Thanks Trond, for clarifying this for me.
I have seen similar behavior when a remote NFS server is not
available. Many processes wait end up waiting in nfs_release_page. So,
what will happen if the remote server is not available,
nfs_release_page cannot free the memory since it waits on rpc request
to complete, which never completes and processes wait in there for
ever?
And unfortunately in my case, I cannot use "mount --bind". I want to
use the same file system from two different nodes, and I want file &
record locking to be consistent. The only way to make sure locking is
consistent is to use loopback NFS on 1 host and NFS mount the same
file system on other nodes, so that NFS server ensures file & record
locking to be consistent. Is there any alternative to this?
Is it possible or any efforts to integrate ext3 or other local file
systems locking & network file system locking, so that user can use
"mount --bind" on local host and NFS mount on remote nodes, but file &
record locking will be consistent between both the nodes?
Thanks
--Chakri
On 9/20/07, Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:
quoted text > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 17:22 -0700, Chakri n wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am testing NFS on loopback locks up entire system with 2.6.23-rc6 kernel.
> >
> > I have mounted a local ext3 partition using loopback NFS (version 3)
> > and started my test program. The test program forks 20 threads
> > allocates 10MB for each thread, writes & reads a file on the loopback
> > NFS mount. After running for about 5 min, I cannot even login to the
> > machine. Commands like ps etc, hang in a live session.
> >
> > The machine is a DELL 1950 with 4Gig of RAM, so there is plenty of RAM
> > & CPU to play around and no other io/heavy processes are running on
> > the system.
> >
> > vmstat output shows no buffers are actually getting transferred in or
> > out and iowait is 100%.
> >
> > [root@h46 ~]# vmstat 1
> > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> > -----cpu------
> > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo
> > in cs us sy id wa st
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 28 345 0
> > 1 0 99 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 5 329 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 26 336 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 8 335 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 26 352 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 8 351 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 23 358 0
> > 1 0 99 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 10 350 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 26 363 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 8 346 0
> > 1 0 99 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11132 3045664 0 0 0 0 26 360 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11140 3045656 0 0 8 0 11 345 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11140 3045664 0 0 0 0 27 355 0
> > 0 2 97 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11140 3045664 0 0 0 0 9 330 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> > 0 24 116 110080 11140 3045664 0 0 0 0 26 358 0
> > 0 0 100 0
> >
> >
> > The following is the backtrace of
> > 1. one of the threads of my test program
> > 2. nfsd daemon and
> > 3. a generic command like pstree, after the machine hangs:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > crash> bt 3252
> > PID: 3252 TASK: f6f3c610 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "test"
> > #0 [f6bdcc10] schedule at c0624a34
> > #1 [f6bdcc84] schedule_timeout at c06250ee
> > #2 [f6bdccc8] io_schedule_timeout at c0624c15
> > #3 [f6bdccdc] congestion_wait at c045eb7d
> > #4 [f6bdcd00] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr at c045ab91
> > #5 [f6bdcd54] generic_file_buffered_write at c0457148
> > #6 [f6bdcde8] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock at c04576e5
> > #7 [f6bdce40] try_to_wake_up at c042342b
> > #8 [f6bdce5c] generic_file_aio_write at c0457799
> > #9 [f6bdce8c] nfs_file_write at f8c25cee
> > #10 [f6bdced0] do_sync_write at c0472e27
> > #11 [f6bdcf7c] vfs_write at c0473689
> > #12 [f6bdcf98] sys_write at c0473c95
> > #13 [f6bdcfb4] sysenter_entry at c0404ddf
> > EAX: 00000004 EBX: 00000013 ECX: a4966008 EDX: 00980000
> > DS: 007b ESI: 00980000 ES: 007b EDI: a4966008
> > SS: 007b ESP: a5ae6ec0 EBP: a5ae6ef0
> > CS: 0073 EIP: b7eed410 ERR: 00000004 EFLAGS: 00000246
> > crash> bt 3188
> > PID: 3188 TASK: f74c4000 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "nfsd"
> > #0 [f6836c7c] schedule at c0624a34
> > #1 [f6836cf0] __mutex_lock_slowpath at c062543d
> > #2 [f6836d0c] mutex_lock at c0625326
> > #3 [f6836d18] generic_file_aio_write at c0457784
> > #4 [f6836d48] ext3_file_write at f8888fd7
> > #5 [f6836d64] do_sync_readv_writev at c0472d1f
> > #6 [f6836e08] do_readv_writev at c0473486
> > #7 [f6836e6c] vfs_writev at c047358e
> > #8 [f6836e7c] nfsd_vfs_write at f8e7f8d7
> > #9 [f6836ee0] nfsd_write at f8e80139
> > #10 [f6836f10] nfsd3_proc_write at f8e86afd
> > #11 [f6836f44] nfsd_dispatch at f8e7c20c
> > #12 [f6836f6c] svc_process at f89c18e0
> > #13 [f6836fbc] nfsd at f8e7c794
> > #14 [f6836fe4] kernel_thread_helper at c0405a35
> > crash> ps|grep ps
> > 234 2 3 cb194000 IN 0.0 0 0 [khpsbpkt]
> > 520 2 0 f7e18c20 IN 0.0 0 0 [kpsmoused]
> > 2859 1 2 f7f3cc20 IN 0.1 9600 2040 cupsd
> > 3340 3310 0 f4a0f840 UN 0.0 4360 816 pstree
> > 3343 3284 2 f4a0f230 UN 0.0 4212 944 ps
> > crash> bt 3340
> > PID: 3340 TASK: f4a0f840 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "pstree"
> > #0 [e856be30] schedule at c0624a34
> > #1 [e856bea4] rwsem_down_failed_common at c04df6c0
> > #2 [e856bec4] rwsem_down_read_failed at c0625c2a
> > #3 [e856bedc] call_rwsem_down_read_failed at c0625c96
> > #4 [e856bee8] down_read at c043c21a
> > #5 [e856bef0] access_process_vm at c0462039
> > #6 [e856bf38] proc_pid_cmdline at c04a1bbb
> > #7 [e856bf58] proc_info_read at c04a2f41
> > #8 [e856bf7c] vfs_read at c04737db
> > #9 [e856bf98] sys_read at c0473c2e
> > #10 [e856bfb4] sysenter_entry at c0404ddf
> > EAX: 00000003 EBX: 00000005 ECX: 0804dc58 EDX: 00000062
> > DS: 007b ESI: 00000cba ES: 007b EDI: 0804e0e0
> > SS: 007b ESP: bfa3afe8 EBP: bfa3d4f8
> > CS: 0073 EIP: b7f64410 ERR: 00000003 EFLAGS: 00000246
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Any ideas what could potentially trigger this?
>
> This is pretty much expected: the NFS server is trying to allocate
> memory. The VM then tries to satisfy that demand by freeing up resources
> from the NFS client by telling the client to write out cached pages. The
> client again is in a congested state in which it is waiting on the NFS
> server to finish writing out what it already sent.
> Quod Erat Deadlocked...
>
> This is why 'mount --bind' is a good idea, and 'mount -t nfs localhost:'
> is generally a bad one...
>
> Cheers
> Trond
>
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