[libvirt] [PATCH 1/6] port allocator: make used port bitmap global

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Feb 5 12:39:56 UTC 2018


On 02/01/2018 08:51 AM, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29.01.2018 09:09, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 12/20/2017 07:35 AM, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
>>> Host tcp4/tcp6 ports is a global resource thus we need to make
>>> port accounting also global or we have issues described in [1] when
>>> port allocator ranges of different instances are overlapped (which
>>> is by default for qemu for example).
>>>
>>> Let's have only one global port allocator object that take care
>>> of the entire ports range (0 - 65535) and introduce port range object
>>> for clients to specify desired auto allocation band.
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-December/msg00600.html
>>> ---
>>>  src/bhyve/bhyve_driver.c       |   4 +-
>>>  src/bhyve/bhyve_utils.h        |   2 +-
>>>  src/libvirt_private.syms       |   3 +-
>>>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.c         |   8 +--
>>>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.h         |   8 +--
>>>  src/libxl/libxl_driver.c       |  18 +++---
>>>  src/qemu/qemu_conf.h           |   6 +-
>>>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c         |  30 +++++-----
>>>  src/util/virportallocator.c    | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>>>  src/util/virportallocator.h    |  20 ++++---
>>>  tests/bhyvexml2argvtest.c      |   6 +-
>>>  tests/libxlxml2domconfigtest.c |   8 +--
>>>  tests/virportallocatortest.c   |  48 ++++++++++------
>>>  13 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>>> diff --git a/src/util/virportallocator.c b/src/util/virportallocator.c
>>> index fcd4f74..cd64356 100644
>>> --- a/src/util/virportallocator.c
>>> +++ b/src/util/virportallocator.c
>>> @@ -35,10 +35,14 @@
>>>  
>>>  #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_NONE
>>>  
>>> +typedef struct _virPortAllocator virPortAllocator;
>>> +typedef virPortAllocator *virPortAllocatorPtr;
>>>  struct _virPortAllocator {
>>>      virObjectLockable parent;
>>>      virBitmapPtr bitmap;
>>> +};
>>>  
>>> +struct _virPortRange {
>>>      char *name;
>>>  
>>>      unsigned short start;
>>> @@ -48,6 +52,7 @@ struct _virPortAllocator {
>>>  };
>>>  
>>>  static virClassPtr virPortAllocatorClass;
>>> +static virPortAllocatorPtr virPortAllocatorInstance;
>>
>> I wonder if this is the way to go. I mean, this virPortAllocatorInstance
>> is going to be a global variable that will never be freed (even if we
>> wanted to). I mean, if virPortRange had a pointer to virPortAllocator
> 
> Not sure why we need to free it. It is like global variables for classes,
> we don't need to free them yet. As to libxlxml2domconfigtest it can be
> fixed just like virportallocatortest by releasing all acquired ports.

Well, okay. Disregard my suggestion. However, what we still need to
discuss is the driver separation work of Daniel's. Dan, how badly will
this hit you if I merged these? In another thread I suggested to turn
this into a separate deaemon (which might be overkill).

Michal




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