Re: Issue running buffered writes to a pNFS (NFS 4.1 backed by SAN) filesystem.

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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 07:31:12PM +0100, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote:
> After 25 iterations (after creating a 25GiB file, for a cumulative total of
> 325GiB if including the testfile.1G -> testfile.24G) the issue occured
> again. The IO rate to the SAN LUN dropped severely to a real 3MiB/sec
> (measured at the SAN LUN block device level).
> 
> Also I've noticed that a kernel process is taking up 100% of one core at
> least:
> 
> 516 root      20   0       0      0      0 R 100.0  0.0  11:09.72
> kworker/u49:4

Can you send me the output of "perf record -ag" for that run?

Also can you send the output from trace-cmd for tracing all nfsd.layout*
tracepoints for such a run?

> Would the 25GiB figure ring any bells to you? Would there be a way for me to
> identify this workqueue (figure out if it is pNFS related)?

Perf record should help by looking at the cycles spent.
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