This issue did subside after restarting the original primary daemon
and failing back to it. I've since enabled multi-MDS and latencies
overall have decreased even further.

Thanks for your assistance.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:32 AM Josh Haft <pacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
> I restarted the active MDS Monday evening, which caused a standby to
> pick up the rank; latencies immediately decreased and returned to
> normal range throughout yesterday. Both primary and standby MDS' had
> been restarted when upgraded last Friday evening, but not since. I'll
> 'fail' back to the primary over the weekend to see whether the problem
> returns.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:47 AM Yan, Zheng <uker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:17 AM Josh Haft <pacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:14 PM Gregory Farnum <gfar...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM Josh Haft <pacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I upgraded from 13.2.5 to 14.2.6 last week and am now seeing
> > > > > significantly higher latency on various MDS operations. For example,
> > > > > the 2min rate of ceph_mds_server_req_create_latency_sum /
> > > > > ceph_mds_server_req_create_latency_count for an 8hr window last Monday
> > > > > prior to the upgrade was an average of 2ms. Today, however the same
> > > > > stat shows 869ms. Other operations including open, readdir, rmdir,
> > > > > etc. are also taking significantly longer.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here's a partial example of an op from dump_ops_in_flight:
> > > > >         {
> > > > >             "description": "client_request(client.342513090:334359409
> > > > > create #...)",
> > > > >             "initiated_at": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.707637",
> > > > >             "age": 0.19583208099999999,
> > > > >             "duration": 0.19767626299999999,
> > > > >             "type_data": {
> > > > >                 "flag_point": "submit entry: journal_and_reply",
> > > > >                 "reqid": "client.342513090:334359409",
> > > > >                 "op_type": "client_request",
> > > > >                 "client_info": {
> > > > >                     "client": "client.342513090",
> > > > >                     "tid": 334359409
> > > > >                 },
> > > > >                 "events": [
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.707637",
> > > > >                         "event": "initiated"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.707637",
> > > > >                         "event": "header_read"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.707638",
> > > > >                         "event": "throttled"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.707640",
> > > > >                         "event": "all_read"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.781935",
> > > > >                         "event": "dispatched"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.785086",
> > > > >                         "event": "acquired locks"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.785507",
> > > > >                         "event": "early_replied"
> > > > >                     },
> > > > >                     {
> > > > >                         "time": "2020-04-13 15:30:15.785508",
> > > > >                         "event": "submit entry: journal_and_reply"
> > > > >                     }
> > > > >                 ]
> > > > >             }
> > > > >         }
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This along with every other 'create' op I've seen has a 50ms+ delay
> > > > > between all_read and dispatched events - what is happening during this
> > > > > time?
> > > >
> > > > The incoming client request messages are read on a messenger thread,
> > > > and then they get transferred into a queue for the main server event
> > > > loop. "all_read" means the message has been read off the wire (in the
> > > > messenger reader thread), and then "dispatched' means it the main
> > > > server loop thread has started work.
> > > > So a long wait in that period has nothing to do with the particular
> > > > message which is waiting, it just indicates that the server is
> > > > somewhat backed up.
> > > >
> > > Thanks for the clarification - the total op time does include the wait
> > > between those two events, though - correct?
> > >
> > > > In this case, once processing started it took about 3 ms to get locks
> > > > (which IIRC probably means it had to queue and wait for something else
> > > > to happen) and then sent back a reply and queued up the journal event
> > > > (ie, sent off the write to disk) in another half a millisecond.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I don't off-hand know of any reason things should have slowed
> > > > down (really, I'd expect them to be a little faster as a bit more
> > > > stuff got parallelized). Have the number of requests being processed
> > > > by the MDS changed? Are your clients noticing the apparent new
> > > > slowness?
> > > >
> > > The client workload should be roughly the same, though the number
> > > being processed has dropped from over 6000/s to under 500/s,
> > > presumably because of the increase in time to process each. Clients
> > > are definitely noticing this increased latency.
> > >
> >
> > are your ceph binaries debug version?
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Josh
> > >
> > >
> > > > > I'm not sure what I'm looking for the in the MDS debug logs.
> > > > >
> > > > > We have a mix of clients from 12.2.x through 14.2.8; my plan was to
> > > > > upgrade those pre-Nautilus clients this week. There is only a single
> > > > > MDS rank with 1 backup. Other functions of this cluster - RBDs and RGW
> > > > > - do not appear impacted so this looks limited to the MDS. I did not
> > > > > observe this behavior after upgrading a dev cluster last month.
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anyone seen anything similar? Thanks for any assistance!
> > > > > Josh
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