Re: libvirt with sanlock

[Frido Roose <fr.roose@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Alex Jia <ajia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/13/2012 10:42 PM, Frido Roose wrote:

Hello,

I configured libvirtd with the sanlock lock manager plugin:

# rpm -qa | egrep "libvirt-0|sanlock-[01]"

libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64

sanlock-1.8-2.el6.x86_64

libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64

# egrep -v "^#|^$" /etc/libvirt/qemu-sanlock.conf 

auto_disk_leases = 1

disk_lease_dir = "/var/lib/libvirt/sanlock"

host_id = 4

# mount | grep sanlock

/dev/mapper/kvm--shared-sanlock on /var/lib/libvirt/sanlock type gfs2 (rw,noatime,hostdata=jid=0)

# cat /etc/sysconfig/sanlock 

SANLOCKOPTS="-R 1 -o 30"

I increased the sanlock io_timeout to 30 seconds (default = 10), because the sanlock dir is on a GFS2 volume and can be blocked for some time while fencing and journal recovery takes place.

With the default sanlock io timeout, I get lease timeouts because IO is blocked:

   Mar  5 15:37:14 raiti sanlock[5858]: 3318 s1 check_our_lease warning 79 last_success 3239

   Mar  5 15:37:15 raiti sanlock[5858]: 3319 s1 check_our_lease failed 80

So far, all fine, but when I restart sanlock and libvirtd, it takes about 2 * 30 seconds = 1 minute before libvirtd is usable.  "virsh list" hangs during this time.  I can still live with that...

But it gets worse after a reboot, when running a "virsh list" even takes a couple of minutes (like about 5 minutes) before it responds.  After this initial time, virsh is responding normally, so it looks like an initialization issue to me.

Is this a configuration issue, a bug, or expected behavior?

Hi Frido,
I'm not sure whether you met a sanlock AVC error in your /var/log/audit/audit.log, could you check it and provide your selinux-policy version? in addition, you should turn on selinux bool value for sanlock, for example,

# getsebool -a|grep sanlock
virt_use_sanlock --> off
# setsebool -P virt_use_sanlock on
# getsebool -a|grep sanlock
virt_use_sanlock --> on

Hello Alex,

Thanks for your suggestions!  I don't have any AVC errors in audit.log, but I also disabled selinux on the nodes for now.

 

In addition, could you provide libvirt log as a attachment? please refer the following configuration:

1. /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

log_filters="1:libvirt 1:conf 1:locking"
log_outputs="1:file:/var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log"

2. service libvirtd restart

3. repeat your test steps

I enabled the extra debug logging, which you can find as attachment.  Instead of restarting libvirtd, I did a echo b >/proc/sysreq-trigger to force an unclean reboot.

The result was that it took 300s to register the lockspace:

   09:59:28.919: 3457: debug : virLockManagerSanlockInit:267 : version=1000000 configFile=/etc/libvirt/qemu-sanlock.conf flags=0

   10:05:29.539: 3457: debug : virLockManagerSanlockSetupLockspace:247 : Lockspace /var/lib/libvirt/sanlock/__LIBVIRT__DISKS__ has been registered

I also had a little discussion about this with David Teigland on the sanlock dev list.  He gave me some more details about how the delays and timeouts work, and it explains why it takes 300s.

I'll quote his reply:

David:

"Yes, all the timeouts are derived from the io_timeout and are dictated by

the recovery requirements and the algorithm the host_id leases are based
on: "Light-Weight Leases for Storage-Centric Coordination" by Gregory
Chockler and Dahlia Malkhi.

Here are the actual equations copied from sanlock_internal.h.
"delta" refers to host_id leases that take a long time to acquire at startup
"free" corresponds to starting up after a clean shutdown
"held" corresponds to starting up after an unclean shutdown

You should find that with 30 sec io timeout these come out to 1 min / 4 min
which you see when starting after a clean / unclean shutdown."

Since I configured an io_timeout of 30s in sanlock (SANLOCKOPTS="-R 1 -o 30"),

the delays at sanlock startup is defined by the delta_acquire_held_min variable, 

which is calculated as:

        int max = host_dead_seconds;

        if (delta_large_delay > max)

                max = delta_large_delay;

        int delta_acquire_held_min = max;

So max is host_dead_seconds, which is calculated as:

int host_dead_seconds      = id_renewal_fail_seconds + WATCHDOG_FIRE_TIMEOUT;

And id_renewal_fail_seconds is:

int id_renewal_fail_seconds = 8 * io_timeout_seconds;

WATCHDOG_FIRE_TIMEOUT = 60

So that makes 8 * 30 + 60, or a total of 300s before the lock can be acquired.

And that's exactly the time that is shown in libvirtd.log before the lockspace is registered.

When a proper reboot is done, or when sanlock/libvirtd is just restarted, delta_acquire_free_min

defines the delay:

int delta_short_delay      = 2 * io_timeout_seconds;

int delta_acquire_free_min = delta_short_delay;

Which is confirmed by the 60s delay in the libvirtd.log file:

   10:33:54.097: 7983: debug : virLockManagerSanlockInit:267 : version=1000000 configFile=/etc/libvirt/qemu-sanlock.conf flags=0

   10:34:55.111: 7983: debug : virLockManagerSanlockSetupLockspace:247 : Lockspace /var/lib/libvirt/sanlock/__LIBVIRT__DISKS__ has been registered

So the whole delay is caused by the io_timeout which is set to 30s because the lockspace is on GFS2,

and the GFS2 volume can be locked for some time while a node gets fenced, and the journal is applied.

Depending on clean/unclean restarts, the delay may differ.

So delta_acquire_held_min is based on host_dead_seconds, because sanlock wants to be sure that the

lock won't be reacquired before the host is actually dead.

David told me that sanlock is supposed to use a block device.

I wonder if this makes sense when used on top of GFS2, which already has its own locking and safety

mechanism...  It looks to me like it just adds the delay without any reason in this case?

Perhaps delta_acquire_held_min should be the same as delta_acquire_free_min because we don't need

this safety delay on top of gfs2.

For NFS, it may be a whole other story...

Best regards,

Frido

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