(sorry for resend -- I got the netdev address wrong) Sending this to netdev since I think I've now determined that this is not a NFS specific problem. Recently Christoph mentioned that he was seeing stalls when running xfstests generic/075 test on NFS over the loopback interface with v3.18-rc1-ish kernel. The configuration in this case is the nfs server and client on same box communicating over the lo interface. Here's are tracepoints from a typical request as it's supposed to work: mount.nfs-906 [002] ...1 22711.996969: xprt_transmit: xprt=0xffff8800ce961000 xid=0xa8a34513 status=0 nfsd-678 [000] ...1 22711.997082: svc_recv: rq_xid=0xa8a34513 status=164 nfsd-678 [000] ..s8 22711.997185: xprt_lookup_rqst: xprt=0xffff8800ce961000 xid=0xa8a34513 status=0 nfsd-678 [000] ..s8 22711.997186: xprt_complete_rqst: xprt=0xffff8800ce961000 xid=0xa8a34513 status=140 nfsd-678 [000] ...1 22711.997236: svc_send: rq_xid=0xa8a34513 dropme=0 status=144 nfsd-678 [000] ...1 22711.997236: svc_process: rq_xid=0xa8a34513 dropme=0 status=144 ...basically, we send a request to the server. Server picks it up and sends the reply, and then the client IDs that reply and processes it. This runs along just fine for ~ a minute or so. At some point, the client stops seeing replies come in: kworker/2:2-107 [002] ...1 22741.696070: xprt_transmit: xprt=0xffff8800ce961000 xid=0xc3a84513 status=0 nfsd-678 [002] .N.1 22741.696917: svc_recv: rq_xid=0xc3a84513 status=208 nfsd-678 [002] ...1 22741.699890: svc_send: rq_xid=0xc3a84513 dropme=0 status=262252 nfsd-678 [002] ...1 22741.699891: svc_process: rq_xid=0xc3a84513 dropme=0 status=262252 ...a bit more tracepoint work seems to show that we just stop getting sk_data_ready callbacks on the socket at all. I'm not terribly familiar with the lower-level socket code, so I figured I'd email here and ask... Anyone have insight into why this might be happening? Thanks, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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