Re: still seeing single client NFS4ERR_DELAY / CB_RECALL

[Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 04:27:39PM -0400, Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 01:11:36PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > Hi Bruce-
> > 
> > I noticed that one of my tests takes about 4x longer on NFSv4.0 than
> > it does on NFSv3 or NFSv4.[12]. As an initial stab at the cause, I'm
> > seeing lots of these:
> 
> Oops, looks obvious in retrospect, but I didn't think of it.
> 
> In the 4.1+ case, sessions mean that we know which client every
> operation comes from.
> 
> In the 4.0 case that only works for operations that take a stateid or
> something else we can link back to a client.
> 
> That means in the 4.0 case delegations are less useful, since they have
> to be broken on any (non-truncating) setattr, any link/unlink, etc.,
> even if the operation comes from the same client--the server doesn't
> have a way to know that.
> 
> Maybe the change to give out read delegations even on write opens
> probably just isn't worth in the 4.0 case.

Untested, but maybe this?--b.

commit 2102ac0b68f3
Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 9 17:11:59 2020 -0400

    nfsd4: don't grant delegations on 4.0 create opens
    
    Chuck reported a major slowdown running the git regression suite over
    NFSv4.0.
    
    In the 4.0 case, the server has no way to identify which client most
    metadata-modifying operations come from.  So, for example, the common
    pattern of a a setattr is likely to result in an immediate break in the
    4.0 case.
    
    It's probably not worth giving out delegations on 4.0 creates.
    
    Reported-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index fdba971d06c3..ce2d052b3f64 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -5096,6 +5096,16 @@ nfs4_open_delegation(struct svc_fh *fh, struct nfsd4_open *open,
 				goto out_no_deleg;
 			if (!cb_up || !(oo->oo_flags & NFS4_OO_CONFIRMED))
 				goto out_no_deleg;
+			/*
+			 * In the absence of sessions, most operations
+			 * that modify metadata (like setattr) can't
+			 * be linked to the client sending them, so
+			 * will result in a delegation break.  That's
+			 * especially likely for create opens:
+			 */
+			if (clp->cl_minorversion == 0 &&
+					open->op_create == NFS4_OPEN_CREATE)
+				goto out_no_deleg;
 			break;
 		default:
 			goto out_no_deleg;