Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] io: Add support for MSG_PEEK for socket channel

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 09:41:01AM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 02:38:53PM +0530, manish.mishra wrote:
> > 
> > On 22/11/22 2:30 pm, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 09:36:14AM +0000, manish.mishra wrote:
> > > > MSG_PEEK reads from the peek of channel, The data is treated as
> > > > unread and the next read shall still return this data. This
> > > > support is currently added only for socket class. Extra parameter
> > > > 'flags' is added to io_readv calls to pass extra read flags like
> > > > MSG_PEEK.
> > > > 
> > > > Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com
> > > > Signed-off-by: manish.mishra <manish.mishra@nutanix.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >   chardev/char-socket.c               |  4 +-
> > > >   include/io/channel.h                | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >   io/channel-buffer.c                 |  1 +
> > > >   io/channel-command.c                |  1 +
> > > >   io/channel-file.c                   |  1 +
> > > >   io/channel-null.c                   |  1 +
> > > >   io/channel-socket.c                 | 16 +++++-
> > > >   io/channel-tls.c                    |  1 +
> > > >   io/channel-websock.c                |  1 +
> > > >   io/channel.c                        | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > > >   migration/channel-block.c           |  1 +
> > > >   scsi/qemu-pr-helper.c               |  2 +-
> > > >   tests/qtest/tpm-emu.c               |  2 +-
> > > >   tests/unit/test-io-channel-socket.c |  1 +
> > > >   util/vhost-user-server.c            |  2 +-
> > > >   15 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > diff --git a/io/channel-socket.c b/io/channel-socket.c
> > > > index b76dca9cc1..a06b24766d 100644
> > > > --- a/io/channel-socket.c
> > > > +++ b/io/channel-socket.c
> > > > @@ -406,6 +406,8 @@ qio_channel_socket_accept(QIOChannelSocket *ioc,
> > > >       }
> > > >   #endif /* WIN32 */
> > > > +    qio_channel_set_feature(QIO_CHANNEL(cioc), 
> > > > QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_READ_MSG_PEEK);
> > > > +
> > > This covers the incoming server side socket.
> > > 
> > > This also needs to be set in outgoing client side socket in
> > > qio_channel_socket_connect_async
> > 
> > 
> > Yes sorry, i considered only current use-case, but as it is generic one 
> > both should be there. Thanks will update it.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > @@ -705,7 +718,6 @@ static ssize_t qio_channel_socket_writev(QIOChannel 
> > > > *ioc,
> > > >   }
> > > >   #endif /* WIN32 */
> > > > -
> > > >   #ifdef QEMU_MSG_ZEROCOPY
> > > >   static int qio_channel_socket_flush(QIOChannel *ioc,
> > > >                                       Error **errp)
> > > Please remove this unrelated whitespace change.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > @@ -109,6 +117,37 @@ int qio_channel_readv_all_eof(QIOChannel *ioc,
> > > >       return qio_channel_readv_full_all_eof(ioc, iov, niov, NULL, NULL, 
> > > > errp);
> > > >   }
> > > > +int qio_channel_readv_peek_all_eof(QIOChannel *ioc,
> > > > +                                   const struct iovec *iov,
> > > > +                                   size_t niov,
> > > > +                                   Error **errp)
> > > > +{
> > > > +   ssize_t len = 0;
> > > > +   ssize_t total = iov_size(iov, niov);
> > > > +
> > > > +   while (len < total) {
> > > > +       len = qio_channel_readv_full(ioc, iov, niov, NULL,
> > > > +                                    NULL, 
> > > > QIO_CHANNEL_READ_FLAG_MSG_PEEK, errp);
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (len == QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK) {
> > > > +            if (qemu_in_coroutine()) {
> > > > +                qio_channel_yield(ioc, G_IO_IN);
> > > > +            } else {
> > > > +                qio_channel_wait(ioc, G_IO_IN);
> > > > +            }
> > > > +            continue;
> > > > +       }
> > > > +       if (len == 0) {
> > > > +           return 0;
> > > > +       }
> > > > +       if (len < 0) {
> > > > +           return -1;
> > > > +       }
> > > > +   }
> > > This will busy wait burning CPU where there is a read > 0 and < total.
> > > 
> > 
> > Daniel, i could use MSG_WAITALL too if that works but then we will lose 
> > opportunity to yield. Or if you have some other idea.
> 
> How easy would this happen?
> 
> Another alternative is we could just return the partial len to caller then
> we fallback to the original channel orders if it happens.  And then if it
> mostly will never happen it'll behave merely the same as what we want.

Well we're trying to deal with a bug where the slow and/or unreliable
network causes channels to arrive in unexpected order. Given we know
we're having network trouble, I wouldn't want to make more assumptions
about things happening correctly.


With regards,
Daniel
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