Commit f10f8faefb9cc19fca8a637d6744ad55eff5cc01

Con Kolivas 2011-09-06T11:07:36

Retry before returning a failure to get upstream work as a failure to avoid false positives for pool dead.

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index b79e28d..9ed80bb 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -1986,8 +1986,9 @@ static inline struct pool *select_pool(bool lagging)
 static bool get_upstream_work(struct work *work, bool lagging)
 {
 	struct pool *pool;
-	json_t *val;
+	json_t *val = NULL;
 	bool rc = false;
+	int retries = 0;
 	CURL *curl;
 
 	curl = curl_easy_init();
@@ -2000,7 +2001,11 @@ static bool get_upstream_work(struct work *work, bool lagging)
 	if (opt_debug)
 		applog(LOG_DEBUG, "DBG: sending %s get RPC call: %s", pool->rpc_url, rpc_req);
 
-	val = json_rpc_call(curl, pool->rpc_url, pool->rpc_userpass, rpc_req,
+	/* A single failure response here might be reported as a dead pool and
+	 * there may be temporary denied messages etc. falsely reporting
+	 * failure so retry a few times before giving up */
+	while (!val && retries++ < 3)
+		val = json_rpc_call(curl, pool->rpc_url, pool->rpc_userpass, rpc_req,
 			    false, false, &work->rolltime, pool);
 	if (unlikely(!val)) {
 		applog(LOG_DEBUG, "Failed json_rpc_call in get_upstream_work");