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Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 23:01:01 +0000
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> > Here's logs that should be complete this time:
> > 
> > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dezgeg/08629d4c8ca79da794bc087e5951e518/raw/a1a82b9bc24e5282c82beb43a9dc91974ffcf75a/9p.qemu.log
> > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dezgeg/1d5f1cc0647e336c59989fc62780eb2e/raw/d7623755a895b0441c608ddba366d20bbf47ab0b/9p.dmesg.log  
> 
> Fun.  All requests prior to
> [  360.110282]       dd-1899    1.... 18497262us : 9p_client_req: client 18446612134390128640 request P9_TWALK tag  25
> line in dmesg had been seen by the servers; all requests starting with that
> one had not.  Replies to earlier requests kept arriving just fine.
> 

Looking at the tag numbers, I think we're hitting the hardcoded limit of 128
simultaneous requests in QEMU (which doesn't produce any error, new requests
are silently dropped).

Tuomas, can you change MAX_REQ to some higher value (< 65535 since tag is
2-byte and 0xffff is reserved) to confirm ?

> >From the server side, everything looks nice and sane - it has processed  
> all requests it had seen, and aside of slight difference in the arrival
> order server-side and client-side logs match, except for the last 26
> requests the client claims to have sent and the server has never seen.
> 
> All traffic for another client (there had been less of it) has ceased long
> before that point, so we can't really tell if it's just this client that
> got buggered.  Interesting...
> 
> Looking at the tracepoints, those requests got through p9_client_prepare_req();
> we have no idea whether it got through p9_virtio_request().  OTOH, AFAICS
> nothing had been sleeping in there...
> 
> FWIW, it might be interesting to try
> 	WARN_ON(!virtqueue_kick(chan->vq));
> in p9_virtio_request() (instead of blind virtqueue_kick(chan->vq)) and see
> if it triggers.  Incidentally, it looks like p9_virtio_request() ought to
> return an error if that happens...
> 
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Re: 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com> - 2017-01-04 00:40 +0100
  Re: 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-04 02:50 +0100
    Re: 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com> - 2017-01-04 21:10 +0100
      Re: 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-05 01:10 +0100
        Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> - 2017-01-06 17:20 +0100
          Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-07 07:30 +0100
            Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> - 2017-01-07 16:20 +0100
              Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-07 18:20 +0100
                Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-07 19:20 +0100
                Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-08 06:50 +0100
                Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> - 2017-01-10 09:40 +0100
                Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> - 2017-01-09 19:30 +0100
                Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com> - 2017-01-09 19:40 +0100
                Re: [V9fs-developer] 9pfs hangs since 4.7 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-09 21:10 +0100

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