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Re: ipvsadm: One-packet scheduling with UDP service is unstable

To: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ipvsadm: One-packet scheduling with UDP service is unstable
Cc: lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Drunkard Zhang <gongfan193@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:20:07 +0800
2013/8/26 Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Drunkard Zhang wrote:
>
>> Good news, I finally found the crap source, it's keepalived. I tested
>> several times without keepalived in runlevel 3, after kernel boots I
>> add the ipvs service by hand:
>
>         OK, I was worried that my recent RCU changes broke
> something in the WRR scheduler and the configuration process.
>
>> ./ipvsadm -C
>> # Clear previous log
>> > /var/log/kern.log
>> sleep 1
>> # Start debug
>> echo 20 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/debug_level
>> ./ipvsadm -R < /etc/keepalived/rules-with-ops
>> usleep 30000
>> # Stop debug
>> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/debug_level
>>
>> Then add VIP manually, then do ARP announce manually:
>> vs3 ~/pkgs # ip a add 150.164.100.120/32 dev eno1
>> vs3 ~/pkgs # arp-sk -i eno1 -S 150.164.100.120:90:b1:1c:1a:59:46 -d
>> 150.164.100.126
>>
>> After these actions, traffic starts come in. and all ipvsadm checks
>> are fine, OPS is fine too. So I figured that maybe outdated libipvs in
>> keepalived broke the ipvs in kernel. I'll try to report this to
>> upstream.
>
>         OK, I have no more doubts. To summarize,
> here is what I think happened:
>
> - packet is scheduled while there is virtual service without
> the --ops flag. The result is that an UDP connection is
> created that expires after 5mins by default, if there are
> no more packets.
>
> - traffic is not stopped, it hits the connection and
> restarts its timer. As result, this connection stays
> forever and forwards traffic to single server.

This explains why expire time from "ipvsadm -lcn" keeps at 5.00min.

> - as single connection is used we see that the stats for
> Conns and CPS rate do not move because we do not create
> connections anymore, all traffic comes from single client
> address and the scheduler is not called.
>
> - there is one variation here: ipvsadm -C is called,
> dests are moved to the trash list, new rules are
> added but before the RCU grace period is expired.
> In such case IP_VS_DEST_STATE_REMOVING is still set and
> prevents the same dest to be reused when adding the
> same dest parameters. In this case the connection will point
> to unavailable dest for 5mins and the traffic that hits it
> will not restart its timer. After 5mins the connection
> will be removed and the first packet that comes
> will use the --ops flag. There is a chance everything
> to work. So, if new rules are added we have 2
> situations:
>
>         1. rules reuse old dests and traffic goes to single server.
>         This happens if the new rules are added after at least
>         10ms (the RCU grace period, in fact), eg. with
>         usleep 10000 after ipvsadm -C. We have CPS=0 and
>         InPPS above 0 for single server.
>
>         2. rules allocate new dest and traffic is stopped
>         for 5mins. This will happen if rules are added
>         immediately after ipvsadm -C (while in RCU grace period).
>         After 5mins everything works.
>
> - CPS 0 means we are reusing existing connection
>
> - even if you replace the service or set --ops, the
> existing connection is still used, even ipvsadm -C
> can not remove it. There is only one chance: to set
> expire_nodest_conn=1, to call ipvsadm -C and to wait
> next packet to remove the connection. Then to add
> all rules again but not before the connection is removed.
>
>> On the other hand, ipvs didn't recovery from ipvsadm -C, rmmod ip_vs
>> && ./ipvsadm -R < rules-with-ops is needed (I tested, reload ip_vs
>> module could make OPS work). So robustness of IPVS needs improvement.
>
>         Some problem? May be you refer to the fact that
> connections survive ipvsadm -C and that is what prevented
> your traffic to be scheduled.
>
>         So, I see two problems here:
>
> - tools do not set --ops, connection is created and is
> reused from all packets from same client. The trick
> to add --ops later can not work. Idea: drop traffic
> before reaching IPVS (-j DROP) until --ops is applied,
> by this way no connections should be created.
>
> - no way to flush connections in IPVS without removing the
> module because expire_nodest_conn works only when traffic is
> received. I think, your above remark points here.

Again, thanks for your explanation, now I understand all these "weird"
things, it's all because of not supporting --ops by keepalived.
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