[Gluster-users] Gluster Infiniband/RDMA Help

Dan Lavu dan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 12:44:59 UTC 2016


I've since ordered a different switch, the same manufacturer as the HBAs.
We have decided to rebuild the lab since we were having issues with oVirt
as well. We can disregard this, unless the issue is reproducable with the
new equipment, I believe it is equipment related.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:

> Added Rafi, Raghavendra who work on RDMA
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Dan Lavu <dan at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having some major problems with Gluster and oVirt, I've been ripping
>> my hair out with this, so if anybody can provide insight, that will be
>> fantastic. I've tried both transports TCP and RDMA... both are having
>> instability problems.
>>
>> So the first thing I'm running into, intermittently, on one specific
>> node, will get spammed with the following message;
>>
>> "[2016-08-08 00:42:50.837992] E [rpc-clnt.c:357:saved_frames_unwind]
>> (--> /lib64/libglusterfs.so.0(_gf_log_callingfn+0x1a3)[0x7fb728b0f293]
>> (--> /lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(saved_frames_unwind+0x1d1)[0x7fb7288d73d1]
>> (--> /lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(saved_frames_destroy+0xe)[0x7fb7288d74ee] (-->
>> /lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpc_clnt_connection_cleanup+0x7e)[0x7fb7288d8d0e]
>> (--> /lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpc_clnt_notify+0x88)[0x7fb7288d9528] )))))
>> 0-vmdata1-client-0: forced unwinding frame type(GlusterFS 3.3)
>> op(WRITE(13)) called at 2016-08-08 00:42:43.620710 (xid=0x6800b)"
>>
>> Then the infiniband device will get bounced and VMs will get stuck.
>>
>> Another problem I'm seeing, once a day, or every two days, an oVirt node
>> will hang on gluster mounts. Issuing a df to check the mounts will just
>> stall, this occurs hourly if RDMA is used. I can log into the hypervisor
>> remount the gluster volumes most of the time.
>>
>> This is on Fedora 23; Gluster 3.8.1-1, the Infiniband gear is 40Gb/s QDR
>> Qlogic, using the ib_qib module, this configuration was working with our
>> old infinihost III. I couldn't get OFED to compile so all the infiniband
>> modules are Fedora installed.
>>
>> So a volume looks like the following, (please if there is anything I need
>> to adjust, the settings was pulled from several examples)
>>
>> Volume Name: vmdata_ha
>> Type: Replicate
>> Volume ID: 325a5fda-a491-4c40-8502-f89776a3c642
>> Status: Started
>> Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
>> Transport-type: tcp,rdma
>> Bricks:
>> Brick1: deadpool.ib.runlevelone.lan:/gluster/vmdata_ha
>> Brick2: spidey.ib.runlevelone.lan:/gluster/vmdata_ha
>> Brick3: groot.ib.runlevelone.lan:/gluster/vmdata_ha (arbiter)
>> Options Reconfigured:
>> performance.least-prio-threads: 4
>> performance.low-prio-threads: 16
>> performance.normal-prio-threads: 24
>> performance.high-prio-threads: 24
>> cluster.self-heal-window-size: 32
>> cluster.self-heal-daemon: on
>> performance.md-cache-timeout: 1
>> performance.cache-max-file-size: 2MB
>> performance.io-thread-count: 32
>> network.ping-timeout: 5
>> performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB
>> performance.cache-size: 256MB
>> performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 10
>> server.allow-insecure: on
>> network.remote-dio: enable
>> performance.io-cache: off
>> performance.read-ahead: off
>> performance.quick-read: off
>> storage.owner-gid: 36
>> storage.owner-uid: 36
>> performance.readdir-ahead: on
>> nfs.disable: on
>> config.transport: tcp,rdma
>> performance.stat-prefetch: off
>> cluster.eager-lock: enable
>>
>> Volume Name: vmdata1
>> Type: Distribute
>> Volume ID: 3afefcb3-887c-4315-b9dc-f4e890f786eb
>> Status: Started
>> Number of Bricks: 2
>> Transport-type: tcp,rdma
>> Bricks:
>> Brick1: spidey.ib.runlevelone.lan:/gluster/vmdata1
>> Brick2: deadpool.ib.runlevelone.lan:/gluster/vmdata1
>> Options Reconfigured:
>> config.transport: tcp,rdma
>> network.remote-dio: enable
>> performance.io-cache: off
>> performance.read-ahead: off
>> performance.quick-read: off
>> nfs.disable: on
>> storage.owner-gid: 36
>> storage.owner-uid: 36
>> performance.readdir-ahead: on
>> server.allow-insecure: on
>> performance.stat-prefetch: off
>> performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 10
>> performance.cache-size: 256MB
>> performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB
>> network.ping-timeout: 5
>> performance.io-thread-count: 32
>> performance.cache-max-file-size: 2MB
>> performance.md-cache-timeout: 1
>> performance.high-prio-threads: 24
>> performance.normal-prio-threads: 24
>> performance.low-prio-threads: 16
>> performance.least-prio-threads: 4
>>
>>
>> /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol
>> volume management
>>     type mgmt/glusterd
>>     option working-directory /var/lib/glusterd
>>     option transport-type socket,tcp
>>     option transport.socket.keepalive-time 10
>>     option transport.socket.keepalive-interval 2
>>     option transport.socket.read-fail-log off
>>     option ping-timeout 0
>>     option event-threads 1
>> #    option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on
>>     option transport.socket.bind-address 0.0.0.0
>> #   option transport.address-family inet6
>> #   option base-port 49152
>> end-volume
>>
>> I think that's a good start, thank you so much for taking the time to
>> look at this. You can find me on freenode, nick side_control if you want to
>> chat, I'm GMT -5.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan
>>
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> --
> Pranith
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