Lehmann, which shows
very decent compression ratio and has BSD license.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 219351 06-Mar-2011 pjd

Allow to checksum on-the-wire data using either CRC32 or SHA256.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 218218 03-Feb-2011 pjd

Setup another socketpair between parent and child, so that primary sandboxed
worker can ask the main privileged process to connect in worker's behalf
and then we can migrate descriptor using this socketpair to worker.
This is not really needed now, but will be needed once we start to use
capsicum for sandboxing.

MFC after: 1 week


# 218048 28-Jan-2011 pjd

Implement function that drops privileges by:
- chrooting to /var/empty (user hast home directory),
- setting groups to 'hast' (user hast primary group),
- setting real group id, effective group id and saved group id to 'hast',
- setting real user id, effective user id and saved user id to 'hast'.
At the end verify that those operations where successfull.

MFC after: 1 week


# 217969 27-Jan-2011 pjd

Remember created control connection so on fork(2) we can close it in child.

Found with: procstat(1)
MFC after: 1 week


# 212038 30-Aug-2010 pjd

Because it is very hard to make fork(2) from threaded process safe (we are
limited to async-signal safe functions in the child process), move all hooks
execution to the main (non-threaded) process.

Do it by maintaining connection (socketpair) between child and parent
and sending events from the child to parent, so it can execute the hook.

This is step in right direction for others reasons too. For example there is
one less problem to drop privs in worker processes.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Obtained from: Wheel Systems Sp. z o.o. http://www.wheelsystems.com


# 211886 27-Aug-2010 pjd

Allow to execute specified program on various HAST events.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Obtained from: Wheel Systems Sp. z o.o. http://www.wheelsystems.com


# 211882 27-Aug-2010 pjd

Implement keepalive mechanism inside HAST protocol so we can detect secondary
node failures quickly for HAST resources that are rarely modified.

Remove XXX from a comment now that the guard thread never sleeps infinitely.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Obtained from: Wheel Systems Sp. z o.o. http://www.wheelsystems.com


# 210883 05-Aug-2010 pjd

Prepare configuration parsing code to be called multiple times:
- Don't exit on errors if not requested.
- Don't keep configuration in global variable, but allocate memory for
configuration.
- Call yyrestart() before yyparse() so that on error in configuration file
we will start from the begining next time and not from the place we left of.

MFC after: 1 month


# 207371 29-Apr-2010 pjd

Fix a problem where hastd will stuck in recv(2) after sending request to
secondary, which died between send(2) and recv(2). Do it by adding timeout
to recv(2) for primary incoming and outgoing sockets and secondary outgoing
socket.

Reported by: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com>
Tested by: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 204076 18-Feb-2010 pjd

Please welcome HAST - Highly Avalable Storage.

HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.

HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.

For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by: TransIP BV