Re: Spurious instability with NFSoRDMA under moderate load

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 04:27:29PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> Hello Timo-
> 
> > On May 16, 2021, at 1:29 PM, Timo Rothenpieler <timo@rothenpieler.org> wrote:
> > 
> > This has happened 3 times so far over the last couple months, and I do not have a clear way to reproduce it.
> > It happens under moderate load, when lots of nodes read and write from the server. Though not in any super intense way. Just normal program execution, writing of light logs, and other standard tasks.
> > 
> > The issues on the clients manifest in a multitude of ways. Most of the time, random IO operations just fail, rarely hang indefinitely and make the process unkillable.
> > Another example would be: "Failed to remove '.../.nfs00000000007b03af00000001': Device or resource busy"
> > 
> > Once a client is in that state, the only way to get it back into order is a reboot.
> > 
> > On the server side, a single error cqe is dumped each time this problem happened. So far, I always rebooted the server as well, to make sure everything is back in order. Not sure if that is strictly necessary.
> > 
> >> [561889.198889] infiniband mlx5_0: dump_cqe:272:(pid 709): dump error cqe
> >> [561889.198945] 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [561889.198984] 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [561889.199023] 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [561889.199061] 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 13 08 00 01 13 07 47 67 d2
> > 
> >> [985074.602880] infiniband mlx5_0: dump_cqe:272:(pid 599): dump error cqe
> >> [985074.602921] 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [985074.602946] 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [985074.602970] 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [985074.602994] 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 13 08 00 01 46 f2 93 0b d3
> > 
> >> [1648894.168819] infiniband ibp1s0: dump_cqe:272:(pid 696): dump error cqe
> >> [1648894.168853] 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [1648894.168878] 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [1648894.168903] 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> [1648894.168928] 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 13 08 00 01 08 6b d2 b9 d3
> 
> I'm hoping Leon can get out his magic decoder ring and tell us if
> these CQE dumps contain a useful WC status code.

Unfortunately, no. I failed to parse it, if I read the dump correctly,
it is not marked as error and opcode is 0.

Thanks