Re: iSCSI Multipath (Load Balancing) vs RBD Exclusive Lock

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 03/14/2018 01:26 PM, Michael Christie wrote:
> On 03/14/2018 01:06 PM, Maxim Patlasov wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 03/11/2018 08:54 AM, shadow_lin wrote:
>>     > Hi Jason,
>>     > How the old target gateway is blacklisted? Is it a feature of the target
>>     > gateway(which can support active/passive multipath) should provide or is
>>     > it only by rbd excusive lock?
>>     > I think excusive lock only let one client can write to rbd at the same
>>     > time,but another client can obtain the lock later when the lock is released.
>>
>>     For the case where we had the lock and it got taken:
>>
>>     If IO was blocked, then unjammed and it has already passed the target
>>     level checks then the IO will be failed by the OSD due to the
>>     blacklisting. When we get IO errors from ceph indicating we are
>>     blacklisted the tcmu rbd layer will fail the IO indicating the state
>>     change and that the IO can be retried. We will also tell the target
>>     layer rbd does not have the lock anymore and to just stop the iscsi
>>     connection while we clean up the blacklisting, running commands and
>>     update our state.
>>
>>
>> Mike, can you please give more details on how you tell the target layer
>> rbd does not have the lock and to stop iscsi connection. Which
>> tcmu-runner/kernel-target functions are used for that?
> 
> For this case it would be tcmu_rbd_handle_blacklisted_cmd. Note for
> failback type of test, we might not hit that error if the initiator does
> a RTPG before it sends IO. In that case we would see
> tcmu_update_dev_lock_state get run first and the iscsi connection would
> not be dropped.
> 
>>
>> In fact, I performed an experiment with three stale write requests stuck
>> on blacklisted gateway, and one of them managed to overwrite newer data.
> 
> What is the test exactly? What OS for the initiator?
> 
> What kernel were you using and are you using the upstream tools/libs or
> the RHCS ones?
> 
> Can you run your tests and send the initiator side kernel logs and on
> the iscsi targets send the /var/log/tcmu-runner.log with debugging in
> enabled. To do that open
> 
> /etc/tcmu/tcmu.conf
> 
> on the iscsi target nodes and set
> 
> log_level = 5
> 
> If that is too much output drop it to level 4.
> 
> 
>> I followed all instructions from
>> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/iscsi-target-cli-manual-install/
>> and http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/iscsi-target-cli/, so I'm
>> interested what I'm missing...
> 
> You used the initiator settings in
> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/iscsi-initiators/
> too right?
> 

Ignore all these questions.  I'm pretty sure I know the issue.

_______________________________________________
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com



[Index of Archives]     [Information on CEPH]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Ceph Development]     [Ceph Large]     [Linux USB Development]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [xfs]


  Powered by Linux