From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>,
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 17:00:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200518210045.GA67802@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200518165206.GE42240@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:52:07PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > I vaguely recall talking with somebody (perhaps it was Shawn Pearce)
> > about my long-time complaint on the on-the-wire protocol, in that
> > the protocol sometimes uses flush to merely mean "I've finished
> > speaking one section of my speech" and sometimes "I've done talking
> > for now and it's your turn to speak to me" (the receiving end needs
> > to know which one a particular flush means without knowing the
> > context in which it is issued---which makes it impossible to write a
> > protocol agnostic proxy.
> >
> > If the above proposal means that we'll have an explicit way to say
> > "Not just I am done with one section of my speech, but it is your
> > turn to speak and I am going to listen", that would be wonderful.
>
> I think we already have that now in v2 because of the "0001" delim
> packet. All of the flushes are (I think) really "this is the end of my
> speech", and any inner "my list is ending, but I have more to say"
> delimiters are "0001".
Sadly, this is only _mostly_ true. See my response in:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200518205854.GB63978@coredump.intra.peff.net/
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-18 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 18:04 [PATCH 0/6] remote-curl: partial fix for a deadlock with stateless rpc Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/6] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 2/6] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] transport: combine common cases with a fallthrough Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18 9:18 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-15 20:56 ` Jeff King
2020-05-15 20:57 ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:38 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 9:08 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:49 ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:02 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:41 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 16:52 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 21:00 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:04 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:50 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18 20:08 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:22 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:51 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] pkt-line: PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:43 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:12 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:26 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:36 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 20:58 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19 2:38 ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 " Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-19 16:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:54 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-19 21:14 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-19 20:51 ` [PATCH v3 8/7] fixup! pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-22 13:33 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] fixup! remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-22 15:54 ` Jeff King
2020-05-22 16:05 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-22 16:31 ` Jeff King
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