[Xen-users] Unstable NFS mount at heavy load.

["G.R." <firemeteor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was running benchmark on IO performance using iozone3.
In my build, the dom0 resides on a small usb stick and all the storage
comes from a NFS mount.
I test NFS performance on both dom0 && domU, mounting from the same server.

The dom0 test works just well, but the domU run suffers from unstable NFS mount.
Since this is a NFS root, the domU just appear to be freezed.

The log from both end of the NFS mount shows that the connection is broken:
Note that the client time stamp is about 20 seconds ahead of server.

>From the domU (client end):
Jan  4 23:31:16 debvm kernel: [  371.008142] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(once)
Jan  4 23:31:25 debvm kernel: [  379.928142] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(28 times within the same second)
Jan  4 23:31:26 debvm kernel: [  381.396143] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(once)
Jan  4 23:31:44 debvm kernel: [  399.452129] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(14 times within the same second)
Jan  4 23:31:45 debvm kernel: [  399.524210] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(15 times within the same second)
Jan  4 23:31:46 debvm kernel: [  400.964142] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(once)
Jan  4 23:31:55 debvm kernel: [  410.468787] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
OK                                     //(25 times within the same
second)
Jan  4 23:31:56 debvm kernel: [  410.520202] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
OK                                     //(32 times within the same
second)
Jan  4 23:32:05 debvm kernel: [  420.208141] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying //(21 times within the same second)
Jan  4 23:32:09 debvm kernel: [  424.367613] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
OK                                     //(25 times within the same
second)
Jan  4 23:32:11 debvm kernel: [  425.764143] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:32:11 debvm kernel: [  425.772031] nfs: server 192.168.1.8 OK
Jan  4 23:32:11 debvm kernel: [  426.466328] nfs: server 192.168.1.8 OK
Jan  4 23:33:32 debvm kernel: [  507.136150] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:34:20 debvm kernel: [  555.170556] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:37:28 debvm kernel: [  742.616155] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:39:39 debvm kernel: [  873.880200] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:40:15 debvm kernel: [  909.987313] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
OK                                    //(91 times within the same
second)
Jan  4 23:40:27 debvm kernel: [  921.776152] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:40:34 debvm kernel: [  929.314639] nfs: server 192.168.1.8 OK
Jan  4 23:42:05 debvm kernel: [ 1019.584149] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:42:13 debvm kernel: [ 1028.504158] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:42:53 debvm kernel: [ 1067.565487] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:44:28 debvm kernel: [ 1163.368977] nfs: server 192.168.1.8 OK
Jan  4 23:44:33 debvm kernel: [ 1168.337859] nfs: server 192.168.1.8 OK
Jan  4 23:45:41 debvm kernel: [ 1236.448135] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:49:37 debvm kernel: [ 1471.960302] nfs: server 192.168.1.8
not responding, still trying
Jan  4 23:51:00 debvm kernel: [ 1554.982479] nfs: server 192.168.1.8 OK

>From the server side:
Jan  4 23:31:33 Hasim kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when
sending 140 bytes - shutting down socket
Jan  4 23:31:33 Hasim kernel: nfsd: peername failed (err 107)!
Jan  4 23:39:50 Hasim kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when
sending 140 bytes - shutting down socket
Jan  4 23:39:50 Hasim kernel: nfsd: peername failed (err 107)!
Jan  4 23:39:50 Hasim kernel: nfsd: peername failed (err 107)!
Jan  4 23:40:10 Hasim kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when
sending 140 bytes - shutting down socket
Jan  4 23:44:01 Hasim kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when
sending 140 bytes - shutting down socket
Jan  4 23:44:01 Hasim kernel: net_ratelimit: 11 callbacks suppressed
Jan  4 23:44:01 Hasim kernel: nfsd: peername failed (err 107)!
Jan  4 23:50:38 Hasim kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -104 when
sending 140 bytes - shutting down socket
Jan  4 23:50:38 Hasim kernel: nfsd: peername failed (err 107)!


Any suggestion how to debug this issue?
My xen version is 4.2.1, domU kernel is at 3.6.9, the domU is PVHVM.

Thanks,
Timothy

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