[Gluster-devel] Moratorium on new patch acceptance

[Shyam]

On 05/18/2015 03:49 PM, Shyam wrote:
> On 05/18/2015 10:33 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>
> The etherpad did not call out, ./tests/bugs/distribute/bug-1161156.t
> which did not have an owner, and so I took a stab at it and below are
> the results.
>
> I also think failure in ./tests/bugs/quota/bug-1038598.t is the same as
> the observation below.
>
> NOTE: Anyone with better knowledge of Quota can possibly chip in as to
> what should we expect in this case and how to correct the expectation
> from these test cases.
>
> (Details of ./tests/bugs/distribute/bug-1161156.t)
> 1) Failure is in TEST #20
>     Failed line: TEST ! dd if=/dev/zero of=$N0/$mydir/newfile_2 bs=1k
> count=10240 conv=fdatasync
>
> 2) The above line is expected to fail (i.e dd is expected to fail) as,
> the set quota is 20MB and we are attempting to exceed it by another 5MB
> at this point in the test case.
>
> 3) The failure is easily reproducible in my laptop, 2/10 times
>
> 4) On debugging, I see that when the above dd succeeds (or the test
> fails, which means dd succeeded in writing more than the set quota),
> there are no write errors from the bricks or any errors on the final
> COMMIT RPC call to NFS.
>
> As a result the expectation of this test fails.
>
> NOTE: Sometimes there is a write failure from one of the bricks (the
> above test uses AFR as well), but AFR self healing kicks in and fixes
> the problem, as expected, as the write succeeded on one of the replicas.
> I add this observation, as the failed regression run logs, has some
> EDQUOT errors reported in the client xlator, but only from one of the
> client bricks, and there are further AFR self heal logs noted in the logs.
>
> 5) When the test case succeeds the writes fail with EDQUOT as expected.
> There are times when the quota is exceeded by say 1MB - 4.8MB, but the
> test case still passes. Which means that, if we were to try to exceed
> the quota by 1MB (instead of the 5MB as in the test case), this test
> case may fail always.

Here is why I think this passes by quota sometime and not others making 
this and the other test case mentioned below spurious.
- Each write is 256K from the client (that is what is sent over the wire)
- If more IO was queued by io-threads after passing quota checks, which 
in this 5MB case requires >20 IOs to be queued (16 IOs could be active 
in io-threads itself), we could end up writing more than the quota amount

So, if quota checks to see if a write is violating the quota, and let's 
it through, and updates on the UNWIND the space used for future checks, 
we could have more IO outstanding than what the quota allows, and as a 
result allow such a larger write to pass through, considering IO threads 
queue and active IOs as well. Would this be a fair assumption of how 
quota works?

I believe this is what is happening in this case. Checking a fix on my 
machine, and will post the same if it proves to be help the situation.

>
> 6) Note on dd with conv=fdatasync
> As one of the fixes attempts to overcome this issue with the addition of
> "conv=fdatasync", wanted to cover that behavior here.
>
> What the above parameter does is to send an NFS_COMMIT (which internally
> becomes a flush FOP) at the end of writing the blocks to the NFS share.
> This commit as a result triggers any pending writes for this file and
> sends the flush to the brick, all of which succeeds at times, resulting
> in the failure of the test case.
>
> NOTE: In the TC ./tests/bugs/quota/bug-1038598.t the failed line is
> pretty much in the same context (LINE 26: TEST ! dd if=/dev/zero
> of=$M0/test_dir/file1.txt bs=1024k count=15 (expecting hard limit to be
> exceeded and there are no write failures in the logs (which should be
> expected with EDQUOT (122))).