Bug 2143719

Summary: numad freezes during multiple access
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Ajeco Support <support>
Component: numadAssignee: Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 8.6CC: dag
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Description Ajeco Support 2022-11-17 16:20:53 UTC
Description of problem:
numad -w will occasionally freeze if invoked concurrently with the numad daemon running

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.5-26.20150602git

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Execute numad -w 4:4096 from multiple concurrent sessions. A good command line is: while true; do numad -w 4:4096; numad -w 4:4096; numad -w 4:4096; done

2.Wait for some time. Perhaps restart the command sequence to create a suitable timing skew.
3.

Actual results:
You will see one of the sessions freezing after a while

Expected results:
The sequence should run smoothly

Additional info:

This problem appeared during concurrent migration of several (n>3) VM:s in a KVM cluster. The VM:s had a numatune section looking like this:

  <vcpu placement='auto'>8</vcpu>
  <numatune>
    <memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/>
  </numatune>

libvirt tried to use numad -w 8:4096 to figure out the placement and the freeze of numad would also freeze libvirtd, which led to pcs rebooting the node.

Looking at the source of numad it seems like the potential problem is that each instance of numad will run init_msg_queue() at invocation. As this also does a flush_msg_queue() the queue will be emptied at every invocation. If this happens in the middle of the send/rcv-sequence of another invocation the other process will never get an answer and hang.

Comment 1 dag 2022-11-18 05:10:52 UTC
Actually therea are two flaws in numad:
1. Only the daemon should flush the queue at init
2. There should be a timeout mechanism in the recieve message from ipc function

It should also be considered if there is a risk of the first invocation wrongly being seen as a daemon if we have multiple concurrent numad -w invocations. Havenät had the time to look into the daemon detection code.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-21 09:55:58 UTC
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Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-21 09:56:19 UTC
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