Re: 4.3-rc3 Regression: NFS access stall by commit 6ae459bdaaee

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Sep 29 2015 - 06:33:11 EST


On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:35:04 +0200,
Pravin Shelar wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [I resent this since the previous mail didn't go out properly, as it
> > seems; apologies if you already read it, please disregard]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that NFS access from my workstation slowed down drastically,
> > almost stalls, with the fresh 4.3-rc3. There are no particular kernel
> > errors / warnings.
> >
> > Then I performed git section, and it leaded to the commit:
> > 6ae459bdaaeebc632b16e54dcbabb490c6931d61
> > skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull
> >
> > Reverting this commit from 4.3-rc3 fixed the issue indeed.
> >
> > Could you take a look at this? I added Trond to Cc in case he might
> > already know of it.
> >
> I send out fix for similar issue. Can you try the posted patch.
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/523632/

Yes, the patch fixes the problem, thanks. Feel free to take my
tested-by tag:
Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

But I guess the real fix is only the first chunk and the latter is
nothing but a cleanup? If so, it'd be better to split it.


Takashi
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