Currently, hvsock can enter into a state where epoll_wait on EPOLLOUT will
not return even when the hvsock socket is writable, under some race
condition. This can happen under the following sequence:
- fd = socket(hvsocket)
- fd_out = dup(fd)
- fd_in = dup(fd)
- start a writer thread that writes data to fd_out with a combination of
epoll_wait(fd_out, EPOLLOUT) and
- start a reader thread that reads data from fd_in with a combination of
epoll_wait(fd_in, EPOLLIN)
- On the host, there are two threads that are reading/writing data to the
hvsocket
stack:
hvs_stream_has_space
hvs_notify_poll_out
vsock_poll
sock_poll
ep_poll
Race condition:
check for epollout from ep_poll():
assume no writable space in the socket
hvs_stream_has_space() returns 0
check for epollin from ep_poll():
assume socket has some free space < HVS_PKT_LEN(HVS_SEND_BUF_SIZE)
hvs_stream_has_space() will clear the channel pending send size
host will not notify the guest because the pending send size has
been cleared and so the hvsocket will never mark the
socket writable
Now, the EPOLLOUT will never return even if the socket write buffer is
empty.
The fix is to set the pending size to the default size and never change it.
This way the host will always notify the guest whenever the writable space
is bigger than the pending size. The host is already optimized to *only*
notify the guest when the pending size threshold boundary is crossed and
not everytime.
This change also reduces the cpu usage somewhat since hv_stream_has_space()
is in the hotpath of send:
vsock_stream_sendmsg()->hv_stream_has_space()
Earlier hv_stream_has_space was setting/clearing the pending size on every
call.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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