Hi,
I think, as Minh has pointed out 10 second is plausbile time and may depend on
the type of API. If NTFs reads notification from a file(not supported now),
then a not only a reader API may have to wait for long time but also an API
which is related to less critical activity. In this way, response time for less
critical APIs may also increase . In that sense 10 seconds may become some
average time uniformly for all the APIs. SAF API interface is designed for use
by both threaded and non-threaded application processes, this can help
application to optimize their service requests.
Regarding the patch for this ticket, I see both the approaches needs
refinement. I think termination of IMCN can be avoided by making it role aware
by way of RDE callback mechanism (Not the #157 way). Upon role change from
standby to active, IMCN can send the error notification to the user giving
impression that it has been restarted. If Imm handle goes BAD then IMCN will
exit and survillence thread will start it in correct role. So in this case NTFS
wll not be terminaing it. I am still evaluating this.
Thanks,
Praveen
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** [tickets:#2219] ntfd: circular dependency with osafntfimcnd**
**Status:** assigned
**Milestone:** 5.0.2
**Created:** Thu Dec 08, 2016 05:14 AM UTC by Gary Lee
**Last Updated:** Tue Dec 13, 2016 04:40 AM UTC
**Owner:** Praveen
A circular dependency can be seen when performing a si-swap of
safSi=SC-2N,safApp=OpenSAF:
1. Active NTFD is trying to sync with Standby using MBC
2. Standby NTFD is the process of terminating its local osafntfimcnd. It is
stuck in timedwait_imcn_exit() and cannot reply to the Active.
3. osafntfimcnd [on standby] is trying to send a notfication to Active NTFD
So we have (1) depending on (2) depending on (3) depending on (1)
This results in a temporary deadlock that dramatically slows down NTFD's
ability to process its main dispatch loop. The deadlock only lasts for approx.
1 second, when mbcsv_mds_send_msg() times out. But since there could be lots of
MBC messages to send, sometimes osafntfimcnd is killed with SIGABRT generating
a coredump. The si-swap operation will also timeout.
steps to reproduce
- Run loop of ntftest 32
root@SC-1:~# for i in {1..10}; do ntftest 32; done
- On another terminal, keep swapping 2N Opensaf SI, got coredump after couples
of swaps
root@SC-1:~# amf-adm si-swap safSi=SC-2N,safApp=OpenSAF
...
root@SC-1:~# amf-adm si-swap safSi=SC-2N,safApp=OpenSAF
~~~
SC-2 (active)
There are a lot of send failures. Each taking approx. 1 second to timeout.
During these 1 second timeouts, NTFD cannot process the main dispatch loop.
Dec 7 11:01:37.531772 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:37.531781 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:38.537307 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:38.537758 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:38.537766 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:39.543180 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:39.543695 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:39.543698 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:40.545252 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:40.545719 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:40.545726 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:41.551328 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:41.551971 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:41.551979 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:42.557594 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:42.558171 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:42.558179 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:43.564051 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:43.564874 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:43.564883 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:44.572407 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:44.573262 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
Dec 7 11:01:44.573271 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
Dec 7 11:01:45.575091 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] <<
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
Dec 7 11:01:47.083548 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >>
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
~~~
~~~
SC-1 (standby)
NTFD is trying to terminate osafntfimcnd. While it is doing that, it cannot
reply to NTFD on SC-2. Meanwhile, osafntfimcnd is sending NTF notifications to
NTFD on SC-1.
Dec 7 11:01:35.453151 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0316] TR
handle_state_ntfimcn: Terminating osafntfimcnd process
Dec 7 11:01:45.474313 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0124] TR Termination
timeout
Dec 7 11:01:45.474375 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0130] <<
wait_imcnproc_termination: rc = -1, retry_cnt = 101
Dec 7 11:01:45.474387 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0168] TR Normal
termination failed. Escalate to abort
Dec 7 11:01:45.574703 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0172] TR Imcn
successfully aborted
Dec 7 11:01:45.574712 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0187] <<
timedwait_imcn_exit
~~~
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