Problem: The throughput for a 'dd' workload was much less for arbiter configuration when compared to normal replica-3 volume. There were 2 issues: i)arbiter_writev was using the request dict as response dict while unwinding, leading to incorect GLUSTERFS_WRITE_IS_APPEND and GLUSTERFS_OPEN_FD_COUNT values (=4), leading to immediate post-ops because is_afr_delayed_changelog_post_op_needed() failed due to afr_are_multiple_fds_opened() check. ii) The arbiter code in afr was setting local->transaction.{start and len} =0 to take full file locks. What this meant was even for simultaenous but non-overlapping writevs, afr_transaction_eager_lock_init() was not happening because afr_locals_overlap() always stays true. Consequently is_afr_delayed_changelog_post_op_needed() failed due to local->delayed_post_op not being set. Fix: i) Send appropriate response dict values in arbiter_writev. ii) Modify flock params instead of local->transaction.{start and len} to take full file locks in the transaction. Also changed _fill_writev_xdata() in posix to fill rsp_xdata for whatever key is requested for. Change-Id: I1c5fc5e98aba49ade540bb441a022e65b753432a BUG: 1324004 Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravishankar@redhat.com> Reported-by: Robert Rauch <robert.rauch@gns-systems.de> Reported-by: Russel Purinton <russell.purinton@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/13906 Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@redhat.com> Smoke: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> CentOS-regression: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> NetBSD-regression: NetBSD Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.org>