On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 10:57:53AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
When the daemons were split out from the monolithic libvirtd, the network driver didn't implement "inhibit idle timeout if there are any active objects" as was done for other drivers, so virtnetworkd would always exit after 120 seconds of no incoming connections. This didn't every cause any visible problem, although it did mean that anytime a network API was called after an idle time > 120 seconds, that the restarting virtnetworkd would flush and reload all the iptables/nftables rules for any active networks.
My bad. When I introduced auto-timeouts (even to libvirtd), I looked at the network driver and thought there was no reason to stop it shutting down as the network could keep working just fine without libvirtd/virtnetworkd running. I totally forgot that we flush and reload firewall rules on every startup /facepalm
This patch replicates what is done in the QEMU driver - an nactive is added to the network driver object, along with an inhibitCallback; the latter is passed into networkStateInitialize when the driver is loaded, and the former is incremented for each already-active network, then incremented/decremented each time a network is started or stopped. If nactive transitions from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0, inhibitCallback is called, and it "does the right stuff" to prevent/enable the idle timeout.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> ---
I had made this patch as a part of a larger series that will require it, but haven't sent that yet and keep being annoyed when virtnetworkd exits out from under a gdb session, so I decided it has enough general usefulness to send by itself.
src/network/bridge_driver.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- src/network/bridge_driver_conf.h | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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