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From: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:57:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] RHEL 7: v2v: rhv-upload: Disable Nagle algorithm

When sending a PUT request, the http header may be sent in the first
packet when calling con.endheaders(). When we send the first chunk, the
kernel may delay the send because the header packet was not acked yet.

We have seen PUT requests delayed by 40 milliseconds on the server side
during virt-v2v upload to ovirt. Here is example log from current RHEL
virt-v2v version, uploading to RHV 4.2.3:

2018-06-12 17:04:01,750 INFO    (Thread-2) [images] Writing 52736 bytes
at offset 0 flush False to /path/to/image for ticket
374bec27-930d-4097-8e41-e4bc23324eb0

2018-06-12 17:04:01,790 INFO    (Thread-2) [directio] Operation stats:
<Clock(total=0.04, read=0.04, write=0.00)>

The server spent 40 milliseconds reading 52736 bytes form
rhv_upload_plugin running on the same host.

This issue was fixed in python 3.5 by using the TCP_NO_DELAY option
after connecting[1]. I backported this change from python 3.5.

I tested the same change using imageio example upload script. With this
change and with optimized PATCH requests, upload time of 4G sparse image
was reduced from 7 minutes to 1 minute.

See this ovirt patch for more details:
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/92276/

This change is needed only for python 2.

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue23302
---
 v2v/rhv-upload-plugin.py | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/v2v/rhv-upload-plugin.py b/v2v/rhv-upload-plugin.py
index 3d4ed1270..b262fb3d6 100644
--- a/v2v/rhv-upload-plugin.py
+++ b/v2v/rhv-upload-plugin.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import ssl
 import sys
 import time
 
-from httplib import HTTPSConnection, HTTPConnection
+from httplib import HTTPSConnection as _HTTPSConnection, HTTPConnection
 from urlparse import urlparse
 
 import ovirtsdk4 as sdk
@@ -51,6 +51,18 @@ def byteify(input):
         return input
 params = None
 
+class HTTPSConnection(_HTTPSConnection):
+    def connect(self):
+        """
+        Using TCP_NO_DELAY avoids delays when sending small payload, such as
+        ovirt PATCH requests.
+
+        This issue was fixed in python 3.5, see:
+        https://bugs.python.org/issue23302
+        """
+        _HTTPSConnection.connect(self)
+        self.sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)
+
 def config(key, value):
     global params
 
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