From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
Cc: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: EINTR in ftruncate() |
Date: | 2022-07-06 20:38:59 |
Message-ID: | 20220706203859.qbem3yjlvx2xbegc@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2022-07-06 21:29:41 +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Jul-05, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > I think we'd be better off disabling at least some signals during
> > dsm_impl_posix_resize(). I'm afraid we'll otherwise just find another
> > variation of these problems. I haven't checked the source of ftruncate, but
> > what Thomas dug up for fallocate makes it pretty clear that our current
> > approach of just retrying again and again isn't good enough. It's a bit more
> > obvious that it's a problem for fallocate, but I don't think it's worth having
> > different solutions for the two.
>
> So what if we move the retry loop one level up? As in the attached.
> Here, if we get EINTR then we retry both syscalls.
Doesn't really seem to address the problem to me. posix_fallocate()
takes some time (~1s for 3GB roughly), so if we signal at a higher rate,
we'll just get stuck.
I hacked a bit on a test program from Thomas, and it's pretty clearly
that with a 5ms timer interval you'll pretty much not make
progress. It's much easier to get fallocate() to get interrupted than
ftruncate(), but the latter gets interrupted e.g. when you do a strace
in the "wrong" moment (afaics SIGSTOP/SIGCONT trigger EINTR in
situations that are retried otherwise).
So I think we need: 1) block most signals, 2) a retry loop *without*
interrupt checks.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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