[sheepdog] [PATCH RFC 5/5] sheep: retry when connect() or accept() fails with EMFILE

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 04:26:22 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:46:24AM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> At Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:56:10 +0800,
> Liu Yuan wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:54:26AM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > > This patch adds calling of shrink_sockfd() after connect() and
> > > accept() when they return EMFILE.
> > > 
> > > These retries can be invoked twice at a maximum. This policy must be
> > > improved in the future.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>
> > > ---
> > >  sheep/request.c      |    7 +++++++
> > >  sheep/sockfd_cache.c |    6 ++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/sheep/request.c b/sheep/request.c
> > > index 3b43c76..8f3f840 100644
> > > --- a/sheep/request.c
> > > +++ b/sheep/request.c
> > > @@ -828,8 +828,15 @@ static void listen_handler(int listen_fd, int events, void *data)
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > >  	namesize = sizeof(from);
> > > +
> > > +	int retry = 2;
> > > +retry_accept:
> > >  	fd = accept(listen_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&from, &namesize);
> > >  	if (fd < 0) {
> > > +		if (errno == EMFILE && retry--) {
> > > +			if (shrink_sockfd())
> > > +				goto retry_accept;
> > > +		}
> > >  		sd_eprintf("failed to accept a new connection: %m");
> > >  		return;
> > 
> > Better use xaccept() to handle retry accept internally and document why 2.
> 
> I don't have the reason of 2, currently. I'd like to profile sheep
> with tools like LTTng or perf and seek better retry count later.

No, I think we should try forever for EMFILE until success.

> 
> We shouldn't use x prefix for retrying versions of socket producing
> functions. Because many x prefixed functions are in libsheepdog and
> the retrying functions cannot be moved to libsheepdog. They depends on
> sockfd.

Then sd_open() is much better name.

Thanks
Yuan



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