[Bug 1336568] Re: LVMiSCSI driver can't issue direct I/O through tgtd to iscsi volume

Tue Jul 14 23:11:45 UTC 2015

This patch was included in the juno release of cinder and thus is
available already in utopic, vivid, etc. It is not available in
icehouse/trusty - which this patch is for.

** Description changed:

  I found a problem which LVMiSCSI driver can't issue direct I/O through
  tgtd to iscsi volume.

  In current implementation, qemu-kvm opens device(storage volume) using
  cache='node'at nova side, however, tgtd opens device without "--bsoflags
  direct" at cinder side.

  Therefore, I/O from guest instances are cached at control node even though the compute node issues O_DIRECT I/O to iSCSI volume.
  As a result, if control node has a crash, cached data will be lost. This causes data lost problem of guest instance.

  I will propose a fix of this issue.

  Here are test environment and confirmation results.
  (1) Control node
      - Control node has nova, cinder(c-sch, c-api, c-vol), glance, horizon
        services.
      - Use LVMiSCSI driver for cinder backend.
  (2) Compute node has n-cpu and n-net services.

  [Confirmation at compute node]
  On a compute node, qemu opens device file using cache='none'. This means instance can issue direct I/O from guest to the device.

  [root at compute ~]# cat /etc/libvirt/qemu/instance-0000000b.xml
  <domain type='kvm'>
    <name>instance-0000000b</name>
    <uuid>9e1eb5cc-4c40-4023-bca5-a7d1720c6f51</uuid>
  ....
      <disk type='block' device='disk'>
        <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
        ######### Open the device without cache.
        <source dev='/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.16.42.67:3260-iscsi-iqn.2010-10.org.openstack:volume-fdd23217-6e95-4aee-a586-6ef174567ba5-lun-1'/>
        <target dev='vdc' bus='virtio'/>
        <serial>fdd23217-6e95-4aee-a586-6ef174567ba5</serial>
        <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
      </disk>
  ....
  </domain>

  Confirm a file descriptor whether the device is opened with O_DIRECT or
  not at compute node.

  => qemu Process ID is "24836"
  [root at compute ~]# ps uax | grep qemu
  root     11421  0.0  0.0 112672   912 pts/6    S+   17:13   0:00 grep --color=auto qemu
  qemu     24836 13.8 16.0 4638484 1312668 ?     Sl   Jun29 462:12 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -name instance-0000000b .....

  => Device file of iscsi cinder volume is "/dev/sde".
  [root at compute ~]# ls -la /dev/disk/by-path/
  .....
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 349525333 Jun 27 10:01 ip-10.16.42.67
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root         9 Jun 30 00:16 ip-10.16.42.67:3260-iscsi-iqn.2010-10.org.openstack:volume-fdd23217-6e95-4aee-a586-6ef174567ba5-lun-1 -> ../../sde

  => "fd18" is infomation of /dev/sde
  [root at compute ~]# ls -la /proc/24836/fd
  total 0
  dr-x------ 2 qemu qemu  0 Jun 29 09:40 .
  dr-xr-xr-x 9 qemu qemu  0 Jun 29 09:31 ..
  .....
  lrwx------ 1 qemu qemu 64 Jun 29 09:40 18 -> /dev/sde

  => The flags is "02140002". O_DIRECT flag is "0x40000". This flag is raised at compute node side.
  [root at compute ~]# cat /proc/24836/fdinfo/18
  pos:    10737418240
  flags:  02140002

  [Confirmation at control node]
  Confirm iscsi target status and exported disk.
  Backing store path is /dev/stack-volumes/volume-fdd23217-6e95-4aee-a586-6ef174567ba5

  [mtanino at control ~]$ sudo tgt-admin -s
  .....
  Target 3: iqn.2010-10.org.openstack:volume-fdd23217-6e95-4aee-a586-6ef174567ba5
      System information:
          Driver: iscsi
  ...
          LUN: 1
  ...
              Backing store path: /dev/stack-volumes/volume-fdd23217-6e95-4aee-a586-6ef174567ba5
              Backing store flags:
      Account information:
      ACL information:
          ALL

  =>Condirm device mapper file of the backing store

  [mtanino at control ~]$ ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/ | grep stack
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Jun 30 00:16 dm-name-stack--volumes-volume--fdd23217--6e95--4aee--a586--6ef174567ba5 -> ../../dm-0

  => tgtd Process ID is "31010"
  [mtanino at control ~]$ ps aux | grep tgtd
  root     31010  2.0  0.0 476584   900 ?        Ssl  Jun30  52:27 /usr/sbin/tgtd -f

  => "fd11" is infomation of /dev/dm-0
  [mtanino at control ~]$ sudo ls -la /proc/31010/fd
  ...
  lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul  1 16:11 11 -> /dev/dm-0
  lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jul  1 16:11 12 -> /dev/sdb2
  ...

  => The flags is "0100002". O_DIRECT flag is "0x40000". This flag is not raised at control node side.
  [mtanino at control ~]$ sudo cat /proc/31010/fdinfo/11
  pos:	0
  flags:	0100002

  Regards,
  Mitsuhiro Tanino
+ 
+ ========================================================================
+ [Impact]
+ 
+  * May see data loss without the ability to use write-through caching
+    (write-cache off) option instead of write-back (write-cache on)
+    option for iscsi targets.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+  * Configure Cinder to use LVMiSCSIDriver
+  * Create cinder volume (cinder create --display-name foo 1G)
+  * Attach volume to nova instance (nova volume-attach my-instance <vol-uuid>)
+ 
+  * Observe the write-cache policy specified per cinder volume (found in)
+    - /var/lib/cinder/volumes/volume-<uuid>
+ 
+  * Observe above information (detailed by Mitsuhiro)
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+  * Low risk of regression as the feature is enabled through a
+    configurable option in which default value takes original behavior.

** Tags added: sts

** Patch added: "Patch for trusty-icehouse version."
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinder/+bug/1336568/+attachment/4429015/+files/lp1336568-trusty.debdiff

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