Re: Possible bug report: kernel 6.5.0/6.5.1 high load when CIFS share is mounted (cifsd-cfid-laundromat in"D" state)

[Paulo Alcantara]

You probably want these two as well

https://git.samba.org/?p=sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2da338ff752a2789470d733111a5241f30026675

https://git.samba.org/?p=sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3b8bb3171571f92eda863e5f78b063604c61f72a

as directory leases isn't supported in SMB1, so no waste of system resources by having those kthreads running.

On 13 October 2023 20:52:11 GMT-03:00, Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Could you please try two commits[1][2] from for-next?
>
>[1] https://git.samba.org/?p=sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e95f3f74465072c2545d8e65a3c3a96e37129cf8
>[2] https://git.samba.org/?p=sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=81ba10959970d15c388bf29866b01b62f387e6a3
>
>On 13 October 2023 20:19:37 GMT-03:00, matoro <matoro_mailinglist_kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On 2023-10-05 05:55, Dr. Bernd Feige wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, dem 26.09.2023 um 17:54 -0700 schrieb Paul Aurich:
>>>> Perhaps the laundromat thread should be using msleep_interruptible()?
>>>> 
>>>> Using an interruptible sleep appears to prevent the thread from
>>>> contributing
>>>> to the load average, and has the happy side-effect of removing the
>>>> up-to-1s delay
>>>> when tearing down the tcon (since a7c01fa93ae, kthread_stop() will
>>>> return
>>>> early triggered by kthread_stop).
>>> 
>>> Sorry for chiming in so late - I'm also on gentoo (kernel 6.5.5-
>>> gentoo), but as a client of Windows AD.
>>> 
>>> Just want to emphasize that using uninterruptible sleep has not just
>>> unhappy but devastating side-effects.
>>> 
>>> I have 8 processors and 16 cifsd-cfid-laundromat processes, so
>>> /proc/loadavg reports a load average of 16 on a totally idle system.
>>> 
>>> This means that load-balancing software will never start additional
>>> tasks on this system - "make -l" but also any other load-dependent
>>> system. Just reducing the number of cifsd-cfid-laundromat processes
>>> does not fix this - even a single one makes loadavg report a wrong
>>> result for load balancing.
>>> 
>>> So, if cifsd-cfid-laundromat must really be uninterruptible, the only
>>> solution would be to change the way loadavg is computed by the kernel
>>> to exclude uninterruptible but sleeping processes. But must it be
>>> uninterruptible?
>>> 
>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>> Bernd
>>
>>This is a huge problem here as well, as a client to Samba using SMB1 (for Unix extensions).
>>
>>For others encountering this problem, I was able to work around it with the following snippet:
>>
>>diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c b/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c
>>index 2d5e9a9d5b8b..fc2caccb597a 100644
>>--- a/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c
>>+++ b/fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c
>>@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ cifs_cfids_laundromat_thread(void *p)
>>        struct list_head entry;
>>
>>        while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>>-               ssleep(1);
>>+               msleep_interruptible(1000);
>>                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry);
>>                if (kthread_should_stop())
>>                        return 0;