Re: User process NFS write hang followed by automount hang requiring reboot

[Alan Post <adp@prgmr.com>]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 03:46:03PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > A representative sample of stack traces from hung user-submitted
> > processes (jobs).  The first here is quite a lot more common than
> > the later two:
> > 
> >     $ sudo cat /proc/197520/stack
> >     [<0>] io_schedule+0x12/0x40
> >     [<0>] nfs_lock_and_join_requests+0x309/0x4c0 [nfs]
> >     [<0>] nfs_updatepage+0x2a2/0x8b0 [nfs]
> >     [<0>] nfs_write_end+0x63/0x4c0 [nfs]
> >     [<0>] generic_perform_write+0x138/0x1b0
> >     [<0>] nfs_file_write+0xdc/0x200 [nfs]
> >     [<0>] new_sync_write+0xfb/0x160
> >     [<0>] vfs_write+0xa5/0x1a0
> >     [<0>] ksys_write+0x4f/0xb0
> >     [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x53/0x100
> >     [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> >     [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> > 
> 
> Have you tried upgrading to 4.19.44? There is a fix that went in not
> too long ago that deals with a request leak that can cause stack traces
> like the above that wait forever.
> 

That I haven't tried.  I gather you're talking about either or both
of:

    63b0ee126f7e
    be74fddc976e

Which I do see went in after 4.19.24 (which I've tried) but didn't
get in 4.20.9 (which I've also tried).  Let me see about trying the
4.19.44 kernel.

> By the way, the above stack trace with "nfs_lock_and_join_requests"
> usually means that you are using a very small rsize or wsize (less than
> 4k). Is that the case? If so, you might want to look into just
> increasing the I/O size.
> 

These exports have rsize and wsize set to 1048576.  That decision was
before my time, and I'll guess this value was picked to match
NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE.

Thank you for your help,

-A
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