[lustre-discuss] routed LNET connection between server and virtualized client is failing

Uwe Sauter uwe.sauter.de at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 01:51:05 PDT 2020


Stephane,

thank you for the hint. I will set up a test VM with Mellanox OFED and let you know if the issue disappears.

Cheers,

	Uwe

Am 14.08.20 um 06:40 schrieb Stephane Thiell:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> We had a similar problem in the past and our conclusion was that the in-kernel OFED drivers (provided by distribution) likely doesn’t have all the patches required for SR-IOV to work correctly in VMs (when using VFs on IB HBAs and KVM). Mellanox OFED is required at least on the VMs when using SR-IOV, otherwise you get these random network errors.
> 
> MOFED 4.9 is a LTS release for ConnectX-3 HBAs and should work great with Lustre 2.12.5 on your VMs. It's definitely worth the effort in the long term in my opinion.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Stephane
> 
>> On Aug 13, 2020, at 5:20 AM, Uwe Sauter <uwe.sauter.de at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> (TL;DR at the bottom)
>>
>> I have the following situation:
>>
>>
>> +----------------+
>> |                +--------------+                +-------------------------------------------------+
>> | Lustre servers |              |                |                                                 |
>> |    @ o2ib20    |    +---------+--------+       |  Virtualization host:                           |
>> |                |    |                  |       |  * Proxmox 6.2, up-to-date                      |
>> +----------------+    |      o2ib20      |       |  ** Debian 10.5 based                           |
>>                       |  10.148.0.0/16   |       |  ** Ubuntu based kernel 5.4.44-2-pve            |
>>                       |                  |       |  * ConnectX-3 (MCX354A-FCBT)                    |
>>                       +---------+--------+       |  ** 15 VFs configured                           |
>>                                 |                |  ** SR-IOV                                      |
>>          +----------------------+                |  * OFED provided by distribution                |
>>          |                                       |                                                 |
>> +--------+-------+                               |                                                 |
>> |  LNET router   |                               |  Virtual machines and LNET routers:             |
>> +--------+-------+                               |  * CentOS 7.8 based                             |
>>          |                                       |  * OFED provided by CentOS                      |
>>          +----------------------+                |  * Lustre 2.12.5                                |
>>                                 |                |  * Kernel 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7                  |
>>                       +---------+--------+       |                                                 |
>>                       |                  |-----------------+--------------+--------------+         |
>>                       |      o2ib43      |       |         |              |              |         |
>> +----------------+    |  10.225.0.0/16   |       |         |              |              |         |
>> |                |    |                  |       |  +------+-----+ +------+-----+ +------+-----+   |
>> | Lustre servers |    +---------+--------+       |  |            | |            | |            |   |
>> |    @ o2ib43    |              |                |  |    VM 1    | |    VM 2    | |    VM 3    |   |
>> |                +--------------+                |  |  @ o2ib43  | |  @ o2ib43  | |  @ o2ib43  |   |
>> +----------------+                               |  |            | |            | |            |   |
>>                                                  |  |            | |            | |            |   |
>>                                                  |  +------------+ +------------+ +------------+   |
>>                                                  |                                                 |
>>                                                  +-------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>
>> Lustre @ o2ib20 is a Sonexion appliance based on CentOS 7.2 and Lustre version 2.11.0.300_cray_43_gd35e657_dirty.
>>
>> Lustre @ 02ib43 is CentOS 7.6 based setup with kernel 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7_lustre and Lustre version lustre-2.10.7.1nec-1.el7.x86_64.
>>
>> The issue I currently see is that once more that one VM is running on the virualization host
>> then access to the Lustre file system behind the LNET routers is stuck.
>>
>> The errors I can see on the VM is e.g.:
>>
>> [ 1297.470192] LustreError: 2477:0:(events.c:200:client_bulk_callback()) event type 1, status -5, desc ffff89365cebb800
>> [ 1297.472058] LustreError: 2478:0:(events.c:200:client_bulk_callback()) event type 1, status -5, desc ffff89365cebb800
>> [ 1297.473909] Lustre: 2490:0:(client.c:2133:ptlrpc_expire_one_request()) @@@ Request sent has failed due to network error: [sent
>> 1597316593/real 1597316593]  req at ffff89365cee0900 x1674906532108800/t0
>> (0) o4->snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800 at 10.148.240.33@o2ib20:6/4 lens 488/448 e 0 to 1 dl 1597316688 ref 2 fl
>> Rpc:eX/0/ffffffff rc 0/-1
>> [ 1297.479055] Lustre: snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800: Connection to snx11167-OST001a (at 10.148.240.33 at o2ib20) was lost;
>> in progress operations using this service will wait for recovery to com
>> plete
>> [ 1299.470205] LustreError: 2478:0:(events.c:200:client_bulk_callback()) event type 1, status -5, desc ffff89365cebb800
>> [ 1299.472403] LustreError: 2477:0:(events.c:200:client_bulk_callback()) event type 1, status -5, desc ffff89365cebb800
>> [ 1299.474395] Lustre: 2490:0:(client.c:2133:ptlrpc_expire_one_request()) @@@ Request sent has failed due to network error: [sent
>> 1597316595/real 1597316595]  req at ffff89365cee0900 x1674906532108800/t0
>> (0) o4->snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800 at 10.148.240.33@o2ib20:6/4 lens 488/448 e 0 to 1 dl 1597316690 ref 2 fl
>> Rpc:eX/2/ffffffff rc 0/-1
>> [ 1299.479830] Lustre: snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800: Connection to snx11167-OST001a (at 10.148.240.33 at o2ib20) was lost;
>> in progress operations using this service will wait for recovery to com
>> plete
>> [ 1299.496826] Lustre: snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800: Connection restored to 10.148.240.33 at o2ib20 (at 10.148.240.33 at o2ib20)
>> [ 1301.470102] LustreError: 2478:0:(events.c:200:client_bulk_callback()) event type 1, status -5, desc ffff89365cebb800
>> [ 1301.472096] LustreError: 2477:0:(events.c:200:client_bulk_callback()) event type 1, status -5, desc ffff89365cebb800
>> [ 1301.474135] Lustre: 2490:0:(client.c:2133:ptlrpc_expire_one_request()) @@@ Request sent has failed due to network error: [sent
>> 1597316597/real 1597316597]  req at ffff89365cee0900 x1674906532108800/t0
>> (0) o4->snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800 at 10.148.240.33@o2ib20:6/4 lens 488/448 e 0 to 1 dl 1597316692 ref 2 fl
>> Rpc:eX/2/ffffffff rc 0/-1
>> [ 1301.479772] Lustre: snx11167-OST001a-osc-ffff893468b2f800: Connection to snx11167-OST001a (at 10.148.240.33 at o2ib20) was lost;
>> in progress operations using this service will wait for recovery to com
>> plete
>> [ 1301.483576] LNetError: 2486:0:(lib-move.c:1999:lnet_handle_find_routed_path()) no route to 10.148.240.33 at o2ib20 from <?>
>>
>>
>>
>> Access to the Lustre file system which is on the same IB fabric is still possible so I suspect that this is somehow related to
>> LNET routing.
>>
>> If I run LNET selftests as explained at http://wiki.lustre.org/LNET_Selftest between one of the LNET routers and the VMs I can see
>> that RPCs get dropped.
>>
>>
>> Access from a client running on native hardware is possible for both file systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> Has someone a comparable setup? What kind of logs is needed to debug this? I'll gladly provide any info…
>>
>>
>> TL;DR
>> * native access is possible in the same IB fabric as well as when being routed between different fabrics
>> * if only one VM is running then access is possible to both file systems, too
>> * if more VMs are running on the same virtualization host than access is only possible on the file system attached to the same
>> fabric as the VMs
>> * access to the routed file system gets stuck
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   Uwe Sauter
>>
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