* Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> >> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> >> >> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> >> >> >> We know quit closing the QIO.
> >>
> >> ...
> >> >> > Two questions from that then:
> >> >> > a) Are you sure it's safe to close the qio_channel while another
> >> >> > thread is in qio_channel_read_all_eof? Is it really defined that it
> >> >> > causes the other thread to exit with an error; close() in some stuff
> >> >> > frees data structures that the other thread is still reading; that's
> >> >> > why I've used shutdown(2) in the past rather than close on fd's
> >> >>
> >> >> Dunno if it is safe (I think it is), but I agree that shutdown will also
> >> >> get what I need.
> >> >>
> >> >> > b) I don't think your answer explains why it's an object_unref?
> >> >>
> >> >> That is the standard way to closing qios to not have to take into
> >> >> account who have it oppened. See previous paragraph, it is better to
> >> >> use shutdown, done.
> >> >
> >> > OK, great; I suspect it's unsafe because as soon as you do the unref
> >> > it could free the object; actually you should have a ref from each of
> >> > the threads to sotp it being freed while they use it.
> >> >
> >> > Dave
> >> >
> >> >> Thanks, Juan.
> >> >>
> >> >> > Dave
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> Later, Juan.
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
> >> > --
> >> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
> >>
> >> What do you think about this, to avoid me resend the whole series?
> >>
> >> From e03d77de1ca179fa0168cead7c23cfeae57f1787 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:49:19 +0200
> >> Subject: [PATCH 17/18] migration: Remove not needed semaphore and quit
> >>
> >> We know quit with shutdwon in the QIO.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>
> >> --
> >> Add comment
> >> Use shutdown() instead of unref()
> >> ---
> >> migration/ram.c | 14 +++++---------
> >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
> >> index 2c3a452a7d..be5d26f4cb 100644
> >> --- a/migration/ram.c
> >> +++ b/migration/ram.c
> >> @@ -594,14 +594,10 @@ typedef struct {
> >> QemuThread thread;
> >> /* communication channel */
> >> QIOChannel *c;
> >> - /* sem where to wait for more work */
> >> - QemuSemaphore sem;
> >> /* this mutex protects the following parameters */
> >> QemuMutex mutex;
> >> /* is this channel thread running */
> >> bool running;
> >> - /* should this thread finish */
> >> - bool quit;
> >> /* array of pages to receive */
> >> MultiFDPages_t *pages;
> >> /* packet allocated len */
> >> @@ -1152,8 +1148,11 @@ static void multifd_recv_terminate_threads(Error
> >> *err)
> >> MultiFDRecvParams *p = &multifd_recv_state->params[i];
> >>
> >> qemu_mutex_lock(&p->mutex);
> >> - p->quit = true;
> >> - qemu_sem_post(&p->sem);
> >> + /* We could arrive here for two reasons:
> >> + - normal quit, i.e. everything went fine, just finished
> >> + - error quit: We close the channels so the channel threads
> >> + finish the qio_channel_read_all_eof() */
> >> + qio_channel_shutdown(p->c, QIO_CHANNEL_SHUTDOWN_BOTH, NULL);
> >
> > OK, so with any luck all the threads now exit; do we still have a
> > close/unref once we're sure they have all exited?
>
> Yeap.
>
> static void multifd_recv_terminate_threads(Error *err)
> {
> [...]
> for (i = 0; i < migrate_multifd_channels(); i++) {
> MultiFDRecvParams *p = &multifd_recv_state->params[i];
>
> qemu_mutex_lock(&p->mutex);
> /* We could arrive here for two reasons:
> - normal quit, i.e. everything went fine, just finished
> - error quit: We close the channels so the channel threads
> finish the qio_channel_read_all_eof() */
> qio_channel_shutdown(p->c, QIO_CHANNEL_SHUTDOWN_BOTH, NULL);
> qemu_mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
> }
> }
>
> int multifd_load_cleanup(Error **errp)
> {
> int i;
> int ret = 0;
>
> if (!migrate_use_multifd()) {
> return 0;
> }
> multifd_recv_terminate_threads(NULL);
> for (i = 0; i < migrate_multifd_channels(); i++) {
> MultiFDRecvParams *p = &multifd_recv_state->params[i];
>
> if (p->running) {
> qemu_thread_join(&p->thread);
> }
> object_unref(OBJECT(p->c));
> p->c = NULL;
> [...]
> }
> [...]
> }
>
> Omited the things that we don't care about for this.
I think that looks OK; you've got one unref at the end, and you do the
shutdown to actually kick them out.
Dave
> Thanks, Juan.
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
