Summary: IMM: New active IMMD sends redundant discard-node for payloads [#563]
Review request for Trac Ticket(s): (#563)
Peer Reviewer(s): Neel
Pull request to: 
Affected branch(es): 4.2; 4.3; default(4.4)
Development branch:

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Impacted area       Impact y/n
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 Docs                    n
 Build system            n
 RPM/packaging           n
 Configuration files     n
 Startup scripts         n
 SAF services            y
 OpenSAF services        n
 Core libraries          n
 Samples                 n
 Tests                   n
 Other                   n


Comments (indicate scope for each "y" above):
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changeset 213e6a6690e786364bce49242085f5151f720b36
Author: Anders Bjornerstedt <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:29:42 +0200

        IMM: New active IMMD sends redundant discard-node for payloads [#563]

        Standby IMMD records IMMND down events for payloads including the epoch 
it
        occurred in. The recorded payload down events are discarded by standby 
IMMD
        when a new IMMND with same node-id is introduced. At failover, the new
        active IMMD will generate a discard-node event for any recorded payload 
down
        events that are still in the same epoch. Normally these discard-node 
events
        will be redundant. In rare cases they plug the hole that this ticket
        reported.


Complete diffstat:
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 osaf/services/saf/immsv/immd/immd_cb.h    |   10 ++++++++-
 osaf/services/saf/immsv/immd/immd_evt.c   |    1 +
 osaf/services/saf/immsv/immd/immd_proc.c  |  104 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 osaf/services/saf/immsv/immd/immd_proc.h  |    2 +
 osaf/services/saf/immsv/immd/immd_sbevt.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Testing Commands:
-----------------
The patch sent out for review is applies cleanly on OpenSAF 4.2 and 4.3.
It does not apply cleanly on default(4.4). I am sending the 4.2/4.3 patch
because I see that one as more urgent to get tested. The default(4.4) patch
can be provided on request. 

Very difficult to reproduce the problem.
It was done by a "hacked cluster restart" where one SC was actually
not restarted. THus the active SC and all payloads where ordered down
at roughly the same time. Omitted discard node messages will still
be reflected in the remaining new active SC and will get synced to
restarted payloads, unless there is generated a new discard node for
the departed payloads. 

System testing is needed to ensure that this patch does not 
introduce any problem. In particular, the main risk to watch for
is the opposite problem of that which is fixed. The fixed problem is
that in rare cases, the discard node message is never generated for
some payloads that departed closely in time with the old active SC.

The opposite problem would be if a redundant discard node message
for a payload is generated late enough to arrive after that payload
has rejoined. This should not happen due to two safe-guards.

First any node that rejoins must first introduce itself. Such an
intro message arriving to IMMD standby causes it to remove its
record of the departed payload. 

Second, when standby becomes new active, it will dispense of all
such recorded payload-down records and only generate a redundant
discard-node message if the cluster is still in the same epoch as
whhen the down event was recorded. 


Testing, Expected Results:
--------------------------
After fail-over where many payloads go down in close time proximity
to the old active SC, there shall NOT be resources left "hanging" 
due to omitted discard-node message for some payloads. By "resources"
is here ment allocated implemeners, admin-owners, active non critical ccbs.
Note also that "go down" can either mean processor down or just IMMND 
process down.  

Conditions of Submission:
-------------------------
Ack from Neel.
We will also try to rerun the test here that triggered the issue.


Arch      Built     Started    Linux distro
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mips        n          n
mips64      n          n
x86         n          n
x86_64      n          n
powerpc     n          n
powerpc64   n          n


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