linux-kernel - Re: 3.0+ NFS issues

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 13:46:16 +0000
From:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
CC:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.0+ NFS issues

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:24 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 31.05.2012 16:59, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> []
> > That is tcpdump trying to interpret your NFSv4 trace as NFSv2/v3.
> 
> Oh.
> 
> > Can you either please use wireshark to provide a full text dump (using
> > something like 'tshark -V -O nfs,rpc'), or just send us the binary
> > tcpdump output using 'tcpdump -w /tmp/foo -s 90000'?
> 
> I started tcpdump:
> 
>  tcpdump -npvi br0 -s 0 host 192.168.88.4 and \( proto ICMP or port 2049 \) -w nfsdump
> 
> on the client (192.168.88.2).  Next I mounted a directory on the client,
> and started reading (tar'ing) a directory into /dev/null.  It captured a
> few stalls.  Tcpdump shows number of packets it got, the stalls are at
> packet counts 58090, 97069 and 97071.  I cancelled the capture after that.
> 
> The resulting file is available at http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tmp/nfsdump.xz ,
> it is 220Mb uncompressed and 1.3Mb compressed.  The source files are
> 10 files of 1Gb each, all made by using `truncate' utility, so does not
> take place on disk at all.  This also makes it obvious that the issue
> does not depend on the speed of disk on the server (since in this case,
> the server disk isn't even in use).

OK. So from the above file it looks as if the traffic is mainly READ
requests.

In 2 places the server stops responding. In both cases, the client seems
to be sending a single TCP frame containing several COMPOUNDS containing
READ requests (which should be legal) just prior to the hang. When the
server doesn't respond, the client pings it with a RENEW, before it ends
up severing the TCP connection and then retransmitting.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
www.netapp.com