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author | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2021-03-01 17:27:27 +0000 |
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committer | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2021-03-08 14:55:19 +0100 |
commit | 3f14b909ebe7296eef6d4b1a1ed5f602ab129602 (patch) | |
tree | fce96b20cbb87121b00b8d7270b04d37d432ddcf | |
parent | 03d2b412aaf2078425f8472f31c8a9c2340969eb (diff) |
docs: show how to spawn qemu-storage-daemon with fd passing
The QMP monitor, NBD server, and vhost-user-blk export all support file
descriptor passing. This is a useful technique because it allows the
parent process to spawn and wait for qemu-storage-daemon without busy
waiting, which may delay startup due to arbitrary sleep() calls.
This Python example is inspired by the test case written for libnbd by
Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/89113f484effb0e6c322314ba75c1cbe07a04543
Thanks to Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> for suggestions on
how to get this working. Now let's document it!
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210301172728.135331-2-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst | 42 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst index 6ce85f2f7d..5714794775 100644 --- a/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst @@ -101,10 +101,12 @@ Standard options: .. option:: --nbd-server addr.type=inet,addr.host=<host>,addr.port=<port>[,tls-creds=<id>][,tls-authz=<id>][,max-connections=<n>] --nbd-server addr.type=unix,addr.path=<path>[,tls-creds=<id>][,tls-authz=<id>][,max-connections=<n>] + --nbd-server addr.type=fd,addr.str=<fd>[,tls-creds=<id>][,tls-authz=<id>][,max-connections=<n>] is a server for NBD exports. Both TCP and UNIX domain sockets are supported. - TLS encryption can be configured using ``--object`` tls-creds-* and authz-* - secrets (see below). + A listen socket can be provided via file descriptor passing (see Examples + below). TLS encryption can be configured using ``--object`` tls-creds-* and + authz-* secrets (see below). To configure an NBD server on UNIX domain socket path ``/tmp/nbd.sock``:: @@ -141,6 +143,42 @@ QMP commands:: --chardev socket,path=qmp.sock,server=on,wait=off,id=char1 \ --monitor chardev=char1 +Launch the daemon from Python with a QMP monitor socket using file descriptor +passing so there is no need to busy wait for the QMP monitor to become +available:: + + #!/usr/bin/env python3 + import subprocess + import socket + + sock_path = '/var/run/qmp.sock' + + with socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as listen_sock: + listen_sock.bind(sock_path) + listen_sock.listen() + + fd = listen_sock.fileno() + + subprocess.Popen( + ['qemu-storage-daemon', + '--chardev', f'socket,fd={fd},server=on,id=char1', + '--monitor', 'chardev=char1'], + pass_fds=[fd], + ) + + # listen_sock was automatically closed when leaving the 'with' statement + # body. If the daemon process terminated early then the following connect() + # will fail with "Connection refused" because no process has the listen + # socket open anymore. Launch errors can be detected this way. + + qmp_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM) + qmp_sock.connect(sock_path) + ...QMP interaction... + +The same socket spawning approach also works with the ``--nbd-server +addr.type=fd,addr.str=<fd>`` and ``--export +type=vhost-user-blk,addr.type=fd,addr.str=<fd>`` options. + Export raw image file ``disk.img`` over NBD UNIX domain socket ``nbd.sock``:: $ qemu-storage-daemon \ |