[LU-15055] spurious qmt_pool_add_rem() message when adding OST to pool: -EEXIST

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.16.0
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Sergey Cheremencev
• Reporter: Andreas Dilger

Description

The qmt_pool_add_rem() message started appearing on 2021-08-18 in test output, and there have been a few thousand hits per day:

LustreError: 5659:0:(qmt_pool.c:1390:qmt_pool_add_rem()) add to: can't scratch-QMT0000 scratch-OST0000_UUID pool pool1: rc = -17
LustreError: 5666:0:(qmt_pool.c:1390:qmt_pool_add_rem()) add to: can't scratch-QMT0000 scratch-OST0001_UUID pool pool2: rc = -17
LustreError: 5674:0:(qmt_pool.c:1390:qmt_pool_add_rem()) add to: can't scratch-QMT0000 scratch-OST0002_UUID pool pool3: rc = -17

Patches landed on that day are listed below (no other patches landed after 2021-08-10 or before 2021-08-25):

$ git log --oneline --before 2021-08-22  --after 2021-08-16
d8204f903a (tag: v2_14_54, tag: 2.14.54) New tag 2.14.54
5220160648 LU-14093 lutf: fix build with gcc10
a205334da5 LU-14903 doc: update lfs-setdirstripe man page
1313cad7a1 LU-14899 ldiskfs: Add 5.4.136 mainline kernel support
c44afcfb72 LU-12815 socklnd: set conns_per_peer based on link speed
6e30cd0844 LU-14871 kernel: kernel update RHEL7.9 [3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7]
14b8276e06 LU-14865 utils: llog_reader.c printf type mismatch
aa5d081237 LU-9859 lnet: fold lprocfs_call_handler functionality into lnet_debugfs_*
e423a0bd7a LU-14787 libcfs: Proved an abstraction for AS_EXITING
76c71a167b LU-14775 kernel: kernel update SLES12 SP5 [4.12.14-122.74.1]
67752f6db2 LU-14773 tests: skip check_network() on working node
024f9303bc LU-14668 lnet: Lock primary NID logic
684943e2d0 LU-14668 lnet: peer state to lock primary nid
16321de596 LU-14661 obdclass: Add peer/peer NI when processing llog *
ac201366ad LU-14661 lnet: Provide kernel API for adding peers
51350e9b73 LU-14531 osd: serialize access to object vs object destroy
a5cbe7883d LU-12815 socklnd: allow dynamic setting of conns_per_peer
d13d8158e8 LU-14093 mgc: rework mgc_apply_recover_logs() for gcc10
8dd4488a07 LU-6142 tests: remove iam_ut binary
301d76a711 LU-14876 out: don't connect to busy MDS-MDS export *

It isn't really clear which of those patches started causing this problem, but the message is being printed in different subtests that create/remove OST pools.

 

The graph shows occurrences by subtest since 2021-08-18, it looks like this happens in any subtest that is adding a pool:

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-15043 OST spill pools should not allow spill pool loops