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Bug 691945 - Non-responsive scsi target leads to excessive scsi recovery and dm-mp failover time
Summary: Non-responsive scsi target leads to excessive scsi recovery and dm-mp failove...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Mike Christie
QA Contact: Storage QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 631765 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 672437 694625 744811 767187 833603 846704 848463
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Reported: 2011-03-29 22:05 UTC by Dave Wysochanski
Modified: 2018-11-27 21:42 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-171.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
In error recovery, most SCSI error recovery stages send a TUR (Test Unit Ready) command for every bad command when a driver error handler reports success. When several bad commands pointed to a same device, the device was probed multiple times. When the device was in a state where the device did not respond to commands even after a recovery function returned success, the error handler had to wait for the commands to time out. This significantly impeded the recovery process. With this update, SCSI mid-layer error routines to send test commands have been fixed to respond once per device instead of once per bad command, thus reducing error recovery time considerably.
Clone Of:
: 694625 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-12-06 12:47:24 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Reduce # of turs sent during scsi error recovery (5.76 KB, patch)
2011-03-30 21:30 UTC, David Jeffery 		no flags Details | Diff
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1530 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update 2011-12-06 01:45:35 UTC

Description Dave Wysochanski 2011-03-29 22:05:59 UTC 
A non-responsive scsi target that "black hole"s commands leads to full scsi recovery logic, which includes sending TURs at various stages and waiting for timeouts.  This process may take a long time, and it blocks dm-mp failover for multiple minutes, which may easily exceed an important application timeout (such as an Oracle voting disk).

In a typical scenario, the net-net is a customer who goes through the expense of implementing a dual-fabric, fully redundant storage environment sees the environment not failover as expected in the case of such a "black hole" or "slow draining" target, and thus, the expensive redundancy they paid for does not work.

Steps to Reproduce:
Configure a scsi target setup so that commands are silently dropped, but no transport or other error is reported (all commands timeout).  One way to do this is with scsi_debug.
  
Actual results:
scsi recovery logic can take many minutes to complete, which blocks dm-mp from failing over to another path, and renders expensive dual fabric setups ineffective.

Expected results:
scsi error recovery, and thus, dm-mp, should complete in a reasonable amount of time so that application timeouts (such as oracle voting disk) do not get triggered if the "black hole" target type failure occurs.

Additional info:
David Jeffery has started a patchset which will address this issue and posted it to linux-scsi: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg51090.html
Comment 1 David Jeffery 2011-03-30 21:30:25 UTC 
Created attachment 488905 [details]
Reduce # of turs sent during scsi error recovery

Attached is a RHEL6 version of the patch which as be submitted (but not yet accepted) upstream.
Comment 2 Dave Wysochanski 2011-04-07 18:23:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 672437 ***
Comment 3 Dave Wysochanski 2011-04-07 19:17:45 UTC 
Re-opening to track this specific case separately, as BZ 672437 is more general.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2011-05-13 15:24:04 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
Comment 6 Mike Christie 2011-07-14 05:44:48 UTC 
Thanks for your work on this David. Patch was sent to rh-kernel for review and merging.
Comment 8 Kyle McMartin 2011-07-25 13:06:50 UTC 
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-171.el6
Comment 12 Tomas Capek 2011-11-23 15:35:16 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
In error recovery, most SCSI error recovery stages send a TUR (Test Unit Ready) command for every bad command when a driver error handler reports success. When several bad commands pointed to a same device, the device was probed multiple times. When the device was in a state where the device did not respond to commands even after a recovery function returned success, the error handler had to wait for the commands to time out. This significantly impeded the recovery process. With this update, SCSI mid-layer error routines to send test commands have been fixed to respond once per device instead of once per bad command, thus reducing error recovery time considerably.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 12:47:24 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html
Comment 14 Rob Evers 2013-03-19 18:21:41 UTC 
*** Bug 631765 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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