[Gluster-users] gnfs split brain when 1 server in 3x1 down (high load) - help request

Erik Jacobson erik.jacobson at hpe.com
Wed Apr 8 16:25:14 UTC 2020


Thank you again for the help so far. Here is what Scott Titus came up
with. Let us know if you have suggestions for next steps.



We never hit the "Event gen is zero" message, so it appears that 
afr_access() never has a zero event_gen to begin with.

However, the "Resetting event gen" message was just a bit chatty, 
growing our nfs.log to >2.4GB.  Many were against a gfid of populated 
with zeros.

Around each split brain log, we did find the "Resetting event gen" 
messages containing a matching gfid:

9439138:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.737590] E 
[afr-common.c:754:afr_inode_event_gen_reset] 
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f735) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb735] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f0b9) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb0b9] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5c701) 
[0x7fa4fb1b8701] ) 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: Resetting event gen for 
f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9
9439139:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.737636] E 
[afr-common.c:754:afr_inode_event_gen_reset] 
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f735) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb735] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f0b9) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb0b9] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5c701) 
[0x7fa4fb1b8701] ) 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: Resetting event gen for 
f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9
9439140:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.737663] E [MSGID: 108008] 
[afr-read-txn.c:312:afr_read_txn_refresh_done] 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: 
Failing ACCESS on gfid f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9: split-brain 
observed. [Input/output error]
9439143:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.737801] E 
[afr-common.c:754:afr_inode_event_gen_reset] 
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f735) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb735] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f0b9) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb0b9] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5c701) 
[0x7fa4fb1b8701] ) 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: Resetting event gen for 
f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9
9439145:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.737861] E 
[afr-common.c:754:afr_inode_event_gen_reset] 
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f735) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb735] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f0b9) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb0b9] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5c701) 
[0x7fa4fb1b8701] ) 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: Resetting event gen for 
f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9
9439148:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.738125] E 
[afr-common.c:754:afr_inode_event_gen_reset] 
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f735) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb735] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f0b9) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb0b9] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5c701) 
[0x7fa4fb1b8701] ) 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: Resetting event gen for 
f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9
9439225:[2020-04-08 15:48:44.749920] E 
[afr-common.c:754:afr_inode_event_gen_reset] 
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f735) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb735] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x6f0b9) 
[0x7fa4fb1cb0b9] 
-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/7.2/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5c701) 
[0x7fa4fb1b8701] ) 0-cm_shared-replicate-0: Resetting event gen for 
f2d7abf0-5444-48d6-863d-4b128502daf9

Thanks,
-Scott

On 4/8/20 8:31 AM, Erik Jacobson wrote:
> Hi team -
>
> We got an update to try more stuff from the community.
>
> I feel like I've been "given an inch but am taking a mile" but if we
> do happen to have time on orbit41 again, we'll do the next round of
> debugging.
>
> Erik


On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:53:00PM +0530, Ravishankar N wrote:
> On 08/04/20 4:59 am, Erik Jacobson wrote:
> > Apologies for misinterpreting the backtrace.
> > 
> > #0  afr_read_txn_refresh_done (frame=0x7ffcf4146478,
> > this=0x7fff64013720, err=5) at afr-read-txn.c:312
> > #1  0x00007fff68938d2b in afr_txn_refresh_done
> > (frame=frame at entry=0x7ffcf4146478, this=this at entry=0x7fff64013720,
> > err=5, err at entry=0)
> >       at afr-common.c:1222
> Sorry, I missed this too.
> > (gdb) print event_generation
> > $3 = 0
> > 
> > (gdb) print priv->fav_child_policy
> > $4 = AFR_FAV_CHILD_NONE
> > 
> > I am not sure what this signifies though.  It appears to be a read
> > transaction with no event generation and no favorite child policy.
> > 
> > Feel free to ask for clarification in case my thought process went awry
> > somewhere.
> 
> Favorite child policy is only for automatically resolving split-brains and
> is 0 unless that volume option is set. The problem is indeed that
> event_generation is zero. Could you try to apply this logging patch and see
> if afr_inode_event_gen_reset() for that gfid is hit or if afr_access() has a
> zero event_gen to begin with?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ravi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

> diff --git a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-common.c b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-common.c
> index 4bfaef9e8..61f21795e 100644
> --- a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-common.c
> +++ b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-common.c
> @@ -750,6 +750,8 @@ afr_inode_event_gen_reset(inode_t *inode, xlator_t *this)
>  
>      GF_VALIDATE_OR_GOTO(this->name, inode, out);
>  
> +    gf_msg_callingfn(this->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, 0, AFR_MSG_SPLIT_BRAIN,
> +                     "Resetting event gen for %s", uuid_utoa(inode->gfid));
>      LOCK(&inode->lock);
>      {
>          ret = __afr_inode_event_gen_reset(inode, this);
> diff --git a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-inode-read.c b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-inode-read.c
> index 9204add5b..5ac83d6c8 100644
> --- a/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-inode-read.c
> +++ b/xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-inode-read.c
> @@ -172,6 +172,12 @@ afr_access(call_frame_t *frame, xlator_t *this, loc_t *loc, int mask,
>      if (xdata)
>          local->xdata_req = dict_ref(xdata);
>  
> +    if (local->event_generation == 0)
> +        gf_msg(this->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, 0, AFR_MSG_SPLIT_BRAIN,
> +               "Event gen is zero for %s(%s)", local->loc.name,
> +               local->loc.inode->gfid ? uuid_utoa(local->loc.inode->gfid)
> +                                      : "NULL");
> +
>      afr_read_txn(frame, this, loc->inode, afr_access_wind,
>                   AFR_METADATA_TRANSACTION);
>  


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