From: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
To: pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pbs-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix PBS blockdriver for non-VM settings
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:02:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200720150220.22996-1-s.reiter@proxmox.com> (raw)
When using the PBS blockdriver with qemu-nbd (for example), it can happen that
enough read requests are issued to saturate the tokio thread pool. Not an issue
in general, but as me and Wolfgang painstakenly discovered a while back, it does
break block_on, which is used in BufferedFixedReader. This means that reading
larger amounts of data would hang the QEMU process [0].
Fix this by making the entire BufferedFixedReader API async, thus not requiring
a block_on.
Additionally I discovered a seperate bug (fixed by patch 3), wherein read
requests that we're not aligned to the chunk size would return bogus data. This
too only seems to happen in non-VM connections (e.g. nbd, etc...).
[0] ...and since the NBD kernel driver appears to be horribly broken, this often
also crashes most of the system, but that's a different story. If you ever get
in this situation, 'nbd-client -d /dev/nbdX' works (sometimes) to force
disconnect the device ('qemu-nbd -d' intelligently issues a read before
disconnecting, thus hanging before getting anything done...)
backup: Stefan Reiter (1):
make BufferedFixedReader async
src/backup/fixed_index.rs | 145 ++++++++++----------------------------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
backup-qemu: Stefan Reiter (1):
use new async BufferedFixedReader API
src/restore.rs | 16 ++++++----------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
qemu: Stefan Reiter (1):
PVE: PBS: iterate read_image_at until all data is available
block/pbs.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-07-20 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-20 15:02 Stefan Reiter [this message]
2020-07-20 15:02 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH backup 1/3] make BufferedFixedReader async Stefan Reiter
2020-07-21 9:37 ` Dominik Csapak
2020-07-20 15:02 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH backup-qemu 2/3] use new async BufferedFixedReader API Stefan Reiter
2020-07-20 15:02 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH qemu 3/3] PVE: PBS: iterate read_image_at until all data is available Stefan Reiter
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