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Re: [PATCH 3/4] io/channel-socket: implement non-blocking connect


From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] io/channel-socket: implement non-blocking connect
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:43:54 +0300
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22.07.2020 14:21, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:00:25PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
20.07.2020 21:29, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 09:07:14PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
Utilize new socket API to make a non-blocking connect for inet sockets.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
---
   include/io/channel-socket.h | 14 +++++++
   io/channel-socket.c         | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   2 files changed, 88 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/io/channel-socket.h b/include/io/channel-socket.h
index 777ff5954e..82e868bc02 100644
--- a/include/io/channel-socket.h
+++ b/include/io/channel-socket.h
@@ -94,6 +94,20 @@ int qio_channel_socket_connect_sync(QIOChannelSocket *ioc,
                                       SocketAddress *addr,
                                       Error **errp);
+/**
+ * qio_channel_socket_connect_non_blocking_sync:
+ * @ioc: the socket channel object
+ * @addr: the address to connect to
+ * @errp: pointer to a NULL-initialized error object
+ *
+ * Attempt to connect to the address @addr using non-blocking mode of
+ * the socket. Function is synchronous, but being called from
+ * coroutine context will yield during connect operation.
+ */
+int qio_channel_socket_connect_non_blocking_sync(QIOChannelSocket *ioc,
+                                                 SocketAddress *addr,
+                                                 Error **errp);
+
   /**
    * qio_channel_socket_connect_async:
    * @ioc: the socket channel object
diff --git a/io/channel-socket.c b/io/channel-socket.c
index e1b4667087..076de7578a 100644
--- a/io/channel-socket.c
+++ b/io/channel-socket.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   #include "qapi/error.h"
   #include "qapi/qapi-visit-sockets.h"
   #include "qemu/module.h"
+#include "qemu/sockets.h"
   #include "io/channel-socket.h"
   #include "io/channel-watch.h"
   #include "trace.h"
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@
   #define SOCKET_MAX_FDS 16
+static int qio_channel_socket_close(QIOChannel *ioc, Error **errp);
+
   SocketAddress *
   qio_channel_socket_get_local_address(QIOChannelSocket *ioc,
                                        Error **errp)
@@ -157,6 +160,77 @@ int qio_channel_socket_connect_sync(QIOChannelSocket *ioc,
       return 0;
   }
+static int qio_channel_inet_connect_non_blocking_sync(QIOChannelSocket *ioc,
+        InetSocketAddress *addr, Error **errp)
+{
+    Error *local_err = NULL;
+    struct addrinfo *infos, *info;
+    int sock = -1;
+
+    infos = inet_parse_connect_saddr(addr, errp);
+    if (!infos) {
+        return -1;
+    }

This call is blocking since it calls getaddrinfo whose design
offers no ability todo non-blocking DNS lookups. Given this
call, ...

Oh, that's bad, thanks for taking a look on that early stage!


+
+    for (info = infos; info != NULL; info = info->ai_next) {
+        bool in_progress;
+
+        error_free(local_err);
+        local_err = NULL;
+
+        sock = inet_connect_addr(addr, info, false, &in_progress, &local_err);
+        if (sock < 0) {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        if (qio_channel_socket_set_fd(ioc, sock, &local_err) < 0) {
+            close(sock);
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        if (in_progress) {
+            if (qemu_in_coroutine()) {
+                qio_channel_yield(QIO_CHANNEL(ioc), G_IO_OUT);
+            } else {
+                qio_channel_wait(QIO_CHANNEL(ioc), G_IO_OUT);
+            }

...this is offering false assurances of being non-blocking.

If we don't want the current thread to be blocked then we
need to be using the existing qio_channel_socket_connect_async
method or similar. It uses a throw away background thread to
run the connection attempt, and then reports completion back
later, thus avoiding the getaddrinfo design flaw for the callers.

I explicitly didn't want to add an method like the impl in this
patch, because getaddrinfo dooms it and we already had bugs in
the pre-QIOChannel code where QEMU thought it was non-blocking
but wasn't due to getaddrinfo lookups.


IIUC, the main appeal of this method is that the non-blocking
nature is hidden from the caller who can continue to treat it
as a synchronous call and have the coroutine magic happen in
behind the scenes.

IOW, What's needed is a simple way to run the operation in a
thread, and sleep for completion while having the coroutine
yield.

I think this could likely be achieved with QIOTask with an
alternate impl of the qio_task_wait_thread() method that is
friendly to coroutines instead of being based on pthread
condition variable waits.

The most simple thing is just run qio_channel_socket_connect_sync in
a thread with help of thread_pool_submit_co() which is coroutine-friendly.
And this don't need any changes in io/channel.

Actually, I've started with such design, but decided that better use
non-blocking connect to not deal with cancelling the connecting thread
on shutdown.

I think, I'll resend based on thread_pool_submit_co().

===

Hmm, there is async getaddrinfo_a function.. What do you think of it?

It isn't portable, glibc only.

But seems simpler to use a thread than move to async interfaces everywhere.



Hmm.. Still, on shutdown, how to cancel this connect and getaddrinfo ? I'm not 
sure
how much time may getaddrinfo take, but connect can take about a minute. It's 
not really
good to wait for it on shutdown.

So, it may make sense to split connect, and keep it true-async. And call 
getaddrinfo in a thread
(or just keep it synchronous).



--
Best regards,
Vladimir



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