From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp, flow: Replace per-connection in_epoll flag with threadnb in flow_common
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aPgsqLT8nkgeRGGv@zatzit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb556e2f-b974-4e04-8605-1a5a46b7fa9b@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 02:14:02PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> On 20/10/2025 03:34, David Gibson wrote:
> > > @@ -570,7 +572,8 @@ static void tcp_timer_ctl(const struct ctx *c, struct tcp_tap_conn *conn)
> > > }
> > > conn->timer = fd;
> > > - if (epoll_ctl(c->epollfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, conn->timer, &ev)) {
> > > + if (epoll_ctl(flow_epollfd(&conn->f), EPOLL_CTL_ADD,
> > > + conn->timer, &ev)) {
> > Possibly a question for an earlier patch, but is there a reason we
> > can't use epoll_add() here?
> >
>
> Yes, the fd we use in epoll_ctl() and the fd stored in ref are not the same.
>
> The fd in ref is conn->sock (epoll_add() takes fd from ref) but in
> epoll_ctl() we add conn->timer (the fd from timerfd_create()).
Huh. That seems like a pre-existing bug. I'm pretty sure the epoll
ref for the timer ought to have the timer's fd in it. I suspect we
just never previously used the ref.fd field for this case.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-17 10:31 [PATCH v4 0/7] Refactor epoll handling in preparation for multithreading Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] util: Simplify epoll_del() interface to take epollfd directly Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] epoll_ctl: Extract epoll operations Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 11:48 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-17 12:21 ` Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 13:05 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-20 1:20 ` David Gibson
2025-10-21 11:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2025-10-22 0:58 ` David Gibson
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] util: Move epoll registration out of sock_l4_sa() Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] tcp, flow: Replace per-connection in_epoll flag with threadnb in flow_common Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 17:43 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-21 13:13 ` Laurent Vivier
2025-10-20 1:34 ` David Gibson
2025-10-21 12:14 ` Laurent Vivier
2025-10-22 1:00 ` David Gibson [this message]
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] icmp: Use thread-based epoll management for ICMP flows Laurent Vivier
2025-10-20 1:35 ` David Gibson
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] udp: Use thread-based epoll management for UDP flows Laurent Vivier
2025-10-20 1:39 ` David Gibson
2025-10-17 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] passt: Move main event loop processing into passt_worker() Laurent Vivier
2025-10-17 17:43 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-20 1:43 ` David Gibson
2025-10-21 8:00 ` Laurent Vivier
2025-10-22 0:53 ` David Gibson
2025-10-22 6:49 ` Laurent Vivier
2025-10-23 1:24 ` David Gibson
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