[gpfsug-discuss] strange waiters + filesystem deadlock

Aaron Knister aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov
Fri Mar 24 17:34:30 GMT 2017


Here's the screenshot from the other node with the high cpu utilization.

On 3/24/17 1:32 PM, Aaron Knister wrote:
> heh, yep we're on sles :)
>
> here's a screenshot of the fs manager from the deadlocked filesystem. I
> don't think there's an nsd server or manager node that's running full
> throttle across all cpus. There is one that's got relatively high CPU
> utilization though (300-400%). I'll send a screenshot of it in a sec.
>
> no zimon yet but we do have other tools to see cpu utilization.
>
> -Aaron
>
> On 3/24/17 1:22 PM, Sven Oehme wrote:
>> you must be on sles as this segfaults only on sles to my knowledge :-)
>>
>> i am looking for a NSD or manager node in your cluster that runs at 100%
>> cpu usage.
>>
>> do you have zimon deployed to look at cpu utilization across your nodes ?
>>
>> sven
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:08 AM Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov
>> <mailto:aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Sven,
>>
>>     Which NSD server should I run top on, the fs manager? If so the
>> CPU load
>>     is about 155%. I'm working on perf top but not off to a great
>> start...
>>
>>     # perf top
>>         PerfTop:    1095 irqs/sec  kernel:61.9%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz
>>     cycles],  (all, 28 CPUs)
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>     Segmentation fault
>>
>>     -Aaron
>>
>>     On 3/24/17 1:04 PM, Sven Oehme wrote:
>>     > while this is happening  run top and see if there is very high cpu
>>     > utilization at this time on the NSD Server.
>>     >
>>     > if there is , run perf top (you might need to install perf
>> command) and
>>     > see if the top cpu contender is a spinlock . if so send a
>> screenshot of
>>     > perf top as i may know what that is and how to fix.
>>     >
>>     > sven
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:43 AM Aaron Knister
>> <aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov <mailto:aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov>
>>     > <mailto:aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov
>> <mailto:aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov>>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >     Since yesterday morning we've noticed some deadlocks on one
>> of our
>>     >     filesystems that seem to be triggered by writing to it. The
>> waiters on
>>     >     the clients look like this:
>>     >
>>     >     0x19450B0 (   6730) waiting 2063.294589599 seconds,
>> SyncHandlerThread:
>>     >     on ThCond 0x1802585CB10 (0xFFFFC9002585CB10)
>> (InodeFlushCondVar), reason
>>     >     'waiting for the flush flag to commit metadata'
>>     >     0x7FFFDA65E200 (  22850) waiting 0.000246257 seconds,
>>     >     AllocReduceHelperThread: on ThCond 0x7FFFDAC7FE28
>> (0x7FFFDAC7FE28)
>>     >     (MsgRecordCondvar), reason 'RPC wait' for
>> allocMsgTypeRelinquishRegion
>>     >     on node 10.1.52.33 <c0n3271>
>>     >     0x197EE70 (   6776) waiting 0.000198354 seconds,
>>     >     FileBlockWriteFetchHandlerThread: on ThCond 0x7FFFF00CD598
>>     >     (0x7FFFF00CD598) (MsgRecordCondvar), reason 'RPC wait' for
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRequestRegion on node 10.1.52.33 <c0n3271>
>>     >
>>     >     (10.1.52.33/c0n3271 <http://10.1.52.33/c0n3271>
>>     <http://10.1.52.33/c0n3271> is the fs manager
>>     >     for the filesystem in question)
>>     >
>>     >     there's a single process running on this node writing to the
>> filesystem
>>     >     in question (well, trying to write, it's been blocked doing
>> nothing for
>>     >     half an hour now). There are ~10 other client nodes in this
>> situation
>>     >     right now. We had many more last night before the problem
>> seemed to
>>     >     disappear in the early hours of the morning and now its back.
>>     >
>>     >     Waiters on the fs manager look like this. While the
>> individual waiter is
>>     >     short it's a near constant stream:
>>     >
>>     >     0x7FFF60003540 (   8269) waiting 0.001151588 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRequestRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>> (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0)
>>     >     (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFF601C8860 (  20606) waiting 0.001115712 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRelinquishRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>>     >     (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0) (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFF91C10080 (  14723) waiting 0.000959649 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRequestRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>> (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0)
>>     >     (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFFB03C2910 (  12636) waiting 0.000769611 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRequestRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>> (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0)
>>     >     (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFF8C092850 (  18215) waiting 0.000682275 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRelinquishRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>>     >     (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0) (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFF9423F730 (  12652) waiting 0.000641915 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRequestRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>> (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0)
>>     >     (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFF9422D770 (  12625) waiting 0.000494256 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRequestRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>> (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0)
>>     >     (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >     0x7FFF9423E310 (  12651) waiting 0.000437760 seconds, Msg
>> handler
>>     >     allocMsgTypeRelinquishRegion: on ThMutex 0x1802163A2E0
>>     >     (0xFFFFC9002163A2E0) (AllocManagerMutex)
>>     >
>>     >     I don't know if this data point is useful but both yesterday
>> and today
>>     >     the metadata NSDs for this filesystem have had a constant
>> aggregate
>>     >     stream of 25MB/s 4kop/s reads during each episode (very low
>> latency
>>     >     though so I don't believe the storage is a bottleneck here).
>> Writes are
>>     >     only a few hundred ops and didn't strike me as odd.
>>     >
>>     >     I have a PMR open for this but I'm curious if folks have
>> seen this in
>>     >     the wild and what it might mean.
>>     >
>>     >     -Aaron
>>     >
>>     >     --
>>     >     Aaron Knister
>>     >     NASA Center for Climate Simulation (Code 606.2)
>>     >     Goddard Space Flight Center
>>     >     (301) 286-2776 <tel:(301)%20286-2776> <tel:(301)%20286-2776>
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Aaron Knister
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Goddard Space Flight Center
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