From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 26/44] SUNRPC: Improve latency for interactive tasks
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:34:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB643C8-4790-42B9-AF38-622E10F6A1B2@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC34B04D-4AD5-46FB-8DC6-310BF3FBEBD3@hammerspace.com>
> On Dec 27, 2018, at 5:14 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Dec 27, 2018, at 20:21, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Trond-
>>
>> I've chased down a couple of remaining regressions with the v4.20 NFS client,
>> and they seem to be rooted in this commit.
>>
>> When using sec=krb5, krb5i, or krb5p I found that multi-threaded workloads
>> trigger a lot of server-side disconnects. This is with TCP and RDMA transports.
>> An instrumented server shows that the client is under-running the GSS sequence
>> number window. I monitored the order in which GSS sequence numbers appear on
>> the wire, and after this commit, the sequence numbers are wildly misordered.
>> If I revert the hunk in xprt_request_enqueue_transmit, the problem goes away.
>>
>> I also found that reverting that hunk results in a 3-4% improvement in fio
>> IOPS rates, as well as improvement in average and maximum latency as reported
>> by fio.
>>
>
> Hmm… Provided the sequence numbers still lie within the window, then why would the order matter?
The misordering is so bad that one request is delayed long enough to
fall outside the window. The new “need re-encode” logic does not
trigger.
> Cheers
> Trond
>
>
> _________________________________
> Trond Myklebust
> Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
> trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-27 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-17 13:02 [PATCH v3 00/44] Convert RPC client transmission to a queued model Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 01/44] SUNRPC: Clean up initialisation of the struct rpc_rqst Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 02/44] SUNRPC: If there is no reply expected, bail early from call_decode Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 03/44] SUNRPC: The transmitted message must lie in the RPCSEC window of validity Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 04/44] SUNRPC: Simplify identification of when the message send/receive is complete Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 05/44] SUNRPC: Avoid holding locks across the XDR encoding of the RPC message Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 06/44] SUNRPC: Rename TCP receive-specific state variables Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 07/44] SUNRPC: Move reset of TCP state variables into the reconnect code Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:02 ` [PATCH v3 08/44] SUNRPC: Add socket transmit queue offset tracking Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 09/44] SUNRPC: Simplify dealing with aborted partially transmitted messages Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 10/44] SUNRPC: Refactor the transport request pinning Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 11/44] SUNRPC: Add a helper to wake up a sleeping rpc_task and set its status Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 12/44] SUNRPC: Test whether the task is queued before grabbing the queue spinlocks Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 13/44] SUNRPC: Don't wake queued RPC calls multiple times in xprt_transmit Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 14/44] SUNRPC: Rename xprt->recv_lock to xprt->queue_lock Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 15/44] SUNRPC: Refactor xprt_transmit() to remove the reply queue code Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 16/44] SUNRPC: Refactor xprt_transmit() to remove wait for reply code Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 17/44] SUNRPC: Minor cleanup for call_transmit() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 18/44] SUNRPC: Distinguish between the slot allocation list and receive queue Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 19/44] SUNRPC: Add a transmission queue for RPC requests Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 20/44] SUNRPC: Refactor RPC call encoding Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 21/44] SUNRPC: Fix up the back channel transmit Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 22/44] SUNRPC: Treat the task and request as separate in the xprt_ops->send_request() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 23/44] SUNRPC: Don't reset the request 'bytes_sent' counter when releasing XPRT_LOCK Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 24/44] SUNRPC: Simplify xprt_prepare_transmit() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 25/44] SUNRPC: Move RPC retransmission stat counter to xprt_transmit() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 26/44] SUNRPC: Improve latency for interactive tasks Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 27/44] SUNRPC: Support for congestion control when queuing is enabled Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 28/44] SUNRPC: Enqueue swapper tagged RPCs at the head of the transmit queue Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 29/44] SUNRPC: Allow calls to xprt_transmit() to drain the entire " Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 30/44] SUNRPC: Allow soft RPC calls to time out when waiting for the XPRT_LOCK Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 31/44] SUNRPC: Turn off throttling of RPC slots for TCP sockets Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 32/44] SUNRPC: Clean up transport write space handling Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 33/44] SUNRPC: Cleanup: remove the unused 'task' argument from the request_send() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 34/44] SUNRPC: Don't take transport->lock unnecessarily when taking XPRT_LOCK Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 35/44] SUNRPC: Convert xprt receive queue to use an rbtree Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 36/44] SUNRPC: Fix priority queue fairness Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 37/44] SUNRPC: Convert the xprt->sending queue back to an ordinary wait queue Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 38/44] SUNRPC: Add a label for RPC calls that require allocation on receive Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 39/44] SUNRPC: Add a bvec array to struct xdr_buf for use with iovec_iter() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 40/44] SUNRPC: Simplify TCP receive code by switching to using iterators Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 41/44] SUNRPC: Clean up - rename xs_tcp_data_receive() to xs_stream_data_receive() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 42/44] SUNRPC: Allow AF_LOCAL sockets to use the generic stream receive Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 43/44] SUNRPC: Clean up xs_udp_data_receive() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 44/44] SUNRPC: Unexport xdr_partial_copy_from_skb() Trond Myklebust
2018-09-17 20:44 ` [PATCH v3 40/44] SUNRPC: Simplify TCP receive code by switching to using iterators Trond Myklebust
2018-11-09 11:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-11-29 19:28 ` Cristian Marussi
2018-11-29 19:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-30 16:19 ` Cristian Marussi
2018-11-30 19:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-12-02 16:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-12-03 11:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-12-03 11:53 ` Cristian Marussi
2018-12-03 18:54 ` Cristian Marussi
2018-12-27 19:21 ` [PATCH v3 26/44] SUNRPC: Improve latency for interactive tasks Chuck Lever
2018-12-27 22:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-12-27 22:34 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2018-12-31 18:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-12-31 18:44 ` Chuck Lever
2018-12-31 18:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-12-31 19:09 ` Chuck Lever
2018-12-31 19:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-12-31 19:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2019-01-02 18:17 ` Chuck Lever
2019-01-02 18:45 ` Trond Myklebust
2019-01-02 18:51 ` Chuck Lever
2019-01-02 18:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2019-01-02 19:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2019-01-02 19:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2019-01-02 19:33 ` Chuck Lever
2019-01-02 19:08 ` Chuck Lever
2019-01-02 19:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-09-18 21:01 ` [PATCH v3 15/44] SUNRPC: Refactor xprt_transmit() to remove the reply queue code Anna Schumaker
2018-09-19 15:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2018-09-19 17:30 ` Anna Schumaker
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