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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] nbd-client: avoid spurious qio_channel_yield()
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] nbd-client: avoid spurious qio_channel_yield() re-entry |
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Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:20:15 -0500 |
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On 08/22/2017 07:51 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The following scenario leads to an assertion failure in
> qio_channel_yield():
>
> 1. Request coroutine calls qio_channel_yield() successfully when sending
> would block on the socket. It is now yielded.
> 2. nbd_read_reply_entry() calls nbd_recv_coroutines_enter_all() because
> nbd_receive_reply() failed.
> 3. Request coroutine is entered and returns from qio_channel_yield().
> Note that the socket fd handler has not fired yet so
> ioc->write_coroutine is still set.
> 4. Request coroutine attempts to send the request body with nbd_rwv()
> but the socket would still block. qio_channel_yield() is called
> again and assert(!ioc->write_coroutine) is hit.
>
> The problem is that nbd_read_reply_entry() does not distinguish between
> request coroutines that are waiting to receive a reply and those that
> are not.
>
> This patch adds a per-request bool receiving flag so
> nbd_read_reply_entry() can avoid spurious aio_wake() calls.
>
> Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
> This should fix the issue that Dave is seeing but I'm concerned that
> there are more problems in nbd-client.c. We don't have good
> abstractions for writing coroutine socket I/O code. Something like Go's
> channels would avoid manual low-level coroutine calls. There is
> currently no way to cancel qio_channel_yield() so requests doing I/O may
> remain in-flight indefinitely and nbd-client.c doesn't join them...
Is this patch needed for 2.10-rc4, or does Fam's series cover the issue?
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
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