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Bug 875709

Summary: 3.1.z - [Scalability] iscsi storage domain creation fails due to timed-out getDeviceList
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Rami Vaknin <rvaknin>
Component: vdsmAssignee: Eduardo Warszawski <ewarszaw>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Haim <hateya>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.3CC: abaron, bazulay, ewarszaw, hateya, iheim, lpeer, yeylon, ykaul
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Whiteboard: storage
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Last Closed: 2012-11-15 08:10:14 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Rami Vaknin 2012-11-12 12:58:14 UTC
Created attachment 643492 [details]
vdsm and engine logs

Version:
vdsm-4.9.6-41.0.el6_3.x86_64 (si24)

How to reproduce:
Make ~120 iscsi luns visible to your host and create iscsi storage domain from one of them.

How reproducible:
Reproduced plenty of times during creation of few storage domains using a python-sdk script.

Description of the problem:
getDeviceList takes ~5 minutes when 121 luns are visible to the host, that makes createStorageDomain fail on timeout.

# time vdsClient -s 0 getDeviceList
...
...
real	5m22.029s
user	0m0.262s
sys	0m0.019s


It seems that the operation that takes the most of the time is pvcreate with --test flag:

Thread-6059::DEBUG::2012-11-12 12:21:24,949::__init__::1164::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(_log) '/usr/bin/sudo -n /sbin/lvm pvcreate --config " devices ....... --test ........

Thread-6059::DEBUG::2012-11-12 12:26:34,327::__init__::1164::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(_log) FAILED: <err> = '  Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mapper/36006016012823000e8774155112ce211"\n  Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mapper/36006016012823000c8a2fd90112ce211"\n  Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mapper/36006016012823000e4774155112ce211"\n  Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mapper/360060160128230009643b168112ce211"\n  Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mapper/36006016012823000a071237c112ce211"\n  Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/mapper/36006016012823000600e8975112ce211"\n  Can\'t initialize physical volume "/dev/mapper/36006016012823000cae04ba6c52ce211" of volume group "d5597a53-7cba-429b-9d2d-7e260b251a0b" without -ff\n .......


From engine.log
===============

2012-11-12 12:21:12,394 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) [767cca78] START, ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand(HostName = puma05, HostId = 1b279f74
-2bfe-11e2-9d66-2fb7f043202d, storagePoolId = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, storageType = ISCSI, connectionList = [{ id: null, connection: 10.35.160.107, iqn: iqn.1992-04.com.emc:cx.ckm00121000438.b7, vfsType: null, mountOptions:
 null, nfsVersion: null, nfsRetrans: null, nfsTimeo: null };]), log id: 513bc3a7
2012-11-12 12:21:12,426 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) [767cca78] FINISH, ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand, return: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0
00000000000=0}, log id: 513bc3a7
2012-11-12 12:21:12,442 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.ConnectStorageToVdsCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) [767cca78] Running command: ConnectStorageToVdsCommand internal: false. Entities affected :  ID: aaa00000-0000-0000-000
0-123456789aaa Type: System
2012-11-12 12:21:12,444 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ConnectStorageServerVDSCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) [767cca78] START, ConnectStorageServerVDSCommand(HostName = puma05, HostId = 1b279f74-2bfe-11e2-9d66-2fb7f0
43202d, storagePoolId = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, storageType = ISCSI, connectionList = [{ id: null, connection: 10.35.160.107, iqn: iqn.1992-04.com.emc:cx.ckm00121000438.b7, vfsType: null, mountOptions: null, nfsVersion: nul
l, nfsRetrans: null, nfsTimeo: null };]), log id: 5d0ecc0e
2012-11-12 12:21:12,513 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ConnectStorageServerVDSCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) [767cca78] FINISH, ConnectStorageServerVDSCommand, return: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000=0}, log id
: 5d0ecc0e
2012-11-12 12:21:12,530 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.GetDeviceListVDSCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) START, GetDeviceListVDSCommand(HostName = puma05, HostId = 1b279f74-2bfe-11e2-9d66-2fb7f043202d, storageType=ISCSI
), log id: 194fef9
2012-11-12 12:24:12,532 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.VdsBrokerCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) XML RPC error in command GetDeviceListVDS ( HostName = puma05 ), the error was: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException, Ti
meoutException:  
2012-11-12 12:24:12,532 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.GetDeviceListVDSCommand] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) FINISH, GetDeviceListVDSCommand, log id: 194fef9
2012-11-12 12:24:12,532 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.storage.GetDeviceListQuery] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) Query GetDeviceListQuery failed. Exception message is VdcBLLException: org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.VDSNetworkException: VDSNetworkException: 
2012-11-12 12:24:12,532 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.resource.AbstractBackendResource] (ajp-/127.0.0.1:8702-13) Operation Failed: Network error during communication with the Host.


Response to python-sdk
======================
status: 400
reason: Bad Request
detail: Network error during communication with the Host.

Comment 5 Eduardo Warszawski 2012-11-15 08:10:14 UTC
Thread-4399::DEBUG::2012-11-12 12:24:28,487::__init__::1164::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(_log) '/usr/bin/sudo -n /sbin/lvm vgs
Thread-4399::DEBUG::2012-11-12 12:24:29,168::__init__::1164::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(_log) SUCCESS: <err> = ''; <rc> = 0

Thread-6203::DEBUG::2012-11-12 12:24:27,159::__init__::1164::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(_log) '/usr/bin/sudo -n /sbin/lvm pvcreate
Thread-6203::DEBUG::2012-11-12 12:28:26,683::__init__::1164::Storage.Misc.excCmd::(_log) FAILED: <err> = '  Writing physical volume data to disk


But pvcreate --test on 200 volumes takes only a few seconds:

real    0m2.692s
user    0m0.089s
sys     0m0.322s


The issue with the bug setup is there are a lot of failed LUNs.
Operations in such volumes take a long time and the addition of failures produces the long return time of the operation.

Since getDeviceList is the 1st op on the new set of LUNs, failing this operation directs the user to sanitize the setup before start real work on it.