From 59347fa66dfdd059c270a5f72e24320b4d0203ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:02:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid extra mount/unmount during build

CmdRun() calls first run() and then wait() to wait for it to exit,
then it runs commit(). The run command will mount the container and
the container exiting will unmount it. Then the commit will
immediately mount it again to do a diff.

This seems minor, but this is actually problematic, as the Get/Put
pair will create a spurious mount/unmount cycle that is not needed and
slows things down. Additionally it will create a supurious
devicemapper activate/deactivate cycle that causes races with udev as
seen in https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/4036.

To ensure that we only unmount once we split up run() into create()
and run() and reference the mount until after the commit().

With this change docker build on devicemapper is now race-free, and
slightly faster.

Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> (github: alexlarsson)
---
 buildfile.go | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/buildfile.go b/buildfile.go
index a121276c21..3279fd6e25 100644
--- a/buildfile.go
+++ b/buildfile.go
@@ -180,11 +180,20 @@ func (b *buildFile) CmdRun(args string) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	cid, err := b.run()
+	c, err := b.create()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if err := b.commit(cid, cmd, "run"); err != nil {
+	// Ensure that we keep the container mounted until the commit
+	// to avoid unmounting and then mounting directly again
+	c.Mount()
+	defer c.Unmount()
+
+	err = b.run(c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := b.commit(c.ID, cmd, "run"); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -555,16 +564,16 @@ func (sf *StderrFormater) Write(buf []byte) (int, error) {
 	return len(buf), err
 }
 
-func (b *buildFile) run() (string, error) {
+func (b *buildFile) create() (*Container, error) {
 	if b.image == "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("Please provide a source image with `from` prior to run")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Please provide a source image with `from` prior to run")
 	}
 	b.config.Image = b.image
 
 	// Create the container and start it
 	c, _, err := b.runtime.Create(b.config, "")
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	b.tmpContainers[c.ID] = struct{}{}
 	fmt.Fprintf(b.outStream, " ---> Running in %s\n", utils.TruncateID(c.ID))
@@ -573,6 +582,10 @@ func (b *buildFile) run() (string, error) {
 	c.Path = b.config.Cmd[0]
 	c.Args = b.config.Cmd[1:]
 
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+func (b *buildFile) run(c *Container) error {
 	var errCh chan error
 
 	if b.verbose {
@@ -583,12 +596,12 @@ func (b *buildFile) run() (string, error) {
 
 	//start the container
 	if err := c.Start(); err != nil {
-		return "", err
+		return err
 	}
 
 	if errCh != nil {
 		if err := <-errCh; err != nil {
-			return "", err
+			return err
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -598,10 +611,10 @@ func (b *buildFile) run() (string, error) {
 			Message: fmt.Sprintf("The command %v returned a non-zero code: %d", b.config.Cmd, ret),
 			Code:    ret,
 		}
-		return "", err
+		return err
 	}
 
-	return c.ID, nil
+	return nil
 }
 
 // Commit the container <id> with the autorun command <autoCmd>