Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2009-10-15

Re: [PATCH] Improve MD/raid10 handling of correctable read errors.

From: Rob Becker <hidden>
Date: 2009-10-15 15:24:01

   Hi Neil,

   The approach sounds pretty good.  When I was considering whether to  
do rate tracking I originally opted to not, as from the case data I  
looked the slow rate correctable errors actually seem pretty rare.   
But your proposal is a pretty simple way to measure the rate and it  
makes a lot of sense to me.

   I'll rework the patch and resubmit.

   Thanks and sorry if I spammed the list with my initial patch, I had  
some issues getting my account registered and wasn't sure if it was  
working properly.

   Regards,
   Rob


On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:07 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
On Wed, October 14, 2009 11:14 am, Rob Becker wrote:
quoted
We've noticed severe lasting performance degradation of our raid  
arrays
when we have drives that yield large amounts of media errors. The  
raid10
module will queue each failed read for retry, and also will attempt  
call
fix_read_error() to perform the read recovery.  Read recovery is  
performed
while the array is frozen, so repeated recovery attempts can  
degrade the
performance of the array for extended periods of time.

With this patch I propose adding a per md device max number of  
corrected
read attempts.  Each rdev will maintain a count of read correction
attempts in the rdev->read_errors field (not used currently for  
raid10).
When we enter fix_read_error() we'll check the rdev associated with  
the
r10_bio and if it exceeds the read_error threshold, we'll fail the  
rdev.
Thanks for this.  I think it is a very useful improvement.

One thought though.  It is actually the 'rate' of read errors that is
causing you a problem, where as you are measure the total number of
read errors.  If these occurred once per day, it would not seem  
appropriate
to fail the device (though alerting the admin might be appropriate).

Maybe we should keep a count of 'recent' read errors, which is decayed
by halving it each hour.  Then when we get a read error we make sure  
the
'recent' count is decayed properly and compare it against the maximum
that has been set, and fail the device if it is too large.

What do you think of that?

NeilBrown
quoted
In addition in this patch I add sysfs nodes (get/set) for the per md
max_read_errors attribute, the rdev->read_errors attribute, and  
added some
printk's to indicate when fix_read_error fails to repair an rdev.

For testing I used debugfs->fail_make_request to inject IO errors  
to the
rdev while doing IO to the raid array.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create a 4 drive raid-10 array (md0 with rdev sd[abcd]2)
2. set up fail_make_request to inject 2 errors with 100 probability  
to
/dev/sda
3. use sg_dd iflag=direct if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1
4. verify that the IO is redirected to the other mirror, and the  
sector is
repaired.
5. repeat the process MD will not fail the drive.

with the changes above, when we hit 51 corrected read errors, md  
will fail
sda2.
---
drivers/md/md.c     |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
++
drivers/md/md.h     |    4 +++
drivers/md/raid10.c |   60
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 26ba42a..498b68c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(resync_wait);
#define MD_BUG(x...) { printk("md: bug in file %s, line %d\n",  
__FILE__,
__LINE__); md_print_devices(); }

/*
+ * Default number of read corrections we'll attempt on an rdev
+ * before ejecting it from the array.
+ */
+#define MD_DEFAULT_MAX_CORRECTED_READ_ERRORS 50
+/*
 * Current RAID-1,4,5 parallel reconstruction 'guaranteed speed  
limit'
 * is 1000 KB/sec, so the extra system load does not show up that  
much.
 * Increase it if you want to have more _guaranteed_ speed. Note that
@@ -2195,6 +2200,27 @@ static struct rdev_sysfs_entry rdev_errors =
__ATTR(errors, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, errors_show, errors_store);

static ssize_t
+read_errors_show(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, char *page)
+{
+        return sprintf(page, "%d\n", atomic_read(&rdev- 
quoted
read_errors));
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+read_errors_store(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+        char *e;
+        unsigned long n = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+        if (*buf && (*e == 0 || *e == '\n')) {
+                atomic_set(&rdev->read_errors, n);
+                return len;
+        }
+        return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static struct rdev_sysfs_entry rdev_read_errors =
+__ATTR(read_errors, S_IRUGO, read_errors_show, read_errors_store);
+
+static ssize_t
slot_show(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, char *page)
{
	if (rdev->raid_disk < 0)
@@ -2427,6 +2453,7 @@ static struct attribute *rdev_default_attrs[]  
= {
	&rdev_slot.attr,
	&rdev_offset.attr,
	&rdev_size.attr,
+	&rdev_read_errors.attr,
	NULL,
};
static ssize_t
@@ -3144,6 +3171,27 @@ array_state_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char  
*buf,
size_t len)
static struct md_sysfs_entry md_array_state =
__ATTR(array_state, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, array_state_show,
array_state_store);

+static ssize_t
+max_corrected_read_errors_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page){
+        return sprintf(page, "%d\n",
atomic_read(&mddev->max_corrected_read_errors));
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+max_corrected_read_errors_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf,  
size_t
len)
+{
+        char *e;
+        unsigned long n = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+        if (*buf && (*e == 0 || *e == '\n')) {
+                atomic_set(&mddev->max_corrected_read_errors, n);
+                return len;
+        }
+        return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry max_corr_read_errors =
+__ATTR(max_read_errors, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR,  
max_corrected_read_errors_show,
+       max_corrected_read_errors_store);
+
static ssize_t
null_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
{
@@ -3769,6 +3817,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
	&md_array_state.attr,
	&md_reshape_position.attr,
	&md_array_size.attr,
+	&max_corr_read_errors.attr,
	NULL,
};
@@ -4185,6 +4234,8 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev)
		mddev->ro = 0;

 	atomic_set(&mddev->writes_pending,0);
+        atomic_set(&mddev->max_corrected_read_errors,
+                   MD_DEFAULT_MAX_CORRECTED_READ_ERRORS);
	mddev->safemode = 0;
	mddev->safemode_timer.function = md_safemode_timeout;
	mddev->safemode_timer.data = (unsigned long) mddev;
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index f184b69..526d1d9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -290,6 +290,10 @@ struct mddev_s
								* eventually be settable by sysfs.
								*/

+	atomic_t 			max_corrected_read_errors; /* per md device value
+								      indicating the maximum number of
+								      read retries on an rd */
+
	struct list_head		all_mddevs;
};
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 51c4c5c..471b161 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1444,6 +1444,38 @@ static void fix_read_error(conf_t *conf,  
mddev_t
*mddev, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
	int sect = 0; /* Offset from r10_bio->sector */
	int sectors = r10_bio->sectors;
	mdk_rdev_t*rdev;
+	int max_read_errors = atomic_read(&mddev- 
quoted
max_corrected_read_errors);
+
+        rcu_read_lock();
+        {
+                int d = r10_bio->devs[r10_bio->read_slot].devnum;
+		unsigned int cur_read_error_count = 0;
+                char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
+                rdev = rcu_dereference(conf->mirrors[d].rdev);
+                atomic_inc(&rdev->read_errors);
+		bdevname(rdev->bdev, b);
+
+                cur_read_error_count = atomic_read(&rdev- 
quoted
read_errors);
+		if (test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) {
+			rcu_read_unlock();
+			/* drive has already been failed, just ignore any
+			   more fix_read_error() attempts */
+			return;
+		}
+
+                if (cur_read_error_count > max_read_errors) {
+			rcu_read_unlock();
+                        printk (KERN_NOTICE "raid10:%s: Raid device
exceeded read_error threshold [cur %d:max %d]\n",
+                                b, cur_read_error_count,
max_read_errors);
+			printk (KERN_NOTICE "raid10:%s: Failing raid device\n", b);
+                        md_error(mddev, conf->mirrors[d].rdev);
+			return;
+                }
+
+        }
+        rcu_read_unlock();
+
	while(sectors) {
		int s = sectors;
		int sl = r10_bio->read_slot;
@@ -1488,6 +1520,7 @@ static void fix_read_error(conf_t *conf,  
mddev_t
*mddev, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
		/* write it back and re-read */
		rcu_read_lock();
		while (sl != r10_bio->read_slot) {
+			char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
			int d;
			if (sl==0)
				sl = conf->copies;
@@ -1503,9 +1536,19 @@ static void fix_read_error(conf_t *conf,  
mddev_t
*mddev, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
						 r10_bio->devs[sl].addr +
						 sect + rdev->data_offset,
						 s<<9, conf->tmppage, WRITE)
-				    == 0)
+				    == 0) {
					/* Well, this device is dead */
+                                        printk(KERN_NOTICE
+                                               "raid10:%s: read
correction write failed"
+                                               " (%d sectors at  
%llu on
%s)\n",
+                                               mdname(mddev), s,
+                                               (unsigned long long) 
(sect+
+                                                    rdev- 
quoted
data_offset),
+                                               bdevname(rdev- 
quoted
bdev, b));
+                                        printk(KERN_NOTICE  
"raid10:%s:
failing drive\n",
+                                               bdevname(rdev- 
quoted
bdev, b));
					md_error(mddev, rdev);
+				}
				rdev_dec_pending(rdev, mddev);
				rcu_read_lock();
			}
@@ -1526,10 +1569,20 @@ static void fix_read_error(conf_t *conf,  
mddev_t
*mddev, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
				if (sync_page_io(rdev->bdev,
						 r10_bio->devs[sl].addr +
						 sect + rdev->data_offset,
-						 s<<9, conf->tmppage, READ) == 0)
+						 s<<9, conf->tmppage, READ) == 0) {
					/* Well, this device is dead */
+					printk(KERN_NOTICE
+                                               "raid10:%s: unable  
to read
back corrected sectors"
+                                               " (%d sectors at  
%llu on
%s)\n",
+                                               mdname(mddev), s,
+                                               (unsigned long long) 
(sect+
+                                                    rdev- 
quoted
data_offset),
+                                               bdevname(rdev- 
quoted
bdev, b));
+					printk(KERN_NOTICE "raid10:%s: failing drive\n",
+					       bdevname(rdev->bdev, b));
+
					md_error(mddev, rdev);
-				else
+				} else {
					printk(KERN_INFO
					       "raid10:%s: read error corrected"
					       " (%d sectors at %llu on %s)\n",
@@ -1537,6 +1590,7 @@ static void fix_read_error(conf_t *conf,  
mddev_t
*mddev, r10bio_t *r10_bio)
					       (unsigned long long)(sect+
					            rdev->data_offset),
					       bdevname(rdev->bdev, b));
+				}

				rdev_dec_pending(rdev, mddev);
				rcu_read_lock();
--
1.5.6.1

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