Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fieldses.org ([173.255.197.46]:56093 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752714AbbCBBGi (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:06:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:06:36 -0500 From: Bruce James Fields To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Linux Network Devel Mailing List , Linux NFS Mailing List Subject: Re: Weird TCP hang when doing loopback NFS (wireshark traces attached) Message-ID: <20150302010636.GA8033@fieldses.org> References: <1425237291.24845.13.camel@primarydata.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 07:52:28PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Trond Myklebust > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When doing testing of NFSv3 loopback mounts (client and server are on > > the same IP address), I'm seeing a very reproducible hang in which the > > client stops receiving data from the server. The TCP connection is still > > marked as established, and the server appears to continue to receive and > > send data, however the client does not. > > > > So far, I've reproduced on both v4.0-rc1, and the Fedora v3.18.7 kernel. > > > > The reproducer is simply to loopback mount using NFSv3, and then run the > > 'fsx' filesystem exerciser. I'm usually able to trigger the hang with > > "fsx -N 100000 foobar". > > > > I've attached a couple of wireshark trace of a few frames just before > > and during the hang in case it jogs any memories. > > This bug appears to go away when I disable the splice()-based reads by > clearing the RQ_SPLICE_OK flag. > > I noticed that it always involved a combination of a READ and a > truncating SETATTR call. Are you sure that it is safe to share > pagecache pages directly with sendpage() in this way? As far as I can > tell, there is no locking to prevent them from being modified while in > the TCP send queue. This is the stable-pages problem that we've had forever, isn't it? Or is this a different problem? --b.