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Re: [PATCH 1/2] fdmon-poll: reset npfd when upgrading to fdmon-epoll


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fdmon-poll: reset npfd when upgrading to fdmon-epoll
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:54:55 +0200
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On 8/21/20 12:12 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> npfd keeps track of how many pollfds are currently being monitored. It
> must be reset to 0 when fdmon_poll_wait() returns.
> 
> When npfd reaches a treshold we switch to fdmon-epoll because it scales
> better.
> 
> This patch resets npfd in the case where we switch to fdmon-epoll.
> Forgetting to do so results in the following assertion failure:
> 
>   util/fdmon-poll.c:65: fdmon_poll_wait: Assertion `npfd == 0' failed.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869952
> Fixes: 1f050a4690f62a1e7dabc4f44141e9f762c3769f ("aio-posix: extract ppoll(2) 
> and epoll(7) fd monitoring")
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  util/fdmon-poll.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/util/fdmon-poll.c b/util/fdmon-poll.c
> index 488067b679..5fe3b47865 100644
> --- a/util/fdmon-poll.c
> +++ b/util/fdmon-poll.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static int fdmon_poll_wait(AioContext *ctx, AioHandlerList 
> *ready_list,
>  
>      /* epoll(7) is faster above a certain number of fds */
>      if (fdmon_epoll_try_upgrade(ctx, npfd)) {
> +        npfd = 0; /* we won't need pollfds[], reset npfd */
>          return ctx->fdmon_ops->wait(ctx, ready_list, timeout);
>      }
>  
> 

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>




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