Re: [PATCH v11 2/7] QIOChannelSocket: Implement io_writev zero copy flag & io_flush for CONFIG_LINUX

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 12:42:47PM -0300, Leonardo Bras Soares Passos wrote:
> 
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> But what if this gets compiled in a Linux system without MSG_ZEROCOPY support?
> As qapi will have zero-copy-send as an option we could have this scenario:
> 
> - User request migration using zero-copy-send
> - multifd_save_setup() will set write_flags = QIO_CHANNEL_WRITE_FLAG_ZERO_COPY
> - In qio_channel_socket_connect_sync(): setsockopt() part will be
> compiled-out, so no error here
> - above part in qio_channel_socket_writev() will be commented-out,
> which means write_flags will be ignored
> - sflags will not contain MSG_ZEROCOPY, so sendmsg() will use copy-mode
> - migration will succeed
> 
> In the above case, the user has all the reason to think migration is
> using MSG_ZEROCOPY, but in fact it's quietly falling back to
> copy-mode.

I think we're ok because qio_channel_writev_full() does

    if ((flags & QIO_CHANNEL_WRITE_FLAG_ZERO_COPY) &&
        !qio_channel_has_feature(ioc, QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_WRITE_ZERO_COPY)) {
        error_setg_errno(errp, EINVAL,
                         "Requested Zero Copy feature is not available");
        return -1;
    }

and since there's no way for QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_WRITE_ZERO_COPY to
get set when MSG_ZEROCOPY is compiled out, we'll trigger the error
condition.

> That's why I suggested creating a 'global' config usiing SO_ZEROCOPY &
> MSG_ZEROCOPY & CONFIG_LINUX so we can use in qapi and have no chance
> of even offering zero-copy-send if we don't have it.
> 
> Another local option is to do implement your suggestions, and also
> change qio_channel_socket_connect_sync() so it returns an error if
> MSG_ZEROCOPY && SO_ZEROCOPY is not present, such as:
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
> +#if defined(MSG_ZEROCOPY)  && defined(SO_ZEROCOPY)
> +    int ret, v = 1;
> +    ret = setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, &v, sizeof(v));
> +    if (ret == 0) {
> +        /* Zero copy available on host */
> +        qio_channel_set_feature(QIO_CHANNEL(ioc),
> +                                QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_WRITE_ZERO_COPY);
> +    }
> +#else
> +    error_setg_errno(errp, errno,"MSG_ZEROCOPY not available");
> +    return -1;
> +#endif
> +#endif

Do we actually need the ifdef CONFIG_LINUX bit at all ?

Sufficient to just have the check for MSG_ZEROCOPY + SO_ZEROCOPY,
which will fail on non-Linux anyway.


With regards,
Daniel
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