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[PATCH 2/8] xread: poll on non blocking fds

From
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2015, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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>From the man page:
EAGAIN The file descriptor fd refers to a file other than a socket
       and has been marked nonblocking (O_NONBLOCK), and the read
       would block.
EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK
       The file descriptor fd refers to a socket and has been marked
       nonblocking (O_NONBLOCK), and the read would block.  POSIX.1-2001
       allows either error to be returned for this case, and does not
       require these constants to have the same value, so a portable
       application should check for both possibilities.

If we get an EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK the fd must have set O_NONBLOCK. As the intent of xread is to read as much as possible either until the fd is EOF or an actual error occurs, we can ease the feeder of the fd by not spinning the whole time, but rather wait for it politely by not busy waiting.

We should not care if the call to poll failed, as we're in an infinite loop and can only get out with the correct read().

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 wrapper.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 6fcaa4d..4f720fe 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -236,8 +236,17 @@ ssize_t xread(int fd, void *buf, size_t len)
 	    len = MAX_IO_SIZE;
 	while (1) {
 		nr = read(fd, buf, len);
-		if ((nr < 0) && (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR))
-			continue;
+		if (nr < 0) {
+			if (errno == EINTR)
+				continue;
+			if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK) {
+				struct pollfd pfd;
+				pfd.events = POLLIN;
+				pfd.fd = fd;
+				/* We deliberately ignore the return value */
+				poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
+			}
+		}
 		return nr;
 	}
 }
-- 
2.6.4.443.ge094245.dirty
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  1. 0/8 Rerolling sb/submodule-parallel-fetch for the time after 2.7Stefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  2. 1/8 submodule.c: write "Fetching submodule <foo>" to stderrStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  3. 2/8 xread: poll on non blocking fdsStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineDec 14, 2015
  5. Stefan BellerDec 14, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2015
  7. Stefan BellerDec 14, 2015
  8. 3/8 xread_nonblock: add functionality to read from fds without blockingStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2015
  10. Eric SunshineDec 14, 2015
  11. Eric SunshineDec 14, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2015
  13. Jeff KingDec 14, 2015
  14. Stefan BellerDec 15, 2015
  15. Jeff KingDec 15, 2015
  16. Stefan BellerDec 15, 2015
  17. Jeff KingDec 15, 2015
  18. Johannes SixtDec 15, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2015
  20. 4/8 strbuf: add strbuf_read_once to read without blockingStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  21. Eric SunshineDec 14, 2015
  22. Stefan BellerDec 14, 2015
  23. 5/8 sigchain: add command to pop all common signalsStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  24. 6/8 run-command: add an asynchronous parallel child processorStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  25. Johannes SixtDec 14, 2015
  26. Stefan BellerDec 14, 2015
  27. 7/8 fetch_populated_submodules: use new parallel job processingStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  28. 8/8 submodules: allow parallel fetching, add tests and documentationStefan Beller, Dec 14, 2015
  29. Johannes SixtDec 14, 2015
  30. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2015

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