Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 3/4] net/colo-compare.c: Optimize unpredictable tcp options comparison

[Jason Wang]

On 2017年07月13日 13:52, Zhang Chen wrote:
> When network is busy, some tcp options(like sack) will unpredictable
> occur in primary side or secondary side. it will make packet size
> not same, but the two packet's payload is identical. colo just
> care about packet payload, so we skip the option field.

A question is, if SACK were not same, does it mean e.g some packet were 
lost just for primary or secondary? If yes, we will be out of sync soon. 
Is it really better to delay the checkpoint here?

Thanks

> Signed-off-by: Zhang Chen <address@hidden>
> ---
>   net/colo-compare.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/colo-compare.c b/net/colo-compare.c
> index 2caeb80..6406c4a 100644
> --- a/net/colo-compare.c
> +++ b/net/colo-compare.c
> @@ -183,7 +183,10 @@ static int packet_enqueue(CompareState *s, int mode)
>    * return:    0  means packet same
>    *            > 0 || < 0 means packet different
>    */
> -static int colo_packet_compare_common(Packet *ppkt, Packet *spkt, int offset)
> +static int colo_packet_compare_common(Packet *ppkt,
> +                                      Packet *spkt,
> +                                      int poffset,
> +                                      int soffset)
>   {
>       if (trace_event_get_state(TRACE_COLO_COMPARE_MISCOMPARE)) {
>           char pri_ip_src[20], pri_ip_dst[20], sec_ip_src[20], sec_ip_dst[20];
> @@ -198,9 +201,10 @@ static int colo_packet_compare_common(Packet *ppkt, Packet 
> *spkt, int offset)
>                                      sec_ip_src, sec_ip_dst);
>       }
>   
> -    if (ppkt->size == spkt->size) {
> -        return memcmp(ppkt->data + offset, spkt->data + offset,
> -                      spkt->size - offset);
> +    if (ppkt->size == spkt->size || poffset != soffset) {
> +        return memcmp(ppkt->data + poffset,
> +                      spkt->data + soffset,
> +                      spkt->size - soffset);
>       } else {
>           trace_colo_compare_main("Net packet size are not the same");
>           return -1;
> @@ -263,12 +267,22 @@ static int colo_packet_compare_tcp(Packet *spkt, Packet 
> *ppkt)
>        * so we just need skip this field.
>        */
>       if (ptcp->th_off > 5) {
> -        ptrdiff_t tcp_offset;
> -        tcp_offset = ppkt->transport_header - (uint8_t *)ppkt->data
> +        ptrdiff_t ptcp_offset, stcp_offset;
> +
> +        ptcp_offset = ppkt->transport_header - (uint8_t *)ppkt->data
>                        + (ptcp->th_off * 4);
> -        res = colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt, tcp_offset);
> +        stcp_offset = spkt->transport_header - (uint8_t *)spkt->data
> +                     + (stcp->th_off * 4);
> +
> +        /*
> +         * When network is busy, some tcp options(like sack) will unpredictable
> +         * occur in primary side or secondary side. it will make packet size
> +         * not same, but the two packet's payload is identical. colo just
> +         * care about packet payload, so we skip the option field.
> +         */
> +        res = colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt, ptcp_offset, stcp_offset);
>       } else if (ptcp->th_sum == stcp->th_sum) {
> -        res = colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt, ETH_HLEN);
> +        res = colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt, ETH_HLEN, ETH_HLEN);
>       } else {
>           res = -1;
>       }
> @@ -328,6 +342,7 @@ static int colo_packet_compare_udp(Packet *spkt, Packet 
> *ppkt)
>        * the ip payload here.
>        */
>       ret = colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt,
> +                                     network_header_length + ETH_HLEN,
>                                        network_header_length + ETH_HLEN);
>   
>       if (ret) {
> @@ -365,6 +380,7 @@ static int colo_packet_compare_icmp(Packet *spkt, Packet 
> *ppkt)
>        * the ip payload here.
>        */
>       if (colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt,
> +                                   network_header_length + ETH_HLEN,
>                                      network_header_length + ETH_HLEN)) {
>           trace_colo_compare_icmp_miscompare("primary pkt size",
>                                              ppkt->size);
> @@ -402,7 +418,7 @@ static int colo_packet_compare_other(Packet *spkt, Packet 
> *ppkt)
>                                      sec_ip_src, sec_ip_dst);
>       }
>   
> -    return colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt, 0);
> +    return colo_packet_compare_common(ppkt, spkt, 0, 0);
>   }
>   
>   static int colo_old_packet_check_one(Packet *pkt, int64_t *check_time)