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From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Simon Kirby" <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RPC: multiple fragments per record not supported
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:03:42 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <676fa8ce48993d133dc0c5deb308ea14.squirrel@neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090609002033.GL21174@hostway.ca>

On Tue, June 9, 2009 10:20 am, Simon Kirby wrote:
> Hello!
>
> With 2.6.28.10 and 2.6.29.4 knfsd after a few hours of heavy concurrent
> NFSv3 write loads (migration of Maildirs with rsync), we are seeing this
> error:
>
> 	kernel: RPC: multiple fragments per record not supported
>
> ...followed by knfsd immediately ignoring all further requests.
> Restarting knfsd (/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart) seems to make
> it start responding and work as normal again.
>
> "ps -eo pid,stat,args,wchan" during the event shows all nfsd processes
> sleeping in "svc_recv":
>
> 22714 S<   [nfsd]                      svc_recv
>
> This client with the high write load is an old 2.6.17 kernel, mounting
> the server with
> rw,nolock,hard,intr,timeo=9,retrans=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> (jumbo frames are enabled).
>
> Is this any sort of known issue?  I'm trying to reproduce it in a testing
> environment.

Yes.  Known issue.  The data stream from the client gets corrupted.
Fix is

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e0ab53deaa91293a7958d63d5a2cf4c5645ad6f0

which is in 2.6.18

NeilBrown



      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09  0:20 RPC: multiple fragments per record not supported Simon Kirby
2009-06-09  2:03 ` NeilBrown [this message]

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