[Drbd-dev] drbd threads and workqueues: For what is each responsible?

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 04:47:49PM -0700, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Would someone kindly point me at documentation or help me summarize the 
> kernel thread and workqueues used by each DRBD resource?
> 
> These are the ones I've found, please correct or add to my annotations as 
> necessary to get a better understanding of the internal data flow:
> 
> drbd_submit (workqueue, device->submit.wq):
>   The workqueue that handles new read/write requests from the block layer, 
>   updates the AL as necessary, sends IO to the peer (or remote-reads if 
>   diskless).  Does this thread write blocklayer-submitted IO to the 
>   backing device, too, or just metadata writes?
> 
> 
> drbd_receiver (thread, connection->receiver):
>   The connection handling thread.  Does this thread do anything besides 
>   make sure the connection is up and handle cleanup on disconnect?
>   
>   It looks like drbd_submit_peer_request is called several times from 
>   drbd_receiver.c, but is any disk IO performed by this thread?
> 
> 
> drbd_worker (thread, connection->worker):
>   The thread that does drbd work which is not directly related to IO 
>   passed in by the block layer; action based on the work bits from 
>   device->flags such as:
> 	do_md_sync, update_on_disk_bitmap, go_diskless, drbd_ldev_destroy, do_start_resync 
>   Do metadata updates happen through this thread via 
>   do_md_sync/update_on_disk_bitmap, or are they passed off to another 
>   thread for writes?  Is any blocklayer-submitted IO submitted by this 
>   thread?
> 
> 
> drbd_ack_receiver (thread, connection->ack_receiver):
>   Thread that receives all ACK types from the peer node.  
>   Does this thread perform any disk IO?  What kind?
> 
> 
> drbd_ack_sender (workqueue, connection->ack_sender):
>   Thread that sends ACKs to the peer node.
>   Does this thread perform any disk IO?  What kind?


May I ask what you are doing?
It may help if I'm aware of your goals.


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