linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.20 023/117] SUNRPC: Address Kerberos performance/behavior regression

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Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:34:34 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.20 023/117] SUNRPC: Address Kerberos performance/behavior regression

4.20-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit deaa5c96c2f7e8b934088a1e70a0fe8797bd1149 ]

When using Kerberos with v4.20, I've observed frequent connection
loss on heavy workloads. I traced it down to the client underrunning
the GSS sequence number window -- NFS servers are required to drop
the RPC with the low sequence number, and also drop the connection
to signal that an RPC was dropped.

Bisected to commit 918f3c1fe83c ("SUNRPC: Improve latency for
interactive tasks").

I've got a one-line workaround for this issue, which is easy to
backport to v4.20 while a more permanent solution is being derived.
Essentially, tk_owner-based sorting is disabled for RPCs that carry
a GSS sequence number.

Fixes: 918f3c1fe83c ("SUNRPC: Improve latency for interactive ... ")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sunrpc/xprt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ xprt_request_enqueue_transmit(struct rpc
 				INIT_LIST_HEAD(&req->rq_xmit2);
 				goto out;
 			}
-		} else {
+		} else if (!req->rq_seqno) {
 			list_for_each_entry(pos, &xprt->xmit_queue, rq_xmit) {
 				if (pos->rq_task->tk_owner != task->tk_owner)
 					continue;