Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
[tcp] Gracefully close connections during shutdown
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
We currently do not wait for a received FIN before exiting to boot a
loaded OS.  In the common case of booting from an HTTP server, this
means that the TCP connection is left consuming resources on the
server side: the server will retransmit the FIN several times before
giving up.

Fix by initiating a graceful close of all TCP connections and waiting
(for up to one second) for all connections to finish closing
gracefully (i.e. for the outgoing FIN to have been sent and ACKed, and
for the incoming FIN to have been received and ACKed at least once).

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
  • Loading branch information
mcb30 committed Jul 4, 2015
1 parent 211529a commit 38afcc5
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 2 changed files with 63 additions and 1 deletion.
7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions src/include/ipxe/tcp.h
Expand Up @@ -420,6 +420,13 @@ static inline int tcp_in_window ( uint32_t seq, uint32_t start,
return ( ( seq - start ) < len );
}

/** TCP finish wait time
*
* Currently set to one second, since we should not allow a slowly
* responding server to substantially delay a call to shutdown().
*/
#define TCP_FINISH_TIMEOUT ( 1 * TICKS_PER_SEC )

extern struct tcpip_protocol tcp_protocol __tcpip_protocol;

#endif /* _IPXE_TCP_H */
57 changes: 56 additions & 1 deletion src/net/tcp.c
Expand Up @@ -1501,13 +1501,68 @@ struct cache_discarder tcp_discarder __cache_discarder ( CACHE_NORMAL ) = {
.discard = tcp_discard,
};

/**
* Find first TCP connection that has not yet been closed
*
* @ret tcp First unclosed connection, or NULL
*/
static struct tcp_connection * tcp_first_unclosed ( void ) {
struct tcp_connection *tcp;

/* Find first connection which has not yet been closed */
list_for_each_entry ( tcp, &tcp_conns, list ) {
if ( ! ( tcp->flags & TCP_XFER_CLOSED ) )
return tcp;
}
return NULL;
}

/**
* Find first TCP connection that has not yet finished all operations
*
* @ret tcp First unfinished connection, or NULL
*/
static struct tcp_connection * tcp_first_unfinished ( void ) {
struct tcp_connection *tcp;

/* Find first connection which has not yet closed gracefully,
* or which still has a pending transmission (e.g. to ACK the
* received FIN).
*/
list_for_each_entry ( tcp, &tcp_conns, list ) {
if ( ( ! TCP_CLOSED_GRACEFULLY ( tcp->tcp_state ) ) ||
process_running ( &tcp->process ) ) {
return tcp;
}
}
return NULL;
}

/**
* Shut down all TCP connections
*
*/
static void tcp_shutdown ( int booting __unused ) {
struct tcp_connection *tcp;
unsigned long start;
unsigned long elapsed;

/* Initiate a graceful close of all connections, allowing for
* the fact that the connection list may change as we do so.
*/
while ( ( tcp = tcp_first_unclosed() ) ) {
DBGC ( tcp, "TCP %p closing for shutdown\n", tcp );
tcp_close ( tcp, -ECANCELED );
}

/* Wait for all connections to finish closing gracefully */
start = currticks();
while ( ( tcp = tcp_first_unfinished() ) &&
( ( elapsed = ( currticks() - start ) ) < TCP_FINISH_TIMEOUT )){
step();
}

/* Forcibly close any remaining connections */
while ( ( tcp = list_first_entry ( &tcp_conns, struct tcp_connection,
list ) ) != NULL ) {
tcp->tcp_state = TCP_CLOSED;
Expand All @@ -1517,7 +1572,7 @@ static void tcp_shutdown ( int booting __unused ) {
}

/** TCP shutdown function */
struct startup_fn tcp_startup_fn __startup_fn ( STARTUP_EARLY ) = {
struct startup_fn tcp_startup_fn __startup_fn ( STARTUP_LATE ) = {
.shutdown = tcp_shutdown,
};

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 38afcc5

Please sign in to comment.