On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday July 18, neilb@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> This is done over an unconnected socket so ICMP errors don't come back
>> (I think) so the timeout is all that clnt_call gets to know there is
>> an error... I wonder what would happen if we just changed that to be a
>> connected socket...
>
> Yep, that was a good idea.
> The patch below causes a connected socket to be used when talking to
> portmap over UDP. That means that we get ICMP errors back.
> And if we handle the errors correctly, we avoid the timeout.
Excellent.
> With this added to all my other current patches, attempting to mount
> when udp/portmap is blocked succeeds in 90 seconds rather than 112
> seconds, and the 90 seconds is all in the mount system call.
>
> If the kernel used connected UDP ports to talk to portmap, it might
> benefit too (didn't I see some emails about connected UDP ports in
> net/sunrpc recently - I'm afraid I didn't pay much attention).
Yes, I think we are going that direction with the kernel as well. The
trade-off is at one point we were considering using a single UDP port
for all UDP-based RPC traffic, and using connected UDP would make that
more challenging.
I'm also a little worried about cases where a firewall might purposely
drop ICMP, but allow UDP (this is how my home firewall is configured).
But I think the worst that can happen there is that we are back in
the same boat of waiting a long while if a UDP listener isn't
available.
> From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>
> Use a connected port when talking to portmap via UDP.
>
> This allows us to get ICMP errors reported back so we can avoid
> timeouts. Also catch the error (RPC_CANTRECV) properly in getport.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/utils/mount/network.c b/utils/mount/network.c
> index 75354a7..ff50512 100644
> --- a/utils/mount/network.c
> +++ b/utils/mount/network.c
> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ static unsigned short getport(struct sockaddr_in *saddr,
> bind_saddr = *saddr;
> bind_saddr.sin_port = htons(PMAPPORT);
>
> - socket = get_socket(&bind_saddr, proto, PMAP_TIMEOUT, FALSE, FALSE);
> + socket = get_socket(&bind_saddr, proto, PMAP_TIMEOUT, FALSE, TRUE);
> if (socket == RPC_ANYSOCK) {
> if (proto == IPPROTO_TCP &&
> rpc_createerr.cf_error.re_errno == ETIMEDOUT)
> @@ -536,6 +536,7 @@ static int probe_port(clnt_addr_t *server, const unsigned long *versions,
> }
> if (rpc_createerr.cf_stat != RPC_PROGNOTREGISTERED &&
> rpc_createerr.cf_stat != RPC_TIMEDOUT &&
> + rpc_createerr.cf_stat != RPC_CANTRECV &&
> rpc_createerr.cf_stat != RPC_PROGVERSMISMATCH)
> goto out_bad;
>
> @@ -544,7 +545,8 @@ static int probe_port(clnt_addr_t *server, const unsigned long *versions,
> continue;
> p_prot = protos;
> }
> - if (rpc_createerr.cf_stat == RPC_TIMEDOUT)
> + if (rpc_createerr.cf_stat == RPC_TIMEDOUT ||
> + rpc_createerr.cf_stat == RPC_CANTRECV)
> goto out_bad;
>
> if (vers || !*++p_vers)
>
--
Chuck Lever
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