Heavy NOS containers (e.g. Cisco XRd) need /dev/shm larger than Docker's
64 MB default and host device nodes such as /dev/fuse. Add two opt-in
environment variables, consumed host-side and applied as native Docker
HostConfig keys at create time:
GNS3_SHM_SIZE (MB) -> HostConfig.ShmSize (bytes)
GNS3_DEVICES -> HostConfig.Devices in `docker run --device` syntax
(host[:container[:perm]]; Docker resolves major/minor
from the host node itself)
Native HostConfig (rather than remount/mknod inside init.sh) is used so this
works for vendor NOS nodes that skip init.sh (console_type=docker_exec) --
the path XRd must take, since GNS3's init.sh wrapper crashes XRd's glibc
loader. It applies whether or not init.sh runs, needs no schema/API/UI
change (reuses the `environment` field), and only takes effect when the vars
are set, so ordinary nodes keep default Docker behaviour.
GNS3_-prefixed user env vars stay dropped from the container environment
(only consumed here host-side), keeping GNS3-injected vars safe.
The _connect_nio thread-pool optimisation (send_batch_sync) targeted
node-start performance, but start_all already runs at concurrency=3
(by design, to avoid overwhelming the host). It also introduced a
Python 3.13 incompatibility (trsock.setblocking forbidden) that
prevented docker nodes from starting. Since node-start is not the
target of this branch (project-open link creation is), revert to the
simple per-command async _ubridge_send.
The project-open batch NIO dispatch (create_batch_nios) is unaffected —
it never called _connect_nio (nodes aren't started during open).
Replace the 3-5 sequential await _ubridge_send calls in _connect_nio
with a single run_in_executor batch. The batch holds the node-level
asyncio Lock to prevent interleaving with async sends, then uses the
hypervisor's new send_batch_sync method which does blocking socket
sendall/recv inside the thread pool. Different nodes' batches now
run in true OS-thread parallelism rather than serialising through
the asyncio event loop between every command.
- ubridge_hypervisor.send_batch_sync: blocking batch send using
the underlying socket from the asyncio transport, protected by
threading.Lock.
- _connect_nio: builds command list (add_nio_udp, start_capture,
bridge start, reset_packet_filters, add_packet_filter) and
dispatches to the default executor.
Docker node stop took ~5s every time. The stop API grace period
(params t=5, unchanged since 2015) was always exhausted: the business
process (often an interactive shell) ignores SIGTERM, and GNS3 doesn't
depend on graceful shutdown — _fix_permissions and /gns3volumes already
persist container state before stop() is called.
Use POST /containers/{id}/kill (SIGKILL, zero delay) instead of stop.
The 409 (container already stopped) replaces the previous 304 handling
for the race where the container exits between the state check and the call.
t=5 traced to commit 33edbefa3 (2015-10-14) "Docker cleanup and
improvements" — introduced with no recorded rationale.
The condition 'state != "stopped" or state != "exited"' is a tautology,
so the state check was a no-op and a stop request was sent even for a
container that had already exited.
_get_container_state() never returns "stopped" (only "running",
"paused" or "exited"), so the intended negation of the condition used in
_fix_permissions() requires 'and', not 'or' (De Morgan's law).
Added a regression test asserting no stop query is issued for an
already-exited container.