Should we put a timeout to the unmap command on the RBD RA in the meantime?

> On 08 May 2015, at 15:13, Vandeir Eduardo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't be better a configuration named (map|unmap)_timeout? Cause we are 
> talking about a map/unmap of a RBD device, not a mount/unmount of a file 
> system.
> 
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Vandeir Eduardo
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> This causes an annoying problem with rbd resource agent in pacemaker. In a
> >> situation where pacemaker needs to stop a rbd resource agent on a node 
> >> where
> >> there is no network connection, the rbd unmap command hangs. This causes 
> >> the
> >> resource agent stop command to timeout and the node is fenced.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Vandeir Eduardo
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> >
> >>> > when issuing rbd unmap command when there is no network connection with
> >>> > mons
> >>> > and osds, the command hangs. Isn't there a option to force unmap even on
> >>> > this situation?
> >>>
> >>> No, but you can Ctrl-C the unmap command and that should do it.  In the
> >>> dmesg you'll see something like
> >>>
> >>>   rbd: unable to tear down watch request
> >>>
> >>> and you may have to wait for the cluster to timeout the watch.
> >
> > We can probably add a --force to rbd unmap.  That would require extending 
> > our
> > sysfs interface but I don't see any obstacles.  Sage?
> 
> On a second thought, we can timeout our wait for a reply to a watch
> teardown request with a configurable timeout (mount_timeout).  We might
> still need --force for more in the future, but for this particular
> problem the timeout is a better solution I think.  I'll take care of
> it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                 Ilya
> 
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