Interesting read.
Would it be possible to separate locking for admin actions like a client
mounting an fs from traffic flowing for file operations?
Like ongoing file operations could have a read only view/copy of the mount
table. Only new operations will have to wait.
But the mount never needs to wait for ongoing operations before locking the structure.
Just a thought in the morning
Regards,
Ronald.
Van: Rick Macklem <[email protected]>
Datum: 1 maart 2024 00:31
Aan: Garrett Wollman <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: 13-stable NFS server hang
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 4:04PM Rick Macklem wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:30PM Garrett Wollman wrote:
> >
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > We've had some complaints of NFS hanging at unpredictable intervals.
> > Our NFS servers are running a 13-stable from last December, and
> > tonight I sat in front of the monitor watching `nfsstat -dW`. I was
> > able to clearly see that there were periods when NFS activity would
> > drop *instantly* from 30,000 ops/s to flat zero, which would last
> > for about 25 seconds before resuming exactly as it was before.
> >
> > I wrote a little awk script to watch for this happening and run
> > `procstat -k` on the nfsd process, and I saw that all but two of the
> > service threads were idle. The three nfsd threads that had non-idle
> > kstacks were:
> >
> > PID TID COMM TDNAME KSTACK
> > 997 108481 nfsd nfsd: master mi_switch
sleepq_timedwait _sleep nfsv4_lock nfsrvd_dorpc nfssvc_program svc_run_internal
svc_run nfsrvd_nfsd nfssvc_nfsd sys_nfssvc amd64_syscall fast_syscall_common
> > 997 960918 nfsd nfsd: service mi_switch
sleepq_timedwait _sleep nfsv4_lock nfsrv_setclient nfsrvd_exchangeid nfsrvd_dorpc
nfssvc_program svc_run_internal svc_thread_start fork_exit fork_trampoline
> > 997 962232 nfsd nfsd: service mi_switch _cv_wait
txg_wait_synced_impl txg_wait_synced dmu_offset_next zfs_holey zfs_freebsd_ioctl
vn_generic_copy_file_range vop_stdcopy_file_range VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE
vn_copy_file_range nfsrvd_copy_file_range nfsrvd_dorpc nfssvc_program
svc_run_internal svc_thread_start fork_exit fork_trampoline
> >
> > I'm suspicious of two things: first, the copy_file_range RPC; second,
> > the "master" nfsd thread is actually servicing an RPC which requires
> > obtaining a lock. The "master" getting stuck while performing client
> > RPCs is, I believe, the reason NFS service grinds to a halt when a
> > client tries to write into a near-full filesystem, so this problem
> > would be more evidence that the dispatching function should not be
> > mixed with actual operations. I don't know what the clients are
> > doing, but is it possible that nfsrvd_copy_file_range is holding a
> > lock that is needed by one or both of the other two threads?
> >
> > Near-term I could change nfsrvd_copy_file_range to just
> > unconditionally return NFSERR_NOTSUP and force the clients to fall
> > back, but I figured I would ask if anyone else has seen this.
> I have attached a little patch that should limit the server's Copy size
> to vfs.nfsd.maxcopyrange (default of 10Mbytes).
> Hopefully this makes sure that the Copy does not take too long.
>
> You could try this instead of disabling Copy. It would be nice to know if
> this is suffciient? (If not, I'll probably add a sysctl to disable Copy.)
I did a quick test without/with this patch,where I copied a 1Gbyte file.
Without this patch, the Copy RPCs mostly replied in just under 1sec
(which is what the flag requests), but took over 4sec for one of the Copy
operations. This implies that one Read/Write of 1Mbyte on the server
took over 3 seconds.
I noticed the first Copy did over 600Mbytes, but the rest did about 100Mbytes
each and it was one of these 100Mbyte Copy operations that took over 4sec.
With the patch, there were a lot more Copy RPCs (as expected) of 10Mbytes
each and they took a consistent 0.25-0.3sec to reply. (This is a test of a local
mount on an old laptop, so nowhere near a server hardware config.)
So, the patch might be sufficient?
It would be nice to avoid disabling Copy, since it avoids reading the data
into the client and then writing it back to the server.
I will probably commit both patches (10Mbyte clip of Copy size and
disabling Copy) to main soon, since I cannot say if clipping the size
of the Copy will always be sufficient.
Pleas let us know how trying these patches goes, rick
>
> rick
>
> >
> > -GAWollman
> >
> >
