[sr-dev] [SR-Users] dialog module with DB Backend
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
miconda at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 12:42:08 CET 2014
Hello,
can you make the patch for master branch? I just backported two patches
that were in master branch but not yet in 4.1.
With this occasion, can you review if the other 'return 1' expose the
same issue? I noticed another one in db_cassa_delete and in db_cassa_query.
Thanks,
Daniel
On 05/03/14 03:57, jay binks wrote:
> Just noticed the same thing in db_cassa_delete..
> patch updated to fix both
>
> Jay
>
>
> On 5 March 2014 12:52, jay binks <jaybinks at gmail.com
> <mailto:jaybinks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> so Ive done what Carlos suggested and swapped out my dialog db to
> Mysql rather than cassandra.
> All worked 100% as you would expect.
>
> Right so the issue is db_cassandra .
>
> I started testing and going through the code.
>
> I found I had these lines, which was interesting & concerning.
> update_dialog_dbinfo_unsafe(): could not add another dialog to db
> I had been ignoring them, because the dialog was in the DB and I
> figured I would come back and figure that out later.
>
> but this seems to have been key to this whole thing.
>
> ends up that in dlg_db_handler.c dialog_dbf.insert was getting a 1
> back from kamailio on the insert and a 0 back from mysql... WTF.. ok.
>
> so I trace into db_cassa_insert which calls db_cassa_modify ..
> around line 1210 I can see this ..
>
> CON_CASSA(_h)->con->batch_mutate(CFMap, oac::ConsistencyLevel::ONE);
> return 1;
>
> wrapped in a try / catch block..
> seems db_cassandra wants to return 1 for success but kamailio ( or
> dialog module at least ) expects 0 for success .
>
> so I change that to be return 0, and re-test.
> everything works as expected, "could not add another dialog to
> db" stops coming up on my console,
> and dialogs are removed when calls hangup.
>
> seems this 1 thing is enough to screw dialogs in cassandra ( and
> who knows what else ).
> This is the reason for my email though, if we simply change that
> to 0, what else may break !??
>
> however
> http://www.asipto.com/pub/kamailio-devel-guide/#c09f_insert
> clearly states that "0 if everything is OK"
> so this is clearly a bug that needs fixing.
>
> Can I get someone with more experience to test this for me and
> possibly apply the attached patch !?
>
> Jay
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> On 25 February 2014 05:58, Daniel-Constantin Mierla
> <miconda at gmail.com <mailto:miconda at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I pushed some patches to the master branch in order to remove
> the dialog from its associated profiles when it gets in terminated
> state. I encountered such issue (not that) recently, but I haven't
> gotten the time to get to it before.
> >
> > Then, the second patch is to not add dialogs in profiles when
> loading from database and the state is terminated (5).
> >
> > Here are the links to the patches:
> >
> > -
> http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/sip-router/?a=commit;h=edf61acb57ed5e8ee0ca9ec1f796e43ce993be48
> > -
> http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/sip-router/?a=commit;h=9b88eb7ee2d243882383a44f601baa21fd679cd5
> >
> > Should be straightforward to cherry pick to 4.1 (even 4.0 I
> expect). If you test and all goes fine, I will backport -- here I
> had no time for real testing.
> >
> > I plan also to not add the dialogs in memory for state
> terminated, but destroy them at db load time. But this needs a bit
> of a review, to be sure that all necessary callbacks are executed.
> >
> > On the other hand, if the dialogs are not removed from db, might
> be an issue with the database driver (cassandra in this case,
> which is rather new module). Do you get any syslog errors from
> kamailio or database server? I expect that people would have
> reported such issue for other database engines so far. Still it
> might be an issue, just that was not noticed...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
> >
> > On 24/02/14 11:19, jay binks wrote:
> >
> > So poking round the code for the dialog module....
> > Im not sure what im missing here.
> >
> >
> > get_profile_size dosnt care bout the state of a dialog... so you
> get ALL dialogs that are in the hash table.
> > ( which is interesting if you want to use dialog module to
> enforce channel limits etc )
> >
> > So you go... OK... kamailio only expects to have "ACTIVE"
> dialogs in the hash table... kewl..
> > lets assume that to be the case.
> >
> > but then in dlg_db_handler.c , load_dialog_info_from_db loads
> all dialogs from the DB, regardless of state.
> > so all dialogs in the DB ( ones that didnt get deleted yet...
> but were in state 5 ) get re-created in kamailio
> > upon startup.
> >
> > what this means is...
> > ( assume starting with empty DB )
> >
> > I start kamailio, make some calls... they get synced to the DB.
> > I end the calls, kamailio removes from dialogs module internal
> hash, but the sync to DB hasnt happened yet.
> >
> > I kill kamailio ( or crash .. whatever ).... restart kamailio
> and it re-loads all those dialogs
> > and thinks they are still active calls.
> >
> > Im SURE Im missing something here, because it seems to be VERY
> common to use dialogs for channel limiting..
> > maybe not so much using cassandra db behind the scenes, but as
> of yet ... Im still yet to find anything that makes me thing this
> is db_cassandra mis-behaving.
> >
> > if im wrong, please point me in the right direction.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 24 February 2014 17:54, jay binks <jaybinks at gmail.com
> <mailto:jaybinks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Am I REALLY the only person who has ever run into this !?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 19 February 2014 14:08, jay binks <jaybinks at gmail.com
> <mailto:jaybinks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all, im using the dialog module with db_cassandra backend..
> >>> I dont believe this issue is related to cassandra, but its
> worth mentioning anyways.
> >>>
> >>> so... I run kamailio, make calls, see dialogs in the DB..
> >>> and I Can use "kamctl mi dlg_list" and see that dialogs go
> away when I hangup a call..
> >>>
> >>> When I query the DB Backend, I still see the queries, but they
> have a state of 5.
> >>> I Initially thought this was a bug, but it seems dialogs in
> state 5 get cleaned up after a period.
> >>> so I moved on.
> >>>
> >>> now , lets restart kamailio..
> >>> kamailio loads all dialogs on startup, after kamailio starts I
> call "kamctl mi dlg_list" again, and it shows all my dialogs from
> the DB. they DO show as "State 5"
> >>> but for some reason, these dialogs appear to stick around for
> a long time, and the bigger issue it causes me is that my channel
> limiting ( using get_profile_size ) seems to consider these
> dialogs ( in state 5 ) as being active calls.
> >>>
> >>> Please someone point me in the right direction... :)
> >>>
> >>> what am I doing wrong ?
> >>> ( or is this a bug somewhere )
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely
> >>>
> >>> Jay
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sincerely
> >>
> >> Jay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
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> Sincerely
>
> Jay
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> --
> Sincerely
>
> Jay
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