> On Jun 11, 2019, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The DRC appears to be effectively empty after an RPC/RDMA transport
> reconnect. The problem is that each connection uses a different
> source port, which defeats the DRC hash.
>
> Clients always have to disconnect before they send retransmissions
> to reset the connection's credit accounting, thus every retransmit
> on NFS/RDMA will miss the DRC.
>
> An NFS/RDMA client's IP source port is meaningless for RDMA
> transports. The transport layer typically sets the source port value
> on the connection to a random ephemeral port. The server already
> ignores it for the "secure port" check. See commit 16e4d93f6de7
> ("NFSD: Ignore client's source port on RDMA transports").
>
> The Linux NFS server's DRC resolves XID collisions from the same
> source IP address by using the checksum of the first 200 bytes of
> the RPC call header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.14+
> ---
> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
> index 027a3b0..0004535 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
> @@ -211,9 +211,14 @@ static void handle_connect_req(struct rdma_cm_id *new_cma_id,
> /* Save client advertised inbound read limit for use later in accept. */
> newxprt->sc_ord = param->initiator_depth;
>
> - /* Set the local and remote addresses in the transport */
> sa = (struct sockaddr *)&newxprt->sc_cm_id->route.addr.dst_addr;
> svc_xprt_set_remote(&newxprt->sc_xprt, sa, svc_addr_len(sa));
> + /* The remote port is arbitrary and not under the control of the
> + * client ULP. Set it to a fixed value so that the DRC continues
> + * to be effective after a reconnect.
> + */
> + rpc_set_port((struct sockaddr *)&newxprt->sc_xprt.xpt_remote, 0);
> +
> sa = (struct sockaddr *)&newxprt->sc_cm_id->route.addr.src_addr;
> svc_xprt_set_local(&newxprt->sc_xprt, sa, svc_addr_len(sa));
Hi Bruce, what's the disposition of this patch?
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Chuck Lever
