[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 2/3] Don't print error message on successful file transfer

Victor Toso lists at victortoso.com
Thu Oct 22 04:57:20 PDT 2015


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:52:50PM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> In certain circumstances we were printing an error message even though
> the file transfer had completed successfully. It didn't cause any
> problems, but it pointed out an issue in the handling of outgoing agent
> messages.
>
> The described behavior was generally only encountered when there were multiple
> files being transferred at once, and most often when one or two files were
> significantly smaller than another file being transferred. For example, two
> 20kB files and another 3MB file. The failure mechanism is basically as follows:
>
> For each file transfer, we read a chunk for the file and then we queue a series
> of messages to the guest and wait for them to be flushed before continuing to
> read a new chunk of the file. (Since the maximum agent message size is 2kB, each
> 64kB chunk of file being read can generate up to 32 messages at a time). The
> file transfer task remains in "pending" state until the flush operation is
> complete. Since all agent messages go into a single channel-wide queue, waiting
> for the messages to be flushed meant waiting for *all* outgoing messages to be
> flushed, including those that were queued after we called flush_async().
>
> Since agent messages can only be sent if the client has enough agent tokens, it
> can take a little while for all queued messages to be sent.  This means that
> even if a file transfer task has sent out all of its data to the guest, it can
> be kept in "pending" state for some time if other file transfer tasks or other
> agent messages are added to the queue. In this situation, The guest might
> notice that it has received all of the data for a file transfer task and send a
> XFER_STATUS_SUCCESS message while we're still in "pending" state.
>
> This patch changes to code so that flush_async() only waits for the
> currently-queued messages to be sent. This means that it is not affected by any
> new messages that get added to the outgoing queue after we've called
> flush_async(). This means that the task will exit "pending" state immediately
> after sending out our last data packet.
>
> Fixes: rhbz#1265562

Awesome explanation, thanks!
Patch looks good, I would just use g_clear_pointer in the dispose but
it is fine either way.

  toso
> ---
>  src/channel-main.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/channel-main.c b/src/channel-main.c
> index 0a73e92..01a3f89 100644
> --- a/src/channel-main.c
> +++ b/src/channel-main.c
> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ struct _SpiceMainChannelPrivate  {
>      gint                        timer_id;
>      GQueue                      *agent_msg_queue;
>      GHashTable                  *file_xfer_tasks;
> -    GSList                      *flushing;
> +    GHashTable                  *flushing;
>  
>      guint                       switch_host_delayed_id;
>      guint                       migrate_delayed_id;
> @@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ static void spice_main_channel_init(SpiceMainChannel *channel)
>      c->agent_msg_queue = g_queue_new();
>      c->file_xfer_tasks = g_hash_table_new_full(g_direct_hash, g_direct_equal,
>                                                 NULL, g_object_unref);
> +    c->flushing = g_hash_table_new_full(g_direct_hash, g_direct_equal, NULL,
> +                                        g_object_unref);
>      c->cancellable_volume_info = g_cancellable_new();
>  
>      spice_main_channel_reset_capabilties(SPICE_CHANNEL(channel));
> @@ -410,6 +412,11 @@ static void spice_main_channel_dispose(GObject *obj)
>          c->file_xfer_tasks = NULL;
>      }
>  
> +    if (c->flushing) {
> +        g_hash_table_unref(c->flushing);
> +        c->flushing = NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      g_cancellable_cancel(c->cancellable_volume_info);
>      g_clear_object(&c->cancellable_volume_info);
>  
> @@ -920,20 +927,22 @@ static void agent_free_msg_queue(SpiceMainChannel *channel)
>      c->agent_msg_queue = NULL;
>  }
>  
> -/* Here, flushing algorithm is stolen from spice-channel.c */
> -static void file_xfer_flushed(SpiceMainChannel *channel, gboolean success)
> +static gboolean flush_foreach_remove(gpointer key G_GNUC_UNUSED,
> +                                     gpointer value, gpointer user_data)
>  {
> -    SpiceMainChannelPrivate *c = channel->priv;
> -    GSList *l;
> +    gboolean success = GPOINTER_TO_UINT(user_data);
> +    GSimpleAsyncResult *result = G_SIMPLE_ASYNC_RESULT(value);
>  
> -    for (l = c->flushing; l != NULL; l = l->next) {
> -        GSimpleAsyncResult *result = G_SIMPLE_ASYNC_RESULT(l->data);
> -        g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gboolean(result, success);
> -        g_simple_async_result_complete_in_idle(result);
> -    }
> +    g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gboolean(result, success);
> +    g_simple_async_result_complete_in_idle(result);
> +    return TRUE;
> +}
>  
> -    g_slist_free_full(c->flushing, g_object_unref);
> -    c->flushing = NULL;
> +static void file_xfer_flushed(SpiceMainChannel *channel, gboolean success)
> +{
> +    SpiceMainChannelPrivate *c = channel->priv;
> +    g_hash_table_foreach_remove(c->flushing, flush_foreach_remove,
> +                                GUINT_TO_POINTER(success));
>  }
>  
>  static void file_xfer_flush_async(SpiceMainChannel *channel, GCancellable *cancellable,
> @@ -954,7 +963,8 @@ static void file_xfer_flush_async(SpiceMainChannel *channel, GCancellable *cance
>          return;
>      }
>  
> -    c->flushing = g_slist_append(c->flushing, simple);
> +    /* wait until the last message currently in the queue has been sent */
> +    g_hash_table_insert(c->flushing, g_queue_peek_tail(c->agent_msg_queue), simple);
>  }
>  
>  static gboolean file_xfer_flush_finish(SpiceMainChannel *channel, GAsyncResult *result,
> @@ -981,11 +991,22 @@ static void agent_send_msg_queue(SpiceMainChannel *channel)
>  
>      while (c->agent_tokens > 0 &&
>             !g_queue_is_empty(c->agent_msg_queue)) {
> +        GSimpleAsyncResult *simple;
>          c->agent_tokens--;
>          out = g_queue_pop_head(c->agent_msg_queue);
>          spice_msg_out_send_internal(out);
> +
> +        simple = g_hash_table_lookup(c->flushing, out);
> +        if (simple) {
> +            /* if there's a flush task waiting for this message, finish it */
> +            g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gboolean(simple, TRUE);
> +            g_simple_async_result_complete_in_idle(simple);
> +            g_hash_table_remove(c->flushing, out);
> +        }
>      }
> -    if (g_queue_is_empty(c->agent_msg_queue) && c->flushing != NULL) {
> +    if (g_queue_is_empty(c->agent_msg_queue) &&
> +        g_hash_table_size(c->flushing) != 0) {
> +        g_warning("unexpected flush task in list, clearing");
>          file_xfer_flushed(channel, TRUE);
>      }
>  }
> -- 
> 2.4.3
> 
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