Hi Stijn,

On 11/06/2015 07:19 PM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
> hi soumya,
>
> can you give some details on the clients kernel and nfs protocol used?
>
> a colleague of mine did some similar tests, and only with nfs 4
> minorversion=1 we get failover/failback working. with 4.0 on recent 7.1
> of 6.7 we have always IO errors on client side.

I am using fedora22 nfs-client (Linux version - 4.2.3-200, Protocol - 
NFSv4). We do not see any I/O errors though (tried with both NFSv3 & 
NFSv4 mounts). As mentioned below, it works all well for initial couple 
of iterations of failover/failback.

Thanks,
Soumya

>
> stijn
>
> On 11/06/2015 01:47 PM, Soumya Koduri wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In a 2-node nfs-ganesha cluster setup, we have noticed that after
>> couple of iterations of failover & failback of the IP between those
>> nodes, client I/O gets stuck. We have observed this in RHEL 7.1
>> environments (not sure about RHEL 6). While debugging I see that, the
>> node which takes over Virtual IP(after couple of iterations) doesn't
>> respond(acknowledge) to the client's TCP SYN packet.
>>
>> Found couple of discussions around it in few forums and I tried
>> tuning certain TCP parameters (tcp_timestamp, tcp_window_scaling) as
>> mentioned in there. But it did not work. The current work-around we
>> are left with (to resume the I/Os) is either * restart nfs-ganesha
>> service on the node which has taken over IP, to clear the existing
>> established TCP connections. Or * failback the IP by getting the
>> original node back online to resume the I/O.
>>
>> Any ideas on what could be have been the reason for TCP ACK not being
>> sent to the TCP SYN packet coming on an existing connection in
>> ESTABLISHED state? Any pointers on how to fix that?
>>
>> Thanks, Soumya
>>
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