[libvirt] Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] lxc: loop in tty forwarding process

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed May 7 13:16:11 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:25:58AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:51:08AM -0700, Dave Leskovec wrote:
> > This patch changes the lxc tty forwarding process to use epoll instead of poll.
> >  This is done to avoid a cpu consuming loop when a user disconnects from the
> > container console.
> > 
> > During some testing, we found that when the slave end of a tty is closed, calls
> > to poll() on the master end will return immediately with POLLHUP until the slave
> > end is opened again.  The result of this is that if you connect to the container
> > console using virsh and then ctrl-] out of it, the container tty process will
> > chew up the processor handling POLLHUP.  This event can't be disabled regardless
> > of what is set in the events field.
> > 
> > This can be avoided by using epoll.  When used in edge triggered mode, you see
> > the initial EPOLLHUP but will not see another one until someone connects and
> > then disconnects from the console again.  This also drove some changes into how
> > the regular input data is handled.  Once an EPOLLIN is seen from an fd, another
> > one will not be surfaced until all data has been read from the file (EAGAIN is
> > returned by read).
> 
>   Sounds fine in principle but i have a couple of questions with the patch
> 
> > +#include <stdbool.h>
> 
>   err ... what is that ? looks like a linux specific header, do we really
> need this ? epoll is linux specific I think but  #include <sys/epoll.h>
> should be sufficient no ?

It is kinda academic whether epool is linux specific - the entire LXC
driver is Linux specific, so you're not compiling it on Solaris/Windows
anyway. So any Linux-isms in LXC driver code is fine

Dan.
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