From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 17:02:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515210245.GA3278654@generichostname> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a689da2bb820f70d9e668d656b088af2297d456.1589393036.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 02:04:58PM -0400, Denton Liu wrote:
> This is not a complete solution to the problem, however. It is possible
> that a flush packet could be sent in the middle of a message and the
> connection could die immediately after. Then, remote-curl would not
> error out and fetch-pack would still be in the middle of a transaction
> and they would enter deadlock. A complete solution would involve
> reframing the stateless-connect protocol, possibly by introducing
> another control packet ("0002"?) as a stateless request separator
> packet which is always sent at the end of post_rpc().
>
> Although this is not a complete solution, it is better than nothing and
> it resolves the reported issue for now.
I managed to get the implementation of the control packet working. As a
result, I will be dropping this patch in the next reroll and replacing
it with the more complete solution. For anyone reviewing, feel free to
skip this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 18:04 [PATCH 0/6] remote-curl: partial fix for a deadlock with stateless rpc Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/6] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 2/6] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] transport: combine common cases with a fallthrough Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18 9:18 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-15 20:56 ` Jeff King
2020-05-15 20:57 ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:38 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 9:08 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:49 ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:02 ` Denton Liu [this message]
2020-05-15 21:41 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 16:52 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 21:00 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:04 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:50 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18 20:08 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:22 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:51 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] pkt-line: PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:43 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:12 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:26 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:36 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 20:58 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19 2:38 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 " Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-19 16:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:54 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-19 21:14 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-19 20:51 ` [PATCH v3 8/7] fixup! pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-22 13:33 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] fixup! remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-22 15:54 ` Jeff King
2020-05-22 16:05 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-22 16:31 ` Jeff King
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