From: bfields <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com>
Cc: linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-cachefs <linux-cachefs@redhat.com>,
Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: Adventures in NFS re-exporting
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:09:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200917190931.GA6858@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2001715792.39705019.1600358470997.JavaMail.zimbra@dneg.com>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 05:01:11PM +0100, Daire Byrne wrote:
>
> ----- On 15 Sep, 2020, at 18:21, bfields bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
>
> >> 4) With an NFSv4 re-export, lots of open/close requests (hundreds per
> >> second) quickly eat up the CPU on the re-export server and perf top
> >> shows we are mostly in native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath.
> >
> > Any statistics on who's calling that function?
>
> I've always struggled to reproduce this with a simple open/close simulation, so I suspect some other operations need to be mixed in too. But I have one production workload that I know has lots of opens & closes (buggy software) included in amongst the usual reads, writes etc.
>
> With just 40 clients mounting the reexport server (v5.7.6) using NFSv4.2, we see the CPU of the nfsd threads increase rapidly and by the time we have 100 clients, we have maxed out the 32 cores of the server with most of that in native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath.
That sounds a lot like what Frank Van der Linden reported:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20200608192122.GA19171@dev-dsk-fllinden-2c-c1893d73.us-west-2.amazon.com/
It looks like a bug in the filehandle caching code.
--b.
>
> The perf top summary looks like this:
>
> # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
> # ........ ............... ............................ .......................................................
> #
> 82.91% nfsd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> 8.24% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
> 4.66% nfsd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __list_lru_walk_one
> 0.80% nfsd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] nfsd_file_lru_cb
>
> And the call graph (not sure how this will format):
>
> - nfsd
> - 89.34% svc_process
> - 88.94% svc_process_common
> - 88.87% nfsd_dispatch
> - 88.82% nfsd4_proc_compound
> - 53.97% nfsd4_open
> - 53.95% nfsd4_process_open2
> - 53.87% nfs4_get_vfs_file
> - 53.48% nfsd_file_acquire
> - 33.31% nfsd_file_lru_walk_list
> - 33.28% list_lru_walk_node
> - 33.28% list_lru_walk_one
> - 30.21% _raw_spin_lock
> - 30.21% queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> 30.20% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> 2.46% __list_lru_walk_one
> - 19.39% list_lru_add
> - 19.39% _raw_spin_lock
> - 19.39% queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> 19.38% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> - 34.46% nfsd4_close
> - 34.45% nfs4_put_stid
> - 34.45% nfs4_free_ol_stateid
> - 34.45% release_all_access
> - 34.45% nfs4_file_put_access
> - 34.45% __nfs4_file_put_access.part.81
> - 34.45% nfsd_file_put
> - 34.44% nfsd_file_lru_walk_list
> - 34.40% list_lru_walk_node
> - 34.40% list_lru_walk_one
> - 31.27% _raw_spin_lock
> - 31.27% queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> 31.26% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
> 2.50% __list_lru_walk_one
> 0.50% nfsd_file_lru_cb
>
>
> The original NFS server is mounted by the reexport server using NFSv4.2. As soon as we switch the clients to mount the reexport server with NFSv3, the high CPU usage goes away and we start to see expected performance for this workload and server hardware.
>
> I'm happy to share perf data or anything else that is useful and I can repeatedly run this production load as required.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 17:31 Adventures in NFS re-exporting Daire Byrne
2020-09-08 9:40 ` Mkrtchyan, Tigran
2020-09-08 11:06 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-15 17:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-09-15 19:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-16 16:01 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-19 16:19 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add NFSv3 emulation of the lookupp operation trondmy
2020-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] NFSv3: Refactor nfs3_proc_lookup() to split out the dentry trondmy
2020-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] NFSv3: Add emulation of the lookupp() operation trondmy
2020-10-19 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add NFSv3 emulation of the lookupp operation trondmy
2020-10-19 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] NFSv3: Refactor nfs3_proc_lookup() to split out the dentry trondmy
2020-10-19 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] NFSv3: Add emulation of the lookupp() operation trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Add NFSv3 emulation of the lookupp operation trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] NFSv3: Refactor nfs3_proc_lookup() to split out the dentry trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] NFSv3: Add emulation of the lookupp() operation trondmy
2020-10-20 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] NFSv4: Observe the NFS_MOUNT_SOFTREVAL flag in _nfs4_proc_lookupp trondmy
2020-10-21 9:33 ` Adventures in NFS re-exporting Daire Byrne
2020-11-09 16:02 ` bfields
2020-11-12 13:01 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-12 13:57 ` bfields
2020-11-12 18:33 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-12 20:55 ` bfields
2020-11-12 23:05 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-13 14:50 ` bfields
2020-11-13 22:26 ` bfields
2020-11-14 12:57 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-16 15:18 ` bfields
2020-11-16 15:53 ` bfields
2020-11-16 19:21 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-16 15:29 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-16 15:56 ` bfields
2020-11-16 16:03 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-16 16:14 ` bfields
2020-11-16 16:38 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-16 19:03 ` bfields
2020-11-16 20:03 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-17 3:16 ` bfields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] nfsd: move fill_{pre,post}_wcc to nfsfh.c J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfsd: pre/post attr is using wrong change attribute J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 12:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-17 15:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 15:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-20 22:38 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] nfsd: only call inode_query_iversion in the I_VERSION case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/8] nfsd: simplify nfsd4_change_info J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] nfsd: minor nfsd4_change_attribute cleanup J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 0:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] nfsd4: don't query change attribute in v2/v3 case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] nfs: use change attribute for NFS re-exports J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] nfsd: move change attribute generation to filesystem J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 0:58 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-21 1:01 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 13:00 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] nfsd: skip some unnecessary stats in the v4 case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] Revert "nfsd4: support change_attr_type attribute" J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-20 22:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfsd: pre/post attr is using wrong change attribute J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-21 1:03 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-21 21:44 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-22 0:02 ` bfields
2020-11-22 1:55 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-22 3:03 ` bfields
2020-11-23 20:07 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-17 15:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] nfs: don't mangle i_version on NFS J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 12:27 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-17 14:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 3:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] nfs: support i_version in the NFSv4 case J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-17 12:34 ` Jeff Layton
2020-11-24 20:35 ` Adventures in NFS re-exporting Daire Byrne
2020-11-24 21:15 ` bfields
2020-11-24 22:15 ` Frank Filz
2020-11-25 14:47 ` 'bfields'
2020-11-25 16:25 ` Frank Filz
2020-11-25 19:03 ` 'bfields'
2020-11-26 0:04 ` Frank Filz
2020-11-25 17:14 ` Daire Byrne
2020-11-25 19:31 ` bfields
2020-12-03 12:20 ` Daire Byrne
2020-12-03 18:51 ` bfields
2020-12-03 20:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 21:13 ` bfields
2020-12-03 21:32 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 21:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 21:45 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 21:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 22:04 ` bfields
2020-12-03 22:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 22:39 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 22:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 23:34 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-03 22:44 ` bfields
2020-12-03 21:54 ` bfields
2020-12-03 22:45 ` bfields
2020-12-03 22:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-03 23:16 ` bfields
2020-12-03 23:28 ` Frank Filz
2020-12-04 1:02 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-12-04 1:41 ` bfields
2020-12-04 2:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-17 16:01 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-17 19:09 ` bfields [this message]
2020-09-17 20:23 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-17 21:57 ` bfields
2020-09-19 11:08 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-22 16:43 ` Chuck Lever
2020-09-23 20:25 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-23 21:01 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-26 9:00 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-28 15:49 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-28 16:08 ` Chuck Lever
2020-09-28 17:42 ` Frank van der Linden
2020-09-22 12:31 ` Daire Byrne
2020-09-22 13:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-23 12:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-09-23 13:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-09-23 17:07 ` bfields
2020-09-30 19:30 ` [Linux-cachefs] " Jeff Layton
2020-10-01 0:09 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-01 10:36 ` Jeff Layton
2020-10-01 12:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-10-01 16:39 ` Jeff Layton
2020-10-05 12:54 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-13 9:59 ` Daire Byrne
2020-10-01 18:41 ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-10-01 19:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-10-01 19:26 ` bfields
2020-10-01 19:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2020-10-01 19:51 ` bfields
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