Patch "libceph: request a new osdmap if lingering request maps to no osd" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

libceph: request a new osdmap if lingering request maps to no osd

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
libceph-request-a-new-osdmap-if-lingering-request-maps-to-no-osd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:53:10 +0300
Subject: libceph: request a new osdmap if lingering request maps to no osd

From: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>

commit b0494532214bdfbf241e94fabab5dd46f7b82631 upstream.

This commit does two things. First, if there are any homeless lingering requests, we now request a new osdmap even if the osdmap that is being processed brought no changes, i.e. if a given lingering request turned homeless in one of the previous epochs and remained homeless in the current epoch. Not doing so leaves us with a stale osdmap and as a result we may miss our window for reestablishing the watch and lose notifies.

MON=1 OSD=1:

    # cat linger-needmap.sh
    #!/bin/bash
    rbd create --size 1 test
    DEV=$(rbd map test)
    ceph osd out 0
    rbd map dne/dne # obtain a new osdmap as a side effect (!)
    sleep 1
    ceph osd in 0
    rbd resize --size 2 test
    # rbd info test | grep size -> 2M
    # blockdev --getsize $DEV -> 1M

N.B.: Not obtaining a new osdmap in between "osd out" and "osd in" above is enough to make it miss that resize notify, but that is a bug^Wlimitation of ceph watch/notify v1.

Second, homeless lingering requests are now kicked just like those lingering requests whose mapping has changed. This is mainly to recognize that a homeless lingering request makes no sense and to preserve the invariant that a registered lingering request is not sitting on any of r_req_lru_item lists. This spares us a WARN_ON, which commit ba9d114ec557 ("libceph: clear r_req_lru_item in __unregister_linger_request()") tried to fix the _wrong_ way.

---
 net/ceph/osd_client.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

@@ -1932,20 +1932,29 @@ static void kick_requests(struct ceph_os
 		err = __map_request(osdc, req,
 				    force_resend || force_resend_writes);
 		dout("__map_request returned %d\n", err);
-		if (err == 0)
-			continue;  /* no change and no osd was specified */
 		if (err < 0)
 			continue;  /* hrm! */
-		if (req->r_osd == NULL) {
-			dout("tid %llu maps to no valid osd\n", req->r_tid);
-			needmap++;  /* request a newer map */
-			continue;
-		}
+		if (req->r_osd == NULL || err > 0) {
+			if (req->r_osd == NULL) {
+				dout("lingering %p tid %llu maps to no osd\n",
+				     req, req->r_tid);
+				/*
+				 * A homeless lingering request makes
+				 * no sense, as it's job is to keep
+				 * a particular OSD connection open.
+				 * Request a newer map and kick the
+				 * request, knowing that it won't be
+				 * resent until we actually get a map
+				 * that can tell us where to send it.
+				 */
+				needmap++;
+			}
 
-		dout("kicking lingering %p tid %llu osd%d\n", req, req->r_tid,
-		     req->r_osd ? req->r_osd->o_osd : -1);
-		__register_request(osdc, req);
-		__unregister_linger_request(osdc, req);
+			dout("kicking lingering %p tid %llu osd%d\n", req,
+			     req->r_tid, req->r_osd ? req->r_osd->o_osd : -1);
+			__register_request(osdc, req);
+			__unregister_linger_request(osdc, req);
+		}
 	}
 	reset_changed_osds(osdc);
 	mutex_unlock(&osdc->request_mutex);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/libceph-request-a-new-osdmap-if-lingering-request-maps-to-no-osd.patch