base/SOURCES/0390-journal-normalize-priority-of-logging-sources.patch

From c87355bc80da9e2cba7f7723d7c6568dfa56f1a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vito Caputo <vito.caputo@coreos.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:11:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] journal: normalize priority of logging sources

The stream event source has a priority of SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+5,
and stdout source +10, but the native and syslog event sources are left
at the default of 0.

As a result, any heavy native or syslog logger can cause starvation of
the other loggers.  This is trivially demonstrated by running:

 dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8k | od | systemd-cat & # native spammer
 systemd-run echo hello & # stream logger
 journalctl --follow --output=verbose --no-pager --identifier=echo &

... and wait, and wait, the "hello" never comes.

Now kill %1, "hello" arrives finally.

Cherry-picked from: 48cef29504b1ffc0df9929f2d8b2af2ad74d2b4a
Related: #1318994
---
 src/journal/journald-native.c | 4 ++++
 src/journal/journald-stream.c | 2 +-
 src/journal/journald-syslog.c | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/journal/journald-native.c b/src/journal/journald-native.c
index 851625de0..2c9cf6e7a 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-native.c
+++ b/src/journal/journald-native.c
@@ -457,5 +457,9 @@ int server_open_native_socket(Server*s) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add native server fd to event loop: %m");
 
+        r = sd_event_source_set_priority(s->native_event_source, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+5);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust native event source priority: %m");
+
         return 0;
 }
diff --git a/src/journal/journald-stream.c b/src/journal/journald-stream.c
index 15a554c34..b8607144b 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-stream.c
+++ b/src/journal/journald-stream.c
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ int server_open_stdout_socket(Server *s) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add stdout server fd to event source: %m");
 
-        r = sd_event_source_set_priority(s->stdout_event_source, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+10);
+        r = sd_event_source_set_priority(s->stdout_event_source, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+5);
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust priority of stdout server event source: %m");
 
diff --git a/src/journal/journald-syslog.c b/src/journal/journald-syslog.c
index 4e118aabc..8602b4a95 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-syslog.c
+++ b/src/journal/journald-syslog.c
@@ -421,6 +421,10 @@ int server_open_syslog_socket(Server *s) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add syslog server fd to event loop: %m");
 
+        r = sd_event_source_set_priority(s->syslog_event_source, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL+5);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust syslog event source priority: %m");
+
         return 0;
 }