On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 07/25/2017 01:37 AM, Yann Ylavic wrote: >> >> This change may be disputable... >> >> I wanted to: >> 1. avoid blocking in any case (we can't where this is called), >> 2. avoid issueing a nonblocking "normal" close() which lets the system handle >> the burden of possibly leaking descriptors (until its own linger is done). > > What is the real use case for 2.?
There are three cases where abort_socket_nonblocking() can be called: a. close_worker_sockets(), as of ungraceful shutdown/restart, to kill sockets used by all the workers), b. stop_lingering_close() to stop reading definitely from the socket when the linger timeout in place expires, c. some push2worker() failure, we can't handle a new connection (or in write completion state) because of an internal error (a graceful is scheduled now since this commit). For a. I think RST is the best we can do since we are forcibly terminating active connections (possibly many), which we know nothing about (flush/writ-ability), and for which normal close() could block for an indefinite time (either in mpm_event if the socket is kept blocking, or in the system if it's set nonblocking). For b. the socket is already shutdown(), we lingered with the appropriate timeout, it's time to RST further data (a normal close() would be the same I think). For c. we haven't read anything from a new connection or write completion is now ready, in both cases the socket is writable (a new connection is unlikely acceptable with a zero window) so we could close() normally afterall. Still we abort the connection outside the underlying protocol (HTTP or else), knowingly with pending data in or out. I think a normal close() could be misinterpreted in the write case (as a usual end of connection, think non-HTTP/upgraded data in async), while it would be equivalent for the newly accepted connection case (if we close with data already received and ack-ed, the system will RST by itself). So possibly these are all legitimate RST cases (we do like TIME_WAITs, but it seems not reachable with any of the above points probably I think), but I may be missing something... Regards, Yann.
