Rather than using a cumbersome and overly complex ping-pong of read and
write locks, instead move to a much simpler process using exclusive
locks.
Describing the process in ASCII or narrative is cumbersome, but the
process ping-pongs via a set of exclusive locks and wait timers, so that
the two sides are able to synchronize via blocking the exclusive lock.
The end result is a much more streamlined migration (takes about half
the time all things considered) which should be less error-prone.
1. Output from ipmitool was not being stripped, and stray newlines were
throwing off the comparisons. Fixes this.
2. Several stages were lacking meaningful messages. Adds these in so the
output is more clear about what is going on.
3. Reduce the sleep time after a fence to just 1x the
keepalive_interval, rather than 2x, because this seemed like excessively
long even for slow IPMI interfaces, especially since we're checking the
power state now anyways.
4. Set the node daemon state to an explicit 'fenced' state after a
successful fence to indicate to users that the node was indeed fenced
successfully and not still 'dead'.
The previous implementation did not work with /dev/nvme devices or any
/dev/disk/by-* devices due to some logical failures in the partition
naming scheme, so fix these, and be explicit about what is supported in
the PVC CLI command output.
The 'echo | gdisk' implementation of partition creation also did not
work due to limitations of subprocess.run; instead, use sgdisk which
allows these commands to be written out explicitly and is included in
the same package as gdisk.
The default of 0.05 (5%) is likely ideal in the initial implementation,
but allow this to be set explicitly for maximum flexibility in
space-constrained or performance-critical use-cases.
Adds in three parts:
1. Create an API endpoint to create OSD DB volume groups on a device.
Passed through to the node via the same command pipeline as
creating/removing OSDs, and creates a volume group with a fixed name
(osd-db).
2. Adds API support for specifying whether or not to use this DB volume
group when creating a new OSD via the "ext_db" flag. Naming and sizing
is fixed for simplicity and based on Ceph recommendations (5% of OSD
size). The Zookeeper schema tracks the block device to use during
removal.
3. Adds CLI support for the new and modified API endpoints, as well as
displaying the block device and DB block device in the OSD list.
While I debated supporting adding a DB device to an existing OSD, in
practice this ended up being a very complex operation involving stopping
the OSD and setting some options, so this is not supported; this can be
specified during OSD creation only.
Closes#142
Adds a new API endpoint to support hot attach/detach of devices, and the
corresponding client-side logic to use this endpoint when doing VM
network/storage add/remove actions.
The live attach is now the default behaviour for these types of
additions and removals, and can be disabled if needed.
Closes#141
This branch commit refactors the pvcnoded component to better adhere to
good programming practices. The previous Daemon.py was a massive file
which contained almost 2000 lines of direct, root-level code which was
directly imported. Not only was this poor practice, but this resulted
in a nigh-unmaintainable file which was hard even for me to understand.
This refactoring splits a large section of the code from Daemon.py into
separate small modules and functions in the `util/` directory. This will
hopefully make most of the functionality easy to find and modify without
having to dig through a single large file.
Further the existing subcomponents have been moved to the `objects/`
directory which clearly separates them.
Finally, the Daemon.py code has mostly been moved into a function,
`entrypoint()`, which is then called from the `pvcnoded.py` stub.
An additional item is that most format strings have been replaced by
f-strings to make use of the Python 3.6 features in Daemon.py and the
utility files.
We need to do a bit more finagling with the logger on termination to
ensure that all messages are written and the queue drained before
actually terminating.
Adds the ability to send node daemon logs to Zookeeper to facilitate a
command like "pvc node log", similar to "pvc vm log". Each node stores
its logs in a separate tree under "/logs" which can then be combined or
queried. By default, set by config, only 2000 lines are kept.
Previously, if the node failed to restart, it was declared a "bad fence"
and no further action would be taken. However, there are some
situations, for instance critical hardware failures, where intelligent
systems will not attempt (or succeed at) starting up the node in such a
case, which would result in dead, known-offline nodes without recovery.
Tweak this behaviour somewhat. The main path of Reboot -> Check On ->
Success + fence-flush is retained, but some additional side-paths are
now defined:
1. We attempt to power "on" the chassis 1 second after the reboot, just
in case it is off and can be recovered. We then wait another 2 seconds
and check the power status (as we did before).
2. If the reboot succeeded, follow this series of choices:
a. If the chassis is on, the fence succeeded.
b. If the chassis is off, the fence "succeeded" as well.
c. If the chassis is in some other state, the fence failed.
3. If the reboot failed, follow this series of choices:
a. If the chassis is off, the fence itself failed, but we can treat
it as "succeeded"" since the chassis is in a known-offline state.
This is the most likely situation when there is a critical hardware
failure, and the server's IPMI does not allow itself to start back
up again.
b. If the chassis is in any other state ("on" or unknown), the fence
itself failed and we must treat this as a fence failure.
Overall, this should alleviate the aforementioned issue of a critical
failure rendering the node persistently "off" not triggering a
fence-flush and ensure fencing is more robust.
This reverts commit 65d14ccd92.
This was actually a bad idea. For inexplicable reasons, running these
Ceph commands manually (not even via Python, but in a normal shell)
takes 7 * two orders of magnitude longer than running them with the
Rados module, so long in fact that some basic commands like "ceph
health" would sometimes take longer than the 1 second timeout to
complete. The Rados commands would however take about 1ms instead.
Despite the occasional issues when monitors drop out, the Rados module
is clearly far superior to the shell commands for any moderately-loaded
Ceph cluster. We can look into solving timeouts another way (perhaps
with Processes instead of Threads) at a later time.
Rados module "ceph health":
b'{"checks":{},"status":"HEALTH_OK"}'
0.001204 (s)
b'{"checks":{},"status":"HEALTH_OK"}'
0.001258 (s)
Command "ceph health":
joshua@hv1.c.bonilan.net ~ $ time ceph health >/dev/null
real 0m0.772s
user 0m0.707s
sys 0m0.046s
joshua@hv1.c.bonilan.net ~ $ time ceph health >/dev/null
real 0m0.796s
user 0m0.728s
sys 0m0.054s
Using the Rados module was very problematic, specifically because it had
no sensible timeout parameters and thus would hang for many seconds.
This has poor implications since it blocks further keepalives.
Instead, remove the Rados usage entirely and go back completely to using
manual OS commands to gather this information. While this may cause PID
exhaustion more quickly it's worthwhile to avoid failure scenarios when
Ceph stats time out.
Closes#137
Not sure how this didn't cause an issue until now, but the wrong key
path was used and this was getting unexpected data with the newly-added
version string instead of the proper mode string.
When doing a stop_vm or terminate_vm, check again after 0.2 seconds
and try re-terminating if it's still running. Covers cases where a VM
doesn't stop if given the 'stop' state.
Trying to do this on the VMInstance side had problems because we can't
differentiate the 3 types of migration there. So, just update this in
the API side and hope everything goes well.
This introduces an edge bug: if a VM is using a macvtap SR-IOV device,
and then tries to migrate, and the migrate is aborted, the NIC lists
will be inconsistent.
When I revamp the VMInstance in the future, I should be able to correct
this, but for now we'll have to live with that edgecase.
Ensures that the configuration of a VF is not overwritten in Zookeeper
on a node restart. The SRIOVVFInstance handlers were modified to start
with None values, so that the DataWatch statements will always trigger
updates to the live system interfaces on daemon startup, thus ensuring
that the config stored in Zookeeper is applied to the system on startup
(mostly relevant after a cold boot or if the API changes them during a
daemon restart).
Adds support for the node daemon managing SR-IOV PF and VF instances.
PFs are added to Zookeeper automatically based on the config at startup
during network configuration, and are otherwise completely static. PFs
are automatically removed from Zookeeper, along with all coresponding
VFs, should the PF phy device be removed from the configuration.
VFs are configured based on the (autocreated) VFs of each PF device,
added to Zookeeper, and then a new class instance, SRIOVVFInstance, is
used to watch them for configuration changes. This will enable the
runtime management of VF settings by the API. The set of keys ensures
that both configuration and details of the NIC can be tracked.
Most keys are self-explanatory, especially for PFs and the basic keys
for VFs. The configuration tree is also self-explanatory, being based
entirely on the options available in the `ip link set {dev} vf` command.
Two additional keys are also present: `used` and `used_by`, which will
be able to track the (boolean) state of usage, as well as the VM that
uses a given VIF. Since the VM side implementation will support both
macvtap and direct "hostdev" assignments, this will ensure that this
state can be tracked on both the VF and the VM side.
Adds configuration values for enabled flag and SR-IOV devices to the
configuration and sets up the initial SR-IOV configuration on daemon
startup (inserting the module, configuring the VF count, etc.).
Instead of exiting and trusting systemd to restart us, instead leverage
the os.execv() call to reload the process in the current PID context.
Also improves the log messages so it's very clear what's going on.
A hot reload isn't possible due to DataWatch and ChildrenWatch
constructs, so we instead need to terminate the daemon to "apply" the
schema update. Thus we use exit code 150 (Application defined in LSB)
and reorder some of the elements of the schema validation to ensure
things happen in the right order.
Adds a new class, ZKSchema, to handle schema management in Zookeeper in
an automated and consistent way. This should solve several issues:
1. Pain in managing changes to ZK keys
2. Pain in handling those changes during live upgrades
3. Simplifying the codebase to remove hardcoded ZK paths
The current master schema for PVC 0.9.19 is committed as version 0.
Addresses #129
Found a rare glitch where the subprocess pipes would not engage, causing
a daemon crash. Catch these exceptions with a retcode of 255 instead of
bailing out.
Closes#124
Libvirt will someones write junk out to console log files, which breaks
the log parser deque with a UnicodeDecodeError.
If this happens, clear the log and re-open the deque again for newer
updates.
Closes#123
Add nicer easy-to-find (yay ASCII art) banners for the startup printouts
of both the node and API daemons. Also adds the safe loader to pvcnoded
to prevent hassle messages and a version string in the API daemon file.
This caused a serious race condition, since the IPs managed by PVC had
not yet come up, but Zookeeper was trying to start and bind to them,
which of course failed.
Remove these dependencies entirely - the daemon itself starts these
services during initialization and they do not need to be started by
systemd first.
Joshua Boniface