[ClusterLabs] corosync SCHED_RR stuck at 100% cpu usage with kernel 4.19, priority inversion/livelock?
Christine Caulfield
ccaulfie at redhat.com
Fri Feb 15 06:12:04 EST 2019
On 15/02/2019 10:56, Edwin Török wrote:
> On 15/02/2019 09:31, Christine Caulfield wrote:
>> On 14/02/2019 17:33, Edwin Török wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We were testing corosync 2.4.3/libqb 1.0.1-6/sbd 1.3.1/gfs2 on 4.19 and
>>> noticed a fundamental problem with realtime priorities:
>>> - corosync runs on CPU3, and interrupts for the NIC used by corosync are
>>> also routed to CPU3
>>> - corosync runs with SCHED_RR, ksoftirqd does not (should it?), but
>>> without it packets sent/received from that interface would not get processed
>>> - corosync is in a busy loop using 100% CPU, never giving a chance for
>>> softirqs to be processed (including TIMER and SCHED)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Can you tell me what distribution this is please?
> This is a not-yet-released development version of XenServer based on
> CentOS 7.5/7.6.
> The kernel is 4.19.19 + patches to make it work well with Xen
> (previously we were using a 4.4.52 + Xen patches and backports kernel)
>
> The versions of packages are:
> rpm -q libqb corosync dlm sbd kernel
> libqb-1.0.1-6.el7.x86_64
> corosync-2.4.3-13.xs+2.0.0.x86_64
> dlm-4.0.7-1.el7.x86_64
> sbd-1.3.1-7.xs+2.0.0.x86_64
> kernel-4.19.19-5.0.0.x86_64
>
> Package versions with +xs in version have xenserver specific patches
> applied, libqb is coming straight from upstream CentOS here:
> https://git.centos.org/tree/rpms!libqb.git/fe522aa5e0af26c0cff1170b6d766b5f248778d2
>
>> There are patches to
>> libqb that should be applied to fix a similar problem in 1.0.1-6 - but
>> that's a RHEL version and kernel 4.19 is not a RHEL 7 kernel, so I just
>> need to be sure that those fixes are in your libqb before going any
> further.
>
> We have libqb 1.0.1-6 from CentOS, it looks like there is 1.0.1-7 which
> includes an SHM crash fix, is this the one you were refering to, or is
> there an additional patch elsewhere?
> https://git.centos.org/commit/rpms!libqb.git/b5ede72cb0faf5b70ddd504822552fe97bfbbb5e
>
Thanks. libqb-1.0.1-6 does have the patch I was thinking of - I mainly
wanted to check it wasn't someone else's package that didn't have that
patch in. The SHM patch in -7 fixes a race at shutdown (often seen with
sbd). That shouldn't be a problem because there is a workaround in -6
anyway, and it's not fixing a spin, which is what we have here of course.
Are there any messages in the system logs from either corosync or
related subsystems?
Chrissie
>> Without doubt this is a bug, in normal operation corosync is quite light
>> on CPU.
>
> Thanks for the help in advance,
> --Edwin
>
>>
>> Chrissie
>>
>>> This appears to be a priority inversion problem, if corosync runs as
>>> realtime then everything it needs (timers...) should be realtime as
>>> well, otherwise running as realtime guarantees we'll miss the watchdog
>>> deadline, instead of guaranteeing that we process the data before the
>>> deadline.
>>>
>>> Do you have some advice on what the expected realtime priorities would
>>> be for:
>>> - corosync
>>> - sbd
>>> - hard irqs
>>> - soft irqs
>>>
>>> Also would it be possible for corosync to avoid hogging the CPU in libqb?
>>> (Our hypothesis is that if softirqs are not processed then timers
>>> wouldn't work for processes on that CPU either)
>>>
>>> Some more background and analysis:
>>>
>>> We noticed that cluster membership changes were very unstable
>>> (especially as you approach 16 physical host clusters) causing the whole
>>> cluster to fence when adding a single node. This was previously working
>>> fairly reliably with a 4.4 based kernel.
>>>
>>> I've increased SBD timeout to 3600 to be able to investigate the problem
>>> and noticed that corosync was using 100% of CPU3 [1] and I immediately
>>> lost SSH access on eth0 (corosync was using eth1), where eth0's
>>> interrupts were also processed on CPU3 (and irqbalance didn't move it).
>>>
>>> IIUC SCHED_RR tasks should not be able to take up 100% of CPU, according
>>> to [3] it shouldn't be allowed to use more than 95% of CPU.
>>>
>>> Softirqs were not processed at all on CPU3 (see [2], the numbers in the
>>> CPU3 column did not change, the numbers in the other columns did).
>>> Tried decreasing priority of corosync using chrt to 1, which didn't
>>> help. I then increased the priority of ksoftirqd to 50 using chrt, which
>>> immediately solved the CPU usage problem on corosync.
>>>
>>> I tried a simple infinite loop program with realtime priority, but it
>>> didn't reproduce the problems with interrupts getting stuck.
>>>
>>>
>>> Three problems here:
>>> * all softirqs were stuck (not being processed) on CPU3, which included
>>> TIMER and SCHED. corosync relies quite heavily on timers, would lack of
>>> processing them cause the 100% CPU usage?
>>> * is there a kernel bug introduced between 4.4 - 4.19 that causes
>>> realtime tasks to not respect the 95% limit anymore? This would leave 5%
>>> time for IRQs, including NIC IRQs
>>> * if corosync runs at higher priority than the kernel softirq thread
>>> processing NIC IRQ how is corosync expecting incoming packets to be
>>> processed, if it is hogging the CPU by receiving, polling and sending
>>> packets?
>>>
>>> On another host which exhibited the same problem I've run strace (which
>>> also had the side-effect of getting corosync unstuck from 100% CPU use
>>> after strace finished):
>>> 1 bind
>>> 5 close
>>> 688 epoll_wait
>>> 8 futex
>>> 1 getsockname
>>> 3 ioctl
>>> 1 open
>>> 3 recvfrom
>>> 190 recvmsg
>>> 87 sendmsg
>>> 9 sendto
>>> 4 socket
>>> 6 write
>>>
>>> On yet another host I've run gdb while corosync was stuck:
>>> Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f6fd0c9b700 (LWP 16245)):
>>> #0 0x00007f6fd34a0afb in do_futex_wait.constprop.1 ()
>>> from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>>> #1 0x00007f6fd34a0b8f in __new_sem_wait_slow.constprop.0 ()
>>> from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>>> #2 0x00007f6fd34a0c2b in sem_wait@@GLIBC_2.2.5 () from
>>> /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>>> #3 0x00007f6fd3b38991 in qb_logt_worker_thread () from /lib64/libqb.so.0
>>> #4 0x00007f6fd349ae25 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>>> #5 0x00007f6fd31c4bad in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>>>
>>> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f6fd43c7b80 (LWP 16242)):
>>> #0 0x00007f6fd31c5183 in epoll_wait () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>>> #1 0x00007f6fd3b3dea8 in poll_and_add_to_jobs () from /lib64/libqb.so.0
>>> #2 0x00007f6fd3b2ed93 in qb_loop_run () from /lib64/libqb.so.0
>>> #3 0x000055592d62ff78 in main ()
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> top - 15:51:38 up 47 min, 2 users, load average: 3.81, 1.70, 0.70
>>> Tasks: 208 total, 4 running, 130 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>>> %Cpu0 : 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu1 : 53.8 us, 46.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu2 : 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu3 : 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu4 : 3.8 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 96.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu5 : 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu6 : 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> %Cpu7 : 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
>>> 0.0 st
>>> KiB Mem : 4210184 total, 3374752 free, 387380 used, 448052 buff/cache
>>> KiB Swap: 1048572 total, 1048572 free, 0 used. 3660276 avail Mem
>>>
>>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>>> 16217 root rt 0 194832 92532 66128 R 104.0 2.2 2:54.00 corosync
>>> 24004 root 20 0 161984 4432 3696 R 4.0 0.1 0:00.02 top
>>>
>>> cat /proc/interrupts |grep eth
>>> 88: 2 0 0 0 0 0
>>> 0 0 xen-pirq -msi-x eth0
>>> 89: 2805 0 0 419621 0 0
>>> 0 0 xen-pirq -msi-x eth0-TxRx-0
>>> 90: 2 0 0 0 0 0
>>> 1 0 xen-pirq -msi-x eth1
>>> 91: 435 171086 0 0 0 0
>>> 0 0 xen-pirq -msi-x eth1-TxRx-0
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> watch cat /proc/softirqs
>>> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4
>>> CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
>>> HI: 1 0 0 0 0
>>> 0 0 0
>>> TIMER: 355339 786951 367148 266583 389591
>>> 357184 369577 374880
>>> NET_TX: 8 1081 1 743 1
>>> 1 223 5
>>> NET_RX: 5807 230818 2709 529755 3323
>>> 2598 2550 1878
>>> BLOCK: 8166 53 42 13 10
>>> 6563 21 6894
>>> IRQ_POLL: 0 0 0 0 0
>>> 0 0 0
>>> TASKLET: 103 6 9 85 0
>>> 0 0 0
>>> SCHED: 240428 100842 83166 51213 77824
>>> 77270 72074 72261
>>> HRTIMER: 0 0 0 0 0
>>> 0 0 0
>>> RCU: 135491 245345 139513 130591 140280
>>> 135094 141007 136063
>>>
>>>
>>> [3]
>>> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
>>> 950000
>>> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us
>>> 1000000
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --Edwin
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