On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowd...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowd...@redhat.com > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Ravishankar N <ravishan...@redhat.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 07/24/2018 02:56 PM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I was trying to debug regression failures on [1] and observed that >>> split-brain-resolution.t was failing consistently. >>> >>> ========================= >>> TEST 45 (line 88): 0 get_pending_heal_count patchy >>> ./tests/basic/afr/split-brain-resolution.t .. 45/45 RESULT 45: 1 >>> ./tests/basic/afr/split-brain-resolution.t .. Failed 17/45 subtests >>> >>> Test Summary Report >>> ------------------- >>> ./tests/basic/afr/split-brain-resolution.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 45 Failed: >>> 17) >>> Failed tests: 24-26, 28-36, 41-45 >>> >>> >>> On probing deeper, I observed a curious fact - on most of the failures >>> stat was not served from md-cache, but instead was wound down to afr which >>> failed stat with EIO as the file was in split brain. So, I did another test: >>> * disabled md-cache >>> * mount glusterfs with attribute-timeout 0 and entry-timeout 0 >>> >>> Now the test fails always. So, I think the test relied on stat requests >>> being absorbed either by kernel attribute cache or md-cache. When its not >>> happening stats are reaching afr and resulting in failures of cmds like >>> getfattr etc. >>> >>> >>> This indeed seems to be the case. Is there any way we can avoid the >>> stat? When a getfattr is performed on the mount, aren't lookup + getfattr >>> are the only fops that need to be hit in gluster? >>> >> >> Its a black box to me how kernel decides whether to do lookup or stat. >> But I guess, if only stat is needed and its not available in cache it would >> do a stat. >> > > Another thing you can do is mounting with a higher value of > attribute-timeout. Let us know whether it works. > I tried higher values of attribute-timeout and its not helping. Are there any other similar split brain related tests? Can I mark these tests bad for time being as the md-cache patch has a deadline? > >> -Ravi >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> [1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20549/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-devel mailing >>> listGluster-devel@gluster.orghttps://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >>> >>> >>> >> >
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