libzmq/tests/test_ctx_options.cpp

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*/

#include <limits>
#include "testutil.hpp"

#define WAIT_FOR_BACKGROUND_THREAD_INSPECTION (0)

#ifdef ZMQ_HAVE_LINUX
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <unistd.h> // for sleep()

#define TEST_POLICY                                                            \
    (SCHED_OTHER) // NOTE: SCHED_OTHER is the default Linux scheduler

bool is_allowed_to_raise_priority ()
{
    // NOTE1: if setrlimit() fails with EPERM, this means that current user has not enough permissions.
    // NOTE2: even for privileged users (e.g., root) getrlimit() would usually return 0 as nice limit; the only way to
    //        discover if the user is able to increase the nice value is to actually try to change the rlimit:
    struct rlimit rlim;
    rlim.rlim_cur = 40;
    rlim.rlim_max = 40;
    if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NICE, &rlim) == 0) {
        // rlim_cur == 40 means that this process is allowed to set a nice value of -20
        if (WAIT_FOR_BACKGROUND_THREAD_INSPECTION)
            printf ("This process has enough permissions to raise ZMQ "
                    "background thread priority!\n");
        return true;
    }

    if (WAIT_FOR_BACKGROUND_THREAD_INSPECTION)
        printf ("This process has NOT enough permissions to raise ZMQ "
                "background thread priority.\n");
    return false;
}

#else

#define TEST_POLICY (0)

bool is_allowed_to_raise_priority ()
{
    return false;
}

#endif


void test_ctx_thread_opts (void *ctx)
{
    int rc;

    // verify that setting negative values (e.g., default values) fail:
    rc =
      zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_SCHED_POLICY, ZMQ_THREAD_SCHED_POLICY_DFLT);
    assert (rc == -1 && errno == EINVAL);
    rc = zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_PRIORITY, ZMQ_THREAD_PRIORITY_DFLT);
    assert (rc == -1 && errno == EINVAL);


    // test scheduling policy:

    // set context options that alter the background thread CPU scheduling/affinity settings;
    // as of ZMQ 4.2.3 this has an effect only on POSIX systems (nothing happens on Windows, but still it should return success):
    rc = zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_SCHED_POLICY, TEST_POLICY);
    assert (rc == 0);


    // test priority:

    // in theory SCHED_OTHER supports only the static priority 0 but quoting the docs
    //     http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sched.7.html
    // "The thread to run is chosen from the static priority 0 list based on
    // a dynamic priority that is determined only inside this list.  The
    // dynamic priority is based on the nice value [...]
    // The nice value can be modified using nice(2), setpriority(2), or sched_setattr(2)."
    // ZMQ will internally use nice(2) to set the nice value when using SCHED_OTHER.
    // However changing the nice value of a process requires appropriate permissions...
    // check that the current effective user is able to do that:
    if (is_allowed_to_raise_priority ()) {
        rc = zmq_ctx_set (
          ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_PRIORITY,
          1 /* any positive value different than the default will be ok */);
        assert (rc == 0);
    }


#ifdef ZMQ_THREAD_AFFINITY_CPU_ADD
    // test affinity:

    // this should result in background threads being placed only on the
    // first CPU available on this system; try experimenting with other values
    // (e.g., 5 to use CPU index 5) and use "top -H" or "taskset -pc" to see the result

    int cpus_add[] = {0, 1};
    for (unsigned int idx = 0; idx < sizeof (cpus_add) / sizeof (cpus_add[0]);
         idx++) {
        rc = zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_AFFINITY_CPU_ADD, cpus_add[idx]);
        assert (rc == 0);
    }

    // you can also remove CPUs from list of affinities:
    int cpus_remove[] = {1};
    for (unsigned int idx = 0;
         idx < sizeof (cpus_remove) / sizeof (cpus_remove[0]); idx++) {
        rc =
          zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_AFFINITY_CPU_REMOVE, cpus_remove[idx]);
        assert (rc == 0);
    }
#endif


#ifdef ZMQ_THREAD_NAME_PREFIX
    // test thread name prefix:

    rc = zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_THREAD_NAME_PREFIX, 1234);
    assert (rc == 0);
#endif
}

void test_ctx_zero_copy (void *ctx)
{
#ifdef ZMQ_ZERO_COPY_RECV
    int zero_copy;
    // Default value is 1.
    zero_copy = zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_ZERO_COPY_RECV);
    assert (zero_copy == 1);

    // Test we can set it to 0.
    assert (0 == zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_ZERO_COPY_RECV, 0));
    zero_copy = zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_ZERO_COPY_RECV);
    assert (zero_copy == 0);

    // Create a TCP socket pair using the context and test that messages can be
    // received. Note that inproc sockets cannot be used for this test.
    void *pull = zmq_socket (ctx, ZMQ_PULL);
    assert (0 == zmq_bind (pull, "tcp://127.0.0.1:*"));

    void *push = zmq_socket (ctx, ZMQ_PUSH);
    size_t endpoint_len = MAX_SOCKET_STRING;
    char endpoint[MAX_SOCKET_STRING];
    assert (
      0 == zmq_getsockopt (pull, ZMQ_LAST_ENDPOINT, endpoint, &endpoint_len));
    assert (0 == zmq_connect (push, endpoint));

    const char *small_str = "abcd";
    const char *large_str =
      "01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789";

    assert (4 == zmq_send (push, (void *) small_str, 4, 0));
    assert (40 == zmq_send (push, (void *) large_str, 40, 0));

    zmq_msg_t small_msg, large_msg;
    zmq_msg_init (&small_msg);
    zmq_msg_init (&large_msg);
    assert (4 == zmq_msg_recv (&small_msg, pull, 0));
    assert (40 == zmq_msg_recv (&large_msg, pull, 0));
    assert (!strncmp (small_str, (const char *) zmq_msg_data (&small_msg), 4));
    assert (!strncmp (large_str, (const char *) zmq_msg_data (&large_msg), 40));

    // Clean up.
    assert (0 == zmq_close (push));
    assert (0 == zmq_close (pull));
    assert (0 == zmq_msg_close (&small_msg));
    assert (0 == zmq_msg_close (&large_msg));
    assert (0 == zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_ZERO_COPY_RECV, 1));
    zero_copy = zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_ZERO_COPY_RECV);
    assert (zero_copy == 1);
#endif
}

int main (void)
{
    setup_test_environment ();
    int rc;

    //  Set up our context and sockets
    void *ctx = zmq_ctx_new ();
    assert (ctx);

    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_MAX_SOCKETS) == ZMQ_MAX_SOCKETS_DFLT);
#if defined(ZMQ_USE_SELECT)
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_SOCKET_LIMIT) == FD_SETSIZE - 1);
#elif defined(ZMQ_USE_POLL) || defined(ZMQ_USE_EPOLL)                          \
  || defined(ZMQ_USE_DEVPOLL) || defined(ZMQ_USE_KQUEUE)
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_SOCKET_LIMIT) == 65535);
#endif
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_IO_THREADS) == ZMQ_IO_THREADS_DFLT);
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_IPV6) == 0);
#if defined(ZMQ_MSG_T_SIZE)
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_MSG_T_SIZE) == sizeof (zmq_msg_t));
#endif

    rc = zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_IPV6, true);
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_IPV6) == 1);

    test_ctx_thread_opts (ctx);
    test_ctx_zero_copy (ctx);

    void *router = zmq_socket (ctx, ZMQ_ROUTER);
    int value;
    size_t optsize = sizeof (int);
    rc = zmq_getsockopt (router, ZMQ_IPV6, &value, &optsize);
    assert (rc == 0);
    assert (value == 1);
    rc = zmq_getsockopt (router, ZMQ_LINGER, &value, &optsize);
    assert (rc == 0);
    assert (value == -1);
    rc = zmq_close (router);
    assert (rc == 0);

#if WAIT_FOR_BACKGROUND_THREAD_INSPECTION
    // this is useful when you want to use an external tool (like top or taskset) to view
    // properties of the background threads
    printf ("Sleeping for 100sec. You can now use 'top -H -p $(pgrep -f "
            "test_ctx_options)' and 'taskset -pc <ZMQ background thread PID>' "
            "to view ZMQ background thread properties.\n");
    sleep (100);
#endif

    rc = zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_BLOCKY, false);
    assert (zmq_ctx_get (ctx, ZMQ_BLOCKY) == 0);
    router = zmq_socket (ctx, ZMQ_ROUTER);
    rc = zmq_getsockopt (router, ZMQ_LINGER, &value, &optsize);
    assert (rc == 0);
    assert (value == 0);
    rc = zmq_close (router);
    assert (rc == 0);

    rc = zmq_ctx_term (ctx);
    assert (rc == 0);

    return 0;
}