On 11/06/2015 06:57 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 07:47:35AM -0500, 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?
>
> CTDB has a function to "tickle" connections. This facilitates a faster
> fail-over if the client does not detect it needs to re-connect. We
> possibly need to do something like this for pacemaker/ganesha too.
>
> Some details about it can be found here:
>
>    
> https://github.com/samba-team/samba/commit/a104d1d8237979ae9fc5dd332e6624c0392be1d0
>
> Pacemaker does seem to have something like that too, but documentation
> about it is difficult to find:
>
>    http://linux-ha.org/doc/man-pages/re-ra-portblock.html
>
Thanks Niels. I shall check out this parameter too.

-Soumya

> HTH,
> Niels
>

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