Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] fork_connector: add a fork connector

From: Jay Lan
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 00:48:43 EST


I based my listen program on the fclisten.c posted by Kaigai Kohei
with my own modification. Unfortunately i lost my test machine in the
lab. I will recreate the listen program Monday. The original listener
did not validate sequence number. It also prints length of data and
sequence number of every message it receives. My listener prints
only out-of-sequence error messages.

The fork generator fork-test.c was yours? I called it fork-test
and let it run continuously in while-loop:

# while 1
# ./fork-test 10000000
# sleep 1
# end

I let it do 10,000,000 times of fork continuously while the system
is running AIM7 and/or ubench.

The original fclisten.c and fork-test.c are attached for your reference.

- jay


Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:31:20 -0700
Jay Lan <jlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


With the patch you provide to me, i did not see the bugcheck
at cn_queue_wrapper() at the console.

Unmatched sequence number messages still happened. We expect
to lose packets under system stressed situation, but i still
observed duplicate messages, which concerned me.


What tool and what version do you use as message generator and receiver?


Thanks,
- jay


Evgeniy Polyakov

Only failure makes us experts. -- Theo de Raadt
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <linux/netlink.h>

void usage(){
puts("usage: fclisten <on|off>");
puts(" Default -> listening fork-connector");
puts(" on -> fork-connector Enable");
puts(" off -> fork-connector Disable");
exit(0);
}

#define MODE_LISTEN (1)
#define MODE_ENABLE (2)
#define MODE_DISABLE (3)

struct cb_id
{
__u32 idx;
__u32 val;
};

struct cn_msg
{
struct cb_id id;
__u32 seq;
__u32 ack;
__u32 len; /* Length of the following data */
__u8 data[0];
};


int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
char buf[4096];
int mode, sockfd, len;
struct sockaddr_nl ad;
struct nlmsghdr *hdr = (struct nlmsghdr *)buf;
struct cn_msg *msg = (struct cn_msg *)(buf+sizeof(struct nlmsghdr));

switch(argc){
case 1:
mode = MODE_LISTEN;
break;
case 2:
if (strcasecmp("on",argv[1])==0) {
mode = MODE_ENABLE;
}else if (strcasecmp("off",argv[1])==0){
mode = MODE_DISABLE;
}else{
usage();
}
break;
default:
usage();
break;
}

if( (sockfd=socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_NFLOG)) < 0 ){
fprintf(stderr, "Fault on socket().\n");
return( 1 );
}
ad.nl_family = AF_NETLINK;
ad.nl_pad = 0;
ad.nl_pid = getpid();
ad.nl_groups = CN_IDX_FORK;
if( bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&ad, sizeof(ad)) ){
fprintf(stderr, "Fault on bind to netlink.\n");
return( 2 );
}

if (mode==MODE_LISTEN) {
while(-1){
len = recvfrom(sockfd, buf, 4096, 0, NULL, NULL);
printf("%d-byte recv Seq=%d\n", len, hdr->nlmsg_seq);
}
}else{
ad.nl_family = AF_NETLINK;
ad.nl_pad = 0;
ad.nl_pid = 0;
ad.nl_groups = 1;

hdr->nlmsg_len = sizeof(struct nlmsghdr) + sizeof(struct cn_msg) + sizeof(int);
hdr->nlmsg_type = 0;
hdr->nlmsg_flags = 0;
hdr->nlmsg_seq = 0;
hdr->nlmsg_pid = getpid();
msg->id.idx = 0xfeed;
msg->id.val = 0xbeef;
msg->seq = msg->ack = 0;
msg->len = sizeof(int);

if (mode==MODE_ENABLE){
(*(int *)(msg->data)) = 1;
} else {
(*(int *)(msg->data)) = 0;
}
sendto(sockfd, buf, sizeof(struct nlmsghdr)+sizeof(struct cn_msg)+sizeof(int),
0, (struct sockaddr *)&ad, sizeof(ad));
}
}
#include <sys/signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int pid;
int i = 0, max = 100000;
struct timeval tv0, tv1;
struct timezone tz;
long diff;

if (argc >= 2)
max = atoi(argv[1]);

signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);

gettimeofday(&tv0, &tz);
while (i++ < max) {
pid = fork();
if (pid == 0) {
sleep(1);
exit (0);
}
}
gettimeofday(&tv1, &tz);

diff = (tv1.tv_sec - tv0.tv_sec)*1000000 + (tv1.tv_usec - tv0.tv_usec);

printf("Average per process fork+exit time is %ld usecs [diff=%lu, max=%d].\n", diff/max, diff, max);
return 0;
}