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From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
To: Seebs <seebs@seebs.net>,
	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pseudo: Add fastop reply fix
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:12:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47d049c3-4034-7224-4f81-e1aac8f8b030@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170922115204.37ef6f2c@seebsdell>

On 09/22/2017 07:52 PM, Seebs wrote:
>> This changes the pseudo FASTOP functionality so that a reply to the
>> operation is required. This means we then cannot lose data if a
>> connection is closed. This in turn stops corruption if we run out of
>> file handles and have to close connections.
>>
>> This tweaks the connection closure patch to update the comment there
>> which is now outdated.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> This looks reasonable to me. I did some testing with a very similar
> patch and concluded that, while it slowed performance slightly, it
> didn't slow it nearly as much as the pre-fastop behavior did.

Also, the issue this patch is fixing is not theoretical. Setting max fd 
limit to a low value (192) is causing errors on my machine:

dpkg-deb: error: maintainer script 'postinst' has bad permissions 644 
(must be >=0555 and <=0775)

and with the patch they seem to go away.

Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-22 16:41 [PATCH 1/2] staging: Reduce verbosity of log messages Richard Purdie
2017-09-22 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] pseudo: Add fastop reply fix Richard Purdie
2017-09-22 16:52   ` Seebs
2017-09-22 17:12     ` Alexander Kanavin [this message]
2017-09-22 19:19       ` Otavio Salvador
2017-09-22 17:00 ` ✗ patchtest: failure for "staging: Reduce verbosity of l..." and 1 more Patchwork

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