After more testing, it looks like that client doesn't like notification bitmap: [31576.789492] --> _nfs4_proc_getdeviceinfo [31576.789503] --> nfs41_call_sync_prepare data->seq_server 000000001d17c43e [31576.789507] --> nfs4_alloc_slot used_slots=0000 highest_used=4294967295 max_slots=16 [31576.789510] <-- nfs4_alloc_slot used_slots=0001 highest_used=0 slotid=0 [31576.789527] encode_sequence: sessionid=2910695007:150995712:0:16777216 seqid=92462 slotid=0 max_slotid=0 cache_this=0 [31576.789991] decode_getdeviceinfo: unsupported notification [31576.790003] --> nfs4_alloc_slot used_slots=0001 highest_used=0 max_slots=16 [31576.790007] <-- nfs4_alloc_slot used_slots=0003 highest_used=1 slotid=1 [31576.790010] nfs4_free_slot: slotid 1 highest_used_slotid 0 [31576.790013] nfs41_sequence_process: Error 0 free the slot [31576.790017] nfs4_free_slot: slotid 0 highest_used_slotid 4294967295 [31576.790030] <-- _nfs4_proc_getdeviceinfo status=-5 [31576.790034] nfs4_get_device_info getdevice info returns -5 [31576.790084] <-- nfs4_get_device_info d 0000000000000000 Tigran. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tigran Mkrtchyan" <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> > To: "trondmy" <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "linux-nfs" <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, 13 November, 2020 13:48:07 > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] Add RDMA support to the pNFS file+flexfiles data channels > Hi Trond, > > whit this changes (3ee69a14f92d74ced2647140b3799511ba4f3fa5) I see an infinite > loop > of LAYOUTGET->GETDEVICEINFO->LAYOUTRETURN without any attempt to connect to a > DS. > > This is how the response to LAYOUTGET looks like. > > Network File System, Ops(2): SEQUENCE GETDEVINFO > [Program Version: 4] > [V4 Procedure: COMPOUND (1)] > Status: NFS4_OK (0) > Tag: <EMPTY> > length: 0 > contents: <EMPTY> > Operations (count: 2) > Opcode: SEQUENCE (53) > Opcode: GETDEVINFO (47) > Status: NFS4_OK (0) > layout type: LAYOUT4_FLEX_FILES (4) > r_netid: tcp > length: 3 > contents: tcp > fill bytes: opaque data > r_addr: 131.169.191.143.125.49 > length: 22 > contents: 131.169.191.143.125.49 > fill bytes: opaque data > version: 4 > minorversion: 1 > max_rsize: 1048576 > max_wsize: 1048576 > tightly coupled: Yes > notify_mask: 0x00000006 (Change, Delete) > notify_type: Change (1) > notify_type: Delete (2) > [Main Opcode: GETDEVINFO (47)] > > > > The MDS is mounted with IPv4. I can provide the full packet trace, if needed. > > > Regards, > Tigran. > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "trondmy" <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: "linux-nfs" <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Wednesday, 11 November, 2020 00:42:31 >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] Add RDMA support to the pNFS file+flexfiles data >> channels > >> On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 18:18 -0500, trondmy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Add support for connecting to the pNFS files/flexfiles data servers >>> through RDMA, assuming that the GETDEVICEINFO call advertises that >>> support. >>> >>> v2: Fix layoutstats encoding for pNFS/flexfiles. >>> v3: Move most of the netid handling into the SUNRPC and RDMA modules. >>> Fix up the mount code to benefit more from automated loading of >>> SUNRPC transport modules. >>> >> >> Note that one cleanup that I did not perform, but which really could be >> useful should we want to add more transport mechanisms, is to move the >> code to parse stringified addresses (in particular IETF style >> "universal addresses") into the transport modules so that the actual >> parsing of mount and pNFS transport info can be automatically extended >> when new transport modules are added. >> >> -- >> Trond Myklebust >> Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace > > trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx