Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] nbd-client: avoid spurious qio_channel_yield() re-entry

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 03:23:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 22/08/2017 14:51, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > This should fix the issue that Dave is seeing but I'm concerned that
> > there are more problems in nbd-client.c.  We don't have good
> > abstractions for writing coroutine socket I/O code.  Something like Go's
> > channels would avoid manual low-level coroutine calls.  There is
> > currently no way to cancel qio_channel_yield() so requests doing I/O may
> > remain in-flight indefinitely and nbd-client.c doesn't join them...
> 
> The idea was that shutdown(2) would force them to reenter...

That depends on the BDRV_POLL_WHILE() allowing all request coroutines to
terminate before we call nbd_client_detach_aio_context():

    qio_channel_shutdown(client->ioc,
                         QIO_CHANNEL_SHUTDOWN_BOTH,
                         NULL);
    BDRV_POLL_WHILE(bs, client->read_reply_co);

    nbd_client_detach_aio_context(bs);

I'm not sure we have any guarantee that request coroutines will have
terminated.

Once nbd_client_detach_aio_context() is called
ioc->read_coroutine/write_coroutine are set to NULL.  At that point any
remaining coroutine doing I/O on ioc will be in trouble.

Stefan