Re: [BUG BISECT] NFSv4 client fails on Flush Journal to Persistent Storage

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Jul 26 2018 - 04:46:34 EST


On 25 July 2018 at 16:31, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Jul 25, 2018, at 9:27 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 18 June 2018 at 18:20, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> The extra serialization appears to have a reproducible performance
>>> impact on RDMA, which no longer takes the reserve_lock when allocating
>>> a slot.
>>>
>>> I could put an xprt_alloc_xid call in xprt_alloc_slot, but that would
>>> only work for socket-based transports. Would it be OK if RDMA had its
>>> own XID allocation mechanism?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On recent next the issue appeared again. My boards with NFSv4 root
>> timeout on 80% of boots. This time my NFS server is faster - Pi3 B+
>> :).
>>
>> Is this know? Should I start long bisect or maybe you can point me to
>> possible causes?
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> Hi Krzysztof, I don't know of any recent changes. Bisecting would be
> a good place to start.

Hi,

That was my mistake because of missing part of NFS server
configuration on new board. I tested again recent releases and current
linux-next and everything works fine.

Sorry for the noise.

Best regards,
Krzysztof