<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><div style="margin: 0;">Hi,</div><div style="margin: 0;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0;">For now I simply used a counter to work around this issue.</div><div style="margin: 0;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0;">while (... <span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">g_pollable_input_stream_is_readable </span>) {</div><div style="margin: 0;"> if (loop > 10)</div><div style="margin: 0;"> break;</div><div style="margin: 0;">}</div><div style="margin: 0;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0;">Ugly but seems useful.</div><div style="margin: 0;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0;">BR</div><div style="margin: 0;">Don</div><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><div style="position:relative;zoom:1"></div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><pre><br>At 2020-06-15 20:59:00, "Jakub Janku" <jjanku@redhat.com> wrote: >Hi, > >yes, I think this is a real issue. I feel like I've stumbled across >something similar in the past when working on webdav. > >So yeah, it seems like the channel might get blocked in one direction >-- meaning data isn't sent until you read all available data. > >However, that doesn't mean that other channels won't work imho. In a >more realistic scenario, you wold read the data from vdagent in chunks >and actually do something with it. Webdav uses the code in vmcstream.c >to read the data in coroutine and the buffer is delivered to the >WebdavChannel using an idle callback. This gives other events the >opportunity to fire and be processed and the code can yield to another >coroutine. So important channels, like Display, should continue >working just fine. > >PS, it's been quite some time, so I might not remember it correctly. >But anyway, if you look at channel-webdav.c and vmcstream.c, you >should hopefully get a better idea. > >Cheers, >Jakub > >On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:52 PM 陈炤 <qishiyexu2@126.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> After debugging, I think my problem is probably not accociated with cooperative multitasking. >> Here is where spice-gtk read data: >> >> /* treat all incoming data (block on message completion) */ >> while (!c->has_error && >> c->state != SPICE_CHANNEL_STATE_MIGRATING && >> g_pollable_input_stream_is_readable(G_POLLABLE_INPUT_STREAM(c->in)) >> ) { do >> spice_channel_recv_msg(channel, >> (handler_msg_in)SPICE_CHANNEL_GET_CLASS(channel)->handle_msg, NULL); >> #ifdef HAVE_SASL >> /* flush the sasl buffer too */ >> while (c->sasl_decoded != NULL); >> #else >> while (FALSE); >> #endif >> } >> >> >> If vdagent sends lots of data, spice_channel_recv_msg will be called the whole time, so iterate_write will not be called, and data will not be sent out unless vdagent stops sending data. >> >> BR >> Don >> >> >> >> >> At 2020-06-13 14:40:02, "Frediano Ziglio" <fziglio@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> the pattern used in spice-gtk is called cooperative multitasking (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_multitasking), if you add code that is not cooperative you get what you described. Use coroutine functions to read remote data so the read won't stop other code. If you need to run expensive or blocking code it's a good idea to run it in another thread removing the blockage. >> >> Frediano >> >> ________________________________ >> >> >> >> Hi >> >> Here is my experiment: >> I created a new port-channel to transfer data between vdagent and spice-gtk. I used a while loop to send 2kb data to gtk, gtk received and drop the data. In the mean time I used a timer(1ms) to send 2kb data to vdagent. >> Strange thing is that gtk will continually receive data for a while(10secs - 70secs) then send a whole bunch of data to vdagent. When receiving data, send data will be added to tcp buffer but will not be sent out. >> >> So I think send event will be affected by receive event, then I guess using different thread would help. >> Could you please correct me if I’m wrong? >> >> BR >> Don >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 在 2020-06-12 20:03:30，"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com> 写道： >> >> Hi >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:57 PM 陈炤 <qishiyexu2@126.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Spice-gtk is now using co-routine to handle different channel connections. When a channel is handling data, other channels would have to wait, rather than handling synchronously. That would bring us following issues: >>> 1. If some less important channels (like usb channels) are transfering big data, important channels (main-channel, display-channel,input-channel) will be affected. >>> 2. When receiving big data like file transfering(G_IO_IN), send event (G_IO_OUT) will not be triggered. >>> 3. Flow control between different channels will be hard to do. >>> >>> Is is possible(and make sense) to put channels into different threads so they can synchronously receive & send msg, without affect each other? >>> >> >> Switching to threads would be possible, but that wouldn't help in the situation you describe, as you are very likely bound on IO. Using several threads would actually create more problems to synchronize and schedule the different channels. >> >> Io operations in coroutines are non-blocking, so they shouldn't affect other spice-gtk task. If you however observe a blocking CPU-task in some channel, this may affect the performance of other channels. But in general, except for video/image decoding which may be done in a separate thread, the client side doesn't do much work. >> >> USB, clipboard and file sharing may use large amounts of data, and we rely on the glib source and kernel to prioritize channels: this isn't great in some cases and may receive improvements. >> >> >> -- >> Marc-André Lureau >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spice-devel mailing list >> Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spice-devel mailing list >> Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel </pre></div>