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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 09/13] xen/pvcalls: implement recvmsg
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> + count++;
> >> + else
> >> + wait_event_interruptible(map->active.inflight_conn_req,
> >> + pvcalls_front_read_todo(map));
> >> + }
> > Should we be using PVCALLS_FRONT_MAX_SPIN here? In sendmsg it is
> > counting non-sleeping iterations but here we are sleeping so
> > PVCALLS_FRONT_MAX_SPIN (5000) may take a while.
> >
> > In fact, what shouldn't this waiting be a function of MSG_DONTWAIT
>
> err, which it already is. But the question still stands (except for
> MSG_DONTWAIT).

The code (admittedly unintuitive) is busy-looping (non-sleeping) for
5000 iterations *before* attempting to sleep. So in that regard, recvmsg
and sendmsg use PVCALLS_FRONT_MAX_SPIN in the same way: only for
non-sleeping iterations.

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