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Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood


Darryl Miles wrote:
Linux<>CGYWIN where linux is client and pulling data down hangs very quickly after connection and getting the first large file (> 256Kb) to download.

The problem goes away if the WIN32 side is Win2003. Its only Win2k which I am seeing problems with.




I have looked through the directory of src/winsup/cygwin and there is already stuff creating threads within the context of select.cc for "mailslot" support.

There is already a wake up mechanism in place inside cygwin_select().

Initially I can drop the idea of an idle list from the design and go with a new thread per unwanted blocked IO when the IO is expected to be non-blocking by the app. This is enough to prove the fix.

So I'm thinking I am half way there.


I also think from reading through the WIN32 API that I either get blocking IO or overlapped IO, where overlapped is non-blocking with async I/O completion signaling. This mode isn't directly compatible with non-blocking of Unix the way I see it as the data is still queued into the kernel for IO. Not next left with the application in the case of errno=EAGAIN of unix.


I don't know enough about real life use of the WIN32 API to know if an overlapped IO can block as well. If that is the case then maybe all pipe IO has to be done through a writer thread and we use the busyiness state of a writer thread to drive set/reset write_ready state for select. We then serialize all write(2) calls on pipes in FIFO order so there is a clear defined order, even if the application happens to have multiple threads writing.

Maybe someone with more WIN32 knowledge than me would care to comment.


Darryl



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