Hi all, Couple of weeks ago I started an experimental Pech OSD project [1] for several reasons: I need easy hackable OSD in C with IO path only, without fail-over, log-based replication, PG layer and all other things. I want to test performance on different replication strategies (client-based, primary-copy, chain) having simplest and fastest file storage (yes, step back to filestore) which reads and writes directly to files without any journals involved. Eventually this Pech OSD can be a starting point to something different, something which is not RADOS, which is fast, with minimum IO ordering requirements and acts as a RAID 1 cluster, e.g. something which is described here [2]. Q: What is this name, Pech? A: Just an anagram created from Ceph. Also this is a German word which perfectly describes this work. Pronounced exactly the same [peh]. Q: Why C, why Linux kernel sources? A: I found more comfortable to hack Ceph, analyzing protocol implementation, monitor and OSD client code reading Linux kernel C code, instead of legacy OSD C++ code or Crimson project. Linux kernel path net/ceph has everything I need: monitor client, v1 messenger, osdmap, monmap, all headers and defines. Since by default kernel sources is cleansed of external library dependencies this is just a homework exercise to provide a layer of kernel API in order to build all sources from net/ceph path as a userspace application with no modifications made. I also really like the idea of code unification: same sources can be compiled and used on both sides. Continuing this hackary madness IMO it is possible to compile drivers/block/rbd.c in userspace and use it as a separate very light rbd client. Why? Same 1 thread architecture (see next question for details) can be a win in terms of performance for a client, at the same time it may be interesting for debug purposes or fast prototypes. Q: What is the architecture? A: I do not use threads, I use cooperative scheduling and jump from task contexts using setjmp()/longjmp() calls. This model perfectly fits UP kernel with disabled preemption, thus reworked scheduling (sched.c), workqueue.c and timer.c code runs the event loop. So again, no atomic operations, no locks, everything is one thread. In future number of event loops can be equal to a number of physical CPUs, where each event loop is executed from a dedicated pthread context and pinned to a particular CPU. Does that sound similar to Crimson and can be described in all the same buzzy words from advertising brochures? Absolutely. Q: What this noop OSD can do now? A: Now it can only: o Connect to monitors and "boot" OSD, i.e. mark it as UP. o On Ctrl+C mark OSD on monitors as DOWN and gracefully exit. Q: What is not yet ported from kernel sources? A: Crypto part is noop now, thus monitors should be run with auth=none. To make cephx work direct copy-paste of kernel crypto sources has to be done, or a wrapper over openssl lib should be written, see src/ceph/crypto.c interface empty stubs for details. Q: What are the instructions to build and start Pech OSD? A: Make: $ make -j8 Start new Ceph cluster with 1 OSD and then stop everything. We start monitors on specified port and witg -X option, i.e. auth=none. $ CEPH_PORT=50000 MON=1 MDS=0 OSD=1 MGR=0 ../src/vstart.sh --memstore -n -X $ ../src/stop.sh Restart only Ceph monitor(s): $ MON=1 MDS=0 OSD=0 MGR=0 ../src/vstart.sh Start pech-osd accessing monitor over v1 protocol: $ ./pech-osd mon_addrs=ip.ip.ip.ip:50001 name=0 fsid=`cat ./osd0/fsid` log_level=5 For DEBUG purposes maximum output log level can be specified: log_level=7 In order not to confuse valgrind with stack allocations/deallocations USE_VALGRIND=1 option can be passed to make: $ make USE_VALGRIND=1 Have fun! [1] https://github.com/rouming/pech [2] https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/dev@ceph.io/thread/N46NR7NBHWBQL4B2AS… -- Roman