Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/4] non-blocking connect address handling cleanup

[Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>]

On 24/09/12 19:11, Orit Wasserman wrote:
> Changes from v4:
> 	- Rename ConnectHandler to NonBlockingConnectHandler
> 	- move function comments to functions definitions
> 	- move connect_state allocation to outside of the loop
> 	- fix comments text
>
> Changes from v3:
> 	- add missing parenthesis QEMU_SOCKET_RC_INPROGRESS macro
> 	- remove "block" from dummy_opts
> 	- remove in_progress from external API (inet_connect_opts and
> 	  inet_nonblocking_connect)
> 	- Allocate ConnectState inside inet_connect_opts, this make the
> 	  structure internal to qemu-sockets.c
> 	- fix migrate_fd_cleanup to handle invalid fd.
> 	
> Changes from v2:
> 	- remove the use of getnameinfo
> 	- remove errp for inet_connect_addr
> 	- remove QemuOpt "block"
> 	- fix errors in wait_for_connect
> 	- pass ConnectState as a parameter to allow concurrent connect ops
>
> getaddrinfo can give us a list of addresses, but we only try to
> connect to the first one. If that fails we never proceed to
> the next one.  This is common on desktop setups that often have ipv6
> configured but not actually working.
> A simple way to reproduce the problem is migration:
> for the destination use -incoming tcp:0:4444, run migrate -d tcp:localhost:4444
> migration will fail on hosts that have both IPv4 and IPV6 address for localhost.
>
> To fix this, refactor address resolution code and make inet_nonblocking_connect
> retry connection with a different address.

Reviewed-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>

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			Amos.