netdev - Re: Weird TCP hang when doing loopback NFS (wireshark traces attached)

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Date:	Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:06:36 -0500
From:	Bruce James Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>
Cc:	Linux Network Devel Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird TCP hang when doing loopback NFS (wireshark traces
 attached)

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 07:52:28PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Trond Myklebust
> <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When doing testing of NFSv3 loopback mounts (client and server are on
> > the same IP address), I'm seeing a very reproducible hang in which the
> > client stops receiving data from the server. The TCP connection is still
> > marked as established, and the server appears to continue to receive and
> > send data, however the client does not.
> >
> > So far, I've reproduced on both v4.0-rc1, and the Fedora v3.18.7 kernel.
> >
> > The reproducer is simply to loopback mount using NFSv3, and then run the
> > 'fsx' filesystem exerciser. I'm usually able to trigger the hang with
> > "fsx -N 100000 foobar".
> >
> > I've attached a couple of wireshark trace of a few frames just before
> > and during the hang in case it jogs any memories.
> 
> This bug appears to go away when I disable the splice()-based reads by
> clearing the RQ_SPLICE_OK flag.
> 
> I noticed that it always involved a combination of a READ and a
> truncating SETATTR call. Are you sure that it is safe to share
> pagecache pages directly with sendpage() in this way? As far as I can
> tell, there is no locking to prevent them from being modified while in
> the TCP send queue.

This is the stable-pages problem that we've had forever, isn't it?  Or
is this a different problem?

--b.
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