Re: [PATCH 00/19] gssd improvements

[Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:52:56 +0100
David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> wrote:

> On 2014-12-09 14:09, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:40:40 +0100
> > David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> wrote:
> > 
> >> The following series converts gssd to use libevent and inotify instead
> >> of a handrolled event loop and dnotify. Lots of cleanups in the 
> >> process
> >> (e.g. removing a lot of arbitrary limitations and fixed size buffers).
> ...
> > 
> > Looks like a nice cleanup at first glance, but I haven't gone over it
> > in detail.
> > 
> > One thing that _would_ be nice while you're in here though would be to
> > help parallelize more of process_krb5_upcall. Currently it forks before
> > changing its identity and then the parent waits on that to exit which
> > keeps everything serialized.
> > 
> > I did it that way so that we didn't need change how we close the fds
> > afterward. Now that you're already doing some surgery there, that might
> > be easier to do and may help performance.
> 
> Thanks, the current patchset doesn't really touch upon that code. After 
> the patchset is applied, utils/gssd/gssd.c is basically everything that 
> happens up to the point where data is available to read from the gss 
> pipe but not after....
> 
> But it should certainly make it easier to add parallelism in the 
> future...
> 
> BTW: when you say "how we close the fds"...what do you mean exactly?
> 
> 
> //David

Ahh, now I remember. It's not the closing of the fds that's the
problem, but you do need to have some way to reap the exit status from
the processes that are being forked off (so you don't end up with
zombies).

Probably not too hard to handle, but you would need to keep a count or
list of forked children and wait() on them at some point.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>