On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:27:14AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I always thought SO_LINGER only has an effect on connections that are
> (partially) closed only: So if there is some network outage on a TCP
> connection and the connection is still considered established, would
> it help?
> 
> Regards,
> Ulrich

It changes what happens during an active close. With SO_LINGER set,
close(2) will block until the connection is finalized or the l_linger
timeout is reached and the connection is aborted with a RST. The
important detail is that once close(2) returns, the (re)transmit queue
is purged, rather than being retried in the background.

- Chris

> 
> >>> Chris Leech <[email protected]> schrieb am 04.03.2016 um 06:00 in 
> >>> Nachricht
> <[email protected]>:
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 07:09:14PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> >> On 03/03/2016 06:09 PM, Chris Leech wrote:
> >> > When requests are being failed it's important to abort the TCP
> >> > connection rather than let TCP wait and attempt a graceful shutdown.
> >> > 
> >> > That can be accomplished by setting the SO_LINGER socket option with a
> >> > linger time of 0 to drop queued data and close the connection with a RST
> >> > instead of a FIN.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <[email protected]>
> >> > ---
> >> >  usr/io.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >> > 
> >> > diff --git a/usr/io.c b/usr/io.c
> >> > index f552e1e..48b233c 100644
> >> > --- a/usr/io.c
> >> > +++ b/usr/io.c
> >> > @@ -391,9 +391,24 @@ iscsi_io_tcp_poll(iscsi_conn_t *conn, int 
> >> > timeout_ms)
> >> >  void
> >> >  iscsi_io_tcp_disconnect(iscsi_conn_t *conn)
> >> >  {
> >> > +        struct linger so_linger = { .l_onoff = 1, .l_linger = 0 };
> >> > +
> >> >          if (conn->socket_fd >= 0) {
> >> >                  log_debug(1, "disconnecting conn %p, fd %d", conn,
> >> >                           conn->socket_fd);
> >> > +
> >> > +                /* If the state is not IN_LOGOUT, this isn't a clean 
> >> > shutdown
> >> > +                 * and there's some sort of error handling going on. In 
> >> > that
> >> > +                 * case, set a 0 SO_LINGER to force an abortive close 
> >> > (RST) and
> >> > +                 * free whatever is sitting in the TCP transmit queue. 
> >> > This is
> >> > +                 * done to prevent stale data from being sent should the
> >> > +                 * network connection be restored before TCP times out.
> >> > +                 */
> >> > +                if (conn->state != ISCSI_CONN_STATE_IN_LOGOUT) {
> >> > +                        setsockopt(conn->socket_fd, SOL_SOCKET, 
> >> > SO_LINGER,
> >> > +                                   &so_linger, sizeof(so_linger));
> >> > +                }
> >> > +
> >> >                  close(conn->socket_fd);
> >> >                  conn->socket_fd = -1;
> >> >          }
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> Nice.
> >> 
> >> For maybe a slightly different problem, but hoping I get lucky and your
> >> patch fixes it too, I thought the network layer was still accessing
> >> pages that we tried to send and was causing a oops. I get the part where
> >> with your patch the network layer will not try to send data anymore, but
> >> I guess I am asking if the network layer could still be doing some sort
> >> of delayed cleanup process after close() has returned?
> > 
> > From what I can tell in the tcp code, the zero linger handling purges
> > all of the socket queues freeing everything before close returns.
> > 
> > - Chris

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