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From: Dan Aloni <dan.aloni@vastdata.com>
To: trondmy@kernel.org
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Always provide aligned buffers to the RPC read layers
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:26:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220118192627.tg4myc77nmbqm2np@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210827180056.610170-1-trondmy@kernel.org>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 02:00:56PM -0400, trondmy@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
> 
> Instead of messing around with XDR padding in the RDMA layer, we should
> just give the RPC layer an aligned buffer. Try to avoid creating extra
> RPC calls by aligning to the smaller value of ALIGN(len, rsize) and
> PAGE_SIZE.

I've bisected this change to be the cause of xfstests generic/525
getting stuck when tested against a standard Linux NFS server. It was
stuck in a repeated request loop in kernel mode, and killable.

I posted a patch with a full explanation in a reply.

-- 
Dan Aloni

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-18 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-27 18:00 [PATCH] NFS: Always provide aligned buffers to the RPC read layers trondmy
2022-01-18 19:26 ` Dan Aloni [this message]
2022-01-18 19:33   ` [PATCH] NFS: fix an infinite request retry in an off-by-one last page read Dan Aloni
2022-01-18 19:43     ` Trond Myklebust
2022-01-21 18:50       ` [PATCH] NFSD: trim reads past NFS_OFFSET_MAX Dan Aloni
2022-01-21 22:32         ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-22 12:47           ` Dan Aloni
2022-01-22 17:05             ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-22 18:27               ` Trond Myklebust
2022-01-22 20:15                 ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-22 20:30                   ` Trond Myklebust
2022-01-23 17:35                     ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-22 19:01               ` Dan Aloni
2022-01-22 20:33                 ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-22 12:49           ` [PATCH v2] NFSD: trim reads past NFS_OFFSET_MAX and fix NFSv3 check Dan Aloni
2022-01-22 17:37             ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-23  6:29               ` Dan Aloni
2022-01-23  9:50               ` [PATCH v3] " Dan Aloni
2022-01-23 15:29                 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-01-23 17:03                   ` Chuck Lever III
2022-01-26 16:23                     ` Chuck Lever III

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