Dear All; I am currently seeing a sustained ~20Mbit/sec of traffic from an NFS(v4) client, seemingly never completing the operation it desires. vcfe0 mounts an nfs4 file system project:/project. This is served by a ZFS backed solaris 10 system. /project/vcluster is a referral to a similarly named export from the same nfs server, this has been automatically mounted by the client. There is a long-lived process that writes log files to /project/vcluster/log. An issue has arisen whereby trying to stat a particular file in /project/vcluster/log causes the stat to hang: vcfe0:~$ /bin/ls /project/vcluster/log auth.log daemon.log debug kern.log messages syslog user.log vcfe0:~$ /bin/ls -l /project/vcluster/log ^C ^Z <kill terminal> vcfe0:~$ strace ls -l /project/vcluster/log ... open("/project/vcluster/log", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fcntl(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC) getdents(3, /* 9 entries */, 32768) = 272 lstat("/project/vcluster/log/kern.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=4789972, ...}) = 0 lgetxattr("/project/vcluster/log/kern.log", "security.selinux", 0x1dd6300, 255) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported) getxattr("/project/vcluster/log/kern.log", "system.posix_acl_access", 0x0, 0) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported) ... lstat("/project/vcluster/log/messages", ^C <unfinished ...> vcfe0:~$ Wireshark reveals: No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info 1 0.000000 172.29.148.82 172.29.120.141 NFS V4 COMPOUND Call (Reply In 2) <EMPTY> RENEW 2 0.000341 172.29.120.141 172.29.148.82 NFS V4 COMPOUND Reply (Call In 1) <EMPTY> RENEW 3 0.000378 172.29.148.82 172.29.120.141 NFS V4 COMPOUND Call (Reply In 6) <EMPTY> PUTFH;WRITE[Unreassembled Packet] 4 0.000384 172.29.148.82 172.29.120.141 TCP [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] 5 0.000664 172.29.120.141 172.29.148.82 TCP nfs > 799 [ACK] ... 6 0.000763 172.29.120.141 172.29.148.82 NFS V4 COMPOUND Reply (Call In 3) <EMPTY> PUTFH;WRITE This sequence repeats continually. A full dump of a few iterations is available: ftp://ftp.kw.bbc.co.uk/davidf/priv/vcfe-strange-20101029-filtered.pcap For reference: vcfe0:~$ cat /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers NV SERVER PORT USE HOSTNAME v3 ac1dbe14 801 1 vc-fs0-10g v4 ac1d789a 801 1 172.29.120.154 v3 ac1d9210 801 2 vc-fs0 v3 ac1d7898 801 1 hd v3 ac1d7890 801 1 pics v3 ac1d7899 801 1 cd v4 ac1d788d 801 3 project v4 ac1d788c 801 1 home v3 ac1d789a 801 1 172.29.120.154 vcfe0:~$ cat /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes NV SERVER PORT DEV FSID FSC v3 ac1d789a 801 0:17 10000010006:0 no v4 ac1d788c 801 0:24 55:1e no v4 ac1d788d 801 0:25 88465b3ae0adcb08 no v3 ac1d7899 801 0:23 5500000028:0 no v3 ac1d7890 801 0:26 5500000032:0 no v3 ac1d7898 801 0:27 5500000064:0 no v3 ac1d9210 801 0:28 4116d75a78b2a5d6 no v3 ac1d9210 801 0:29 cf1c7ed0974b14ca no v4 ac1d788d 801 0:30 8247924701d6608: no v4 ac1d789a 801 0:32 fd850e709fa15308 no v3 ac1dbe14 801 0:31 4116d75a78b2a5d6 no vcfe0:~$ cat /proc/mounts | grep project project:/project/ /project nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=172.29.148.82,minorversion=0,addr=172.29.120.141 0 0 project:/project/vcluster /project/vcluster nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=172.29.148.82,minorversion=0,addr=172.29.120.141 0 0 NFS client is running 2.6.35. The logfiles in /project/vcluster/log end at about the same time as the following in vcfe0's dmesg occurs: [4220081.989223] nfs: server 172.29.120.154 not responding, still trying [4220085.983648] nfs: server 172.29.120.154 OK [4220294.480217] INFO: task syslog-ng:9377 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [4220294.480252] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [4220294.480300] syslog-ng D 000000013f0a3aeb 0 9377 1 0x00000000 [4220294.480339] ffff88013c5a6630 0000000000000086 0000000000000018 ffffffff00000000 [4220294.480397] ffffffff81632020 0000000000015480 0000000000015480 0000000000015480 [4220294.480454] ffff88013ebdbfd8 0000000000015480 ffff88013c5a6630 ffff88013ebdbfd8 [4220294.480511] Call Trace: [4220294.480541] [<ffffffff8100e7ee>] ? read_tsc+0x5/0x16 [4220294.480590] [<ffffffffa028cb9a>] ? nfs_wait_bit_uninterruptible+0x0/0xd [nfs] [4220294.480640] [<ffffffff812ff4f0>] ? io_schedule+0x6b/0xaa [4220294.480682] [<ffffffffa028cba3>] ? nfs_wait_bit_uninterruptible+0x9/0xd [nfs] [4220294.480731] [<ffffffff812ffa39>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x3e/0x6f [4220294.480762] [<ffffffff812ffad8>] ? out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6e/0x77 [4220294.480806] [<ffffffffa028cb9a>] ? nfs_wait_bit_uninterruptible+0x0/0xd [nfs] [4220294.480856] [<ffffffff8105b81f>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e [4220294.480901] [<ffffffffa029102d>] ? nfs_updatepage+0x170/0x454 [nfs] [4220294.480942] [<ffffffffa0283e9d>] ? nfs_write_end+0xfd/0x128 [nfs] [4220294.480977] [<ffffffff810ae22e>] ? iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic+0x77/0xe4 [4220294.481027] [<ffffffff810ae511>] ? generic_file_buffered_write+0x16a/0x24c [4220294.481064] [<ffffffff810af68d>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x24c/0x280 [4220294.481107] [<ffffffffa0285b63>] ? nfs_refresh_inode_locked+0x72c/0x96a [nfs] [4220294.481157] [<ffffffff810af716>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x55/0x9f [4220294.481198] [<ffffffffa02848e7>] ? nfs_file_write+0xd5/0x17e [nfs] [4220294.481232] [<ffffffff810e8dcc>] ? do_sync_write+0xb1/0xea [4220294.481263] [<ffffffff810e92ff>] ? vfs_write+0xa4/0x101 [4220294.481294] [<ffffffff810e940f>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6b [4220294.481325] [<ffffffff810089c2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The blocked task report is repeated a further five times at 120 second intervals. Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated, Kind regards, ..david -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html