[Bug 1789177] Re: RabbitMQ fails to synchronize exchanges under high load

[Chris MacNaughton]

Thanks Robbie for the acceptance on Bionic. Per some offline discussion,
we're planning to hold off on the xenial backport as it will result in
additional backports to the cloud archive as well for a bug that we
haven't had users hit on Xenial.

To clarify the last statement, the bug has been intentionally reproduced
on Xenial, but we haven't heard a report about anybody experiencing it
in the wild.

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Title:
  RabbitMQ fails to synchronize exchanges under high load

Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive mitaka series:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive queens series:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive stein series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive train series:
  Fix Committed
Status in oslo.messaging:
  Fix Released
Status in python-oslo.messaging package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in python-oslo.messaging source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in python-oslo.messaging source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  If there are many exchanges and queues, after failing over, rabbitmq-
  server shows us error that exchanges are cannot be found.

  Affected
   Bionic (Queens)
  Not affected
   Focal


  [Test Case]

  1. deploy simple rabbitmq cluster
  - https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/MR76VbMwY5/
  2. juju ssh neutron-gateway/0
  - for i in {1..1000}; do systemd restart neutron-metering-agent; sleep 2; done
  3. it would be better if we can add more exchanges, queues, bindings
  - rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management 
  - rabbitmqctl add_user test password 
  - rabbitmqctl set_user_tags test administrator
  - rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p openstack test ".*" ".*" ".*" 
  - https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/brw7rSXD7q/ ( save this as create.sh)
  - for i in {1..2000}; do ./create.sh test_$i; done

  4. restart rabbitmq-server service or shutdown machine and turn on several times.
  5. you can see the exchange not found error

  
  [Where problems could occur]
  1. every service which uses oslo.messaging need to be restarted.
  2. Message transferring could be an issue

  
  [Others]

  // original description

  Input:
   - OpenStack Pike cluster with ~500 nodes
   - DVR enabled in neutron
   - Lots of messages

  Scenario: failover of one rabbit node in a cluster

  Issue: after failed rabbit node gets back online some rpc communications appear broken
  Logs from rabbit:

  =ERROR REPORT==== 10-Aug-2018::17:24:37 ===
  Channel error on connection <0.14839.1> (10.200.0.24:55834 -> 10.200.0.31:5672, vhost: '/openstack', user: 'openstack'), channel 1:
  operation basic.publish caused a channel exception not_found: no exchange 'reply_5675d7991b4a4fb7af5d239f4decb19f' in vhost '/openstack'

  Investigation:
  After rabbit node gets back online it gets many new connections immediately and fails to synchronize exchanges for some reason (number of exchanges in that cluster was ~1600), on that node it stays low and not increasing.

  Workaround: let the recovered node synchronize all exchanges - forbid
  new connections with iptables rules for some time after failed node
  gets online (30 sec)

  Proposal: do not create new exchanges (use default) for all direct
  messages - this also fixes the issue.

  Is there a good reason for creating new exchanges for direct messages?

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