[LU-9683] Negative value reported for req_waittime mdt stat

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.10.1, Lustre 2.11.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.9.0
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: James A Simmons
• Reporter: Tom Nabarro (Inactive)

Description

On creating a lustre filesystem (in IML automated test) with lustre version 2.9.58_86_g2383a62, the following was reported indicating a negative value for req_waittime stat (causing IML to not report the stat):

[root@lotus-58vm16 ~]# less /proc/fs/lustre/mds/MDS/mdt/stats
snapshot_time             1497888436.757961280 secs.nsecs
req_waittime              54892 samples [usec] -8497 0 -4659765 1053607811
req_qdepth                54892 samples [reqs] 0 0 0 0
req_active                54892 samples [reqs] 1 1 54892 54892
req_timeout               54892 samples [sec] 1 10 54910 55090
reqbuf_avail              150546 samples [bufs] 63 64 9634690 616604158
ldlm_ibits_enqueue        13 samples [reqs] 1 1 13 13
mds_reint_setattr         1 samples [reqs] 1 1 1 1
mds_reint_open            8 samples [reqs] 1 1 8 8
mds_getattr               1 samples [usec] 44 44 44 1936
mds_connect               5 samples [usec] 27 16179 22451 297791095
mds_get_root              1 samples [usec] 15 15 15 225
mds_statfs                1 samples [usec] 26 26 26 676
mds_getxattr              2 samples [usec] 31 3259 3290 10622042
obd_ping                  54868 samples [usec] 12 548 2165145 95976761

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-17853 Negative value reported in req_waittime mdt
• is related to: LU-9019 Migrate lustre to standard 64 bit time kernel API