Hi, I use Ceph 0.61.8 and Xen 4.2.2 (Debian) in production, and can't use kernel 3.10.* on dom0, which hang very soon. But it's visible in kernel logs of the dom0, not the domU. Anyway, you should probably re-try with kernel 3.9.11 for the dom0 (I also use 3.10.9 in domU). Olivier Le mardi 27 août 2013 à 11:46 +0100, James Dingwall a écrit : > Hi, > > I am doing some experimentation with Ceph and Xen (on the same host) and > I'm experiencing some problems with the rbd device that I'm using as the > block device. My environment is: > > 2 node Ceph 0.67.2 cluster, 4x OSD (btrfs) and 1x mon > Xen 4.3.0 > Kernel 3.10.9 > > The domU I'm trying to build is from the Ubuntu 13.04 desktop release. > When I pass through the rbd (format 1 or 2) device as > phy:/dev/rbd/rbd/ubuntu-test then the domU has no problems reading data > from it, the test I ran was: > > for i in $(seq 0 1023) ; do > dd if=/dev/xvda of=/dev/null bs=4k count=1024 skip=$(($i * 4)) > done > > However writing data causes the domU to hang while while i is still in > single figures but it doesn't seem consistent about the exact value. > for i in $(seq 0 1023) ; do > dd of=/dev/xvda of=/dev/zero bs=4k count=1024 seek=$(($i * 4)) > done > > eventually the kernel in the domU will print a hung task warning. I > have tried the domU as pv and hvm (with xen_platform_pci = 1 and 0) but > have the same behaviour in both cases. Once this state is triggered on > the rbd device then any interaction with it in dom0 will result in the > same hang. I'm assuming that there is some unfavourable interaction > between ceph/rbd and blkback but I haven't found anything in the dom0 > logs so I would like to know if anyone has some suggestions about where > to start trying to hunt this down. > > Thanks, > James > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com