Re: IOSQE_IO_LINK vs. short send of SOCK_STREAM

Ming Lei
2023-01-14T00:28:41Z

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 11:01:51AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/13/23 10:51 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 1/13/23 3:12 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 08:35:36AM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> >>> Am 12.01.23 um 04:40 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> >>>> On 1/11/23 8:27?PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Stefan and Jens,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for the help.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> BTW, the issue is observed when I write ublk-nbd:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/commits/nbd
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and it isn't completed yet(multiple send sqe chains not serialized
> >>>>> yet), the issue is triggered when writing big chunk data to ublk-nbd.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gotcha
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 05:32:00PM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Ming,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Per my understanding, a short send on SOCK_STREAM should terminate the
> >>>>>>> remainder of the SQE chain built by IOSQE_IO_LINK.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> But from my observation, this point isn't true when using io_sendmsg or
> >>>>>>> io_sendmsg_zc on TCP socket, and the other remainder of the chain still
> >>>>>>> can be completed after one short send is found. MSG_WAITALL is off.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This is due to legacy reasons, you need pass MSG_WAITALL explicitly
> >>>>>> in order to a retry or an error on a short write...
> >>>>>> It should work for send, sendmsg, sendmsg_zc, recv and recvmsg.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Turns out there is another application bug in which recv sqe may cut in the
> >>>>> send sqe chain.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> After the issue is fixed, if MSG_WAITALL is set, short send can't be
> >>>>> observed any more. But if MSG_WAITALL isn't set, short send can be
> >>>>> observed and the send io chain still won't be terminated.
> >>>>
> >>>> Right, if MSG_WAITALL is set, then the whole thing will be written. If
> >>>> we get a short send, it's retried appropriately. Unless an error occurs,
> >>>> it should send the whole thing.
> >>>>
> >>>>> So if MSG_WAITALL is set, will io_uring be responsible for retry in case
> >>>>> of short send, and application needn't to take care of it?
> >>>
> >>> With new kernels yes, but the application should be prepared to have retry
> >>> logic in order to be compatible with older kernels.
> >>
> >> Now ublk-nbd can be played, mkfs/mount and fio starts to work.
> >>
> >> But short send still can be observed sometimes when sending nbd write
> >> request, which is done by sendmsg(), and the message includes two vectors,
> >> (the 1st is the nbd_request, another one is the data to be written to disk).
> >>
> >> Short send is reported by cqe in which cqe->res is always 28, which is
> >> size of 'struct nbd_request', also the length of the 1st io vec. And not
> >> see send cqe failure message.
> >>
> >> And MSG_WAITALL is set for all ublk-nbd io actually.
> >>
> >> Follows the steps:
> >>
> >> 1) install liburing 2.0+
> >>
> >> 2) build ublk & reproduce the issue:
> >>
> >> - git clone https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv.git -b nbd
> >>
> >> - cd ubdsrv
> >>
> >> - vim build_with_liburing_src && set LIBURING_DIR to your liburing dir
> >>
> >> - ./build_with_liburing_src&& make -j4
> >>
> >> 3) run the nbd test
> >> - cd ubdsrv
> >> - make test T=nbd
> >>
> >> Sometimes the test hangs, and the following log can be observed
> >> in syslog:
> >>
> >> nbd_send_req_done: short send/receive tag 2 op 1 8000000000800002, len 524316 written 28 cqe flags 0
> >> ...
> >>
> >
> > I can reproduce this, but it's a SEND that ends up being triggered,
> > not a SENDMSG. Should the payload carrying op not be a SENDMSG? I'm
> > assuming two vecs for that one.
>
> Added some debug and it looks like the request was indeed send up
> and is using IORING_OP_SEND and that the 28 is what was requested.
> But the completion side seems to think it's a SENDMSG and we should've
> received more?
>
> I think this needs a bit of debugging on the userspace side first.

Yeah, turns out it is indeed one userspace bug, IOSQE_IO_LINK is cleared
wrong, and now the issue can't be triggered with the following fix:

https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/commit/175ffd14ae2f8fa562134edfd4ac949f8050c108

Thanks,
Ming