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Debugging low latency node tuning status

Use the PerformanceProfile custom resource (CR) status fields for reporting tuning status and debugging latency issues in the cluster node.

Debugging low latency CNF tuning status

The PerformanceProfile custom resource (CR) contains status fields for reporting tuning status and debugging latency degradation issues. These fields report on conditions that describe the state of the operator’s reconciliation functionality.

A typical issue can arise when the status of machine config pools that are attached to the performance profile are in a degraded state, causing the PerformanceProfile status to degrade. In this case, the machine config pool issues a failure message.

The Node Tuning Operator contains the performanceProfile.spec.status.Conditions status field:

Status:
  Conditions:
    Last Heartbeat Time:   2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Last Transition Time:  2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Available
    Last Heartbeat Time:   2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Last Transition Time:  2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Upgradeable
    Last Heartbeat Time:   2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Last Transition Time:  2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Status:                False
    Type:                  Progressing
    Last Heartbeat Time:   2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Last Transition Time:  2020-06-02T10:01:24Z
    Status:                False
    Type:                  Degraded

The Status field contains Conditions that specify Type values that indicate the status of the performance profile:

Available

All machine configs and Tuned profiles have been created successfully and are available for cluster components are responsible to process them (NTO, MCO, Kubelet).

Upgradeable

Indicates whether the resources maintained by the Operator are in a state that is safe to upgrade.

Progressing

Indicates that the deployment process from the performance profile has started.

Degraded

Indicates an error if:

  • Validation of the performance profile has failed.

  • Creation of all relevant components did not complete successfully.

Each of these types contain the following fields:

Status

The state for the specific type (true or false).

Timestamp

The transaction timestamp.

Reason string

The machine readable reason.

Message string

The human readable reason describing the state and error details, if any.

Machine config pools

A performance profile and its created products are applied to a node according to an associated machine config pool (MCP). The MCP holds valuable information about the progress of applying the machine configurations created by performance profiles that encompass kernel args, kube config, huge pages allocation, and deployment of rt-kernel. The Performance Profile controller monitors changes in the MCP and updates the performance profile status accordingly.

The only conditions returned by the MCP to the performance profile status is when the MCP is Degraded, which leads to performanceProfile.status.condition.Degraded = true.

Example

The following example is for a performance profile with an associated machine config pool (worker-cnf) that was created for it:

  1. The associated machine config pool is in a degraded state:

    # oc get mcp
    Example output
    NAME         CONFIG                                                 UPDATED   UPDATING   DEGRADED   MACHINECOUNT   READYMACHINECOUNT   UPDATEDMACHINECOUNT   DEGRADEDMACHINECOUNT   AGE
master       rendered-master-2ee57a93fa6c9181b546ca46e1571d2d       True      False      False      3              3                   3                     0                      2d21h
worker       rendered-worker-d6b2bdc07d9f5a59a6b68950acf25e5f       True      False      False      2              2                   2                     0                      2d21h
worker-cnf   rendered-worker-cnf-6c838641b8a08fff08dbd8b02fb63f7c   False     True       True       2              1                   1                     1                      2d20h

  2. The describe section of the MCP shows the reason:

    # oc describe mcp worker-cnf
    Example output
      Message:               Node node-worker-cnf is reporting: "prepping update:
  machineconfig.machineconfiguration.openshift.io \"rendered-worker-cnf-40b9996919c08e335f3ff230ce1d170\" not
  found"
    Reason:                1 nodes are reporting degraded status on sync

  3. The degraded state should also appear under the performance profile status field marked as degraded = true:

    # oc describe performanceprofiles performance
    Example output
    Message: Machine config pool worker-cnf Degraded Reason: 1 nodes are reporting degraded status on sync.
Machine config pool worker-cnf Degraded Message: Node yquinn-q8s5v-w-b-z5lqn.c.openshift-gce-devel.internal is
reporting: "prepping update: machineconfig.machineconfiguration.openshift.io
\"rendered-worker-cnf-40b9996919c08e335f3ff230ce1d170\" not found".    Reason:  MCPDegraded
   Status:  True
   Type:    Degraded

Collecting low latency tuning debugging data for Red Hat Support

When opening a support case, it is helpful to provide debugging information about your cluster to Red Hat Support.

The must-gather tool enables you to collect diagnostic information about your OKD cluster, including node tuning, NUMA topology, and other information needed to debug issues with low latency setup.

For prompt support, supply diagnostic information for both OKD and low latency tuning.

About the must-gather tool

The oc adm must-gather CLI command collects the information from your cluster that is most likely needed for debugging issues, such as:

  • Resource definitions

  • Audit logs

  • Service logs

You can specify one or more images when you run the command by including the --image argument. When you specify an image, the tool collects data related to that feature or product. When you run oc adm must-gather, a new pod is created on the cluster. The data is collected on that pod and saved in a new directory that starts with must-gather.local. This directory is created in your current working directory.

Gathering low latency tuning data

Use the oc adm must-gather CLI command to collect information about your cluster, including features and objects associated with low latency tuning, including:

  • The Node Tuning Operator namespaces and child objects.

  • MachineConfigPool and associated MachineConfig objects.

  • The Node Tuning Operator and associated Tuned objects.

  • Linux kernel command line options.

  • CPU and NUMA topology

  • Basic PCI device information and NUMA locality.

Prerequisites

  • Access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

  • The OKD CLI (oc) installed.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the directory where you want to store the must-gather data.

  2. Collect debugging information by running the following command:

    $ oc adm must-gather
    Example output
    [must-gather      ] OUT Using must-gather plug-in image: quay.io/openshift-release
When opening a support case, bugzilla, or issue please include the following summary data along with any other requested information:
ClusterID: 829er0fa-1ad8-4e59-a46e-2644921b7eb6
ClusterVersion: Stable at "<cluster_version>"
ClusterOperators:
	All healthy and stable


[must-gather      ] OUT namespace/openshift-must-gather-8fh4x created
[must-gather      ] OUT clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/must-gather-rhlgc created
[must-gather-5564g] POD 2023-07-17T10:17:37.610340849Z Gathering data for ns/openshift-cluster-version...
[must-gather-5564g] POD 2023-07-17T10:17:38.786591298Z Gathering data for ns/default...
[must-gather-5564g] POD 2023-07-17T10:17:39.117418660Z Gathering data for ns/openshift...
[must-gather-5564g] POD 2023-07-17T10:17:39.447592859Z Gathering data for ns/kube-system...
[must-gather-5564g] POD 2023-07-17T10:17:39.803381143Z Gathering data for ns/openshift-etcd...

...

Reprinting Cluster State:
When opening a support case, bugzilla, or issue please include the following summary data along with any other requested information:
ClusterID: 829er0fa-1ad8-4e59-a46e-2644921b7eb6
ClusterVersion: Stable at "<cluster_version>"
ClusterOperators:
	All healthy and stable

  3. Create a compressed file from the must-gather directory that was created in your working directory. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:

    $ tar cvaf must-gather.tar.gz must-gather-local.5421342344627712289(1)
    1 Replace must-gather-local.5421342344627712289// with the directory name created by the must-gather tool.

    Create a compressed file to attach the data to a support case or to use with the Performance Profile Creator wrapper script when you create a performance profile.

  4. Attach the compressed file to your support case on the Red Hat Customer Portal.

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