[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#629442: iscsitarget: ietd gives "iscsi_trgt: Abort Task" errors on high disk load and iscsi connections are dropped

Massimiliano Ferrero m.ferrero at midhgard.it
Mon Jun 6 18:34:52 UTC 2011


Package: iscsitarget
Version: 1.4.20.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


We have a system configured as follows:
1 CPU Xeon E5520 quad core
12 GB RAM
24 SATA 1TB disks connected to a 3ware 9650-24M controller

The system (I will call it the storage server) is used, also, as an iscsi target for a two node red hat cluster
(implemented with Debian machines): the storage server exports an iscsi lun that contains a clustered LVM volum group.
The two nodes mounts the iscsi target, then use clvmd of red hat cluster to manage concurrent access to the logical
volumes on the clustered volume group.
The nodes are used for virtualization with xen with the virtual machines stored in the shared volume group, this allows
for live migration of the virtual machines from one node to the other, each node has 32 cores and 32 GB ram.

All the three machines (the storage server and the two nodes) are Debian based:
the iscsi target server was upgraded from lenny to squeeze one week ago, the two nodes are still on Debian lenny.

Tonight and today we experienced two cases of ietd hang-up: while we were doing two I/O intensive operations on the storage
server we got the following errors:

FIRST OCCURRENCE:

Jun  5 23:19:19 san00 kernel: [334912.274409] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:562949990973952 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:20 san00 kernel: [334912.634797] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1407374921105920 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:28 san00 kernel: [334920.660528] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:562949990973952 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:28 san00 kernel: [334920.660811] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:562949990973952 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:28 san00 kernel: [334920.661105] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:562949990973952 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:28 san00 kernel: [334920.661357] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1407374921105920 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:28 san00 kernel: [334920.661570] iscsi_trgt: Logical Unit Reset (05) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:562949990973952 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:58 san00 kernel: [334950.930122] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:844424984461824 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:19:59 san00 kernel: [334951.602686] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:1688849914593792 (Function Complete)
...
Jun  5 23:20:31 san00 kernel: [334983.635928] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1970324874527232 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:20:41 san00 kernel: [334993.616383] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1970324874527232 (Function Complete)
...
Jun  5 23:20:51 san00 kernel: [335003.596884] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1970324874527232 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:21:01 san00 kernel: [335013.577396] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1970324874527232 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:21:01 san00 kernel: [335013.577645] iscsi_trgt: Logical Unit Reset (05) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1970324874527232 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:21:11 san00 kernel: [335023.557901] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:1970324874527232 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:21:13 san00 kernel: [335025.386242] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:2533274844725760 (Function Complete)
...
Jun  5 23:24:21 san00 kernel: [335213.072102] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:2814749821436416 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:21 san00 kernel: [335213.075205] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:3659174751568384 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:32 san00 kernel: [335224.457895] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:42 san00 kernel: [335234.437754] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:42 san00 kernel: [335234.437873] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:52 san00 kernel: [335244.418062] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:52 san00 kernel: [335244.418174] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:24:54 san00 kernel: [335246.525572] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:02 san00 kernel: [335254.398446] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:02 san00 kernel: [335254.398685] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:04 san00 kernel: [335256.506021] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:04 san00 kernel: [335256.506153] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:12 san00 kernel: [335264.378719] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:12 san00 kernel: [335264.378939] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:14 san00 kernel: [335266.486590] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:14 san00 kernel: [335266.486822] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:22 san00 kernel: [335274.357588] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:22 san00 kernel: [335274.357798] iscsi_trgt: Logical Unit Reset (05) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:24 san00 kernel: [335276.465205] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:24 san00 kernel: [335276.465434] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:32 san00 kernel: [335284.339163] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3096224781369856 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:25:48 san00 kernel: [335300.095545] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:3377699758080512 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:02 san00 kernel: [335314.469995] iscsi_trgt: Logical Unit Reset (05) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:4785074641633792 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:23 san00 kernel: [335335.475744] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:3940649728279040 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:24 san00 kernel: [335336.176770] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:3 lun:0 by sid:4503599681700352 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:37 san00 kernel: [335349.087260] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:4222124688212480 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:37 san00 kernel: [335349.087589] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:4222124688212480 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:37 san00 kernel: [335349.087934] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:4222124688212480 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:43 san00 kernel: [335355.121186] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:4785074641633792 (Function Complete)
Jun  5 23:26:43 san00 kernel: [335355.121609] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:4785074641633792 (Function Complete)

SECOND OCCURRENCE:

Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.228071] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:6473924501897728 (Function Complete)
Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.228256] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:7318349432029696 (Function Complete)
Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.228604] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:7318349432029696 (Function Complete)
Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.228903] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:7318349432029696 (Function Complete)
Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.229276] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:7318349432029696 (Function Complete)
Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.229600] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:7318349432029696 (Function Complete)
Jun  6 13:31:29 san00 kernel: [385942.229948] iscsi_trgt: Abort Task (01) issued on tid:2 lun:0 by sid:7318349432029696 (Function Complete)

On the first occurrence I was fscking and resizing a file system, on the second one I was dd-ing a 30G file on a logical volume.
These operations were performed directly on the storage server on a portion of disk not exported by ietd.

I suspect the problem to be related to the squeeze upgrade, because before upgrading I never saw such an error.
We have 30+ vms in production on the cluster so this thing is highly disruptive: every time it happens all the virtual machines hang up,
the file systems get corrupted, we have to restart the cluster, manually fsck every file system and restart the whole thing...

I have a test cluster with a smaller disk system (8 disks connected to a 3ware controller), with debian squeeze installed and the same version
of iscsistarget installed (1.4.20.2-1) and on this system the problem was never seen, but in this case we have not 30 virtual machines working
through iscsi on the system.
Tomorrow I will try to reproduce the problem on the test system by loading it with some test machines, at least to understand if the problem
arises above a threshold of iscsi workload combined with an i/o intensive operation on the storage server.

What can we look at on the production system? Could this be a bug? or a misconfiguration on our side?

Here is /etc/iet/ietd.conf

Target iqn.2002-02.it.midhgard:san00.pxeroot
        IncomingUser iscsiuser iscsipassword
        OutgoingUser
        Lun 0 Path=/dev/vg00/pxeroot,Type=blockio
        InitialR2T No
        ImmediateData Yes
        MaxRecvDataSegmentLength 8192
        MaxXmitDataSegmentLength 65536
        MaxBurstLength 262144
        FirstBurstLength 65536
        MaxOutstandingR2T 8
        HeaderDigest None
        DataDigest None
        Wthreads 8
        QueuedCommands 64

Target iqn.2002-02.it.midhgard:san00.lun0
        IncomingUser iscsiuser iscsipassword
        OutgoingUser
        Lun 0 Path=/dev/vg00/lun0,Type=blockio
        InitialR2T No
        ImmediateData Yes
        MaxRecvDataSegmentLength 8192
        MaxXmitDataSegmentLength 65536
        MaxBurstLength 262144
        FirstBurstLength 65536
        MaxOutstandingR2T 8
        HeaderDigest None
        DataDigest None
        Wthreads 8
        QueuedCommands 64

Target iqn.2002-02.it.midhgard:san00.qdisk
        IncomingUser iscsiuser iscsipassword
        OutgoingUser
        Lun 0 Path=/dev/vg00/qdisk,Type=blockio
        InitialR2T No
        ImmediateData Yes
        MaxRecvDataSegmentLength 8192
        MaxXmitDataSegmentLength 65536
        MaxBurstLength 262144
        FirstBurstLength 65536
        MaxOutstandingR2T 8
        HeaderDigest None
        DataDigest None
        Wthreads 8
        QueuedCommands 64


The first target is not used anymore, the second is the one containing the clustered vg, the third one is used as quorum disk by red hat cluster.

Any help is appreciated!
Best regards
Massimiliano Ferrero


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iscsitarget depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps                  1:3.2.8-9        /proc file system utilities

Versions of packages iscsitarget recommends:
pn  iscsitarget-module            <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages iscsitarget suggests:
ii  iscsitarget-dkms              1.4.20.2-1 iSCSI Enterprise Target kernel mod
pn  iscsitarget-source            <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/iscsitarget changed:
ISCSITARGET_ENABLE=true

/etc/iet/ietd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/iet/ietd.conf'
/etc/iet/initiators.allow changed:
ALL 127.0.0.1, 10.212.0.0/16, 10.213.0.0/16

/etc/ietd.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/ietd.conf'
/etc/initiators.allow [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/initiators.allow'
/etc/initiators.deny [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/initiators.deny'

-- no debconf information





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