Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] block/gluster: limit the transfer size to 512 MiB

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 28.03.2019 um 14:35 hat Stefano Garzarella geschrieben:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:59:55PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 28.03.2019 um 11:52 hat Stefano Garzarella geschrieben:
> > > Several versions of GlusterFS (3.12? -> 6.0.1) fail when the
> > > transfer size is greater or equal to 1024 MiB, so we are
> > > limiting the transfer size to 512 MiB to avoid this rare issue.
> > > 
> > > Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691320
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > RFC:
> > > Should I add a parameter to allow the user to modify the max_transfer
> > > variable?
> > 
> > Ideally, gluster would have provided a way to detect automatically
> > whether the bug is present. But since you suggest a user option, I'm
> > afraid they haven't?
> 
> Unfortunately, all version that I tried have this bug, also the latest
> available, for this reason, I hard coded the limit in the gluster driver.
> I also think that this limit is not reached very often for standard
> operations.
> 
> Maybe I should check the version of the library during the configuration,
> when they will fix the issue.
> 
> What do you suggest?

Oh, sorry, I should have actually looked at the BZ. I assumed it was
already fixed, but it's not. Then I think what you have is fine for now.

Maybe you could suggest to the gluster people that they add some kind of
a feature flag or something somewhere together with the fix so we can
find out at runtime whether the installed gluster libs are fixed or not.

Kevin