| Posted | Nick | Remark | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #openstack-nova - 2017-05-15 | |||
| 16:58:32 | sdague | melwitt: ok, cool. | |
| 16:58:38 | dansmith | can I have a teaser for next week's episode? | |
| 16:58:42 | cfriesen | ralonsoh: the nice thing about setting it via /sys/class/net is that it gives you flexibility if you have different hardware using the same module. | |
| 16:59:05 | ralonsoh | cfriesen: I know and I agree. The problem is how to store it | |
| 16:59:07 | dansmith | sdague: melwitt: I just pushed up a ulimit hack to see if that affects anything, fwiw | |
| 16:59:26 | ralonsoh | cfriesen: do you think the idea of adding a pre-up command is enough? | |
| 16:59:46 | sdague | melwitt: yeh, I would feel much more comfortable twiddling knobs if we understood why we were hitting that | |
| 17:01:08 | melwitt | dansmith: heh. well, I could be totally wrong, but I think it might be because we aren't caching the oslo.db transaction context managers. I had thought oslo.db connection pooling underneath took care of that, but now I want to try and see if there's a difference when doing it | |
| 17:01:27 | dansmith | melwitt: hmm | |
| 17:01:44 | dansmith | melwitt: so we also disable some amount of tpooling, which isn't connection pooling that I know of, but.. | |
| 17:01:58 | dansmith | so maybe we're already breaking things and what I'm doing is just pushing us over a limit? | |
| 17:02:24 | melwitt | that's what I'm thinking, but it's a total guess | |
| 17:03:44 | dansmith | hmm, that would be like bad and stuff | |
| 17:03:49 | sdague | lyarwood - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/464664/ approved and in gate, so hopefully you'll be back to working in ~ 1 hr | |
| 17:03:51 | dansmith | not really sure how we'd not be gc'ing them, but.. | |
| 17:03:57 | melwitt | I mean, I think cfriesen or somebody had mentioned recently they saw total db connections go way up since newton or ocata compared with before cells v2. so that had me thinking already that I wanted to look into this | |
| 17:04:03 | dansmith | maybe we're just hitting a rate that makes it a problem | |
| 17:04:31 | dansmith | melwitt: well, we would have an increase because of the api db | |
| 17:04:55 | cfriesen | ralonsoh: in our environment if a PF has VFs we only ever pass the VFs through to the guest so no personal experience with what you're trying to do. In the case where you're using VFs are you "up"ing the PF? | |
| 17:05:06 | dansmith | I guess if we're leaking somehow, we'd get worse the more targeting we do, | |
| 17:05:08 | dansmith | but.. | |
| 17:05:25 | melwitt | yeah. so what I'm thinking might not be related, so I didn't want to get anyone worried about it untiI checked | |
| 17:05:38 | cfriesen | melwitt: we hit increased DB connections going from Mitaka to Newton | |
| 17:05:59 | dansmith | cfriesen: did you look at where those were coming from? i.e. only from api/conductor workers? | |
| 17:06:23 | ralonsoh | cfriesen: it's a user case (and a possible bug). You can use both, PF and VFs, but not at the same time. But if you start a VM with a PF and then you need to use the VFs, those are lost | |
| 17:06:26 | dansmith | well, I guess if we're leaking those would be the services anyway, so.. that might not tell us anything | |
| 17:09:07 | cfriesen | dansmith: I'm still catching up on email, but I don't think we've bottomed out exactly where they're coming from. I think we just bumped the number of connections for now. | |
| 17:09:41 | dansmith | alright | |
| 17:10:26 | cfriesen | dansmith: got any clever ways to figure out what code has open connections? | |
| 17:10:34 | dansmith | netstat? | |
| 17:10:37 | jmlowe | I've been having a problem with nova, I'm pretty sure bugs have been reported years ago (can't find them atm) but have languished, when an instance goes into error state the underlying disk is deleted, this is exactly the wrong thing to do | |
| 17:11:02 | cfriesen | dansmith: that's the easy part. what about within the python code? | |
| 17:11:23 | dansmith | cfriesen: well, knowing what binary has the excess is a start | |
| 17:11:37 | dansmith | we'd need extra instrumentation to know which code I think | |
| 17:12:22 | mriedem | jmlowe: never heard of that | |
| 17:12:22 | jmlowe | for instance, Wednesday during the summit a user resumed a suspended instance that didn't have enough memory so qemu wouldn't start, this is eminently fixable unless nova comes along and deletes the underlying block device for the instance | |
| 17:13:36 | jmlowe | If I dig back in my logs I even have errors from nova repeatedly deleting the same rbd device after the first wrongful deletion is succeeds | |
| 17:14:55 | jmlowe | no probably not just a gross conceptual error in the state diagram but also a bad implementation | |
| 17:15:43 | jmlowe | also kind of hard to replicate reliably on a 300 compute node production system | |
| 17:15:46 | mriedem | jmlowe: what you might be thinking of i,s | |
| 17:15:51 | mriedem | resume in the libvirt driver calls this https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/8d9eb670c75a8209901bac3b4dd94925b6b1f000/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L2562 | |
| 17:16:12 | mriedem | if that fails in some unexpected way, we go here https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/8d9eb670c75a8209901bac3b4dd94925b6b1f000/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L5120 | |
| 17:16:22 | jmlowe | will also trigger on error state due to migration error | |
| 17:17:14 | mriedem | destroy_disks_on_failure defaults to False here | |
| 17:17:18 | mriedem | and isn't set to True for the resume case | |
| 17:17:40 | mriedem | so when calling cleanup, destroy_disks would be False https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/8d9eb670c75a8209901bac3b4dd94925b6b1f000/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L5042 | |
| 17:18:44 | mriedem | jmlowe: i'm confused, are you doing a migration or a resume? | |
| 17:19:08 | jmlowe | happens for both, seemingly any time an instance goes into error | |
| 17:19:10 | mriedem | because if is_shared_block_storage=True, then https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/8d9eb670c75a8209901bac3b4dd94925b6b1f000/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L1014 would delete instance files on disk | |
| 17:19:30 | jmlowe | in my case ceph backed | |
| 17:19:35 | mriedem | the instance going to error state is not a related issue for deleting the disks in the virt driver | |
| 17:20:11 | mriedem | jmlowe: which release of nova are you on? | |
| 17:20:17 | jmlowe | newton | |
| 17:20:27 | jmlowe | don't think it was doing this in mitaka | |
| 17:20:39 | mriedem | i don't really see anything in newton when resume would fail that would destroy the disks | |
| 17:21:24 | mriedem | now, i think that _cleanup_failed_start method was new in ocata and backported to newton... | |
| 17:21:47 | mriedem | yeah https://review.openstack.org/#/q/Iab5afdf1b5b8d107ea0e5895c24d50712e7dc7b1 | |
| 17:23:13 | mriedem | hmm, destroy disks wasn't passed through at that point | |
| 17:23:15 | mriedem | checking something | |
| 17:24:09 | mriedem | https://review.openstack.org/#/q/I38c969690fedb71c5b5ec4418c1b0dd53df733ec | |
| 17:24:35 | mriedem | jmlowe: do you have this fix? https://review.openstack.org/#/c/428671/ | |
| 17:24:41 | mriedem | went into newton 14.0.4 | |
| 17:25:00 | mriedem | fixed the thing introduced in 14.0.3 | |
| 17:27:27 | jmlowe_ | specifically I should have nova 14.0.3 | |
| 17:27:56 | mriedem | jmlowe_: you mean that's what you're running? | |
| 17:28:10 | mriedem | if so, you need https://review.openstack.org/#/c/428671/ | |
| 17:28:40 | jmlowe_ | yeah, was just trying to determine if that commit was in 14.0.3 | |
| 17:29:23 | jmlowe_ | and it's not | |
| 17:31:22 | jmlowe_ | *grumble* now off to go harass the rdo packagers | |
| 17:31:41 | jmlowe_ | thanks for the pointer, never would have found that myself | |
| 17:32:08 | jmlowe_ | on the other hand I was planning on going to ocata in the next week or so | |
| 18:00:49 | dansmith | edleafe: looks like maybe this https://review.openstack.org/#/c/464086 should go underneath bauzas' patch to do the claim? | |
| 18:01:36 | edleafe | dansmith: sure, it should go before the claim code | |
| 18:07:29 | dansmith | edleafe: so given the conductor direction, are you going to work on the obviously half-finished claim-in-scheduler patch at the top of that series? | |
| 18:07:47 | dansmith | edleafe: there is a big missing piece of handling the case where we fail to claim the first host It hink | |
| 18:08:20 | edleafe | Well, I was kind of told *not* to work on that one :) | |
| 18:08:26 | dansmith | oh | |
| 18:08:29 | edleafe | But yeah, I was planning on completing it | |
| 18:08:36 | edleafe | until this morning | |
| 18:08:54 | dansmith | okay.. no update since may 11 | |
| 18:09:08 | dansmith | I guess we're expecting something presently? | |
| 18:09:23 | edleafe | I'm curious, though - where do you see the claim fail logic missing? | |
| 18:10:29 | dansmith | if we fail doing _allocate_for_instance() here, we need to retry the claim for the same instance, but on the next host right? https://review.openstack.org/#/c/460455/6/nova/conductor/manager.py | |
| 18:10:45 | dansmith | L957 just moves on to the next instance, right? | |
| 18:10:46 | edleafe | dansmith: fwiw, I was on PTO May 12, and came back in town this morning to a big fat -2 | |
| 18:11:21 | dansmith | edleafe: I meant no update on bauzas' conductor claim one | |
| 18:11:29 | dansmith | edleafe: yours have been updated more recently, AFAICT | |
| 18:11:31 | edleafe | dansmith: oh, you mean bauzas' series. I thought you meant mine | |
| 18:11:39 | dansmith | nope | |
| 18:11:43 | edleafe | ah | |
| 18:11:49 | dansmith | so actually, | |
| 18:12:00 | dansmith | if we fail to claim on L957 do we just stop building everything? | |
| 18:12:04 | dansmith | I'm kinda assuming we do | |
| 18:12:04 | edleafe | bauzas did mention that he was ready with a new PS real soon | |
| 18:12:28 | dansmith | actually, maybe we don't explode, but just continue with no allocation? | |
| 18:12:29 | dansmith | eesh | |
| 18:12:48 | edleafe | ...which negates the whole point of eliminating the race, no? | |
| 18:13:23 | dansmith | well, it's just completely wrong | |
| 18:13:34 | dansmith | we can't ask compute to build an instance we didn't actually claim for :P | |
| 18:13:49 | edleafe | My series didn't (yet) account for the computes not all being updated to the latest | |