Hi, Nick

I switched between forward and writeback. (forward -> writeback)

С уважением, Фасихов Ирек Нургаязович
Моб.: +79229045757

2016-03-17 16:10 GMT+03:00 Nick Fisk <[email protected]>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ceph-users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Irek Fasikhov
> > Sent: 17 March 2016 13:00
> > To: Sage Weil <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]>; ceph-users <ceph-
> > [email protected]>; Nick Fisk <[email protected]>; William Perkins
> > <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] data corruption with hammer
> >
> > Hi,All.
> >
> > I confirm the problem. When min_read_recency_for_promote> 1 data
> > failure.
>
> But what scenario is this? Are you switching between forward and
> writeback, or just running in writeback?
>
> >
> >
> > С уважением, Фасихов Ирек Нургаязович
> > Моб.: +79229045757
> >
> > 2016-03-17 15:26 GMT+03:00 Sage Weil <[email protected]>:
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Nick Fisk wrote:
> > > There is got to be something else going on here. All that PR does is to
> > > potentially delay the promotion to hit_set_period*recency instead of
> > > just doing it on the 2nd read regardless, it's got to be uncovering
> > > another bug.
> > >
> > > Do you see the same problem if the cache is in writeback mode before
> you
> > > start the unpacking. Ie is it the switching mid operation which causes
> > > the problem? If it only happens mid operation, does it still occur if
> > > you pause IO when you make the switch?
> > >
> > > Do you also see this if you perform on a RBD mount, to rule out any
> > > librbd/qemu weirdness?
> > >
> > > Do you know if it’s the actual data that is getting corrupted or if
> it's
> > > the FS metadata? I'm only wondering as unpacking should really only be
> > > writing to each object a couple of times, whereas FS metadata could
> > > potentially be being updated+read back lots of times for the same group
> > > of objects and ordering is very important.
> > >
> > > Thinking through it logically the only difference is that with
> recency=1
> > > the object will be copied up to the cache tier, where recency=6 it will
> > > be proxy read for a long time. If I had to guess I would say the issue
> > > would lie somewhere in the proxy read + writeback<->forward logic.
> >
> > That seems reasonable.  Was switching from writeback -> forward always
> > part of the sequence that resulted in corruption?  Not that there is a
> > known ordering issue when switching to forward mode.  I wouldn't really
> > expect it to bite real users but it's possible..
> >
> >         http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12814
> >
> > I've opened a ticket to track this:
> >
> >         http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/15171
> >
> > What would be *really* great is if you could reproduce this with a
> > ceph_test_rados workload (from ceph-tests).  I.e., get ceph_test_rados
> > running, and then find the sequence of operations that are sufficient to
> > trigger a failure.
> >
> > sage
> >
> >
> >
> >  >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: ceph-users [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > Behalf Of
> > > > Mike Lovell
> > > > Sent: 16 March 2016 23:23
> > > > To: ceph-users <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> > > > Cc: Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]>; William Perkins
> > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] data corruption with hammer
> > > >
> > > > just got done with a test against a build of 0.94.6 minus the two
> commits
> > that
> > > > were backported in PR 7207. everything worked as it should with the
> > cache-
> > > > mode set to writeback and the min_read_recency_for_promote set to 2.
> > > > assuming it works properly on master, there must be a commit that
> we're
> > > > missing on the backport to support this properly.
> > > >
> > > > sage,
> > > > i'm adding you to the recipients on this so hopefully you see it.
> the tl;dr
> > > > version is that the backport of the cache recency fix to hammer
> doesn't
> > work
> > > > right and potentially corrupts data when
> > > > the min_read_recency_for_promote is set to greater than 1.
> > > >
> > > > mike
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Mike Lovell
> > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > robert and i have done some further investigation the past couple
> days
> > on
> > > > this. we have a test environment with a hard drive tier and an ssd
> tier as a
> > > > cache. several vms were created with volumes from the ceph cluster. i
> > did a
> > > > test in each guest where i un-tarred the linux kernel source multiple
> > times
> > > > and then did a md5sum check against all of the files in the resulting
> > source
> > > > tree. i started off with the monitors and osds running 0.94.5 and
> never
> > saw
> > > > any problems.
> > > >
> > > > a single node was then upgraded to 0.94.6 which has osds in both the
> ssd
> > and
> > > > hard drive tier. i then proceeded to run the same test and, while the
> > untar
> > > > and md5sum operations were running, i changed the ssd tier cache-mode
> > > > from forward to writeback. almost immediately the vms started
> reporting
> > io
> > > > errors and odd data corruption. the remainder of the cluster was
> updated
> > to
> > > > 0.94.6, including the monitors, and the same thing happened.
> > > >
> > > > things were cleaned up and reset and then a test was run
> > > > where min_read_recency_for_promote for the ssd cache pool was set to
> > 1.
> > > > we previously had it set to 6. there was never an error with the
> recency
> > > > setting set to 1. i then tested with it set to 2 and it immediately
> caused
> > > > failures. we are currently thinking that it is related to the
> backport of the
> > fix
> > > > for the recency promotion and are in progress of making a .6 build
> > without
> > > > that backport to see if we can cause corruption. is anyone using a
> version
> > > > from after the original recency fix (PR 6702) with a cache tier in
> writeback
> > > > mode? anyone have a similar problem?
> > > >
> > > > mike
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Mike Lovell
> > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > something weird happened on one of the ceph clusters that i
> administer
> > > > tonight which resulted in virtual machines using rbd volumes seeing
> > > > corruption in multiple forms.
> > > >
> > > > when everything was fine earlier in the day, the cluster was a
> number of
> > > > storage nodes spread across 3 different roots in the crush map. the
> first
> > > > bunch of storage nodes have both hard drives and ssds in them with
> the
> > hard
> > > > drives in one root and the ssds in another. there is a pool for each
> and the
> > > > pool for the ssds is a cache tier for the hard drives. the last set
> of storage
> > > > nodes were in a separate root with their own pool that is being used
> for
> > burn
> > > > in testing.
> > > >
> > > > these nodes had run for a while with test traffic and we decided to
> move
> > > > them to the main root and pools. the main cluster is running 0.94.5
> and
> > the
> > > > new nodes got 0.94.6 due to them getting configured after that was
> > > > released. i removed the test pool and did a ceph osd crush move to
> move
> > > > the first node into the main cluster, the hard drives into the root
> for that
> > tier
> > > > of storage and the ssds into the root and pool for the cache tier.
> each set
> > was
> > > > done about 45 minutes apart and they ran for a couple hours while
> > > > performing backfill without any issue other than high load on the
> cluster.
> > > >
> > > > we normally run the ssd tier in the forward cache-mode due to the
> ssds
> > we
> > > > have not being able to keep up with the io of writeback. this
> results in io
> > on
> > > > the hard drives slowing going up and performance of the cluster
> starting
> > to
> > > > suffer. about once a week, i change the cache-mode between writeback
> > and
> > > > forward for short periods of time to promote actively used data to
> the
> > cache
> > > > tier. this moves io load from the hard drive tier to the ssd tier
> and has
> > been
> > > > done multiple times without issue. i normally don't do this while
> there are
> > > > backfills or recoveries happening on the cluster but decided to go
> ahead
> > > > while backfill was happening due to the high load.
> > > >
> > > > i tried this procedure to change the ssd cache-tier between writeback
> > and
> > > > forward cache-mode and things seemed okay from the ceph cluster.
> > about
> > > > 10 minutes after the first attempt a changing the mode, vms using the
> > ceph
> > > > cluster for their storage started seeing corruption in multiple
> forms. the
> > > > mode was flipped back and forth multiple times in that time frame
> and its
> > > > unknown if the corruption was noticed with the first change or
> > subsequent
> > > > changes. the vms were having issues of filesystems having errors and
> > getting
> > > > remounted RO and mysql databases seeing corruption (both myisam and
> > > > innodb). some of this was recoverable but on some filesystems there
> > was
> > > > corruption that lead to things like lots of data ending up in the
> lost+found
> > and
> > > > some of the databases were un-recoverable (backups are helping
> there).
> > > >
> > > > i'm not sure what would have happened to cause this corruption. the
> > libvirt
> > > > logs for the qemu processes for the vms did not provide any output of
> > > > problems from the ceph client code. it doesn't look like any of the
> qemu
> > > > processes had crashed. also, it has now been several hours since this
> > > > happened with no additional corruption noticed by the vms. it doesn't
> > > > appear that we had any corruption happen before i attempted the
> > flipping of
> > > > the ssd tier cache-mode.
> > > >
> > > > the only think i can think of that is different between this time
> doing this
> > > > procedure vs previous attempts was that there was the one storage
> > node
> > > > running 0.94.6 where the remainder were running 0.94.5. is is
> possible
> > that
> > > > something changed between these two releases that would have caused
> > > > problems with data consistency related to the cache tier? or
> otherwise?
> > any
> > > > other thoughts or suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> > > >
> > > > mike
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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