similar to: [PATCH nbdkit] Minimal implementation of NBD Structured Replies.

The code handling the NBD protocol was located in the same file as the code handling connections, for not really any reason except historical. This is quite a large code movement which splits out the protocol code into four new files: server/protocol-handshake.c initial handshake server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c " " (newstyle)

On 3/8/19 4:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This is about the simplest implementation of NBD Structured Replies > (SR) that we can do right now. > > It accepts NBD_OPT_STRUCTURED_REPLIES when negotiated by the client, > but only sends back the simplest possible SR when required to by > NBD_CMD_READ. The rest of the time it will send back simple replies > as before. We do

We disabled Nagle's algorithm to allow less latency in our responses reaching the client; but as a side effect, it leads to more network overhead when we send a reply split across more than one write(). Take advantage of various means for grouping related writes (Linux' MSG_MORE for sockets, gnutls' corking for TLS) to send a larger packet, and adjust callers to pass in our internal

Diff against libnbd’s copy of this file, and change this one until it matches. --- common/protocol/nbd-protocol.h | 76 +++++++++++++++++----------- server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c | 26 +++++----- server/protocol-handshake-oldstyle.c | 4 +- server/protocol.c | 25 ++++----- tests/test-layers.c | 14 ++--- 5 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 64

As mentioned in the previous patch, sending small packets as soon as possible leads to network packet overhead. Grouping related writes under corking appears to help everything but unencrypted Unix plain sockets. I tested with appropriate combinations from: $ nbdkit {-p 10810,-U -} \ {--tls=require --tls-verify-peer --tls-psk=./keys.psk,} memory size=64m \ --run

This time around, the numbers are indeed looking better than in v1; and I like the interface better. Eric Blake (2): server: Prefer send() over write() server: Group related transmission send()s server/internal.h | 7 +++- server/connections.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- server/crypto.c | 11 ++++--

Previously, we were squashing EOVERFLOW into EINVAL; continue to do so at points in the protocol where the client may not be expecting EOVERFLOW. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> --- server/protocol.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/server/protocol.c b/server/protocol.c index a52bb56..0a9f73c 100644 --- a/server/protocol.c

This commit implements the core NBD protocol for the "base:allocation" Block Status replies. --- server/internal.h | 7 + server/protocol.h | 17 +- server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c | 79 ++++++++- server/protocol.c | 248 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 4 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:03:05AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 3/8/19 4:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Also we do not understand NBD_CMD_FLAG_DF, but that seems to be OK > > because (a) we don't advertize the feature and (b) we only send back a > > single chunk anyway. > > Or, we COULD advertise it because we always honor it (but that's a > larger

These are a couple of patches in preparation for the Block Status implementation. While the patches (especially the second one) are very large they are really just elementary code motion. Rich.

Since commit 86fdb48c6a5362d66865493d9d2172166f99722e we have stored the connection object in thread-local storage. In this very large, but mostly mechanical change we stop passing the connection pointer around everywhere, and instead use the value stored in thread-local storage. This assumes a 1-1 mapping between the connection and the current thread which is true in *most* places.

I'm hoping to implement .extents for the nbd plugin; this is a prerequisite. I'm not sure about patch 3 - if we like it, I'll squash it to 2, if we don't, I think we are okay just dropping it. I'm also wondering if we have to worry about malicious plugins that don't populate the entire .pread buffer in an effort to get nbdkit to expose portions of the heap; my patch 7 loses

Qemu was able to demonstrate that knowing whether a zero operation is fast is useful when copying from one image to another: there is a choice between bulk pre-zeroing and then revisiting the data sections (fewer transactions, but depends on the zeroing to be fast), vs. visiting every portion of the disk only once (more transactions, but no time lost to duplicated I/O due to slow zeroes). As

This commit implements the core NBD protocol for the "base:allocation" Block Status replies. --- server/internal.h | 7 ++ server/protocol.h | 15 +++ server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c | 81 ++++++++++++++- server/protocol.c | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 4 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 07:50:22PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > Previously, we were squashing EOVERFLOW into EINVAL; continue to do so > at points in the protocol where the client may not be expecting > EOVERFLOW. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> > --- > server/protocol.c | 16 ++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >

Time to enhance the nbd plugin to request structured replies from the server. For now, deal only with structured reads. The server can now return sparse reads, even though we need nbdkit version 3 before we can in turn return sparse reads back to the client. In general, we have to assume the server is malicious, and so we must sanity check that it sends replies we expect. Thus, we have a choice

This conversion should be feature compatible with the standalone nbd code. Note that the use of libnbd makes the binary for this particular plugin fall under an LGPLv2+ license rather than BSD; but the source code in nbd.c remains BSD. A lot of code simply disappears, now that I'm no longer directly utilizing the NBD protocol files but relying on libnbd. Coordination between threads from

This conversion should be feature compatible with the standalone nbd code. Note that the use of libnbd makes the binary for this particular plugin fall under an LGPLv2+ license rather than BSD; but the source code in nbd.c remains BSD. A lot of code simply disappears, now that I'm no longer directly utilizing the NBD protocol files but relying on libnbd. Coordination between threads from

When we first used libnbd (nbdkit 1.14), it was brand new, so we left in the ability to build a limited nbd plugin without the use of libnbd for comparison. But now that libnbd has had more time under its belt, and we have learned that our nbd-standalone code is not getting much testing, it's time to follow through with our plan to finish off the old code, and now build the nbd plugin only

On 6/9/23 04:17, Eric Blake wrote: > In order to more easily add a third reply type with an even larger > header, but where the payload will look the same for both structured > and extended replies, it is nicer if simple and structured replies are > nested inside the same layer of sbuf.reply.hdr. Doing this also lets > us add an alias for accessing the cookie directly without