Re: [PATCH v3 26/44] SUNRPC: Improve latency for interactive tasks

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On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 13:51 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On Jan 2, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Trond Myklebust <
> > trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 13:17 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > > > On Dec 31, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Trond Myklebust <
> > > > trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 19:18 +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 14:09 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > > > > > > On Dec 31, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Trond Myklebust <
> > > > > > > trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > The test for rpcauth_xmit_need_reencode() happens when we
> > > > > call
> > > > > xprt_request_transmit() to actually put the RPC call on the
> > > > > wire.
> > > > > The
> > > > > enqueue order should not be able to defeat that test.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hmm... Is it perhaps the test for req->rq_bytes_sent that is
> > > > > failing
> > > > > because this is a retransmission after a disconnect/reconnect
> > > > > that
> > > > > didn't trigger a re-encode?
> > > > 
> > > > Actually, it might be worth a try to move the test for
> > > > rpcauth_xmit_need_reencode() outside the enclosing test for
> > > > req-
> > > > > rq_bytes_sent as that is just a minor optimisation.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps that's the case for TCP, but RPCs sent via xprtrdma never
> > > set
> > > req->rq_bytes_sent to a non-zero value. The body of the "if"
> > > statement
> > > is always executed for those RPCs.
> > > 
> > 
> > Then the question is what is defeating the call to
> > rpcauth_xmit_need_reencode() in xprt_request_transmit() and causing
> > it
> > not to trigger in the misordered cases?
> 
> Here's a sample RPC/RDMA case.
> 
> My instrumented server reports this:
> 
> Jan  2 13:29:00 klimt kernel: gss_check_seq_num: dropped:
> seq_num=141220 sd->sd_max=141360
> 
> 
> ftrace log on the client shows this:
> 
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048534: rpcgss_need_reencode:
> task:1761@5 xid=0x88f4f47c rq_seqno=141220 seq_xmit=141336 reencode
> unneeded
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048534:
> xprt_transmit:        task:1761@5 xid=0x88f4f47c seqno=141220
> status=-57
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048534:
> rpc_task_run_action:  task:1779@5 flags=ASYNC
> runstate=RUNNING|ACTIVE|NEED_XMIT|NEED_RECV status=-57
> action=call_transmit_status
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048535:
> rpc_task_run_action:  task:1779@5 flags=ASYNC
> runstate=RUNNING|ACTIVE|NEED_XMIT|NEED_RECV status=0
> action=call_transmit
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048535:
> rpc_task_sleep:       task:1779@5 flags=ASYNC
> runstate=RUNNING|ACTIVE|NEED_XMIT|NEED_RECV status=-11 timeout=0
> queue=xprt_sending
> 
> 
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048552: rpcgss_need_reencode:
> task:1761@5 xid=0x88f4f47c rq_seqno=141220 seq_xmit=141336 reencode
> unneeded
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048557:
> xprt_transmit:        task:1761@5 xid=0x88f4f47c seqno=141220
> status=0
> 
> 
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048559: rpcgss_need_reencode:
> task:1902@5 xid=0x14f5f47c rq_seqno=141360 seq_xmit=141336 reencode
> unneeded
>   kworker/u28:12-2191  [004]   194.048563:
> xprt_transmit:        task:1902@5 xid=0x14f5f47c seqno=141360
> status=0
> 
> 
> Note that first need_reencode: the sequence numbers show that the
> xmit
> queue has been significantly re-ordered. The request being
> transmitted is
> already very close to the lower end of the GSS sequence number
> window.
> 
> The server then re-ordereds these two slightly because the first one
> had
> some Read chunks that need to be pulled over, the second was pure
> inline
> and therefore could be processed immediately. That is enough to force
> the
> first one outside the GSS sequence number window.
> 
> I haven't looked closely at the pathology of the TCP case.

Wait a minute... That's not OK. The client can't be expected to take
into account reordering that happens on the server side.


-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx






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