On 17.08.2012 21:18, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:12:38PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] >> So we're calling svc_recv in a tight loop, eating >> all available CPU. (The above is with just 2 nfsd >> threads). >> >> Something is definitely wrong here. And it happens mure more >> often after the mentioned commit (f03d78db65085). > > Oh, neat. Hm. That commit doesn't really sound like the cause, then. > Is that busy-looping reproduceable on kernels before that commit? Note I bisected this issue to this commit. I haven't seen it happening before this commit, and reverting it from 3.0 or 3.2 kernel makes the problem to go away. I guess it is looping there: net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c:svc_recv() ... len = 0; ... if (test_bit(XPT_LISTENER, &xprt->xpt_flags)) { ... } else if (xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_has_wspace(xprt)) { <=== here -- has no wspace due to memory... ... len = <something> } /* No data, incomplete (TCP) read, or accept() */ if (len == 0 || len == -EAGAIN) goto out; ... out: rqstp->rq_res.len = 0; svc_xprt_release(rqstp); return -EAGAIN; } I'm trying to verify this theory... /mjt -- 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