Re: nfs client hang

[Andy Chittenden <andyc@bluearc.com>]

  On 2010-07-23 13:36, Andy Chittenden wrote:
>> IE the client starts a connection and then closes it again without sending data.
> Once this happens, here's some rpcdebug info for the rpc module using 2.6.34.1 kernel:
>
> ... lots of the following nfsv3 WRITE requests:
> [ 7670.026741] 57793 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026759] 57794 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026778] 57795 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026797] 57796 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026815] 57797 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026834] 57798 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026853] 57799 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026871] 57800 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026890] 57801 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7670.026909] 57802 0001    -11 ffff88012e32b000   (null)        0 ffffffffa03beb10 nfsv3 WRITE a:call_reserveresult q:xprt_backlog
> [ 7680.520042] RPC:       worker connecting xprt ffff88013e62d800 via tcp to 10.1.6.102 (port 2049)
> [ 7680.520066] RPC:       ffff88013e62d800 connect status 99 connected 0 sock state 7
> [ 7680.520074] RPC: 33550 __rpc_wake_up_task (now 4296812426)
> [ 7680.520079] RPC: 33550 disabling timer
> [ 7680.520084] RPC: 33550 removed from queue ffff88013e62db20 "xprt_pending"
> [ 7680.520089] RPC:       __rpc_wake_up_task done
> [ 7680.520094] RPC: 33550 __rpc_execute flags=0x1
> [ 7680.520098] RPC: 33550 xprt_connect_status: retrying
> [ 7680.520103] RPC: 33550 call_connect_status (status -11)
> [ 7680.520108] RPC: 33550 call_transmit (status 0)
> [ 7680.520112] RPC: 33550 xprt_prepare_transmit
> [ 7680.520118] RPC: 33550 rpc_xdr_encode (status 0)
> [ 7680.520123] RPC: 33550 marshaling UNIX cred ffff88012e002300
> [ 7680.520130] RPC: 33550 using AUTH_UNIX cred ffff88012e002300 to wrap rpc data
> [ 7680.520136] RPC: 33550 xprt_transmit(32920)
> [ 7680.520145] RPC:       xs_tcp_send_request(32920) = -32
> [ 7680.520151] RPC:       xs_tcp_state_change client ffff88013e62d800...
> [ 7680.520156] RPC:       state 7 conn 0 dead 0 zapped 1
I changed that debug to output sk_shutdown too. That has a value of 2 
(IE SEND_SHUTDOWN). Looking at tcp_sendmsg(), I see this:

         err = -EPIPE;
         if (sk->sk_err || (sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN))
                 goto out_err;

which correlates with the trace "xs_tcp_send_request(32920) = -32". So, 
this looks like a problem in the sockets/tcp layer. The rpc layer issues 
a shutdown and then reconnects using the same socket. So either 
sk_shutdown needs zeroing once the shutdown completes or should be 
zeroed on subsequent connect. The latter sounds safer.

-- 
Andy, BlueArc Engineering