From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 16:02:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F53F106566C; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:02:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE258FC08; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 76A6D46B2D; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AE9ED8A021; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:02:43 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Steve Polyack Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:00:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <4BA3613F.4070606@comcast.net> <4BA78444.4040707@comcast.net> <4BA7911F.5060905@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4BA7911F.5060905@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003221200.41607.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:02:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem , User Questions , bseklecki@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:02:45 -0000 On Monday 22 March 2010 11:47:43 am Steve Polyack wrote: > On 03/22/10 10:52, Steve Polyack wrote: > > On 3/19/2010 11:27 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > >> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: > >> > >> [good stuff snipped] > >>> > >>> This makes sense. According to wireshark, the server is indeed > >>> transmitting "Status: NFS3ERR_IO (5)". Perhaps this should be STALE > >>> instead; it sounds more correct than marking it a general IO error. > >>> Also, the NFS server is serving its share off of a ZFS filesystem, > >>> if it makes any difference. I suppose ZFS could be talking to the > >>> NFS server threads with some mismatched language, but I doubt it. > >>> > >> Ok, now I think we're making progress. If VFS_FHTOVP() doesn't return > >> ESTALE when the file no longer exists, the NFS server returns whatever > >> error it has returned. > >> > >> So, either VFS_FHTOVP() succeeds after the file has been deleted, which > >> would be a problem that needs to be fixed within ZFS > >> OR > >> ZFS returns an error other than ESTALE when it doesn't exist. > >> > >> Try the following patch on the server (which just makes any error > >> returned by VFS_FHTOVP() into ESTALE) and see if that helps. > >> > >> --- nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c.sav 2010-03-19 22:06:43.000000000 -0400 > >> +++ nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c 2010-03-19 22:07:22.000000000 -0400 > >> @@ -1127,6 +1127,8 @@ > >> } > >> } > >> error = VFS_FHTOVP(mp, &fhp->fh_fid, vpp); > >> + if (error != 0) > >> + error = ESTALE; > >> vfs_unbusy(mp); > >> if (error) > >> goto out; > >> > >> Please let me know if the patch helps, rick > >> > >> > > The patch seems to fix the bad behavior. Running with the patch, I > > see the following output from my patch (return code of nfs_doio from > > within nfsiod): > > nfssvc_iod: iod 0 nfs_doio returned errno: 70 > > > > Furthermore, when inspecting the transaction with Wireshark, after > > deleting the file on the NFS server it looks like there is only a > > single error. This time there it is a reply to a V3 Lookup call that > > contains a status of "NFS3ERR_NOENT (2)" coming from the NFS server. > > The client also does not repeatedly try to complete the failed request. > > > > Any suggestions on the next step here? Based on what you said it > > looks like ZFS is falsely reporting an IO error to VFS instead of > > ESTALE / NOENT. I tried looking around zfs_fhtovp() and only saw > > returns of EINVAL, but I'm not even sure I'm looking in the right place. > > Further on down the rabbit hole... here's the piece in zfs_fhtovp() > where it's kicking out EINVAL instead of ESTALE - the following patch > corrects the behavior, but of course also suggests further digging > within the zfs_zget() function to ensure that _it_ is returning the > correct thing and whether or not it needs to be handled there or within > zfs_fhtovp(). > > --- > src-orig/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vfsops.c > 2010-03-22 11:41:21.000000000 -0400 > +++ src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vfsops.c > 2010-03-22 16:25:21.000000000 -0400 > @@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ > dprintf("getting %llu [%u mask %llx]\n", object, fid_gen, gen_mask); > if (err = zfs_zget(zfsvfs, object, &zp)) { > ZFS_EXIT(zfsvfs); > - return (err); > + return (ESTALE); > } > zp_gen = zp->z_phys->zp_gen & gen_mask; > if (zp_gen == 0) So the odd thing here is that ffs_fhtovp() doesn't return ESTALE if VFS_VGET() (which calls ffs_vget()) fails, it only returns ESTALE if the generation count doesn't matter. -- John Baldwin