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From: Leonardo Bras Soares Passos <leobras@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] QIOChannelSocket: Fix zero-copy flush returning code 1 when nothing sent
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:29:52 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ6HWG7C9_dhtLD8UDMePgTfj97b63Wb5fCr=3k+eEE0DbQMKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsdbnfbTnE/ZJvQt@xz-m1.local>

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:18 PM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 06:14:17PM -0300, Leonardo Brás wrote:
> > Having 'if(queued == sent)' will cause us to falsely return '1' in two buggy
> > cases, while 'if queued == 0) will either skip early or go into 'infinite' loop.
>
> I'm not sure I strictly follow here..
>

Sorry, I was thinking of a different scenario.

> Imagine the case we do flush() twice without sending anything, then in the
> 1st flush we'll see queued>sent, we'll finish flush() until queued==sent.
> Then in the 2nd (continuous) flush() we'll see queued==sent immediately.
>
> IIUC with the current patch we'll return 1 which I think is wrong because
> fallback didn't happen, and if with the change to "if (queued==sent) return
> 0" it'll fix it?

Yes, you are correct.
It's a possible scenario to have a flush happen just after another
without any sending in between.

I will fix it as suggested.

Best regards,
Leo

>
> --
> Peter Xu
>



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-04 20:23 [PATCH v3 0/3] Zero copy improvements (QIOChannel + multifd) Leonardo Bras
2022-07-04 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] QIOChannelSocket: Fix zero-copy flush returning code 1 when nothing sent Leonardo Bras
2022-07-05  8:04   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-07-05 15:15     ` Juan Quintela
2022-07-07 17:46   ` Peter Xu
2022-07-07 19:44     ` Leonardo Bras Soares Passos
2022-07-07 19:52       ` Peter Xu
2022-07-07 21:14         ` Leonardo Brás
2022-07-07 22:18           ` Peter Xu
2022-07-11 19:29             ` Leonardo Bras Soares Passos [this message]
2022-07-04 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Add dirty-sync-missed-zero-copy migration stat Leonardo Bras
2022-07-05  4:14   ` Markus Armbruster
2022-07-05  8:05   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-07-07 17:54   ` Peter Xu
2022-07-07 19:50     ` Leonardo Bras Soares Passos
2022-07-07 19:56       ` Peter Xu
2022-07-07 21:16         ` Leonardo Brás
2022-07-04 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] migration/multifd: Warn user when zerocopy not working Leonardo Bras
2022-07-05  8:05   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-07-07 17:56   ` Peter Xu
2022-07-07 19:59     ` Leonardo Bras Soares Passos
2022-07-07 20:06       ` Peter Xu
2022-07-07 21:18         ` Leonardo Brás

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