[sheepdog] [PATCH 2/2] sheep: remove timeout for socket pool

[Liu Yuan]

On 06/07/2012 11:50 PM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:

> The reason we use timeout for socket connections is that, when
> membership change happens, the gateway should retry I/Os with a new
> membership instead of sleeping long time in forward_read/write_obj_req
> with an old membership.  If send/recv/poll blocks for a long time in
> the gateway node, timeout happens in the guest OSes, which is what we
> really want to avoid.


So there is a dilemma: if not long enough, we will cancel a valid
connection which the other end is just busy.

I am considering another approach that let recovery thread to kill those
blocking connection instead of timeout. How about it?

Thanks,
Yuan