Commit f330bd2f authored by Kirill Smelkov's avatar Kirill Smelkov

X wcfs/client: Overview += interaction with virtmem layer

parent 990afac1
......@@ -32,28 +32,19 @@
// views are a bit outdated, but close to head, which means that in practice
// the kernel cache for /head/bigfile/* is being used almost 100% of the time.
//
// A mapping for bigfile X @at is built from OS-level memory mapping of on-WCFS
// files as
// A mapping for bigfile X @at is built from OS-level memory mappings of
// on-WCFS files as
//
// ___ /@revA/bigfile/X
// __ /@revB/bigfile/X
// _ /@revC/bigfile/X
// + ...
// ─── ───── ────────────────────────── ───── /head/bigfile/X
// ___ /@revA/bigfile/X
// __ /@revB/bigfile/X
// _ /@revC/bigfile/X
// + ...
// ─── ───── ────────────────────────── ───── /head/bigfile/X
//
// where @revR mmaps are being dynamically added/removed by this client package
// to maintain X@at data view according to WCFS invalidation protocol(*).
//
//
// API overview
//
// - `WCFS` represents filesystem-level connection to wcfs server.
// - `Conn` represents logical connection that provides view of data on wcfs
// filesystem as of particular database state.
// - `FileH` represent isolated file view under Conn.
// - `Mapping` represents one memory mapping of FileH.
//
//
// Integration with wendelin.core virtmem layer
//
// This client package can be used standalone, but additionally provides
......@@ -61,13 +52,36 @@
// Mapping is created it can be associated as serving base layer for a
// particular virtmem VMA via FileH.mmap(vma=...). In that case, since virtmem
// itself adds another layer of dirty pages over read-only base provided by
// Mapping(+), the Mapping will interact with virtmem layer to coordinate
// Mapping
//
// ┌──┐ ┌──┐
// │RW│ │RW│ ← virtmem VMA dirty pages
// └──┘ └──┘
// +
// VMA base = X@at view provided by Mapping:
//
// ___ /@revA/bigfile/X
// __ /@revB/bigfile/X
// _ /@revC/bigfile/X
// + ...
// ─── ───── ────────────────────────── ───── /head/bigfile/X
//
// the Mapping will interact with virtmem layer to coordinate
// mapping memory updates.
//
//
// API overview
//
// - `WCFS` represents filesystem-level connection to wcfs server.
// - `Conn` represents logical connection that provides view of data on wcfs
// filesystem as of particular database state.
// - `FileH` represent isolated file view under Conn.
// - `Mapping` represents one memory mapping of FileH.
//
//
// --------
//
// (*) see wcfs.go documentation for overview and details of WCFS isolation protocol.
// (+) Mapping is already 2-layer as depicted above.
#ifndef _NXD_WCFS_H_
#define _NXD_WCFS_H_
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