We regularly have been observing a stall where the MDS is blocked waiting
for a cap revocation (Ls, in our case) and never gets a reply. We finally
tracked down the sequence:
- mds issues cap seq 1 to client
- mds does revocation (seq 2)
- client replies
- much time goes by
- client trims inode from cache, sends release with seq == 2
- mds ignores release because its issue_seq is 1
- mds later tries to revoke other caps
- client discards message because it doesn't have the inode in cache
The problem is simply that we are using seq instead of issue_seq in the
cap release message. Note that the other release call site in
encode_inode_release() is correct. That one is much more commonly
triggered by short tests, as compared to this case where the inode needs to
get pushed out of the client cache.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Farnum <greg@inktank.com>