Comment 28 for bug 1353939

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Related fix merged to nova (stable/stein)

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/667389
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=118cf0c5920b5ff41333fd304a934dd7e5f4e1a8
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: stable/stein

commit 118cf0c5920b5ff41333fd304a934dd7e5f4e1a8
Author: Kashyap Chamarthy <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 25 13:26:24 2019 +0100

    libvirt: Rework 'EBUSY' (SIGKILL) error handling code path

    Change ID I128bf6b939 (libvirt: handle code=38 + sigkill (ebusy) in
    _destroy()) handled the case where a QEMU process "refuses to die" within
    a given timeout period set by libvirt.

    Originally, libvirt sent SIGTERM (allowing the process to clean-up
    resources), then waited 10 seconds, if the guest didn't go away. Then
    it sent, the more lethal, SIGKILL and waited another 5 seconds for it to
    take effect.

    From libvirt v4.7.0 onwards, libvirt increased[1][2] the time it waits
    for a guest hard shutdown to complete. It now waits for 30 seconds for
    SIGKILL to work (instead of 5). Also, additional wait time is added if
    there are assigned PCI devices, as some of those tend to slow things
    down.

    In this change:

      - Increment the counter to retry the _destroy() call from 3 to 6, thus
        increasing the total time from 15 to 30 seconds, before SIGKILL
        takes effect. And it matches the (more graceful) behaviour of
        libvirt v4.7.0. This also gives breathing room for Nova instances
        running in environments with large compute nodes with high instance
        creation or delete churn, where the current timout may not be
        sufficient.

      - Retry the _destroy() API call _only_ if MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION is lower
        than 4.7.0.

    [1] https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=9a4e4b9
        (process: wait longer 5->30s on hard shutdown)
    [2] https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=be2ca04 ("process:
        wait longer on kill per assigned Hostdev")

    Related-bug: #1353939

    Change-Id: If2035cac931c42c440d61ba97ebc7e9e92141a28
    Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <email address hidden>
    (cherry picked from commit 10d50ca4e210039aeae84cb9bd5d18895948af54)