Hi,

I think both patches can solve the problem. V1 (Praveen's) removes the 
dependency in ntfimcnd, V3 (Vu's) removes the dependency in ntfd. Below is a 
summary I have collected from previous discussions:
- V3 (Vu's)
. There could be chances that we have no active ntfimcnd:  the period of no 
active imcn happens when both termination threads are terminating imcnd at the 
same time (there should be one doing earlier), and the active imcnd is stuck in 
ntfInitialize()
. The period of 2 active ntfimcnd could be longer: In state transition from 
quiesced->standby, termination thread is ongoing, the old active imcnd could be 
a bit longer as active one
I think the difficulty in V3 is ntfd can not know things happening in both 
local and remote ntfimcnd

- V1 (Praveen's)
. When ntfimcnd gets sigterm, the job from dispatching IMM callback to sending 
notification could be interrupted. If we make sigterm_handler sync with IMM's 
thread, that could cause signal abort from ntfd due to latency
. But what if loss of notification is always assumpted, and we have special 
notification to inform clients at ntfimcnd's start up
. IMM thread needs to do synchronization with sigterm_handler on common stuffs: 
ie immOI handle, ...

Thanks
/Minh


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** [tickets:#2219] ntfd: circular dependency with osafntfimcnd**

**Status:** assigned
**Milestone:** 5.0.2
**Created:** Thu Dec 08, 2016 05:14 AM UTC by Gary Lee
**Last Updated:** Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:26 AM UTC
**Owner:** Praveen


A circular dependency can be seen when performing a si-swap of 
safSi=SC-2N,safApp=OpenSAF:

1. Active NTFD is trying to sync with Standby using MBC
2. Standby NTFD is the process of terminating its local osafntfimcnd. It is 
stuck in timedwait_imcn_exit() and cannot reply to the Active.
3. osafntfimcnd [on standby] is trying to send a notfication to Active NTFD

So we have (1) depending on (2) depending on (3) depending on (1)

This results in a temporary deadlock that dramatically slows down NTFD's 
ability to process its main dispatch loop. The deadlock only lasts for approx. 
1 second, when mbcsv_mds_send_msg() times out. But since there could be lots of 
MBC messages to send, sometimes osafntfimcnd is killed with SIGABRT generating 
a coredump. The si-swap operation will also timeout.

steps to reproduce
- Run loop of ntftest 32
root@SC-1:~# for i in {1..10}; do ntftest 32; done
- On another terminal, keep swapping 2N Opensaf SI, got coredump after couples 
of swaps
root@SC-1:~# amf-adm si-swap safSi=SC-2N,safApp=OpenSAF
...
root@SC-1:~# amf-adm si-swap safSi=SC-2N,safApp=OpenSAF

~~~
SC-2 (active)

There are a lot of send failures. Each taking approx. 1 second to timeout. 
During these 1 second timeouts, NTFD cannot process the main dispatch loop.
    
    Dec  7 11:01:37.531772 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:37.531781 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:38.537307 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:38.537758 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:38.537766 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:39.543180 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:39.543695 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:39.543698 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:40.545252 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:40.545719 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:40.545726 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:41.551328 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:41.551971 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:41.551979 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:42.557594 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:42.558171 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:42.558179 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:43.564051 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:43.564874 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:43.564883 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:44.572407 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:44.573262 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    Dec  7 11:01:44.573271 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0209] TR send type 
MDS_SENDTYPE_REDRSP:
    Dec  7 11:01:45.575091 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0247] << 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: failure
    Dec  7 11:01:47.083548 osafntfd [452:mbcsv_mds.c:0185] >> 
mbcsv_mds_send_msg: sending to vdest:e
    
~~~


~~~
SC-1 (standby)

NTFD is trying to terminate osafntfimcnd. While it is doing that, it cannot 
reply to NTFD on SC-2. Meanwhile, osafntfimcnd is sending NTF notifications to 
NTFD on SC-1.
    
    Dec  7 11:01:35.453151 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0316] TR 
handle_state_ntfimcn: Terminating osafntfimcnd process
    Dec  7 11:01:45.474313 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0124] TR   Termination 
timeout
    Dec  7 11:01:45.474375 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0130] << 
wait_imcnproc_termination: rc = -1, retry_cnt = 101
    Dec  7 11:01:45.474387 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0168] TR   Normal 
termination failed. Escalate to abort
    Dec  7 11:01:45.574703 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0172] TR   Imcn 
successfully aborted
    Dec  7 11:01:45.574712 osafntfd [464:ntfs_imcnutil.c:0187] << 
timedwait_imcn_exit    
~~~



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