Re: [regression] nfs4: 30 second delay during umount of remote fson system shutdown

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:03:05 +0100
Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 February 2008, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:29 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > I have verified that portmap is also not running during S31umountnfs.sh
> > > with 2.6.24, so apparently there has been a change in the kernel that
> > > has made umount look for portmap and cause the 30 second delay if it is
> > > not running.
> >
> > You are probably seeing the effect of lockd going down: it always
> > attempts to unregister from the portmapper (and no, this is _not_ new
> > behaviour).
> 
> It is _very much_ new behavior because as soon as I boot (and shut down) 
> with a 2.6.24 kernel the problem completely disappears. Userland is *100% 
> identical* between my tests.
> 
> > If debian is killing the portmapper while lockd is still up, then that
> > is a definite debian bug...
> 
> I have no idea about that. AFAICT lockd is not even running (at least, 
> there's no process named lockd, even when the system is running normally.
> Isn't lockd an nfs3 thing? I'm using nfs4 here.
> 

It may be the NFSv4 callback thread going down then. It also tries to
unregister with the portmapper and recent patches fixed the reference
counting so that it actually tears things down instead of just leaking
memory and sockets.

I'm not sure what we can do about that other than try to fix it so that
it doesn't try to unregister with the portmapper. It really doesn't need
to since it no longer registers with it.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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