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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 09/23] monitor: allow using IO thread for par
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 09/23] monitor: allow using IO thread for parsing |
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Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:50:47 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 06:01:19PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 04:00:07PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 01:39:43PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > @@ -4034,12 +4044,29 @@ static void sortcmdlist(void)
> > > qsort((void *)info_cmds, array_num, elem_size, compare_mon_cmd);
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static GMainContext *monitor_io_context_get(void)
> > > +{
> > > + return iothread_get_g_main_context(mon_global.mon_iothread);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static AioContext *monitor_aio_context_get(void)
> > > +{
> > > + return iothread_get_aio_context(mon_global.mon_iothread);
> > > +}
> >
> > Please follow the X_get_Y() naming convention instead of X_Y_get(). For
> > example, see qemu_get_aio_context() and iothread_get_aio_context().
>
> Sure.
>
> >
> > > @@ -4082,11 +4109,41 @@ void error_vprintf_unless_qmp(const char *fmt,
> > > va_list ap)
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static void monitor_list_append(Monitor *mon)
> > > +{
> > > + qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_lock);
> > > + QTAILQ_INSERT_HEAD(&mon_list, mon, entry);
> > > + qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_lock);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void monitor_qmp_setup_handlers(void *data)
> >
> > BH functions are usually declared like this:
> >
> > static void X_bh(void *opaque)
> >
> > This way it's immediately clear that this function is invoked as a BH.
> >
> > I suggest renaming the function to monitor_qmp_setup_handlers_bh().
> > Using 'opaque' instead of 'data' is common, too.
>
> Sure.
>
> >
> > > @@ -4099,24 +4156,55 @@ void monitor_init(Chardev *chr, int flags)
> > > }
> > >
> > > if (monitor_is_qmp(mon)) {
> > > - qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(&mon->chr, monitor_can_read,
> > > monitor_qmp_read,
> > > - monitor_qmp_event, NULL, mon, NULL,
> > > true);
> > > qemu_chr_fe_set_echo(&mon->chr, true);
> > > json_message_parser_init(&mon->qmp.parser, handle_qmp_command);
> > > + if (mon->use_io_thr) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * It's possible that we already have an IOWatchPoll
> > > + * registered for the Chardev during chardev_init_func().
> >
> > When does this happen?
> >
> > This seems like a hack that breaks when certain -chardev options are
> > used. For example, what happens if the chardev is a TCP connection with
> > reconnect=5. In that case the socket will be connecting asynchronously
> > and we cannot just remove the fd watch.
> >
> > How does this interact with TCP listen chardevs? It looks like the
> > listener socket uses the main loop (see tcp_chr_disconnect()).
> >
> > I'm worried that the chardev layer isn't thread-safe and you haven't
> > added anything to protect it or at least refuse to run in unsafe
> > conditions.
>
> Indeed, I did some more reading and noticed that the TCP typed chardev
> is really special.
>
> Firstly there can be the QIO thread that handles sync connecting when
> "reconnect" is setup (I don't really understand why we only need the
> threads when reconnect != 0, but anyway, I'll just assume we need the
> threads). It's done in qmp_chardev_open_socket().
>
> Secondly, TCP can support TLS or TELNET (tcp_chr_new_client() handles
> the main logic of it), so there can be actually more than one GSource
> created for a single TCP chardev. Meanwhile, the
> chr_update_read_handler() calls never handles the re-setup of those
> special GSources (TLS/TELNET), only the common GSource of TCP stream
> read/write.
>
> And the whole TCP channel is based on QIO stuff, which means I need to
> add non-default context support to QIO stuff too... That's mostly
> about qio_channel_add_watch(). I may need to pass in context
> information, and switch to GSource for that function instead of the
> old tags, just like what I did to chardev in general.
Rather than changing qio_channel_add_watch() which affects all callers,
just add a qio_channel_add_watch_full() variant which includes GMainContext
as an extra arg
Regards,
Daniel
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