[Bug 1906496] Re: [SRU] mgr can be very slow in a large ceph cluster

[Mathew Hodson]

** Also affects: ceph (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Also affects: cloud-archive
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  [SRU] mgr can be very slow in a large ceph cluster

Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive:
  New
Status in ceph package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ceph source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact] 
  Ceph upstream implemented a new feature [1] that will check/report those long network ping times between osds, but it introduced an issue that ceph-mgr might be very slow because it needs to dump all the new osd network ping stats [2] for some tasks, this can be bad especially when the cluster has large number of osds.

  Since these kind osd network ping stats doesn't need to be exposed to
  the python mgr module. so, it only makes the mgr doing more work than
  it needs to, it could cause the mgr slow or even hang and could cause
  the cpu usage of mgr process constantly high. The fix is to disable
  the ping time dump for those mgr python modules.

  This resulted in ceph-mgr not responding to commands and/or hanging
  (and had to be restarted) in clusters with a large number of OSDs.

  [0] is the upstreambug. It was backported to Nautilus but rejected for
  Luminous and Mimic because they reached EOL in upstream. But I want to
  backport to these two releases Ubuntu/UCA.

  The major fix from upstream is here [3], and also I found an
  improvement commit [4] that submitted later in another PR.

  [Test Case]
  Deploy a Ceph cluster (Luminous 13.2.9 or Mimic 13.2.9) with large number of Ceph OSDs (600+). During normal operations of the cluster, as the ceph-mgr dumps the network ping stats regularly, this problem would manifest. This is relatively hard to reproduce as the ceph-mgr may not always get overloaded and thus not hang.

  [Regression Potential]
  Fix has been accepted upstream (the changes are here in "sync" with upstream to the extent these old releases match the latest source code) and have been confirmed to work. So the risk is minimal.

  At worst, this could affect modules that consume the stats from ceph-
  mgr  (such as prometheus or other monitoring scripts/tools) and thus
  becomes less useful. But still shouldn't cause any problems to the
  operations of the cluster itself.

  [Other Info]
  - In addition to the fix from [1], another commit [4] is also cherry-picked and backported here - this was also accepted upstream.

  - Since the ceph-mgr hangs when affected, this also impact sosreport
  collection - commands time out as the mgr doesn't respond and thus
  info get truncated/not collected in that case. This fix should help
  avoid that problem in sosreports.

  [0] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/43364
  [1] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/28755
  [2] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/28755/files#diff-5498d83111f1210998ee186e98d5836d2bce9992be7648addc83f59e798cddd8L430
  [3] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/32406
  [4] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/32554/commits/1112584621016c4a8cac1bedb1a1b8b17c394f7f

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