Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] throttle-groups: fix hang when group member leaves

[Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Throttle groups consist of members sharing one throttling state
> (including bps/iops limits).  Round-robin scheduling is used to ensure
> fairness.  If a group member already has a timer pending then other
> groups members do not schedule their own timers.  The next group member
> will have its turn when the existing timer expires.
> 
> A hang may occur when a group member leaves while it had a timer
> scheduled.  Although the code carefully removes the group member from
> the round-robin list, it does not schedule the next member.  Therefore
> remaining members continue to wait for the removed member's timer to
> expire.
> 
> This patch schedules the next request if a timer is pending.
> Unfortunately the actual bug is a race condition that I've been unable
> to capture in a test case.
> 
> Sometimes drive2 hangs when drive1 is removed from the throttling group:
> 
>   $ qemu ... -drive if=none,id=drive1,cache=none,format=qcow2,file=data1.qcow2,iops=100,group=foo \
>              -device virtio-blk-pci,id=virtio-blk-pci0,drive=drive1 \
>              -drive if=none,id=drive2,cache=none,format=qcow2,file=data2.qcow2,iops=10,group=foo \
>              -device virtio-blk-pci,id=virtio-blk-pci1,drive=drive2
>   (guest-console1)# fio -filename /dev/vda 4k-seq-read.job
>   (guest-console2)# fio -filename /dev/vdb 4k-seq-read.job
>   (qmp) {"execute": "block_set_io_throttle", "arguments": {"device": "drive1","bps": 0,"bps_rd": 0,"bps_wr": 0,"iops": 0,"iops_rd": 0,"iops_wr": 0}}

Hi Stefan,

I realize you want to preserve the long lines to not break the JSON QMP
command.  But, FWIW, you might want to format it using one of the
convenient websites: https://jsonformatter.org/

So your QMP command nicely wraps (for the 'cost' of 11 extra lines):

    {
      "execute": "block_set_io_throttle",
      "arguments": {
        "device": "drive1",
        "bps": 0,
        "bps_rd": 0,
        "bps_wr": 0,
        "iops": 0,
        "iops_rd": 0,
        "iops_wr": 0
      }
    }


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/kashyap