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+=======
+crimson
+=======
+
+Crimson is the code name of ``crimson-osd``, which is the next
+generation ``ceph-osd``. It improves performance when using fast network
+and storage devices, employing state-of-the-art technologies including
+DPDK and SPDK. BlueStore continues to support HDDs and slower SSDs.
+Crimson aims to be backward compatible with the classic ``ceph-osd``.
+
+.. highlight:: console
+
+Building Crimson
+================
+
+Crimson is not enabled by default. Enable it at build time by running::
+
+ $ WITH_SEASTAR=true ./install-deps.sh
+ $ mkdir build && cd build
+ $ cmake -DWITH_SEASTAR=ON ..
+
+Please note, `ASan`_ is enabled by default if Crimson is built from a source
+cloned using ``git``.
+
+.. _ASan: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer
+
+Testing crimson with cephadm
+===============================
+
+The Ceph CI/CD pipeline builds containers with
+``crimson-osd`` subsitituted for ``ceph-osd``.
+
+Once a branch at commit <sha1> has been built and is available in
+``shaman``, you can deploy it using the cephadm instructions outlined
+in :ref:`cephadm` with the following adaptations.
+
+First, while performing the initial bootstrap, use the ``--image`` flag to
+use a Crimson build:
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ cephadm --image quay.ceph.io/ceph-ci/ceph:<sha1>-crimson --allow-mismatched-release bootstrap ...
+
+You'll likely need to supply the ``--allow-mismatched-release`` flag to
+use a non-release branch.
+
+Additionally, prior to deploying OSDs, you'll need enable Crimson to
+direct the default pools to be created as Crimson pools. From the cephadm shell run:
+
+.. prompt:: bash #
+
+ ceph config set global 'enable_experimental_unrecoverable_data_corrupting_features' crimson
+ ceph osd set-allow-crimson --yes-i-really-mean-it
+ ceph config set mon osd_pool_default_crimson true
+
+The first command enables the ``crimson`` experimental feature. Crimson
+is highly experimental, and malfunctions including crashes
+and data loss are to be expected.
+
+The second enables the ``allow_crimson`` OSDMap flag. The monitor will
+not allow ``crimson-osd`` to boot without that flag.
+
+The last causes pools to be created by default with the ``crimson`` flag.
+Crimson pools are restricted to operations supported by Crimson.
+``Crimson-osd`` won't instantiate PGs from non-Crimson pools.
+
+Running Crimson
+===============
+
+As you might expect, Crimson does not yet have as extensive a feature set as does ``ceph-osd``.
+
+object store backend
+--------------------
+
+At the moment, ``crimson-osd`` offers both native and alienized object store
+backends. The native object store backends perform IO using the SeaStar reactor.
+They are:
+
+.. describe:: cyanstore
+
+ CyanStore is modeled after memstore in the classic OSD.
+
+.. describe:: seastore
+
+ Seastore is still under active development.
+
+The alienized object store backends are backed by a thread pool, which
+is a proxy of the alienstore adaptor running in Seastar. The proxy issues
+requests to object stores running in alien threads, i.e., worker threads not
+managed by the Seastar framework. They are:
+
+.. describe:: memstore
+
+ The memory backed object store
+
+.. describe:: bluestore
+
+ The object store used by the classic ``ceph-osd``
+
+daemonize
+---------
+
+Unlike ``ceph-osd``, ``crimson-osd`` does not daemonize itself even if the
+``daemonize`` option is enabled. In order to read this option, ``crimson-osd``
+needs to ready its config sharded service, but this sharded service lives
+in the Seastar reactor. If we fork a child process and exit the parent after
+starting the Seastar engine, that will leave us with a single thread which is
+a replica of the thread that called `fork()`_. Tackling this problem in Crimson
+would unnecessarily complicate the code.
+
+Since supported GNU/Linux distributions use ``systemd``, which is able to
+daemonize the application, there is no need to daemonize ourselves.
+Those using sysvinit can use ``start-stop-daemon`` to daemonize ``crimson-osd``.
+If this is does not work out, a helper utility may be devised.
+
+.. _fork(): http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fork.html
+
+logging
+-------
+
+``Crimson-osd`` currently uses the logging utility offered by Seastar. See
+``src/common/dout.h`` for the mapping between Ceph logging levels to
+the severity levels in Seastar. For instance, messages sent to ``derr``
+will be issued using ``logger::error()``, and the messages with a debug level
+greater than ``20`` will be issued using ``logger::trace()``.
+
++---------+---------+
+| ceph | seastar |
++---------+---------+
+| < 0 | error |
++---------+---------+
+| 0 | warn |
++---------+---------+
+| [1, 6) | info |
++---------+---------+
+| [6, 20] | debug |
++---------+---------+
+| > 20 | trace |
++---------+---------+
+
+Note that ``crimson-osd``
+does not send log messages directly to a specified ``log_file``. It writes
+the logging messages to stdout and/or syslog. This behavior can be
+changed using ``--log-to-stdout`` and ``--log-to-syslog`` command line
+options. By default, ``log-to-stdout`` is enabled, and ``--log-to-syslog`` is disabled.
+
+
+vstart.sh
+---------
+
+The following options aree handy when using ``vstart.sh``,
+
+``--crimson``
+ Start ``crimson-osd`` instead of ``ceph-osd``.
+
+``--nodaemon``
+ Do not daemonize the service.
+
+``--redirect-output``
+ Redirect the ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` to ``out/$type.$num.stdout``.
+
+``--osd-args``
+ Pass extra command line options to ``crimson-osd`` or ``ceph-osd``.
+ This is useful for passing Seastar options to ``crimson-osd``. For
+ example, one can supply ``--osd-args "--memory 2G"`` to set the amount of
+ memory to use. Please refer to the output of::
+
+ crimson-osd --help-seastar
+
+ for additional Seastar-specific command line options.
+
+``--cyanstore``
+ Use CyanStore as the object store backend.
+
+``--bluestore``
+ Use the alienized BlueStore as the object store backend. This is the default.
+
+``--memstore``
+ Use the alienized MemStore as the object store backend.
+
+``--seastore``
+ Use SeaStore as the back end object store.
+
+``--seastore-devs``
+ Specify the block device used by SeaStore.
+
+``--seastore-secondary-devs``
+ Optional. SeaStore supports multiple devices. Enable this feature by
+ passing the block device to this option.
+
+``--seastore-secondary-devs-type``
+ Optional. Specify the type of secondary devices. When the secondary
+ device is slower than main device passed to ``--seastore-devs``, the cold
+ data in faster device will be evicted to the slower devices over time.
+ Valid types include ``HDD``, ``SSD``(default), ``ZNS``, and ``RANDOM_BLOCK_SSD``
+ Note secondary devices should not be faster than the main device.
+
+``--seastore``
+ Use SeaStore as the object store backend.
+
+To start a cluster with a single Crimson node, run::
+
+ $ MGR=1 MON=1 OSD=1 MDS=0 RGW=0 ../src/vstart.sh -n -x \
+ --without-dashboard --cyanstore \
+ --crimson --redirect-output \
+ --osd-args "--memory 4G"
+
+Here we assign 4 GiB memory and a single thread running on core-0 to ``crimson-osd``.
+
+Another SeaStore example::
+
+ $ MGR=1 MON=1 OSD=1 MDS=0 RGW=0 ../src/vstart.sh -n -x \
+ --without-dashboard --seastore \
+ --crimson --redirect-output \
+ --seastore-devs /dev/sda \
+ --seastore-secondary-devs /dev/sdb \
+ --seastore-secondary-devs-type HDD
+
+Stop this ``vstart`` cluster by running::
+
+ $ ../src/stop.sh --crimson
+
+Metrics and Tracing
+===================
+
+Crimson offers three ways to report stats and metrics.
+
+pg stats reported to mgr
+------------------------
+
+Crimson collects the per-pg, per-pool, and per-osd stats in a `MPGStats`
+message which is sent to the Ceph Managers. Manager modules can query
+them using the `MgrModule.get()` method.
+
+asock command
+-------------
+
+An admin socket command is offered for dumping metrics::
+
+ $ ceph tell osd.0 dump_metrics
+ $ ceph tell osd.0 dump_metrics reactor_utilization
+
+Here `reactor_utilization` is an optional string allowing us to filter
+the dumped metrics by prefix.
+
+Prometheus text protocol
+------------------------
+
+The listening port and address can be configured using the command line options of
+`--prometheus_port`
+see `Prometheus`_ for more details.
+
+.. _Prometheus: https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/blob/master/doc/prometheus.md
+
+Profiling Crimson
+=================
+
+fio
+---
+
+``crimson-store-nbd`` exposes configurable ``FuturizedStore`` internals as an
+NBD server for use with ``fio``.
+
+In order to use ``fio`` to test ``crimson-store-nbd``, perform the below steps.
+
+#. You will need to install ``libnbd``, and compile it into ``fio``
+
+ .. prompt:: bash $
+
+ apt-get install libnbd-dev
+ git clone git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git
+ cd fio
+ ./configure --enable-libnbd
+ make
+
+#. Build ``crimson-store-nbd``
+
+ .. prompt:: bash $
+
+ cd build
+ ninja crimson-store-nbd
+
+#. Run the ``crimson-store-nbd`` server with a block device. Specify
+ the path to the raw device, for example ``/dev/nvme1n1``, in place of the created
+ file for testing with a block device.
+
+ .. prompt:: bash $
+
+ export disk_img=/tmp/disk.img
+ export unix_socket=/tmp/store_nbd_socket.sock
+ rm -f $disk_img $unix_socket
+ truncate -s 512M $disk_img
+ ./bin/crimson-store-nbd \
+ --device-path $disk_img \
+ --smp 1 \
+ --mkfs true \
+ --type transaction_manager \
+ --uds-path ${unix_socket} &
+
+ Below are descriptions of these command line arguments:
+
+ ``--smp``
+ The number of CPU cores to use (Symmetric MultiProcessor)
+
+ ``--mkfs``
+ Initialize the device first.
+
+ ``--type``
+ The back end to use. If ``transaction_manager`` is specified, SeaStore's
+ ``TransactionManager`` and ``BlockSegmentManager`` are used to emulate a
+ block device. Otherwise, this option is used to choose a backend of
+ ``FuturizedStore``, where the whole "device" is divided into multiple
+ fixed-size objects whose size is specified by ``--object-size``. So, if
+ you are only interested in testing the lower-level implementation of
+ SeaStore like logical address translation layer and garbage collection
+ without the object store semantics, ``transaction_manager`` would be a
+ better choice.
+
+#. Create a ``fio`` job file named ``nbd.fio``
+
+ .. code:: ini
+
+ [global]
+ ioengine=nbd
+ uri=nbd+unix:///?socket=${unix_socket}
+ rw=randrw
+ time_based
+ runtime=120
+ group_reporting
+ iodepth=1
+ size=512M
+
+ [job0]
+ offset=0
+
+#. Test the Crimson object store, using the custom ``fio`` built just now
+
+ .. prompt:: bash $
+
+ ./fio nbd.fio
+
+CBT
+---
+We can use `cbt`_ for performance tests::
+
+ $ git checkout main
+ $ make crimson-osd
+ $ ../src/script/run-cbt.sh --cbt ~/dev/cbt -a /tmp/baseline ../src/test/crimson/cbt/radosbench_4K_read.yaml
+ $ git checkout yet-another-pr
+ $ make crimson-osd
+ $ ../src/script/run-cbt.sh --cbt ~/dev/cbt -a /tmp/yap ../src/test/crimson/cbt/radosbench_4K_read.yaml
+ $ ~/dev/cbt/compare.py -b /tmp/baseline -a /tmp/yap -v
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/0: bandwidth: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 0.183165/0.186155 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/0: iops_avg: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 46.0/47.0 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - WARNING - cbt - prefill/gen8/0: iops_stddev: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 10.4403/6.65833 => rejected
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/0: latency_avg: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 0.340868/0.333712 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/1: bandwidth: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 0.190447/0.177619 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/1: iops_avg: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 48.0/45.0 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/1: iops_stddev: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 6.1101/9.81495 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - prefill/gen8/1: latency_avg: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 0.325163/0.350251 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/0: bandwidth: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 1.24654/1.22336 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/0: iops_avg: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 319.0/313.0 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/0: iops_stddev: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 0.0/0.0 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/0: latency_avg: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 0.0497733/0.0509029 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/1: bandwidth: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 1.22717/1.11372 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/1: iops_avg: (or (greater) (near 0.05)):: 314.0/285.0 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/1: iops_stddev: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 0.0/0.0 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - INFO - cbt - seq/gen8/1: latency_avg: (or (less) (near 0.05)):: 0.0508262/0.0557337 => accepted
+ 19:48:23 - WARNING - cbt - 1 tests failed out of 16
+
+Here we compile and run the same test against two branches: ``main`` and ``yet-another-pr``.
+We then compare the results. Along with every test case, a set of rules is defined to check for
+performance regressions when comparing the sets of test results. If a possible regression is found, the rule and
+corresponding test results are highlighted.
+
+.. _cbt: https://github.com/ceph/cbt
+
+Hacking Crimson
+===============
+
+
+Seastar Documents
+-----------------
+
+See `Seastar Tutorial <https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/blob/master/doc/tutorial.md>`_ .
+Or build a browsable version and start an HTTP server::
+
+ $ cd seastar
+ $ ./configure.py --mode debug
+ $ ninja -C build/debug docs
+ $ python3 -m http.server -d build/debug/doc/html
+
+You might want to install ``pandoc`` and other dependencies beforehand.
+
+Debugging Crimson
+=================
+
+Debugging with GDB
+------------------
+
+The `tips`_ for debugging Scylla also apply to Crimson.
+
+.. _tips: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/blob/master/docs/dev/debugging.md#tips-and-tricks
+
+Human-readable backtraces with addr2line
+----------------------------------------
+
+When a Seastar application crashes, it leaves us with a backtrace of addresses, like::
+
+ Segmentation fault.
+ Backtrace:
+ 0x00000000108254aa
+ 0x00000000107f74b9
+ 0x00000000105366cc
+ 0x000000001053682c
+ 0x00000000105d2c2e
+ 0x0000000010629b96
+ 0x0000000010629c31
+ 0x00002a02ebd8272f
+ 0x00000000105d93ee
+ 0x00000000103eff59
+ 0x000000000d9c1d0a
+ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x000000000002409a
+ 0x000000000d833ac9
+ Segmentation fault
+
+The ``seastar-addr2line`` utility provided by Seastar can be used to map these
+addresses to functions. The script expects input on ``stdin``,
+so we need to copy and paste the above addresses, then send EOF by inputting
+``control-D`` in the terminal. One might use ``echo`` or ``cat`` instead`::
+
+ $ ../src/seastar/scripts/seastar-addr2line -e bin/crimson-osd
+
+ 0x00000000108254aa
+ 0x00000000107f74b9
+ 0x00000000105366cc
+ 0x000000001053682c
+ 0x00000000105d2c2e
+ 0x0000000010629b96
+ 0x0000000010629c31
+ 0x00002a02ebd8272f
+ 0x00000000105d93ee
+ 0x00000000103eff59
+ 0x000000000d9c1d0a
+ 0x00000000108254aa
+ [Backtrace #0]
+ seastar::backtrace_buffer::append_backtrace() at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:1136
+ seastar::print_with_backtrace(seastar::backtrace_buffer&) at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:1157
+ seastar::print_with_backtrace(char const*) at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:1164
+ seastar::sigsegv_action() at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:5119
+ seastar::install_oneshot_signal_handler<11, &seastar::sigsegv_action>()::{lambda(int, siginfo_t*, void*)#1}::operator()(int, siginfo_t*, void*) const at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:5105
+ seastar::install_oneshot_signal_handler<11, &seastar::sigsegv_action>()::{lambda(int, siginfo_t*, void*)#1}::_FUN(int, siginfo_t*, void*) at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:5101
+ ?? ??:0
+ seastar::smp::configure(boost::program_options::variables_map, seastar::reactor_config) at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/reactor.cc:5418
+ seastar::app_template::run_deprecated(int, char**, std::function<void ()>&&) at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/seastar/src/core/app-template.cc:173 (discriminator 5)
+ main at /home/kefu/dev/ceph/build/../src/crimson/osd/main.cc:131 (discriminator 1)
+
+Note that ``seastar-addr2line`` is able to extract addresses from
+its input, so you can also paste the log messages as below::
+
+ 2020-07-22T11:37:04.500 INFO:teuthology.orchestra.run.smithi061.stderr:Backtrace:
+ 2020-07-22T11:37:04.500 INFO:teuthology.orchestra.run.smithi061.stderr: 0x0000000000e78dbc
+ 2020-07-22T11:37:04.501 INFO:teuthology.orchestra.run.smithi061.stderr: 0x0000000000e3e7f0
+ 2020-07-22T11:37:04.501 INFO:teuthology.orchestra.run.smithi061.stderr: 0x0000000000e3e8b8
+ 2020-07-22T11:37:04.501 INFO:teuthology.orchestra.run.smithi061.stderr: 0x0000000000e3e985
+ 2020-07-22T11:37:04.501 INFO:teuthology.orchestra.run.smithi061.stderr: /lib64/libpthread.so.0+0x0000000000012dbf
+
+Unlike the classic ``ceph-osd``, Crimson does not print a human-readable backtrace when it
+handles fatal signals like `SIGSEGV` or `SIGABRT`. It is also more complicated
+with a stripped binary. So instead of planting a signal handler for
+those signals into Crimson, we can use `script/ceph-debug-docker.sh` to map
+addresses in the backtrace::
+
+ # assuming you are under the source tree of ceph
+ $ ./src/script/ceph-debug-docker.sh --flavor crimson master:27e237c137c330ebb82627166927b7681b20d0aa centos:8
+ ....
+ [root@3deb50a8ad51 ~]# wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scylladb/seastar/master/scripts/seastar-addr2line
+ [root@3deb50a8ad51 ~]# dnf install -q -y file
+ [root@3deb50a8ad51 ~]# python3 seastar-addr2line -e /usr/bin/crimson-osd
+ # paste the backtrace here