Re: [PATCH v2] rpc: Remove keepalive_required option

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On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 09:05:53AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> Since its introduction in 2011 (particularly in commit f4324e329275),
> the option doesn't work.  It just effectively disables all incoming
> connections.  That's because the client private data that contain the
> 'keepalive_supported' boolean, are initialized to zeroes so the bool is
> false and the only other place where the bool is used is when checking
> whether the client supports keepalive.  Thus, according to the server,
> no client supports keepalive.
> 
> Removing this instead of fixing it is better because a) apparently
> nobody ever tried it since 2011 (4 years without one month) and b) we
> cannot know whether the client supports keepalive until we get a ping or
> pong keepalive packet.  And that won't happen untile after we dispatched
> the ConnectOpen call.
> 
> Another two reasons would be c) the keepalive_required was tracked on
> the server level, but keepalive_supported was in private data of the
> client as well as the check that was made in the remote layer, thus
> making all other instances of virNetServer miss this feature unless they
> all implemented it for themselves and d) we can always add it back in
> case there is a request and a use-case for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>  - Added a new daemontest file with current input/output.
> 
>  daemon/libvirtd-config.c                           |  4 ----
>  daemon/libvirtd-config.h                           |  2 --
>  daemon/libvirtd.aug                                |  2 --
>  daemon/libvirtd.c                                  |  2 --
>  daemon/libvirtd.conf                               |  7 ------
>  daemon/libvirtd.h                                  |  1 -
>  daemon/remote.c                                    |  8 +------
>  daemon/test_libvirtd.aug.in                        |  2 --
>  src/libvirt_remote.syms                            |  1 -
>  src/locking/lock_daemon.c                          |  2 +-
>  src/lxc/lxc_controller.c                           |  2 +-
>  src/rpc/virnetserver.c                             | 25 +---------------------
>  src/rpc/virnetserver.h                             |  3 ---
>  ....json => input-data-no-keepalive-required.json} |  2 --
>  .../virnetdaemondata/output-data-admin-nomdns.json |  2 --
>  .../virnetdaemondata/output-data-anon-clients.json |  1 -
>  .../output-data-initial-nomdns.json                |  1 -
>  tests/virnetdaemondata/output-data-initial.json    |  1 -
>  ...json => output-data-no-keepalive-required.json} |  2 --
>  tests/virnetdaemontest.c                           |  2 +-
>  20 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
>  copy tests/virnetdaemondata/{input-data-admin-nomdns.json => input-data-no-keepalive-required.json} (96%)
>  copy tests/virnetdaemondata/{input-data-admin-nomdns.json => output-data-no-keepalive-required.json} (96%)
> 

> diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.aug b/daemon/libvirtd.aug
> index a70aa1dddf90..7c7992dd0568 100644
> --- a/daemon/libvirtd.aug
> +++ b/daemon/libvirtd.aug
> @@ -79,11 +79,9 @@ module Libvirtd =
> 
>     let keepalive_entry = int_entry "keepalive_interval"
>                         | int_entry "keepalive_count"
> -                       | bool_entry "keepalive_required"
> 
>     let admin_keepalive_entry = int_entry "admin_keepalive_interval"
>                               | int_entry "admin_keepalive_count"
> -                             | bool_entry "admin_keepalive_required"
> 
>     let misc_entry = str_entry "host_uuid"
>

We should not remove entries from this file in general as it will
cause augeas to fail to load any existing files with the config
option present.


Regards,
Daniel
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