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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] block/nbd-client: use traces instead of noi


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] block/nbd-client: use traces instead of noisy error_report_err
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:14:45 -0600
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On 12/18/18 3:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/2/18 10:11 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
Reduce extra noise of nbd-client, change 083 correspondingly.

This says what, but not why. The details from the cover letter are important to include here, namely:

It was discussed, that error messages, produced by error_reprt_err's,
added in f140e300 are
1. not really needed
2. subject to race conditions

And it was decided to drop them (switch to trace-points), look thread
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg00833.html

So, I've also dropped error_report_err, added earlier in be41c100c0d
and later in 78a33ab5878.


@@ -79,7 +81,9 @@ static coroutine_fn void nbd_read_reply_entry(void *opaque)
          assert(s->reply.handle == 0);
          ret = nbd_receive_reply(s->ioc, &s->reply, &local_err);
          if (local_err) {
-            error_report_err(local_err);
+            trace_nbd_read_reply_entry_fail(ret, error_get_pretty(local_err), +                                            error_get_hint(local_err) ?: "");

I'm not sold on the error hint being useful in the trace message.  For that matter, even error_get_pretty() seems like it might be rather verbose.

I do see why you are trying it, though: in nbd/client.c, nbd_handle_reply_err(), we have:

Actually, on looking further, the ONLY use of error_append_hint() in nbd/client.c is when handling NBD_OPT_ which is synchronous when first establishing the connection; but all of the additions of trace_nbd_* calls in this file occur during transmission phase, where we don't have any hints appended. I could NOT trigger any error path where a hint would be present in the first place (although I will admit that I may have missed a spot in my tracing).

But instead of trying to make all the tracepoints in block/nbd-client.c extract this information, we could just improve nbd/client.c to have a tracepoint for any server-received error message at the same point where it calls error_append_hint().


This part is still true, even if it is no longer relevant to this patch.

--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
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