Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] multifd: Shut down the QIO channels to avoid blocking the send threads when they are terminated.

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Li Zhang (lizhang@suse.de) wrote:
> 
> Thanks for Daniel's review.
> 
> Hi David and Juan,
> 
> Any comments for this patch?
> 

Yeh I think that's OK, so

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

I'd have a slight preference for it being before the post I think.

Dave

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Li
> 
> On 12/3/21 12:55 PM, Li Zhang wrote:
> > When doing live migration with multifd channels 8, 16 or larger number,
> > the guest hangs in the presence of the network errors such as missing TCP ACKs.
> > 
> > At sender's side:
> > The main thread is blocked on qemu_thread_join, migration_fd_cleanup
> > is called because one thread fails on qio_channel_write_all when
> > the network problem happens and other send threads are blocked on sendmsg.
> > They could not be terminated. So the main thread is blocked on qemu_thread_join
> > to wait for the threads terminated.
> > 
> > (gdb) bt
> > 0  0x00007f30c8dcffc0 in __pthread_clockjoin_ex () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> > 1  0x000055cbb716084b in qemu_thread_join (thread=0x55cbb881f418) at ../util/qemu-thread-posix.c:627
> > 2  0x000055cbb6b54e40 in multifd_save_cleanup () at ../migration/multifd.c:542
> > 3  0x000055cbb6b4de06 in migrate_fd_cleanup (s=0x55cbb8024000) at ../migration/migration.c:1808
> > 4  0x000055cbb6b4dfb4 in migrate_fd_cleanup_bh (opaque=0x55cbb8024000) at ../migration/migration.c:1850
> > 5  0x000055cbb7173ac1 in aio_bh_call (bh=0x55cbb7eb98e0) at ../util/async.c:141
> > 6  0x000055cbb7173bcb in aio_bh_poll (ctx=0x55cbb7ebba80) at ../util/async.c:169
> > 7  0x000055cbb715ba4b in aio_dispatch (ctx=0x55cbb7ebba80) at ../util/aio-posix.c:381
> > 8  0x000055cbb7173ffe in aio_ctx_dispatch (source=0x55cbb7ebba80, callback=0x0, user_data=0x0) at ../util/async.c:311
> > 9  0x00007f30c9c8cdf4 in g_main_context_dispatch () at /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> > 10 0x000055cbb71851a2 in glib_pollfds_poll () at ../util/main-loop.c:232
> > 11 0x000055cbb718521c in os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=42251070366) at ../util/main-loop.c:255
> > 12 0x000055cbb7185321 in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=0) at ../util/main-loop.c:531
> > 13 0x000055cbb6e6ba27 in qemu_main_loop () at ../softmmu/runstate.c:726
> > 14 0x000055cbb6ad6fd7 in main (argc=68, argv=0x7ffc0c578888, envp=0x7ffc0c578ab0) at ../softmmu/main.c:50
> > 
> > To make sure that the send threads could be terminated, IO channels should be
> > shut down to avoid waiting IO.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <lizhang@suse.de>
> > ---
> >   migration/multifd.c | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/migration/multifd.c b/migration/multifd.c
> > index 7c9deb1921..33f8287969 100644
> > --- a/migration/multifd.c
> > +++ b/migration/multifd.c
> > @@ -523,6 +523,9 @@ static void multifd_send_terminate_threads(Error *err)
> >           qemu_mutex_lock(&p->mutex);
> >           p->quit = true;
> >           qemu_sem_post(&p->sem);
> > +        if (p->c) {
> > +            qio_channel_shutdown(p->c, QIO_CHANNEL_SHUTDOWN_BOTH, NULL);
> > +        }
> >           qemu_mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
> >       }
> >   }
> 
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK