From: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peterx@redhat.com, "Akash Kulhalli" <akulhall@redhat.com>,
"Juraj Marcin" <jmarcin@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] migration: Fix socket listen backlog
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:51:28 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bj8wlzmn.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006182046.3767283-4-peterx@redhat.com>
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:
> QEMU incoming side may have set a wrong listen() backlog. After the
> support of multifd + postcopy now we have four possibilities on setting the
> backlog, some of them are wrong:
>
> Vanilla: 1 (correct)
> Multifd: N (wrong, should be N+1)
> Preempt: 2 (correct)
> Multifd+Preempt: N (wrong, should be N+2)
>
> No real report for this, found by code observation only. Logically the
> backlog (pending accept requests on destination on the listening sockets)
> needs to be the maximum of possible channels. Otherwise if the accept
> queue full on destination, source QEMU may hit connection errors.
>
> Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Fixes: 0705e56496 ("multifd: Use number of channels as listen backlog")
> Fixes: e274188612 ("migration: enable multifd and postcopy together")
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
> migration/socket.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/socket.c b/migration/socket.c
> index f57f1a8e7c..31bfa1eeeb 100644
> --- a/migration/socket.c
> +++ b/migration/socket.c
> @@ -139,21 +139,32 @@ socket_incoming_migration_end(void *opaque)
> object_unref(OBJECT(listener));
> }
>
> +static int socket_get_max_channels(void)
> +{
> + /* The main channel is always wanted */
> + int num = 1;
> +
> + if (migrate_multifd()) {
> + num += migrate_multifd_channels();
> + }
> +
> + if (migrate_postcopy_preempt()) {
> + /* The preempt channel */
> + num += 1;
> + }
> +
> + return num;
> +}
> +
> void socket_connect_incoming(SocketAddress *saddr, Error **errp)
> {
> QIONetListener *listener = qio_net_listener_new();
> MigrationIncomingState *mis = migration_incoming_get_current();
> size_t i;
> - int num = 1;
> + int num = socket_get_max_channels();
>
> qio_net_listener_set_name(listener, "migration-socket-listener");
>
> - if (migrate_multifd()) {
> - num = migrate_multifd_channels();
> - } else if (migrate_postcopy_preempt()) {
> - num = RAM_CHANNEL_MAX;
> - }
> -
> if (qio_net_listener_open_sync(listener, saddr, num, errp) < 0) {
> object_unref(OBJECT(listener));
> return;
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-14 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-06 18:20 [PATCH v2 0/7] migration: Fix multifd+postcopy break on qemu-7.2 machine type Peter Xu
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] tests/migration-test: Add multifd+postcopy test for preempt recovery Peter Xu
2026-10-14 21:49 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] migration: Add two more trace points for incoming channel mgmt Peter Xu
2026-10-14 21:50 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] migration: Fix socket listen backlog Peter Xu
2026-10-06 20:56 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-10-07 19:39 ` Peter Xu
2026-10-14 21:51 ` Fabiano Rosas [this message]
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] migration: Split migration_channel_process_incoming() Peter Xu
2026-10-15 13:04 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] migration: Dump type of channel in set_incoming_channel tracepoint Peter Xu
2026-10-15 13:10 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] migration: Fix incoming channel race with multifd and preempt_pre_7_2 Peter Xu
2026-10-15 13:28 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-10-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] migration: Postpone the outgoing preempt channel for preempt_pre_7_2 Peter Xu
2026-10-15 13:30 ` Fabiano Rosas
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