Re: NFS regression? Odd delays and lockups accessing an NFSexport.

From: Frank Filz
Date: Tue May 12 2009 - 16:22:28 EST


On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 14:37 -0500, J. K. Cliburn wrote:
> Athanasius wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02:20PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
> >> I've been using NFS here for years, lately there's something odd going on
> >> since about a month or so. Previously reported last month:
> >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/951419?page=last
> >>
> >> Now with 2.6.27-rc3 on one of the client boxes I get a complete stall
> >> at odd times when accessing the server's exported directory, cannot
> >> see a pattern to it. Eventually recovers after a Ctrl-C. Nothing in
> >> the server or client log files. Not easy to reproduce either.
> >
> > I wonder if this is what I've been seeing. I've been otherwise too
> > busy to properly report it, thinking that *someone* else must also be
> > seeing it and it's being worked on, else it's a subtle configuration
> > problem my end.
> >
> > I first started seeing this with 2.6.26 on the client end,
>
> I see you're running the atl1 driver on your client. I'm chasing an
> intermittent bug in that driver that seems to be affected by certain
> offload parameters. Try disabling TSO and see if things improve.

Was this ever resolved? We're seeing a similar hangup in a 2.6.27
kernel.

Thanks

Frank Filz


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