Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH] net: trans_rdma: remove unused function

[Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>]

I think I need to stop sending mails before triple-checking things!
So sorry for the multiple mails again.

Dominique Martinet wrote on Thu, Jul 25, 2013 :
> [rdma_cancelled]
> There is one problem though - if the server handles the original request
> before getting the flush, the receive buffer will be consumed and we
> won't send a new one, so we'll starve the reception queue.
> I'm afraid I don't have any bright idea there...

This still looks correct to me.


> While we are on reception buffer issues, there is another problem with
> the queue of receive buffers, even without flush, in the following
> scenario:
>  - post a buffer for tag 0, on a hanging request
>  - post a buffer for tag 1
>  - reply for tag 1 will come on buffer from tag 0
>  - post another request with tag 1.. the buffer already is in the queue,
> and we don't know we can post the buffer associated with tag 0 back.

It actually looks like the reply buffers are swapped properly - taken
out of the req struct into the context on send, then given back to the
appropriate req on reception, so on normal operation there's no problem
with what I described - sorry for crying wolf.
 
> I haven't found how to reproduce this perfectly yet, but a dd with
> blocksize 1MB and one with blocksize 10B in parallel brought the
> mountpoint down (and the whole server was completely unavailable for the
> duration of the dd - TCP sessions timed out, I even got IO errors on the
> local disk :D)

I need to run more tests to explain what happens with the two dds, but
it's easily reproductible with debugs on, I guess that helps with a race
somewhere.

Regards,
-- 
Dominique Martinet