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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-01-06 16:03:39 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-01-06 16:03:39 -0400
commitdffb5b9f92beeafdd6b5cc33b3ee0ab85a39fcf3 (patch)
tree33cf0870334603280595161c1955b5a5f66bd772 /Assistant
parent19a8852e067aa00c811d75a845522e889e0a34c6 (diff)
assistant: Start a new git-annex transferkeys process after a network connection change
So that remotes that use a persistent network connection are restarted. A remote might keep open a long duration network connection, and could fail to deal well with losing the connection. This is particularly a concern now that we have external special reotes. An external special remote that is implemented naively might open the connection only when PREPARE is sent, and if it loses connection, throw errors on each request that is made. (Note that the ssh connection caching should not have this problem; if the long-duration ssh process loses connection, the named pipe is disconnected and the next ssh attempt will reconnect. Also, XMPP already deals with disconnection robustly in its own way.) There's no way for git-annex to know if a lost network connection actually affects a given remote, which might have a transfer in process. It does not make sense to force kill the transferkeys process every time the NetWatcher detects a change. (Especially because the NetWatcher sometimes polls 1 change per hour.) In any case, the NetWatcher only detects connection to a network, not disconnection. So if a transfer is in progress over the network, and the network goes down, that will need to time out on its own. An alternate approch that was considered is to use a separate transferkeys process for each remote, and detect when a request fails, and assume that means that process is in a failing state and restart it. The problem with that approach is that if a resource is not available and a remote fails every time, it degrades to starting a new transferkeys process for every file transfer, which is too expensive. Instead, this commit only handles the network reconnection case, and restarts transferkeys only once the network has reconnected and another transfer needs to be made. So, a transferkeys process will be reused for 1 hour, or until the next network connection. ---- The NotificationBroadcaster was rewritten to use TMVars rather than MSampleVars, to allow checking without blocking if a notification has been received. ---- This commit was sponsored by Tobias Brunner.
Diffstat (limited to 'Assistant')
-rw-r--r--Assistant/Monad.hs2
-rw-r--r--Assistant/TransferrerPool.hs38
-rw-r--r--Assistant/Types/TransferrerPool.hs53
3 files changed, 77 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Assistant/Monad.hs b/Assistant/Monad.hs
index 44ae210b7..7c28c7f6f 100644
--- a/Assistant/Monad.hs
+++ b/Assistant/Monad.hs
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ newAssistantData st dstatus = AssistantData
<*> newScanRemoteMap
<*> newTransferQueue
<*> newTransferSlots
- <*> newTransferrerPool
+ <*> newTransferrerPool (checkNetworkConnections dstatus)
<*> newFailedPushMap
<*> newCommitChan
<*> newChangePool
diff --git a/Assistant/TransferrerPool.hs b/Assistant/TransferrerPool.hs
index e7aa72924..580417305 100644
--- a/Assistant/TransferrerPool.hs
+++ b/Assistant/TransferrerPool.hs
@@ -14,27 +14,43 @@ import Utility.Batch
import qualified Command.TransferKeys as T
-import Control.Concurrent.STM
+import Control.Concurrent.STM hiding (check)
import System.Process (create_group, std_in, std_out)
import Control.Exception (throw)
import Control.Concurrent
-{- Runs an action with a Transferrer from the pool. -}
+{- Runs an action with a Transferrer from the pool.
+ -
+ - Only one Transferrer is left running in the pool at a time.
+ - So if this needed to start a new Transferrer, it's stopped when done.
+ -}
withTransferrer :: FilePath -> BatchCommandMaker -> TransferrerPool -> (Transferrer -> IO a) -> IO a
withTransferrer program batchmaker pool a = do
- t <- maybe (mkTransferrer program batchmaker) (checkTransferrer program batchmaker)
- =<< atomically (tryReadTChan pool)
+ i@(TransferrerPoolItem (Just t) _) <- maybe
+ (mkTransferrerPoolItem pool =<< mkTransferrer program batchmaker)
+ (checkTransferrerPoolItem program batchmaker)
+ =<< atomically (popTransferrerPool pool)
v <- tryNonAsync $ a t
- unlessM (putback t) $
+ sz <- atomically $ pushTransferrerPool pool i
+ when (sz > 1) $
void $ forkIO $ stopTransferrer t
either throw return v
- where
- putback t = atomically $ ifM (isEmptyTChan pool)
- ( do
- writeTChan pool t
- return True
- , return False
+
+{- Check if a Transferrer from the pool is still ok to be used.
+ - If not, stop it and start a new one. -}
+checkTransferrerPoolItem :: FilePath -> BatchCommandMaker -> TransferrerPoolItem -> IO TransferrerPoolItem
+checkTransferrerPoolItem program batchmaker i = case i of
+ TransferrerPoolItem (Just t) check -> ifM check
+ ( return i
+ , do
+ stopTransferrer t
+ new check
)
+ TransferrerPoolItem Nothing check -> new check
+ where
+ new check = do
+ t <- mkTransferrer program batchmaker
+ return $ TransferrerPoolItem (Just t) check
{- Requests that a Transferrer perform a Transfer, and waits for it to
- finish. -}
diff --git a/Assistant/Types/TransferrerPool.hs b/Assistant/Types/TransferrerPool.hs
index 2727a6919..899e6969f 100644
--- a/Assistant/Types/TransferrerPool.hs
+++ b/Assistant/Types/TransferrerPool.hs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{- A pool of "git-annex transferkeys" processes
+{- A pool of "git-annex transferkeys" processes available for use
-
- Copyright 2013 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
-
@@ -8,10 +8,21 @@
module Assistant.Types.TransferrerPool where
import Common.Annex
+import Utility.NotificationBroadcaster
+import Assistant.Types.DaemonStatus
import Control.Concurrent.STM
-type TransferrerPool = TChan Transferrer
+{- This TMVar is never left empty. -}
+type TransferrerPool = TMVar (MkCheckTransferrer, [TransferrerPoolItem])
+
+type CheckTransferrer = IO Bool
+type MkCheckTransferrer = IO (IO Bool)
+
+{- Each item in the pool may have a transferrer running, and has an
+ - IO action that can be used to check if it's still ok to use the
+ - transferrer. -}
+data TransferrerPoolItem = TransferrerPoolItem (Maybe Transferrer) CheckTransferrer
data Transferrer = Transferrer
{ transferrerRead :: Handle
@@ -19,5 +30,39 @@ data Transferrer = Transferrer
, transferrerHandle :: ProcessHandle
}
-newTransferrerPool :: IO TransferrerPool
-newTransferrerPool = newTChanIO
+newTransferrerPool :: MkCheckTransferrer -> IO TransferrerPool
+newTransferrerPool c = newTMVarIO (c, [])
+
+popTransferrerPool :: TransferrerPool -> STM (Maybe TransferrerPoolItem)
+popTransferrerPool p = do
+ (c, l) <- takeTMVar p
+ case l of
+ [] -> do
+ putTMVar p (c, [])
+ return Nothing
+ (i:is) -> do
+ putTMVar p (c, is)
+ return $ Just i
+
+pushTransferrerPool :: TransferrerPool -> TransferrerPoolItem -> STM Int
+pushTransferrerPool p i = do
+ (c, l) <- takeTMVar p
+ let l' = i:l
+ putTMVar p (c, l')
+ return $ length l'
+
+{- Note that making a CheckTransferrer may allocate resources,
+ - such as a NotificationHandle, so it's important that the returned
+ - TransferrerPoolItem is pushed into the pool, and not left to be
+ - garbage collected. -}
+mkTransferrerPoolItem :: TransferrerPool -> Transferrer -> IO TransferrerPoolItem
+mkTransferrerPoolItem p t = do
+ mkcheck <- atomically $ fst <$> readTMVar p
+ check <- mkcheck
+ return $ TransferrerPoolItem (Just t) check
+
+checkNetworkConnections :: DaemonStatusHandle -> MkCheckTransferrer
+checkNetworkConnections dstatushandle = do
+ dstatus <- atomically $ readTMVar dstatushandle
+ h <- newNotificationHandle False (networkConnectedNotifier dstatus)
+ return $ checkNotification h