On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:29:40PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 17.08.2012 21:26, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > On 17.08.2012 21:18, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:12:38PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > []
> >>> So we're calling svc_recv in a tight loop, eating
> >>> all available CPU. (The above is with just 2 nfsd
> >>> threads).
> >>>
> >>> Something is definitely wrong here. And it happens mure more
> >>> often after the mentioned commit (f03d78db65085).
> >>
> >> Oh, neat. Hm. That commit doesn't really sound like the cause, then.
> >> Is that busy-looping reproduceable on kernels before that commit?
> >
> > Note I bisected this issue to this commit. I haven't seen it
> > happening before this commit, and reverting it from 3.0 or 3.2
> > kernel makes the problem to go away.
> >
> > I guess it is looping there:
> >
> >
> > net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c:svc_recv()
> > ...
> > len = 0;
> > ...
> > if (test_bit(XPT_LISTENER, &xprt->xpt_flags)) {
> > ...
> > } else if (xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_has_wspace(xprt)) { <=== here -- has
> > no wspace due to memory...
> > ... len = <something>
> > }
> >
> > /* No data, incomplete (TCP) read, or accept() */
> > if (len == 0 || len == -EAGAIN)
> > goto out;
> > ...
> > out:
> > rqstp->rq_res.len = 0;
> > svc_xprt_release(rqstp);
> > return -EAGAIN;
> > }
> >
> > I'm trying to verify this theory...
>
> Yes. I inserted a printk there, and all these million times while
> we're waiting in this EAGAIN loop, this printk is triggering:
>
> ....
> [21052.533053] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533070] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533087] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533105] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533122] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533139] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533156] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533174] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533191] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533208] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533226] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533244] svc_recv: !has_wspace
> [21052.533265] calling svc_recv: 1228163 times (err=-4)
> [21052.533403] calling svc_recv: 1226616 times (err=-4)
> [21052.534520] nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache
>
> (I stopped nfsd since it was flooding the log).
>
> I can only guess that before that commit, we always had space,
> now we don't anymore, and are looping like crazy.
Thanks! But, arrgh--that should be enough to go on at this point, but
I'm not seeing it. If has_wspace is returning false then it's likely
also returning false to the call at the start of svc_xprt_enqueue() (see
svc_xprt_has_something_to_do), which means the xprt shouldn't be getting
requeued and the next svc_recv call should find no socket ready (so
svc_xprt_dequeue() returns NULL), and goes to sleep.
But clearly it's not working that way....
--b.
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