similar to: [libnbd PATCH 0/4] Various interop fixes

I'm still playing with ideas on how to split rstate from wstate (so that we can send a request without waiting for POLLIN to complete a pending reply), but this is some preliminary refactoring I found useful. I also fixed a couple of bugs while in the area (already pushed). There's a question of whether we want nbd_handle to be nearly 5k, or if we should instead keep it small and add one

Proposal for new APIs to list exports. The general shape of the API can probably best be seen from the examples/list-exports.c example. Rich.

This isn't quite finished because not all of the tests or examples have been updated, but it demonstrates an idea: Should we forget about the concept of having multiple connections managed under a single handle? In this patch there is a single ‘struct nbd_handle *’ which manages a single state machine and connection (and therefore no nbd_connection). To connect to a multi-conn server you must

Per recent discussion here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-May/thread.html#00175

I'm posting this now, as I'm at the end of a workday and I got things working for manual experimentation. Still to do: - write interop tests for qemu-nbd and nbdkit (including my proposed patch addition of qemu-nbd -A to show qemu:allocation-depth) - figure out if we can make 'nbdinfo --map' use the new API to automatically select all contexts advertised by the server Eric Blake

Similar to the recent --mask-handshake command line added to nbdkit to test client fallbacks to crippled servers, it can be worth testing server fallbacks to crippled clients. And just as we have exposed whether the client will request structured replies, we can also expose whether the client will understand various handshake flags from the NBD protocol. Of course, we default to supporting all

This was v3 patch 2/22, reworked to address the confusion about how a structured reply header is read in two pieces before getting to the payload portion. I'm still working on rebasing the rest of my v3 series (patches 1, 3-22) from other comments given, but this seemed independent enough that it's worth posting now rather than holding it up for the rest of the series. Eric Blake (4):

Well, I'm not quite done (I still want to get nbdinfo to work on a single nbd connection for all cases when reading the heads of the file is not required), but I'm happy with patches 1-11, and 12-13 show where I'm headed for getting NBD_OPT_INFO to work. Posting now to see if some of the earlier patches are ready to commit while I continue working on the latter half. Eric Blake (13):

Used both for servers that are not fixed newstyle, and for servers that don't understand NBD_OPT_GO. --- generator/Makefile.am | 1 + generator/generator | 39 +++++++++++ generator/states-newstyle-opt-export-name.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++ generator/states-newstyle-opt-go.c | 8 +-- generator/states-newstyle.c | 11

I still need to wire in the use of *_notify functions into nbdkit to prove whether it makes the code any faster or easier to maintain, but at least the added example shows one good use case for the new API. Eric Blake (6): api: Add nbd_aio_in_flight generator: Allow DEAD state actions to run generator: Allow Int64 in callbacks states: Prepare for aio notify callback api: Add new

Since v2: - rebase to Rich's new API calls - more refactoring in patch 1 (retitled) - new patches 3 and 4 - fix data corruption in patch 6 (was 4) - more tweaks to the reproducer example (including using new API from 3) Eric Blake (7): lib: Refactor command_common() to do more common work commands: Allow for a command queue commands: Expose FIFO ordering of server completions

Necessary when writing a client that wants to avoid unnecessary EINVAL errors from sending unaligned requests. At some point, we may want to add synchronous convenience API wrappers that do request splitting or read-modify-write to obey server constraints while still appearing to the library client as accepting any possible request. But such a wrapper should only be synchronous and not copied to

When processing a server reply within the REPLY subgroup, we will often hit a situation where recv() requires us to block until the next NotifyRead. But since NotifyRead is the only permitted external action while in this group, we are effectively blocking CmdIssue and NotifyWrite events from happening until the server finishes the in-progress reply, even though those events have no strict

This might not be the final solution, but it certainly seems to solve a deadlock for me that I could trigger by using 'nbdkit --filter=noparallel memory 512k' and calling nbd_aio_pread for a request larger than 256k (enough for the Linux kernel to block the server until libnbd read()s), immediately followed by nbd_aio_pwrite for a request larger than 256k (enough to block libnbd until the

On v1, we discussed whether cmds_to_issue needed to be a list, since it never had more than one element. I played with the idea of making it a list, and allowing the client to queue up new commands regardless of whether the state machine is currently in READY. I also polished up the tmp demo into a bit more full-fledged example file, worth including since it also let me discover a hard-to-hit race

This is the bare minimum needed to allow the user to take control over the rest of option negotiating. This patch adds several new API: nbd_set_opt_mode() - called during Created to enable the new mode nbd_get_opt_mode() - query whether opt mode is enabled nbd_opt_go() - used in Negotiating state to attempt to use export nbd_opt_abort() - used in Negotiating state to skip Connected state

This is a subset of my v2 posting, but limited to just the NBD_OPT_LIST handling. The biggest change since v2 is the addition of added unit testing in all four language bindings (C, python, ocaml, golang). The tests require nbdkit built from git on PATH, and may not be entirely idiomatic, but I at least validated that they catch issues (for example, adding an exit statement near the end of the

On 7/20/20 9:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > A major missing feature of this library was the ability to list > exports from an NBD server. This implements the feature by adding a > new handle mode and additional functions for querying the list of > export names. > --- > .gitignore | 1 + > examples/Makefile.am | 14

An incremental improvement on top of listing exports. I still think it's worth experimenting with revisiting how our API for list mode should actually work [1] (so that we can reuse a single connection for both grabbing the list and finally using NBD_OPT_GO), but this change was easier to whip together while still thinking about that. [1]

In v2: ack'ed preliminary patches have been pushed, and I've added a lot of testsuite coverage as well as putting the new API to use in nbdinfo. Eric Blake (2): api: Add nbd_opt_list_meta_context info: List available meta-contexts lib/internal.h | 1 + generator/API.ml | 84 ++++++++-