Changes to support Node Local extents.

[hariharan-devarajan]

• The client has a new configuration for node_local_extents
• On first read of a laminated file if client.node_local_extents is enabled we fetch extents from server and update the local extents
• This allows reads to be executed locally
• on server we get our extents using unifyfs_invoke_find_extents_rpc

In these cases we do only one rpc per request group and fetch extents for all files which are laminated.

Description

Currently, unifyfs clients read node-local data from the server thread which is a bottleneck. In the case of Laminated files, we can fetch the node-local extents from the server and perform read locally.

Motivation and Context

This feature would enable faster reads by clients in the case of laminated files. Some examples of this are,

• read-only workload where data is cached in unifyfs node-locally.
• producer/consumer use cases like MuMMI which are colocated in the same node.

  How Has This Been Tested?

  In the API test case, I have enabled node_local_extents to true. This works with existing tests well as for non-laminated files this optimization is not applied. Where as for laminated files it is.

Types of changes

• [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [X ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• [X ] Performance enhancement (non-breaking change which improves efficiency)
• [ ] Code cleanup (non-breaking change which makes code smaller or more readable)
• [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• [ ] Testing (addition of new tests or update to current tests)
• [ ] Documentation (a change to man pages or other documentation)

Checklist:

• [ ] My code follows the UnifyFS code style requirements.
• [ ] I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• [X] I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• [ ] I have added tests to cover my changes.
• [X] All new and existing tests passed.
• [X] All commit messages are properly formatted.