xfs/076 takes a long long time testing with a realtime volume

Theodore Ts'o
2021-11-06T01:58:21Z

After committing some exclusions into my test runner framework (see
below), I tested a potential fix to xfs/076 which disables the
real-time volume when creating the scratch volume. Should I send it
as a formal patch to fstests?

diff --git a/tests/xfs/076 b/tests/xfs/076
index eac7410e..5628c08f 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/076
+++ b/tests/xfs/076
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ _require_xfs_io_command "falloc"
_require_xfs_io_command "fpunch"
_require_xfs_sparse_inodes

+unset SCRATCH_RTDEV
_scratch_mkfs "-d size=50m -m crc=1 -i sparse" |
_filter_mkfs > /dev/null 2> $tmp.mkfs
. $tmp.mkfs # for isize

- Ted

For why this is needed, see the commit description below:

commit c41ae1cc0b21eafd2858541c0bc195f951c0726c
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Fri Nov 5 20:46:19 2021 -0400

test-appliance: exclude xfs/076 from the realtime configs

The xfs/076 test takes two minutes on a normal xfs file system (e.g.,
a normal 4k block size file system). However, when there is a
real-time volume attached, this test takes over 80 minutes. The
reason for this seems to be because the test is spending a lot more
time failing to create files due to missing directories. Compare:

root@xfstests-2:~# ls -sh /results/xfs/results-4k/xfs/076.full
48K /results/xfs/results-4k/xfs/076.full
root@xfstests-2:~# ls -sh /tmp/realtime-076.full
25M /tmp/realtime-076.full

and:

root@xfstests-2:~# grep "cannot touch" /results/xfs/results-4k/xfs/076.full | wc -l
656
root@xfstests-2:~# grep "cannot touch" /tmp/realtime-076.full | wc -l
327664

The failures from 076.full look like this:

touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.21473722368/25659': No space left on device
touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.21473656832/0': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.21473591296/0': No such file or directory
...
touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.196608/0': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.131072/0': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.65536/0': No such file or directory
touch: cannot touch '/xt-vdc/offset.0/0': No such file or directory

What seems to be going on is that xfs/076 tries to create a small
scratch file system --- but when we attach a real-time volume this
balloons the available size of the file system. Of course, that space
can't be used for normal files. As a result, xfs/076 is incorrectly
estimating how many files it needs to create to fill the file system.

I'm not sure what's the best way to fix this in the test; perhaps the
test should forcibly unset SCRATCH_RTDEV environment variable before
running _scratch_mkfs? Anyway, for now, we'll just skip running
xfs/076 for the xfs/realtime* configs.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime.exclude b/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime.exclude
index a9acba9c..bafce552 100644
--- a/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime.exclude
+++ b/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime.exclude
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
# Normal configurations don't support dax
-g dax
+
+# The xfs/076 test takes well over an hour (80 minutes using 100GB GCE
+# PD/SSD) when run with an external realtime device, which triggers
+# the ltm "test is stalled" failsafe which aborts the VM.
+xfs/076
diff --git a/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_28k_logdev.exclude b/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_28k_logdev.exclude
index a9acba9c..bafce552 100644
--- a/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_28k_logdev.exclude
+++ b/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_28k_logdev.exclude
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
# Normal configurations don't support dax
-g dax
+
+# The xfs/076 test takes well over an hour (80 minutes using 100GB GCE
+# PD/SSD) when run with an external realtime device, which triggers
+# the ltm "test is stalled" failsafe which aborts the VM.
+xfs/076
diff --git a/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_logdev.exclude b/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_logdev.exclude
index a9acba9c..bafce552 100644
--- a/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_logdev.exclude
+++ b/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/files/root/fs/xfs/cfg/realtime_logdev.exclude
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
# Normal configurations don't support dax
-g dax
+
+# The xfs/076 test takes well over an hour (80 minutes using 100GB GCE
+# PD/SSD) when run with an external realtime device, which triggers
+# the ltm "test is stalled" failsafe which aborts the VM.
+xfs/076