Review request for 6693490
Xueming Shen
Xueming.Shen at Sun.COM
Wed Mar 25 22:00:28 UTC 2009
looks good, approved.
Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> 6693490: (se) select throws "File exists" IOException under load (lnx)
>
> Sherman, we've chatted about this issue so you will probably want to
> review. It's a race between registration (or re-registration) and
> close. Registrations are queued so that they come into effect at the
> next select (as required by the spec) but if the channel is pre-closed
> just before it is added to epoll then it possible that the socketpair,
> used in the closing mechanism, gets registered with epoll. Once that
> happens it creates the conditions to cause a Selector spin, and where
> the file descriptor is recycled for a new SelectableChannel, then
> registration will fail with IOException "file exists". The fix is to
> remove from epoll before the channel is killed and to skip pending
> updates for closed channels (as these can result in re-registration).
> To avoid any side effects with cancellation the deregister also purges
> pending updates for the channel. Thanks to Serge Baranov, Robert
> Larsen, Peter van Rensburg, Richard Ridgway, Greg Wilkins and others
> for testing this fix, or preliminary versions of.
>
> The webrev is here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/6693490/webrev.00
>
> Thanks,
> -Alan.
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