Merge pull request #31 from jestan/master

merged the sctp transport implementation with upstream master

pom.xml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
       <scope>compile</scope>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
-    
+
     <!-- RXTX - completely optional -->
     <!-- Used for serial port communication transport -->
     <dependency>

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/DefaultNioSctpChannelConfig.java

@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelException;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ConversionUtil;
+
+/**
+ * The default {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannelConfig} implementation for SCTP.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+class DefaultNioSctpChannelConfig extends DefaultSctpChannelConfig implements NioSctpChannelConfig {
+
+    private static final InternalLogger logger =
+            InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(DefaultNioSctpChannelConfig.class);
+
+    private static final ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory DEFAULT_PREDICTOR_FACTORY =
+            new AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory();
+
+    private volatile int writeBufferHighWaterMark = 64 * 1024;
+    private volatile int writeBufferLowWaterMark = 32 * 1024;
+    private volatile ReceiveBufferSizePredictor predictor;
+    private volatile ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory predictorFactory = DEFAULT_PREDICTOR_FACTORY;
+    private volatile int writeSpinCount = 16;
+
+    DefaultNioSctpChannelConfig(SctpChannel channel) {
+       super(channel);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setOptions(Map<String, Object> options) {
+        super.setOptions(options);
+        if (getWriteBufferHighWaterMark() < getWriteBufferLowWaterMark()) {
+            // Recover the integrity of the configuration with a sensible value.
+            setWriteBufferLowWaterMark0(getWriteBufferHighWaterMark() >>> 1);
+            // Notify the user about misconfiguration.
+            logger.warn(
+                    "writeBufferLowWaterMark cannot be greater than " +
+                            "writeBufferHighWaterMark; setting to the half of the " +
+                            "writeBufferHighWaterMark.");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean setOption(String key, Object value) {
+        if (super.setOption(key, value)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (key.equals("writeBufferHighWaterMark")) {
+            setWriteBufferHighWaterMark0(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("writeBufferLowWaterMark")) {
+            setWriteBufferLowWaterMark0(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("writeSpinCount")) {
+            setWriteSpinCount(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("receiveBufferSizePredictorFactory")) {
+            setReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory((ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory) value);
+        } else if (key.equals("receiveBufferSizePredictor")) {
+            setReceiveBufferSizePredictor((ReceiveBufferSizePredictor) value);
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWriteBufferHighWaterMark() {
+        return writeBufferHighWaterMark;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setWriteBufferHighWaterMark(int writeBufferHighWaterMark) {
+        if (writeBufferHighWaterMark < getWriteBufferLowWaterMark()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "writeBufferHighWaterMark cannot be less than " +
+                            "writeBufferLowWaterMark (" + getWriteBufferLowWaterMark() + "): " +
+                            writeBufferHighWaterMark);
+        }
+        setWriteBufferHighWaterMark0(writeBufferHighWaterMark);
+    }
+
+    private void setWriteBufferHighWaterMark0(int writeBufferHighWaterMark) {
+        if (writeBufferHighWaterMark < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "writeBufferHighWaterMark: " + writeBufferHighWaterMark);
+        }
+        this.writeBufferHighWaterMark = writeBufferHighWaterMark;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWriteBufferLowWaterMark() {
+        return writeBufferLowWaterMark;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setWriteBufferLowWaterMark(int writeBufferLowWaterMark) {
+        if (writeBufferLowWaterMark > getWriteBufferHighWaterMark()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "writeBufferLowWaterMark cannot be greater than " +
+                            "writeBufferHighWaterMark (" + getWriteBufferHighWaterMark() + "): " +
+                            writeBufferLowWaterMark);
+        }
+        setWriteBufferLowWaterMark0(writeBufferLowWaterMark);
+    }
+
+    private void setWriteBufferLowWaterMark0(int writeBufferLowWaterMark) {
+        if (writeBufferLowWaterMark < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "writeBufferLowWaterMark: " + writeBufferLowWaterMark);
+        }
+        this.writeBufferLowWaterMark = writeBufferLowWaterMark;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getWriteSpinCount() {
+        return writeSpinCount;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setWriteSpinCount(int writeSpinCount) {
+        if (writeSpinCount <= 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "writeSpinCount must be a positive integer.");
+        }
+        this.writeSpinCount = writeSpinCount;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ReceiveBufferSizePredictor getReceiveBufferSizePredictor() {
+        ReceiveBufferSizePredictor predictor = this.predictor;
+        if (predictor == null) {
+            try {
+                this.predictor = predictor = getReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory().getPredictor();
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                throw new ChannelException(
+                        "Failed to create a new " +
+                                ReceiveBufferSizePredictor.class.getSimpleName() + '.',
+                        e);
+            }
+        }
+        return predictor;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setReceiveBufferSizePredictor(
+            ReceiveBufferSizePredictor predictor) {
+        if (predictor == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("predictor");
+        }
+        this.predictor = predictor;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory getReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory() {
+        return predictorFactory;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory(ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory predictorFactory) {
+        if (predictorFactory == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("predictorFactory");
+        }
+        this.predictorFactory = predictorFactory;
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/DefaultSctpChannelConfig.java

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel;
+import static com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpStandardSocketOptions.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelException;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelConfig;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannelConfig;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ConversionUtil;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * The default {@link NioSocketChannelConfig} implementation for SCTP.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+class DefaultSctpChannelConfig extends DefaultChannelConfig implements SctpChannelConfig {
+
+    private SctpChannel channel;
+
+    DefaultSctpChannelConfig(SctpChannel channel) {
+        if (channel == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("channel");
+        }
+        this.channel = channel;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean setOption(String key, Object value) {
+        if (super.setOption(key, value)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (key.equals("receiveBufferSize")) {
+            setReceiveBufferSize(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("sendBufferSize")) {
+            setSendBufferSize(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("sctpNoDelay")) {
+            setSctpNoDelay(ConversionUtil.toBoolean(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("soLinger")) {
+            setSoLinger(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else if (key.equals("sctpInitMaxStreams")) {
+            setInitMaxStreams((InitMaxStreams) value);
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isSctpNoDelay() {
+        try {
+            return channel.getOption(SCTP_NODELAY);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setSctpNoDelay(boolean sctpNoDelay) {
+        try {
+            channel.setOption(SCTP_NODELAY, sctpNoDelay);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getSoLinger() {
+        try {
+            return channel.getOption(SO_LINGER);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setSoLinger(int soLinger) {
+        try {
+            channel.setOption(SO_LINGER, soLinger);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getSendBufferSize() {
+        try {
+            return channel.getOption(SO_SNDBUF);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setSendBufferSize(int sendBufferSize) {
+        try {
+            channel.setOption(SO_SNDBUF, sendBufferSize);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getReceiveBufferSize() {
+        try {
+            return channel.getOption(SO_RCVBUF);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setReceiveBufferSize(int receiveBufferSize) {
+        try {
+            channel.setOption(SO_RCVBUF, receiveBufferSize);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InitMaxStreams getInitMaxStreams() {
+        try {
+            return channel.getOption(SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setInitMaxStreams(InitMaxStreams initMaxStreams) {
+        try {
+            channel.setOption(SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS, initMaxStreams);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/DefaultSctpServerChannelConfig.java

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import static com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpStandardSocketOptions.*;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelException;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultServerChannelConfig;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ConversionUtil;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * The default {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannelConfig} implementation for SCTP.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public class DefaultSctpServerChannelConfig extends DefaultServerChannelConfig
+        implements SctpServerChannelConfig {
+
+    private final com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel serverChannel;
+    private volatile int backlog;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance.
+     */
+    public DefaultSctpServerChannelConfig(com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel serverChannel) {
+        if (serverChannel == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("serverChannel");
+        }
+        this.serverChannel = serverChannel;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean setOption(String key, Object value) {
+        if (super.setOption(key, value)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (key.equals("sctpInitMaxStreams")) {
+            setInitMaxStreams((InitMaxStreams) value);
+        } else if (key.equals("backlog")) {
+            setBacklog(ConversionUtil.toInt(value));
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getSendBufferSize() {
+        try {
+            return serverChannel.getOption(SO_SNDBUF);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setSendBufferSize(int sendBufferSize) {
+        try {
+            serverChannel.setOption(SO_SNDBUF, sendBufferSize);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getReceiveBufferSize() {
+        try {
+            return serverChannel.getOption(SO_RCVBUF);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setReceiveBufferSize(int receiveBufferSize) {
+        try {
+            serverChannel.setOption(SO_RCVBUF, receiveBufferSize);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InitMaxStreams getInitMaxStreams() {
+        try {
+            return serverChannel.getOption(SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setInitMaxStreams(InitMaxStreams initMaxStreams) {
+        try {
+            serverChannel.setOption(SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS, initMaxStreams);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getBacklog() {
+        return backlog;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setBacklog(int backlog) {
+        if (backlog < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("backlog: " + backlog);
+        }
+        this.backlog = backlog;
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/NioSctpChannelConfig.java

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannelConfig;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpChannelConfig} for a NIO SCTP/IP {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpChannel}.
+ *
+ * <h3>Available options</h3>
+ *
+ * In addition to the options provided by {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig} and
+ * {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpChannelConfig}, {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.NioSctpChannelConfig} allows the
+ * following options in the option map:
+ *
+ * <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
+ * <tr>
+ * <th>Name</th><th>Associated setter method</th>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "writeBufferHighWaterMark"}</td><td>{@link #setWriteBufferHighWaterMark(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "writeBufferLowWaterMark"}</td><td>{@link #setWriteBufferLowWaterMark(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "writeSpinCount"}</td><td>{@link #setWriteSpinCount(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "receiveBufferSizePredictor"}</td><td>{@link #setReceiveBufferSizePredictor(org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "receiveBufferSizePredictorFactory"}</td><td>{@link #setReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory(org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory)}</td>
+ * </tr>
+ * </table>
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public interface NioSctpChannelConfig extends SctpChannelConfig {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the high water mark of the write buffer.  If the number of bytes
+     * queued in the write buffer exceeds this value, {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel#isWritable()}
+     * will start to return {@code false}.
+     */
+    int getWriteBufferHighWaterMark();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the high water mark of the write buffer.  If the number of bytes
+     * queued in the write buffer exceeds this value, {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel#isWritable()}
+     * will start to return {@code false}.
+     */
+    void setWriteBufferHighWaterMark(int writeBufferHighWaterMark);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the low water mark of the write buffer.  Once the number of bytes
+     * queued in the write buffer exceeded the
+     * {@linkplain #setWriteBufferHighWaterMark(int) high water mark} and then
+     * dropped down below this value, {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel#isWritable()} will return
+     * {@code true} again.
+     */
+    int getWriteBufferLowWaterMark();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the low water mark of the write buffer.  Once the number of bytes
+     * queued in the write buffer exceeded the
+     * {@linkplain #setWriteBufferHighWaterMark(int) high water mark} and then
+     * dropped down below this value, {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel#isWritable()} will return
+     * {@code true} again.
+     */
+    void setWriteBufferLowWaterMark(int writeBufferLowWaterMark);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the maximum loop count for a write operation until
+     * {@link java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel#write(java.nio.ByteBuffer)} returns a non-zero value.
+     * It is similar to what a spin lock is used for in concurrency programming.
+     * It improves memory utilization and write throughput depending on
+     * the platform that JVM runs on.  The default value is {@code 16}.
+     */
+    int getWriteSpinCount();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the maximum loop count for a write operation until
+     * {@link java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel#write(java.nio.ByteBuffer)} returns a non-zero value.
+     * It is similar to what a spin lock is used for in concurrency programming.
+     * It improves memory utilization and write throughput depending on
+     * the platform that JVM runs on.  The default value is {@code 16}.
+     *
+     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
+     *         if the specified value is {@code 0} or less than {@code 0}
+     */
+    void setWriteSpinCount(int writeSpinCount);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} which predicts the
+     * number of readable bytes in the socket receive buffer.  The default
+     * predictor is <tt>{@link org.jboss.netty.channel.AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictor}(64, 1024, 65536)</tt>.
+     */
+    ReceiveBufferSizePredictor getReceiveBufferSizePredictor();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} which predicts the
+     * number of readable bytes in the socket receive buffer.  The default
+     * predictor is <tt>{@link org.jboss.netty.channel.AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictor}(64, 1024, 65536)</tt>.
+     */
+    void setReceiveBufferSizePredictor(ReceiveBufferSizePredictor predictor);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory} which creates a new
+     * {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} when a new channel is created and
+     * no {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} was set.  If no predictor was set
+     * for the channel, {@link #setReceiveBufferSizePredictor(org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor)}
+     * will be called with the new predictor.  The default factory is
+     * <tt>{@link org.jboss.netty.channel.AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory}(64, 1024, 65536)</tt>.
+     */
+    ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory getReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} which creates a new
+     * {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} when a new channel is created and
+     * no {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor} was set.  If no predictor was set
+     * for the channel, {@link #setReceiveBufferSizePredictor(org.jboss.netty.channel.ReceiveBufferSizePredictor)}
+     * will be called with the new predictor.  The default factory is
+     * <tt>{@link org.jboss.netty.channel.AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory}(64, 1024, 65536)</tt>.
+     */
+    void setReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory(
+            ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory predictorFactory);
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpAcceptedChannel.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelSink;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+final class SctpAcceptedChannel extends SctpChannelImpl {
+
+    final Thread bossThread;
+
+    SctpAcceptedChannel(
+            ChannelFactory factory, ChannelPipeline pipeline,
+            Channel parent, ChannelSink sink,
+            SctpChannel socket, SctpWorker worker, Thread bossThread) {
+
+        super(parent, factory, pipeline, sink, socket, worker);
+
+        this.bossThread = bossThread;
+
+        setConnected();
+        fireChannelOpen(this);
+        fireChannelBound(this, getLocalAddress());
+        fireChannelConnected(this, getRemoteAddress());
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpChannel.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.Association;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannelConfig;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannelConfig;
+
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public interface SctpChannel extends Channel {
+
+    /**
+     * Return the primary local address of the SCTP channel.
+     */
+    @Override
+    InetSocketAddress getLocalAddress();
+
+    /**
+     * Return all local addresses of the SCTP channel.
+     */
+    Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllLocalAddresses();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the configuration of this channel.
+     */
+    @Override
+    NioSctpChannelConfig getConfig();
+
+    /**
+     * Return the primary remote address of the SCTP channel.
+     */
+    @Override
+    InetSocketAddress getRemoteAddress();
+
+
+    /**
+     * Return all remote addresses of the SCTP channel.
+     */
+    Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllRemoteAddresses();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the underlying SCTP association
+     */
+    Association association();
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpChannelConfig.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import static com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpStandardSocketOptions.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig} for a {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpChannel}.
+ * <p/>
+ * <h3>Available options</h3>
+ * <p/>
+ * In addition to the options provided by {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig},
+ * {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpChannelConfig} allows the following options in the option map:
+ * <p/>
+ * <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
+ * <tr>
+ * <th>Name</th><th>Associated setter method</th>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "sctpNoDelay"}</td><td>{@link #setSctpNoDelay(boolean)}}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "soLinger"}</td><td>{@link #setSoLinger(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "receiveBufferSize"}</td><td>{@link #setReceiveBufferSize(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "sendBufferSize"}</td><td>{@link #setSendBufferSize(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "sctpInitMaxStreams"}</td><td>{@link #setInitMaxStreams(InitMaxStreams)}</td>
+ * </tr>
+ * </table>
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public interface SctpChannelConfig extends ChannelConfig {
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SCTP_NODELAY}</a> option.
+     */
+    boolean isSctpNoDelay();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SCTP_NODELAY}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setSctpNoDelay(boolean sctpNoDelay);
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_LINGER}</a> option.
+     */
+    int getSoLinger();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_LINGER}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setSoLinger(int soLinger);
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_SNDBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    int getSendBufferSize();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_SNDBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setSendBufferSize(int sendBufferSize);
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_RCVBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    int getReceiveBufferSize();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_RCVBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setReceiveBufferSize(int receiveBufferSize);
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS}</a> option.
+     */
+    InitMaxStreams getInitMaxStreams();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setInitMaxStreams(InitMaxStreams initMaxStreams);
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpChannelImpl.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.Association;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpSendBufferPool.SendBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ThreadLocalBoolean;
+
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.SocketAddress;
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.concurrent.LinkedTransferQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelInterestChanged;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ *
+ */
+class SctpChannelImpl extends AbstractChannel implements SctpChannel {
+
+    private static final int ST_OPEN = 0;
+    private static final int ST_BOUND = 1;
+    private static final int ST_CONNECTED = 2;
+    private static final int ST_CLOSED = -1;
+    volatile int state = ST_OPEN;
+
+    final com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel channel;
+    final SctpWorker worker;
+    private final NioSctpChannelConfig config;
+    private volatile InetSocketAddress localAddress;
+    private volatile InetSocketAddress remoteAddress;
+
+    final Object interestOpsLock = new Object();
+    final Object writeLock = new Object();
+
+    final Runnable writeTask = new WriteTask();
+    final AtomicBoolean writeTaskInTaskQueue = new AtomicBoolean();
+
+    final Queue<MessageEvent> writeBuffer = new WriteRequestQueue();
+    final AtomicInteger writeBufferSize = new AtomicInteger();
+    final AtomicInteger highWaterMarkCounter = new AtomicInteger();
+    boolean inWriteNowLoop;
+    boolean writeSuspended;
+
+    MessageEvent currentWriteEvent;
+    SendBuffer currentWriteBuffer;
+
+    public SctpChannelImpl(Channel parent, ChannelFactory factory, ChannelPipeline pipeline, ChannelSink sink,
+                           com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel channel, SctpWorker worker) {
+        super(parent, factory, pipeline, sink);
+
+        this.channel = channel;
+        this.worker = worker;
+        config = new DefaultNioSctpChannelConfig(channel);
+
+        getCloseFuture().addListener(new ChannelFutureListener() {
+            @Override
+            public void operationComplete(ChannelFuture future) throws Exception {
+                state = ST_CLOSED;
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public NioSctpChannelConfig getConfig() {
+        return config;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InetSocketAddress getLocalAddress() {
+        InetSocketAddress localAddress = this.localAddress;
+        if (localAddress == null) {
+            try {
+                final Iterator<SocketAddress> iterator = channel.getAllLocalAddresses().iterator();
+                if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                    this.localAddress = localAddress = (InetSocketAddress) iterator.next();
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
+        return localAddress;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllLocalAddresses() {
+            try {
+                final Set<SocketAddress> allLocalAddresses = channel.getAllLocalAddresses();
+                final Set<InetSocketAddress> addresses = new HashSet<InetSocketAddress>(allLocalAddresses.size());
+                for(SocketAddress socketAddress: allLocalAddresses) {
+                    addresses.add((InetSocketAddress) socketAddress);
+                }
+                return addresses;
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                return Collections.emptySet();
+            }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InetSocketAddress getRemoteAddress() {
+        InetSocketAddress remoteAddress = this.remoteAddress;
+        if (remoteAddress == null) {
+            try {
+                final Iterator<SocketAddress> iterator = channel.getRemoteAddresses().iterator();
+                if (iterator.hasNext()) {
+                    this.remoteAddress = remoteAddress = (InetSocketAddress) iterator.next();
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
+        return remoteAddress;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllRemoteAddresses() {
+            try {
+                final Set<SocketAddress> allLocalAddresses = channel.getRemoteAddresses();
+                final Set<InetSocketAddress> addresses = new HashSet<InetSocketAddress>(allLocalAddresses.size());
+                for(SocketAddress socketAddress: allLocalAddresses) {
+                    addresses.add((InetSocketAddress) socketAddress);
+                }
+                return addresses;
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                return Collections.emptySet();
+            }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Association association() {
+        try {
+            return channel.association();
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isOpen() {
+        return state >= ST_OPEN;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isBound() {
+        return state >= ST_BOUND;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isConnected() {
+        return state == ST_CONNECTED;
+    }
+
+    final void setBound() {
+        assert state == ST_OPEN : "Invalid state: " + state;
+        state = ST_BOUND;
+    }
+
+    final void setConnected() {
+        if (state != ST_CLOSED) {
+            state = ST_CONNECTED;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean setClosed() {
+        return super.setClosed();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getInterestOps() {
+        if (!isOpen()) {
+            return Channel.OP_WRITE;
+        }
+
+        int interestOps = getRawInterestOps();
+        int writeBufferSize = this.writeBufferSize.get();
+        if (writeBufferSize != 0) {
+            if (highWaterMarkCounter.get() > 0) {
+                int lowWaterMark = getConfig().getWriteBufferLowWaterMark();
+                if (writeBufferSize >= lowWaterMark) {
+                    interestOps |= Channel.OP_WRITE;
+                } else {
+                    interestOps &= ~Channel.OP_WRITE;
+                }
+            } else {
+                int highWaterMark = getConfig().getWriteBufferHighWaterMark();
+                if (writeBufferSize >= highWaterMark) {
+                    interestOps |= Channel.OP_WRITE;
+                } else {
+                    interestOps &= ~Channel.OP_WRITE;
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            interestOps &= ~Channel.OP_WRITE;
+        }
+
+        return interestOps;
+    }
+
+    int getRawInterestOps() {
+        return super.getInterestOps();
+    }
+
+    void setRawInterestOpsNow(int interestOps) {
+        super.setInterestOpsNow(interestOps);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ChannelFuture write(Object message, SocketAddress remoteAddress) {
+        if (remoteAddress == null || remoteAddress.equals(getRemoteAddress())) {
+            return super.write(message, null);
+        } else {
+            return getUnsupportedOperationFuture();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final class WriteRequestQueue extends LinkedTransferQueue<MessageEvent> {
+
+        private static final long serialVersionUID = -246694024103520626L;
+
+        private final ThreadLocalBoolean notifying = new ThreadLocalBoolean();
+
+        WriteRequestQueue() {
+            super();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean offer(MessageEvent e) {
+            boolean success = super.offer(e);
+            assert success;
+
+            int messageSize = getMessageSize(e);
+            int newWriteBufferSize = writeBufferSize.addAndGet(messageSize);
+            int highWaterMark = getConfig().getWriteBufferHighWaterMark();
+
+            if (newWriteBufferSize >= highWaterMark) {
+                if (newWriteBufferSize - messageSize < highWaterMark) {
+                    highWaterMarkCounter.incrementAndGet();
+                    if (!notifying.get()) {
+                        notifying.set(Boolean.TRUE);
+                        fireChannelInterestChanged(SctpChannelImpl.this);
+                        notifying.set(Boolean.FALSE);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public MessageEvent poll() {
+            MessageEvent e = super.poll();
+            if (e != null) {
+                int messageSize = getMessageSize(e);
+                int newWriteBufferSize = writeBufferSize.addAndGet(-messageSize);
+                int lowWaterMark = getConfig().getWriteBufferLowWaterMark();
+
+                if (newWriteBufferSize == 0 || newWriteBufferSize < lowWaterMark) {
+                    if (newWriteBufferSize + messageSize >= lowWaterMark) {
+                        highWaterMarkCounter.decrementAndGet();
+                        if (isConnected() && !notifying.get()) {
+                            notifying.set(Boolean.TRUE);
+                            fireChannelInterestChanged(SctpChannelImpl.this);
+                            notifying.set(Boolean.FALSE);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            return e;
+        }
+
+        private int getMessageSize(MessageEvent e) {
+            Object m = e.getMessage();
+            if (m instanceof ChannelBuffer) {
+                return ((ChannelBuffer) m).readableBytes();
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final class WriteTask implements Runnable {
+
+        WriteTask() {
+            super();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            writeTaskInTaskQueue.set(false);
+            worker.writeFromTaskLoop(SctpChannelImpl.this);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpClientChannel.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelOpen;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+final class SctpClientChannel extends SctpChannelImpl {
+
+    private static final InternalLogger logger =
+        InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpClientChannel.class);
+
+    private static SctpChannel newChannael() {
+        SctpChannel underlayingChannel;
+        try {
+            underlayingChannel = SctpChannel.open();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException("Failed to open a socket.", e);
+        }
+
+        boolean success = false;
+        try {
+            underlayingChannel.configureBlocking(false);
+            success = true;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException("Failed to enter non-blocking mode.", e);
+        } finally {
+            if (!success) {
+                try {
+                    underlayingChannel.close();
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    logger.warn(
+                            "Failed to close a partially initialized socket.",
+                            e);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return underlayingChannel;
+    }
+
+    volatile ChannelFuture connectFuture;
+    volatile boolean boundManually;
+
+    // Does not need to be volatile as it's accessed by only one thread.
+    long connectDeadlineNanos;
+
+    SctpClientChannel(
+            ChannelFactory factory, ChannelPipeline pipeline,
+            ChannelSink sink, SctpWorker worker) {
+
+        super(null, factory, pipeline, sink, newChannael(), worker);
+        fireChannelOpen(this);
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpClientPipelineSink.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.ConnectException;
+import java.net.SocketAddress;
+import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
+import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey;
+import java.nio.channels.Selector;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Queue;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.LinkedTransferQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+class SctpClientPipelineSink extends AbstractChannelSink {
+
+    static final InternalLogger logger =
+        InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpClientPipelineSink.class);
+
+    final Executor bossExecutor;
+    private final Boss boss = new Boss();
+    private final SctpWorker[] workers;
+    private final AtomicInteger workerIndex = new AtomicInteger();
+
+    SctpClientPipelineSink(
+            Executor bossExecutor, Executor workerExecutor, int workerCount) {
+        this.bossExecutor = bossExecutor;
+        workers = new SctpWorker[workerCount];
+        for (int i = 0; i < workers.length; i ++) {
+            workers[i] = new SctpWorker(workerExecutor);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void eventSunk(
+            ChannelPipeline pipeline, ChannelEvent e) throws Exception {
+        if (e instanceof ChannelStateEvent) {
+            ChannelStateEvent event = (ChannelStateEvent) e;
+            SctpClientChannel channel =
+                (SctpClientChannel) event.getChannel();
+            ChannelFuture future = event.getFuture();
+            ChannelState state = event.getState();
+            Object value = event.getValue();
+
+            switch (state) {
+            case OPEN:
+                if (Boolean.FALSE.equals(value)) {
+                    channel.worker.close(channel, future);
+                }
+                break;
+            case BOUND:
+                if (value != null) {
+                    bind(channel, future, (SocketAddress) value);
+                } else {
+                    channel.worker.close(channel, future);
+                }
+                break;
+            case CONNECTED:
+                if (value != null) {
+                    connect(channel, future, (SocketAddress) value);
+                } else {
+                    channel.worker.close(channel, future);
+                }
+                break;
+            case INTEREST_OPS:
+                channel.worker.setInterestOps(channel, future, ((Integer) value).intValue());
+                break;
+            }
+        } else if (e instanceof MessageEvent) {
+            MessageEvent event = (MessageEvent) e;
+            SctpChannelImpl channel = (SctpChannelImpl) event.getChannel();
+            boolean offered = channel.writeBuffer.offer(event);
+            assert offered;
+            channel.worker.writeFromUserCode(channel);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void bind(
+            SctpClientChannel channel, ChannelFuture future,
+            SocketAddress localAddress) {
+        try {
+            channel.channel.bind(localAddress);
+            channel.boundManually = true;
+            channel.setBound();
+            future.setSuccess();
+            fireChannelBound(channel, channel.getLocalAddress());
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            future.setFailure(t);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void connect(
+            final SctpClientChannel channel, final ChannelFuture cf,
+            SocketAddress remoteAddress) {
+        try {
+            if (channel.channel.connect(remoteAddress)) {
+                channel.worker.register(channel, cf);
+            } else {
+                channel.getCloseFuture().addListener(new ChannelFutureListener() {
+                    @Override
+                    public void operationComplete(ChannelFuture f)
+                            throws Exception {
+                        if (!cf.isDone()) {
+                            cf.setFailure(new ClosedChannelException());
+                        }
+                    }
+                });
+                cf.addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE_ON_FAILURE);
+                channel.connectFuture = cf;
+                boss.register(channel);
+            }
+
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            cf.setFailure(t);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+            channel.worker.close(channel, succeededFuture(channel));
+        }
+    }
+
+    SctpWorker nextWorker() {
+        return workers[Math.abs(
+                workerIndex.getAndIncrement() % workers.length)];
+    }
+
+    private final class Boss implements Runnable {
+
+        volatile Selector selector;
+        private boolean started;
+        private final AtomicBoolean wakenUp = new AtomicBoolean();
+        private final Object startStopLock = new Object();
+        private final Queue<Runnable> registerTaskQueue = new LinkedTransferQueue<Runnable>();
+
+        Boss() {
+            super();
+        }
+
+        void register(SctpClientChannel channel) {
+            Runnable registerTask = new RegisterTask(this, channel);
+            Selector selector;
+
+            synchronized (startStopLock) {
+                if (!started) {
+                    // Open a selector if this worker didn't start yet.
+                    try {
+                        this.selector = selector =  Selector.open();
+                    } catch (Throwable t) {
+                        throw new ChannelException(
+                                "Failed to create a selector.", t);
+                    }
+
+                    // Start the worker thread with the new Selector.
+                    boolean success = false;
+                    try {
+                        DeadLockProofWorker.start(bossExecutor, this);
+                        success = true;
+                    } finally {
+                        if (!success) {
+                            // Release the Selector if the execution fails.
+                            try {
+                                selector.close();
+                            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                                logger.warn("Failed to close a selector.", t);
+                            }
+                            this.selector = selector = null;
+                            // The method will return to the caller at this point.
+                        }
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    // Use the existing selector if this worker has been started.
+                    selector = this.selector;
+                }
+
+                assert selector != null && selector.isOpen();
+
+                started = true;
+                boolean offered = registerTaskQueue.offer(registerTask);
+                assert offered;
+            }
+
+            if (wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                selector.wakeup();
+            }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            boolean shutdown = false;
+            Selector selector = this.selector;
+            long lastConnectTimeoutCheckTimeNanos = System.nanoTime();
+            for (;;) {
+                wakenUp.set(false);
+
+                try {
+                    int selectedKeyCount = selector.select(500);
+
+                    // 'wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)' is always evaluated
+                    // before calling 'selector.wakeup()' to reduce the wake-up
+                    // overhead. (Selector.wakeup() is an expensive operation.)
+                    //
+                    // However, there is a race condition in this approach.
+                    // The race condition is triggered when 'wakenUp' is set to
+                    // true too early.
+                    //
+                    // 'wakenUp' is set to true too early if:
+                    // 1) Selector is waken up between 'wakenUp.set(false)' and
+                    //    'selector.select(...)'. (BAD)
+                    // 2) Selector is waken up between 'selector.select(...)' and
+                    //    'if (wakenUp.get()) { ... }'. (OK)
+                    //
+                    // In the first case, 'wakenUp' is set to true and the
+                    // following 'selector.select(...)' will wake up immediately.
+                    // Until 'wakenUp' is set to false again in the next round,
+                    // 'wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)' will fail, and therefore
+                    // any attempt to wake up the Selector will fail, too, causing
+                    // the following 'selector.select(...)' call to block
+                    // unnecessarily.
+                    //
+                    // To fix this problem, we wake up the selector again if wakenUp
+                    // is true immediately after selector.select(...).
+                    // It is inefficient in that it wakes up the selector for both
+                    // the first case (BAD - wake-up required) and the second case
+                    // (OK - no wake-up required).
+
+                    if (wakenUp.get()) {
+                        selector.wakeup();
+                    }
+
+                    processRegisterTaskQueue();
+
+                    if (selectedKeyCount > 0) {
+                        processSelectedKeys(selector.selectedKeys());
+                    }
+
+                    // Handle connection timeout every 0.5 seconds approximately.
+                    long currentTimeNanos = System.nanoTime();
+                    if (currentTimeNanos - lastConnectTimeoutCheckTimeNanos >= 500 * 1000000L) {
+                        lastConnectTimeoutCheckTimeNanos = currentTimeNanos;
+                        processConnectTimeout(selector.keys(), currentTimeNanos);
+                    }
+
+                    // Exit the loop when there's nothing to handle.
+                    // The shutdown flag is used to delay the shutdown of this
+                    // loop to avoid excessive Selector creation when
+                    // connection attempts are made in a one-by-one manner
+                    // instead of concurrent manner.
+                    if (selector.keys().isEmpty()) {
+                        if (shutdown ||
+                            bossExecutor instanceof ExecutorService && ((ExecutorService) bossExecutor).isShutdown()) {
+
+                            synchronized (startStopLock) {
+                                if (registerTaskQueue.isEmpty() && selector.keys().isEmpty()) {
+                                    started = false;
+                                    try {
+                                        selector.close();
+                                    } catch (IOException e) {
+                                        logger.warn(
+                                                "Failed to close a selector.", e);
+                                    } finally {
+                                        this.selector = null;
+                                    }
+                                    break;
+                                } else {
+                                    shutdown = false;
+                                }
+                            }
+                        } else {
+                            // Give one more second.
+                            shutdown = true;
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        shutdown = false;
+                    }
+                } catch (Throwable t) {
+                    logger.warn(
+                            "Unexpected exception in the selector loop.", t);
+
+                    // Prevent possible consecutive immediate failures.
+                    try {
+                        Thread.sleep(1000);
+                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                        // Ignore.
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void processRegisterTaskQueue() {
+            for (;;) {
+                final Runnable task = registerTaskQueue.poll();
+                if (task == null) {
+                    break;
+                }
+
+                task.run();
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void processSelectedKeys(Set<SelectionKey> selectedKeys) {
+            for (Iterator<SelectionKey> i = selectedKeys.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+                SelectionKey k = i.next();
+                i.remove();
+
+                if (!k.isValid()) {
+                    close(k);
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                if (k.isConnectable()) {
+                    connect(k);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void processConnectTimeout(Set<SelectionKey> keys, long currentTimeNanos) {
+            ConnectException cause = null;
+            for (SelectionKey k: keys) {
+                if (!k.isValid()) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                SctpClientChannel ch = (SctpClientChannel) k.attachment();
+                if (ch.connectDeadlineNanos > 0 &&
+                        currentTimeNanos >= ch.connectDeadlineNanos) {
+
+                    if (cause == null) {
+                        cause = new ConnectException("connection timed out");
+                    }
+
+                    ch.connectFuture.setFailure(cause);
+                    fireExceptionCaught(ch, cause);
+                    ch.worker.close(ch, succeededFuture(ch));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void connect(SelectionKey k) {
+            SctpClientChannel ch = (SctpClientChannel) k.attachment();
+            try {
+                if (ch.channel.finishConnect()) {
+                    k.cancel();
+                    ch.worker.register(ch, ch.connectFuture);
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                ch.connectFuture.setFailure(t);
+                fireExceptionCaught(ch, t);
+                k.cancel(); // Some JDK implementations run into an infinite loop without this.
+                ch.worker.close(ch, succeededFuture(ch));
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void close(SelectionKey k) {
+            SctpClientChannel ch = (SctpClientChannel) k.attachment();
+            ch.worker.close(ch, succeededFuture(ch));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class RegisterTask implements Runnable {
+        private final Boss boss;
+        private final SctpClientChannel channel;
+
+        RegisterTask(Boss boss, SctpClientChannel channel) {
+            this.boss = boss;
+            this.channel = channel;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            try {
+                channel.channel.register(
+                        boss.selector, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT, channel);
+            } catch (ClosedChannelException e) {
+                channel.worker.close(channel, succeededFuture(channel));
+            }
+
+            int connectTimeout = channel.getConfig().getConnectTimeoutMillis();
+            if (connectTimeout > 0) {
+                channel.connectDeadlineNanos = System.nanoTime() + connectTimeout * 1000000L;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpClientSocketChannelFactory.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ExecutorUtil;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ClientSocketChannelFactory} which creates a client-side NIO-based
+ * {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel}.  It utilizes the non-blocking I/O mode which was
+ * introduced with NIO to serve many number of concurrent connections
+ * efficiently.
+ *
+ * <h3>How threads work</h3>
+ * <p>
+ * There are two types of threads in a {@link SctpClientSocketChannelFactory};
+ * one is boss thread and the other is worker thread.
+ *
+ * <h4>Boss thread</h4>
+ * <p>
+ * One {@link SctpClientSocketChannelFactory} has one boss thread.  It makes
+ * a connection attempt on request.  Once a connection attempt succeeds,
+ * the boss thread passes the connected {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel} to one of the worker
+ * threads that the {@link SctpClientSocketChannelFactory} manages.
+ *
+ * <h4>Worker threads</h4>
+ * <p>
+ * One {@link SctpClientSocketChannelFactory} can have one or more worker
+ * threads.  A worker thread performs non-blocking read and write for one or
+ * more {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel}s in a non-blocking mode.
+ *
+ * <h3>Life cycle of threads and graceful shutdown</h3>
+ * <p>
+ * All threads are acquired from the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor}s which were specified
+ * when a {@link SctpClientSocketChannelFactory} was created.  A boss thread is
+ * acquired from the {@code bossExecutor}, and worker threads are acquired from
+ * the {@code workerExecutor}.  Therefore, you should make sure the specified
+ * {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor}s are able to lend the sufficient number of threads.
+ * It is the best bet to specify {@linkplain java.util.concurrent.Executors#newCachedThreadPool() a cached thread pool}.
+ * <p>
+ * Both boss and worker threads are acquired lazily, and then released when
+ * there's nothing left to process.  All the related resources such as
+ * {@link java.nio.channels.Selector} are also released when the boss and worker threads are
+ * released.  Therefore, to shut down a service gracefully, you should do the
+ * following:
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>close all channels created by the factory usually using
+ *     {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.group.ChannelGroup#close()}, and</li>
+ * <li>call {@link #releaseExternalResources()}.</li>
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * Please make sure not to shut down the executor until all channels are
+ * closed.  Otherwise, you will end up with a {@link java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException}
+ * and the related resources might not be released properly.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ * @apiviz.landmark
+ */
+public class SctpClientSocketChannelFactory implements ChannelFactory {
+
+    private final Executor bossExecutor;
+    private final Executor workerExecutor;
+    private final SctpClientPipelineSink sink;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance.  Calling this constructor is same with calling
+     * {@link #SctpClientSocketChannelFactory(java.util.concurrent.Executor, java.util.concurrent.Executor, int)} with 2 *
+     * the number of available processors in the machine.  The number of
+     * available processors is obtained by {@link Runtime#availableProcessors()}.
+     *
+     * @param bossExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the boss thread
+     * @param workerExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the I/O worker threads
+     */
+    public SctpClientSocketChannelFactory(
+            Executor bossExecutor, Executor workerExecutor) {
+        this(bossExecutor, workerExecutor, SelectorUtil.DEFAULT_IO_THREADS);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance.
+     *
+     * @param bossExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the boss thread
+     * @param workerExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the I/O worker threads
+     * @param workerCount
+     *        the maximum number of I/O worker threads
+     */
+    public SctpClientSocketChannelFactory(
+            Executor bossExecutor, Executor workerExecutor,
+            int workerCount) {
+        if (bossExecutor == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("bossExecutor");
+        }
+        if (workerExecutor == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("workerExecutor");
+        }
+        if (workerCount <= 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "workerCount (" + workerCount + ") " +
+                    "must be a positive integer.");
+        }
+
+        this.bossExecutor = bossExecutor;
+        this.workerExecutor = workerExecutor;
+        sink = new SctpClientPipelineSink(bossExecutor, workerExecutor, workerCount);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public SctpChannel newChannel(ChannelPipeline pipeline) {
+        return new SctpClientChannel(this, pipeline, sink, sink.nextWorker());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void releaseExternalResources() {
+        ExecutorUtil.terminate(bossExecutor, workerExecutor);
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpNotificationEvent.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.Notification;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelEvent;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public class SctpNotificationEvent implements ChannelEvent {
+    private Channel channel;
+    private Notification notification;
+    private Object value;
+
+    public SctpNotificationEvent(Channel channel, Notification notification, Object value) {
+        if (channel == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("channel");
+        }
+        if (notification == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("notification");
+        }
+
+        this.channel = channel;
+        this.notification = notification;
+        this.value = value;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Channel getChannel() {
+        return channel;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public ChannelFuture getFuture() {
+        return Channels.succeededFuture(channel);
+    }
+
+    public Notification getNotification() {
+        return notification;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Return the attachment comes with SCTP notification
+     * Please note that, it may be null
+     */
+    public Object getValue() {
+        return value;
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpNotificationHandler.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+
+class SctpNotificationHandler extends AbstractNotificationHandler {
+
+    private static final InternalLogger logger =
+            InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpNotificationHandler.class);
+
+    private final SctpChannelImpl sctpChannel;
+    private final SctpWorker sctpWorker;
+
+    public SctpNotificationHandler(SctpChannelImpl sctpChannel, SctpWorker sctpWorker) {
+        this.sctpChannel = sctpChannel;
+        this.sctpWorker = sctpWorker;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public HandlerResult handleNotification(AssociationChangeNotification notification, Object o) {
+        fireNotificationReceived(notification, o);
+        return HandlerResult.CONTINUE;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public HandlerResult handleNotification(Notification notification, Object o) {
+        fireNotificationReceived(notification, o);
+        return HandlerResult.CONTINUE;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public HandlerResult handleNotification(PeerAddressChangeNotification notification, Object o) {
+        fireNotificationReceived(notification, o);
+        return HandlerResult.CONTINUE;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public HandlerResult handleNotification(SendFailedNotification notification, Object o) {
+        fireNotificationReceived(notification, o);
+        return HandlerResult.CONTINUE;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public HandlerResult handleNotification(ShutdownNotification notification, Object o) {
+        sctpWorker.close(sctpChannel, Channels.succeededFuture(sctpChannel));
+        return HandlerResult.RETURN;
+    }
+
+    private void fireNotificationReceived(Notification notification, Object o) {
+        sctpChannel.getPipeline().sendUpstream(new SctpNotificationEvent(sctpChannel, notification, o));
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpPayload.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public final class SctpPayload {
+    private final int streamIdentifier;
+    private final int protocolIdentifier;
+    private final ChannelBuffer payloadBuffer;
+
+    /**
+     * Essential data that is being carried within SCTP Data Chunk
+     * @param streamIdentifier that you want to send the payload
+     * @param protocolIdentifier of payload
+     * @param payloadBuffer channel buffer
+     */
+    public SctpPayload(int streamIdentifier, int protocolIdentifier, ChannelBuffer payloadBuffer) {
+        this.streamIdentifier = streamIdentifier;
+        this.protocolIdentifier = protocolIdentifier;
+        this.payloadBuffer = payloadBuffer;
+    }
+
+    public int getStreamIdentifier() {
+        return streamIdentifier;
+    }
+
+    public int getProtocolIdentifier() {
+        return protocolIdentifier;
+    }
+
+    public ChannelBuffer getPayloadBuffer() {
+        if (payloadBuffer.readable()) {
+            return payloadBuffer.slice();
+        } else {
+            return ChannelBuffers.EMPTY_BUFFER;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return new StringBuilder().
+                append("SctpPayload{").
+                append("streamIdentifier=").
+                append(streamIdentifier).
+                append(", protocolIdentifier=").
+                append(protocolIdentifier).
+                append(", payloadBuffer=").
+                append(ChannelBuffers.hexDump(getPayloadBuffer())).
+                append('}').toString();
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpProviderMetadata.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.SystemPropertyUtil;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey;
+import java.nio.channels.Selector;
+import java.nio.channels.spi.SelectorProvider;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * Provides information which is specific to a NIO service provider
+ * implementation.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+class SctpProviderMetadata {
+    static final InternalLogger logger =
+        InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpProviderMetadata.class);
+
+    private static final String CONSTRAINT_LEVEL_PROPERTY =
+        "org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.constraintLevel";
+
+    /**
+     * 0 - no need to wake up to get / set interestOps (most cases)
+     * 1 - no need to wake up to get interestOps, but need to wake up to set.
+     * 2 - need to wake up to get / set interestOps    (old providers)
+     */
+    static final int CONSTRAINT_LEVEL;
+
+    static {
+        int constraintLevel = -1;
+
+        // Use the system property if possible.
+        constraintLevel = SystemPropertyUtil.get(CONSTRAINT_LEVEL_PROPERTY, -1);
+        if (constraintLevel < 0 || constraintLevel > 2) {
+            constraintLevel = -1;
+        }
+
+        if (constraintLevel >= 0) {
+            logger.debug(
+                    "Setting the NIO constraint level to: " + constraintLevel);
+        }
+
+        if (constraintLevel < 0) {
+            constraintLevel = detectConstraintLevelFromSystemProperties();
+
+            if (constraintLevel < 0) {
+                constraintLevel = 2;
+                logger.debug(
+                        "Couldn't determine the NIO constraint level from " +
+                        "the system properties; using the safest level (2)");
+            } else if (constraintLevel != 0) {
+                logger.info(
+                        "Using the autodetected NIO constraint level: " +
+                        constraintLevel +
+                        " (Use better NIO provider for better performance)");
+            } else {
+                logger.debug(
+                        "Using the autodetected NIO constraint level: " +
+                        constraintLevel);
+            }
+        }
+
+        CONSTRAINT_LEVEL = constraintLevel;
+
+        if (CONSTRAINT_LEVEL < 0 || CONSTRAINT_LEVEL > 2) {
+            throw new Error(
+                    "Unexpected NIO constraint level: " +
+                    CONSTRAINT_LEVEL + ", please report this error.");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static int detectConstraintLevelFromSystemProperties() {
+        String version = SystemPropertyUtil.get("java.specification.version");
+        String vminfo = SystemPropertyUtil.get("java.vm.info", "");
+        String os = SystemPropertyUtil.get("os.name");
+        String vendor = SystemPropertyUtil.get("java.vm.vendor");
+        String provider;
+        try {
+            provider = SelectorProvider.provider().getClass().getName();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // Perhaps security exception.
+            provider = null;
+        }
+
+        if (version == null || os == null || vendor == null || provider == null) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+
+        os = os.toLowerCase();
+        vendor = vendor.toLowerCase();
+
+//        System.out.println(version);
+//        System.out.println(vminfo);
+//        System.out.println(os);
+//        System.out.println(vendor);
+//        System.out.println(provider);
+
+        // Sun JVM
+        if (vendor.indexOf("sun") >= 0) {
+            // Linux
+            if (os.indexOf("linux") >= 0) {
+                if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorProvider") ||
+                    provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider")) {
+                    return 0;
+                }
+
+            // Windows
+            } else if (os.indexOf("windows") >= 0) {
+                if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorProvider")) {
+                    return 0;
+                }
+
+            // Solaris
+            } else if (os.indexOf("sun") >= 0 || os.indexOf("solaris") >= 0) {
+                if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.DevPollSelectorProvider")) {
+                    return 0;
+                }
+            }
+        // Apple JVM
+        } else if (vendor.indexOf("apple") >= 0) {
+            // Mac OS
+            if (os.indexOf("mac") >= 0 && os.indexOf("os") >= 0) {
+                if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.KQueueSelectorProvider")) {
+                    return 0;
+                }
+            }
+        // IBM
+        } else if (vendor.indexOf("ibm") >= 0) {
+            // Linux or AIX
+            if (os.indexOf("linux") >= 0 || os.indexOf("aix") >= 0) {
+                if (version.equals("1.5") || version.matches("^1\\.5\\D.*$")) {
+                    if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider")) {
+                        return 1;
+                    }
+                } else if (version.equals("1.6") || version.matches("^1\\.6\\D.*$")) {
+                    // IBM JDK 1.6 has different constraint level for different
+                    // version.  The exact version can be determined only by its
+                    // build date.
+                    Pattern datePattern = Pattern.compile(
+                            "(?:^|[^0-9])(" +
+                            "[2-9][0-9]{3}" +              // year
+                            "(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])" +          // month
+                            "(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])" + // day of month
+                            ")(?:$|[^0-9])");
+
+                    Matcher dateMatcher = datePattern.matcher(vminfo);
+                    if (dateMatcher.find()) {
+                        long dateValue = Long.parseLong(dateMatcher.group(1));
+                        if (dateValue < 20081105L) {
+                            // SR0, 1, and 2
+                            return 2;
+                        } else {
+                            // SR3 and later
+                            if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorProvider")) {
+                                return 0;
+                            } else if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider")) {
+                                return 1;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        // BEA
+        } else if (vendor.indexOf("bea") >= 0 || vendor.indexOf("oracle") >= 0) {
+            // Linux
+            if (os.indexOf("linux") >= 0) {
+                if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorProvider") ||
+                    provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider")) {
+                    return 0;
+                }
+
+            // Windows
+            } else if (os.indexOf("windows") >= 0) {
+                if (provider.equals("sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorProvider")) {
+                    return 0;
+                }
+            }
+        // Apache Software Foundation
+        } else if (vendor.indexOf("apache") >= 0) {
+            if (provider.equals("org.apache.harmony.nio.internal.SelectorProviderImpl")) {
+                return 1;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Others (untested)
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    private static final class ConstraintLevelAutodetector {
+
+        ConstraintLevelAutodetector() {
+            super();
+        }
+
+        int autodetect() {
+            final int constraintLevel;
+            ExecutorService executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
+            boolean success;
+            long startTime;
+            int interestOps;
+
+            SctpServerChannel ch = null;
+            SelectorLoop loop = null;
+
+            try {
+                // Open a channel.
+                ch = com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel.open();
+
+                // Configure the channel
+                try {
+                    ch.bind(new InetSocketAddress(0));
+                    ch.configureBlocking(false);
+                } catch (Throwable e) {
+                    logger.warn("Failed to configure a temporary socket.", e);
+                    return -1;
+                }
+
+                // Prepare the selector loop.
+                try {
+                    loop = new SelectorLoop();
+                } catch (Throwable e) {
+                    logger.warn("Failed to open a temporary selector.", e);
+                    return -1;
+                }
+
+                // Register the channel
+                try {
+                    ch.register(loop.selector, 0);
+                } catch (Throwable e) {
+                    logger.warn("Failed to register a temporary selector.", e);
+                    return -1;
+                }
+
+                SelectionKey key = ch.keyFor(loop.selector);
+
+                // Start the selector loop.
+                executor.execute(loop);
+
+                // Level 0
+                success = true;
+                for (int i = 0; i < 10; i ++) {
+
+                    // Increase the probability of calling interestOps
+                    // while select() is running.
+                    do {
+                        while (!loop.selecting) {
+                            Thread.yield();
+                        }
+
+                        // Wait a little bit more.
+                        try {
+                            Thread.sleep(50);
+                        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                            // Ignore
+                        }
+                    } while (!loop.selecting);
+
+                    startTime = System.nanoTime();
+                    key.interestOps(key.interestOps() | SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);
+                    key.interestOps(key.interestOps() & ~SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);
+
+                    if (System.nanoTime() - startTime >= 500000000L) {
+                        success = false;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (success) {
+                    constraintLevel = 0;
+                } else {
+                    // Level 1
+                    success = true;
+                    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i ++) {
+
+                        // Increase the probability of calling interestOps
+                        // while select() is running.
+                        do {
+                            while (!loop.selecting) {
+                                Thread.yield();
+                            }
+
+                            // Wait a little bit more.
+                            try {
+                                Thread.sleep(50);
+                            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                                // Ignore
+                            }
+                        } while (!loop.selecting);
+
+                        startTime = System.nanoTime();
+                        interestOps = key.interestOps();
+                        synchronized (loop) {
+                            loop.selector.wakeup();
+                            key.interestOps(interestOps | SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);
+                            key.interestOps(interestOps & ~SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);
+                        }
+
+                        if (System.nanoTime() - startTime >= 500000000L) {
+                            success = false;
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    if (success) {
+                        constraintLevel = 1;
+                    } else {
+                        constraintLevel = 2;
+                    }
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable e) {
+                return -1;
+            } finally {
+                if (ch != null) {
+                    try {
+                        ch.close();
+                    } catch (Throwable e) {
+                        logger.warn("Failed to close a temporary socket.", e);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (loop != null) {
+                    loop.done = true;
+                    try {
+                        executor.shutdownNow();
+                    } catch (NullPointerException ex) {
+                        // Some JDK throws NPE here, but shouldn't.
+                    }
+
+                    try {
+                        for (;;) {
+                            loop.selector.wakeup();
+                            try {
+                                if (executor.awaitTermination(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
+                                    break;
+                                }
+                            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                                // Ignore
+                            }
+                        }
+                    } catch (Throwable e) {
+                        // Perhaps security exception.
+                    }
+
+                    try {
+                        loop.selector.close();
+                    } catch (Throwable e) {
+                        logger.warn("Failed to close a temporary selector.", e);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            return constraintLevel;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class SelectorLoop implements Runnable {
+        final Selector selector;
+        volatile boolean done;
+        volatile boolean selecting; // Just an approximation
+
+        SelectorLoop() throws IOException {
+            selector = Selector.open();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            while (!done) {
+                synchronized (this) {
+                    // Guard
+                }
+                try {
+                    selecting = true;
+                    try {
+                        selector.select(1000);
+                    } finally {
+                        selecting = false;
+                    }
+
+                    Set<SelectionKey> keys = selector.selectedKeys();
+                    for (SelectionKey k: keys) {
+                        k.interestOps(0);
+                    }
+                    keys.clear();
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    logger.warn("Failed to wait for a temporary selector.", e);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        for (Entry<Object, Object> e: System.getProperties().entrySet()) {
+            System.out.println(e.getKey() + ": " + e.getValue());
+        }
+        System.out.println();
+        System.out.println("Hard-coded Constraint Level: " + CONSTRAINT_LEVEL);
+        System.out.println(
+                "Auto-detected Constraint Level: " +
+                new ConstraintLevelAutodetector().autodetect());
+    }
+
+    private SctpProviderMetadata() {
+        // Unused
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpReceiveBufferPool.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+final class SctpReceiveBufferPool {
+
+    private static final int POOL_SIZE = 8;
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    private final SoftReference<ByteBuffer>[] pool = new SoftReference[POOL_SIZE];
+
+    SctpReceiveBufferPool() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    final ByteBuffer acquire(int size) {
+        final SoftReference<ByteBuffer>[] pool = this.pool;
+        for (int i = 0; i < POOL_SIZE; i ++) {
+            SoftReference<ByteBuffer> ref = pool[i];
+            if (ref == null) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            ByteBuffer buf = ref.get();
+            if (buf == null) {
+                pool[i] = null;
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (buf.capacity() < size) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            pool[i] = null;
+
+            buf.clear();
+            return buf;
+        }
+
+        ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(normalizeCapacity(size));
+        buf.clear();
+        return buf;
+    }
+
+    final void release(ByteBuffer buffer) {
+        final SoftReference<ByteBuffer>[] pool = this.pool;
+        for (int i = 0; i < POOL_SIZE; i ++) {
+            SoftReference<ByteBuffer> ref = pool[i];
+            if (ref == null || ref.get() == null) {
+                pool[i] = new SoftReference<ByteBuffer>(buffer);
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // pool is full - replace one
+        final int capacity = buffer.capacity();
+        for (int i = 0; i< POOL_SIZE; i ++) {
+            SoftReference<ByteBuffer> ref = pool[i];
+            ByteBuffer pooled = ref.get();
+            if (pooled == null) {
+                pool[i] = null;
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (pooled.capacity() < capacity) {
+                pool[i] = new SoftReference<ByteBuffer>(buffer);
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final int normalizeCapacity(int capacity) {
+        // Normalize to multiple of 1024
+        int q = capacity >>> 10;
+        int r = capacity & 1023;
+        if (r != 0) {
+            q ++;
+        }
+        return q << 10;
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpSendBufferPool.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.MessageInfo;
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+final class SctpSendBufferPool {
+
+    private static final SendBuffer EMPTY_BUFFER = new EmptySendBuffer();
+
+    private static final int DEFAULT_PREALLOCATION_SIZE = 65536;
+    private static final int ALIGN_SHIFT = 4;
+    private static final int ALIGN_MASK = 15;
+
+    PreallocationRef poolHead = null;
+    Preallocation current = new Preallocation(DEFAULT_PREALLOCATION_SIZE);
+
+    SctpSendBufferPool() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    final SendBuffer acquire(Object message) {
+        if (message instanceof SctpPayload) {
+            return acquire((SctpPayload) message);
+        } else {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "unsupported message type: " + message.getClass());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final SendBuffer acquire(SctpPayload message) {
+        final ChannelBuffer src = message.getPayloadBuffer();
+        final int streamNo = message.getStreamIdentifier();
+        final int protocolId = message.getProtocolIdentifier();
+
+        final int size = src.readableBytes();
+        if (size == 0) {
+            return EMPTY_BUFFER;
+        }
+
+        if (src.isDirect()) {
+            return new UnpooledSendBuffer(streamNo, protocolId, src.toByteBuffer());
+        }
+        if (src.readableBytes() > DEFAULT_PREALLOCATION_SIZE) {
+            return new UnpooledSendBuffer(streamNo, protocolId, src.toByteBuffer());
+        }
+
+        Preallocation current = this.current;
+        ByteBuffer buffer = current.buffer;
+        int remaining = buffer.remaining();
+        PooledSendBuffer dst;
+
+        if (size < remaining) {
+            int nextPos = buffer.position() + size;
+            ByteBuffer slice = buffer.duplicate();
+            buffer.position(align(nextPos));
+            slice.limit(nextPos);
+            current.refCnt++;
+            dst = new PooledSendBuffer(streamNo, protocolId, current, slice);
+        } else if (size > remaining) {
+            this.current = current = getPreallocation();
+            buffer = current.buffer;
+            ByteBuffer slice = buffer.duplicate();
+            buffer.position(align(size));
+            slice.limit(size);
+            current.refCnt++;
+            dst = new PooledSendBuffer(streamNo, protocolId, current, slice);
+        } else { // size == remaining
+            current.refCnt++;
+            this.current = getPreallocation0();
+            dst = new PooledSendBuffer(streamNo, protocolId, current, current.buffer);
+        }
+
+        ByteBuffer dstbuf = dst.buffer;
+        dstbuf.mark();
+        src.getBytes(src.readerIndex(), dstbuf);
+        dstbuf.reset();
+        return dst;
+    }
+
+    private final Preallocation getPreallocation() {
+        Preallocation current = this.current;
+        if (current.refCnt == 0) {
+            current.buffer.clear();
+            return current;
+        }
+
+        return getPreallocation0();
+    }
+
+    private final Preallocation getPreallocation0() {
+        PreallocationRef ref = poolHead;
+        if (ref != null) {
+            do {
+                Preallocation p = ref.get();
+                ref = ref.next;
+
+                if (p != null) {
+                    poolHead = ref;
+                    return p;
+                }
+            } while (ref != null);
+
+            poolHead = ref;
+        }
+
+        return new Preallocation(DEFAULT_PREALLOCATION_SIZE);
+    }
+
+    private static final int align(int pos) {
+        int q = pos >>> ALIGN_SHIFT;
+        int r = pos & ALIGN_MASK;
+        if (r != 0) {
+            q++;
+        }
+        return q << ALIGN_SHIFT;
+    }
+
+    private final class Preallocation {
+        final ByteBuffer buffer;
+        int refCnt;
+
+        Preallocation(int capacity) {
+            buffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(capacity);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final class PreallocationRef extends SoftReference<Preallocation> {
+        final PreallocationRef next;
+
+        PreallocationRef(Preallocation prealloation, PreallocationRef next) {
+            super(prealloation);
+            this.next = next;
+        }
+    }
+
+    interface SendBuffer {
+        boolean finished();
+
+        long writtenBytes();
+
+        long totalBytes();
+
+        long transferTo(SctpChannel ch) throws IOException;
+
+        void release();
+    }
+
+    class UnpooledSendBuffer implements SendBuffer {
+
+        final ByteBuffer buffer;
+        final int initialPos;
+        final int streamNo;
+        final int protocolId;
+
+        UnpooledSendBuffer(int streamNo, int protocolId, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+            this.streamNo = streamNo;
+            this.protocolId = protocolId;
+            this.buffer = buffer;
+            initialPos = buffer.position();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final boolean finished() {
+            return !buffer.hasRemaining();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final long writtenBytes() {
+            return buffer.position() - initialPos;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final long totalBytes() {
+            return buffer.limit() - initialPos;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long transferTo(SctpChannel ch) throws IOException {
+            final MessageInfo messageInfo = MessageInfo.createOutgoing(ch.association(), null, streamNo);
+            messageInfo.payloadProtocolID(protocolId);
+            messageInfo.streamNumber(streamNo);
+            ch.send(buffer, messageInfo);
+            return writtenBytes();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void release() {
+            // Unpooled.
+        }
+    }
+
+    final class PooledSendBuffer implements SendBuffer {
+
+        private final Preallocation parent;
+        final ByteBuffer buffer;
+        final int initialPos;
+        final int streamNo;
+        final int protocolId;
+
+        PooledSendBuffer(int streamNo, int protocolId, Preallocation parent, ByteBuffer buffer) {
+            this.streamNo = streamNo;
+            this.protocolId = protocolId;
+            this.parent = parent;
+            this.buffer = buffer;
+            initialPos = buffer.position();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean finished() {
+            return !buffer.hasRemaining();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long writtenBytes() {
+            return buffer.position() - initialPos;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long totalBytes() {
+            return buffer.limit() - initialPos;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long transferTo(SctpChannel ch) throws IOException {
+            final MessageInfo messageInfo = MessageInfo.createOutgoing(ch.association(), null, streamNo);
+            messageInfo.payloadProtocolID(protocolId);
+            messageInfo.streamNumber(streamNo);
+            ch.send(buffer, messageInfo);
+            return writtenBytes();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void release() {
+            final Preallocation parent = this.parent;
+            if (--parent.refCnt == 0) {
+                parent.buffer.clear();
+                if (parent != current) {
+                    poolHead = new PreallocationRef(parent, poolHead);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    static final class EmptySendBuffer implements SendBuffer {
+
+        EmptySendBuffer() {
+            super();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final boolean finished() {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final long writtenBytes() {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public final long totalBytes() {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long transferTo(SctpChannel ch) throws IOException {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void release() {
+            // Unpooled.
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpServerChannel.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ServerChannel;
+
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * A SCTP {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ServerChannel} which accepts incoming SCTP connections.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ * @version $Rev$, $Date$
+ */
+public interface SctpServerChannel extends ServerChannel {
+    /**
+     * Returns the configuration of this channel.
+     */
+    @Override
+    SctpServerChannelConfig getConfig();
+
+    /**
+     * Return the primary local address of the SCTP server channel.
+     */
+    @Override
+    InetSocketAddress getLocalAddress();
+
+    /**
+     * Return all local addresses of the SCTP server channel.
+     */
+    Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllLocalAddresses();
+
+    /**
+     * Return the primary remote address of the server SCTP channel.
+     */
+    @Override
+    InetSocketAddress getRemoteAddress();
+
+
+    /**
+     * Return all remote addresses of the SCTP server channel.
+     */
+    Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllRemoteAddresses();
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpServerChannelConfig.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import static com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpStandardSocketOptions.*;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig} for a {@link SctpServerChannelConfig}.
+ * <p/>
+ * <h3>Available options</h3>
+ * <p/>
+ * In addition to the options provided by {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelConfig},
+ * {@link SctpServerChannelConfig} allows the following options in the
+ * option map:
+ * <p/>
+ * <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
+ * <tr>
+ * <th>Name</th><th>Associated setter method</th>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "backlog"}</td><td>{@link #setBacklog(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * * <td>{@code "receiveBufferSize"}</td><td>{@link #setReceiveBufferSize(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "sendBufferSize"}</td><td>{@link #setSendBufferSize(int)}</td>
+ * </tr><tr>
+ * <td>{@code "sctpInitMaxStreams"}</td><td>{@link #setInitMaxStreams(InitMaxStreams)} (int)}}</td>
+ * </tr>
+ * </table>
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public interface SctpServerChannelConfig extends ChannelConfig {
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the backlog value to specify when the channel binds to a local
+     * address.
+     */
+    int getBacklog();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the backlog value to specify when the channel binds to a local
+     * address.
+     */
+    void setBacklog(int backlog);
+
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_SNDBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    int getSendBufferSize();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_SNDBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setSendBufferSize(int sendBufferSize);
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_RCVBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    int getReceiveBufferSize();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SO_RCVBUF}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setReceiveBufferSize(int receiveBufferSize);
+
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS}</a> option.
+     */
+    InitMaxStreams getInitMaxStreams();
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/javadoc/com/sun/nio/sctp/SctpStandardSocketOption.html">{@code SCTP_INIT_MAXSTREAMS}</a> option.
+     */
+    void setInitMaxStreams(InitMaxStreams initMaxStreams);
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpServerChannelImpl.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.SocketAddress;
+import java.nio.channels.Selector;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelOpen;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+class SctpServerChannelImpl extends AbstractServerChannel
+                             implements SctpServerChannel {
+
+    private static final InternalLogger logger =
+        InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpServerChannelImpl.class);
+
+    final com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel serverChannel;
+    final Lock shutdownLock = new ReentrantLock();
+    volatile Selector selector;
+    private final SctpServerChannelConfig config;
+
+    private volatile boolean bound;
+
+    SctpServerChannelImpl(
+            ChannelFactory factory,
+            ChannelPipeline pipeline,
+            ChannelSink sink) {
+
+        super(factory, pipeline, sink);
+
+        try {
+            serverChannel = com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel.open();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ChannelException(
+                    "Failed to open a server socket.", e);
+        }
+
+        try {
+            serverChannel.configureBlocking(false);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            try {
+                serverChannel.close();
+            } catch (IOException e2) {
+                logger.warn(
+                        "Failed to close a partially initialized socket.", e2);
+            }
+
+            throw new ChannelException("Failed to enter non-blocking mode.", e);
+        }
+
+        config = new DefaultSctpServerChannelConfig(serverChannel);
+
+        fireChannelOpen(this);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public SctpServerChannelConfig getConfig() {
+        return config;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InetSocketAddress getLocalAddress() {
+        try {
+            final Iterator<SocketAddress> iterator = serverChannel.getAllLocalAddresses().iterator();
+            return iterator.hasNext() ? (InetSocketAddress) iterator.next() : null;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllLocalAddresses() {
+        try {
+            final Set<SocketAddress> allLocalAddresses = serverChannel.getAllLocalAddresses();
+            final Set<InetSocketAddress> addresses = new HashSet<InetSocketAddress>(allLocalAddresses.size());
+            for (SocketAddress socketAddress : allLocalAddresses) {
+                addresses.add((InetSocketAddress) socketAddress);
+            }
+            return addresses;
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            return Collections.emptySet();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InetSocketAddress getRemoteAddress() {
+        return null;// not available for server channel
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Set<InetSocketAddress> getAllRemoteAddresses() {
+        return null;// not available for server channel
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isBound() {
+        return isOpen() && bound;
+    }
+
+    public void setBound() {
+        bound = true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected boolean setClosed() {
+        return super.setClosed();
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpServerPipelineSink.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.SocketAddress;
+import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
+import java.nio.channels.*;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+class SctpServerPipelineSink extends AbstractChannelSink {
+
+    static final InternalLogger logger =
+        InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpServerPipelineSink.class);
+
+    private final SctpWorker[] workers;
+    private final AtomicInteger workerIndex = new AtomicInteger();
+
+    SctpServerPipelineSink(Executor workerExecutor, int workerCount) {
+        workers = new SctpWorker[workerCount];
+        for (int i = 0; i < workers.length; i ++) {
+            workers[i] = new SctpWorker(workerExecutor);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void eventSunk(
+            ChannelPipeline pipeline, ChannelEvent e) throws Exception {
+        Channel channel = e.getChannel();
+        if (channel instanceof SctpServerChannelImpl) {
+            handleServerSocket(e);
+        } else if (channel instanceof SctpChannelImpl) {
+            handleAcceptedSocket(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void handleServerSocket(ChannelEvent e) {
+        if (!(e instanceof ChannelStateEvent)) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        ChannelStateEvent event = (ChannelStateEvent) e;
+        SctpServerChannelImpl channel =
+            (SctpServerChannelImpl) event.getChannel();
+        ChannelFuture future = event.getFuture();
+        ChannelState state = event.getState();
+        Object value = event.getValue();
+
+        switch (state) {
+        case OPEN:
+            if (Boolean.FALSE.equals(value)) {
+                close(channel, future);
+            }
+            break;
+        case BOUND:
+            if (value != null) {
+                bind(channel, future, (SocketAddress) value);
+            } else {
+                close(channel, future);
+            }
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void handleAcceptedSocket(ChannelEvent e) {
+        if (e instanceof ChannelStateEvent) {
+            ChannelStateEvent event = (ChannelStateEvent) e;
+            SctpChannelImpl channel = (SctpChannelImpl) event.getChannel();
+            ChannelFuture future = event.getFuture();
+            ChannelState state = event.getState();
+            Object value = event.getValue();
+
+            switch (state) {
+            case OPEN:
+                if (Boolean.FALSE.equals(value)) {
+                    channel.worker.close(channel, future);
+                }
+                break;
+            case BOUND:
+            case CONNECTED:
+                if (value == null) {
+                    channel.worker.close(channel, future);
+                }
+                break;
+            case INTEREST_OPS:
+                channel.worker.setInterestOps(channel, future, (Integer) value);
+                break;
+            }
+        } else if (e instanceof MessageEvent) {
+            MessageEvent event = (MessageEvent) e;
+            SctpChannelImpl channel = (SctpChannelImpl) event.getChannel();
+            boolean offered = channel.writeBuffer.offer(event);
+            assert offered;
+            channel.worker.writeFromUserCode(channel);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void bind(
+            SctpServerChannelImpl channel, ChannelFuture future,
+            SocketAddress localAddress) {
+
+        boolean bound = false;
+        boolean bossStarted = false;
+        try {
+            channel.serverChannel.bind(localAddress, channel.getConfig().getBacklog());
+            bound = true;
+            channel.setBound();
+            future.setSuccess();
+            fireChannelBound(channel, channel.getLocalAddress());
+
+            Executor bossExecutor =
+                ((SctpServerSocketChannelFactory) channel.getFactory()).bossExecutor;
+            DeadLockProofWorker.start(bossExecutor, new Boss(channel));
+            bossStarted = true;
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            future.setFailure(t);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+        } finally {
+            if (!bossStarted && bound) {
+                close(channel, future);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void close(SctpServerChannelImpl channel, ChannelFuture future) {
+        boolean bound = channel.isBound();
+        try {
+            if (channel.serverChannel.isOpen()) {
+                channel.serverChannel.close();
+                Selector selector = channel.selector;
+                if (selector != null) {
+                    selector.wakeup();
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Make sure the boss thread is not running so that that the future
+            // is notified after a new connection cannot be accepted anymore.
+            // See NETTY-256 for more information.
+            channel.shutdownLock.lock();
+            try {
+                if (channel.setClosed()) {
+                    future.setSuccess();
+                    if (bound) {
+                        fireChannelUnbound(channel);
+                    }
+                    fireChannelClosed(channel);
+                } else {
+                    future.setSuccess();
+                }
+            } finally {
+                channel.shutdownLock.unlock();
+            }
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            future.setFailure(t);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+        }
+    }
+
+    SctpWorker nextWorker() {
+        return workers[Math.abs(
+                workerIndex.getAndIncrement() % workers.length)];
+    }
+
+    private final class Boss implements Runnable {
+        private final Selector selector;
+        private final SctpServerChannelImpl channel;
+
+        Boss(SctpServerChannelImpl channel) throws IOException {
+            this.channel = channel;
+
+            selector = Selector.open();
+
+            boolean registered = false;
+            try {
+                channel.serverChannel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);
+                registered = true;
+            } finally {
+                if (!registered) {
+                    closeSelector();
+                }
+            }
+
+            channel.selector = selector;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            final Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
+
+            channel.shutdownLock.lock();
+            try {
+                for (;;) {
+                    try {
+                        if (selector.select(500) > 0) {
+                            selector.selectedKeys().clear();
+                        }
+
+                        SctpChannel acceptedSocket = channel.serverChannel.accept();
+                        if (acceptedSocket != null) {
+                            registerAcceptedChannel(acceptedSocket, currentThread);
+                        }
+                    } catch (SocketTimeoutException e) {
+                        // Thrown every second to get ClosedChannelException
+                        // raised.
+                    } catch (CancelledKeyException e) {
+                        // Raised by accept() when the server socket was closed.
+                    } catch (ClosedSelectorException e) {
+                        // Raised by accept() when the server socket was closed.
+                    } catch (ClosedChannelException e) {
+                        // Closed as requested.
+                        break;
+                    } catch (Throwable e) {
+                        logger.warn(
+                                "Failed to accept a connection.", e);
+                        try {
+                            Thread.sleep(1000);
+                        } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
+                            // Ignore
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            } finally {
+                channel.shutdownLock.unlock();
+                closeSelector();
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void registerAcceptedChannel(SctpChannel acceptedSocket, Thread currentThread) {
+            try {
+                ChannelPipeline pipeline =
+                    channel.getConfig().getPipelineFactory().getPipeline();
+                SctpWorker worker = nextWorker();
+                worker.register(new SctpAcceptedChannel(
+                        channel.getFactory(), pipeline, channel,
+                        SctpServerPipelineSink.this, acceptedSocket,
+                        worker, currentThread), null);
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                logger.warn(
+                        "Failed to initialize an accepted socket.", e);
+                try {
+                    acceptedSocket.close();
+                } catch (IOException e2) {
+                    logger.warn(
+                            "Failed to close a partially accepted socket.",
+                            e2);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private void closeSelector() {
+            channel.selector = null;
+            try {
+                selector.close();
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                logger.warn("Failed to close a selector.", e);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpServerSocketChannelFactory.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelSink;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ServerChannelFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.ExecutorUtil;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannelFactory} which creates a server-side NIO-based
+ * {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannel}.  It utilizes the non-blocking I/O mode which
+ * was introduced with NIO to serve many number of concurrent connections
+ * efficiently.
+ *
+ * <h3>How threads work</h3>
+ * <p>
+ * There are two types of threads in a {@link SctpServerSocketChannelFactory};
+ * one is boss thread and the other is worker thread.
+ *
+ * <h4>Boss threads</h4>
+ * <p>
+ * Each bound {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannel} has its own boss thread.
+ * For example, if you opened two server ports such as 80 and 443, you will
+ * have two boss threads.  A boss thread accepts incoming connections until
+ * the port is unbound.  Once a connection is accepted successfully, the boss
+ * thread passes the accepted {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel} to one of the worker
+ * threads that the {@link SctpServerSocketChannelFactory} manages.
+ *
+ * <h4>Worker threads</h4>
+ * <p>
+ * One {@link SctpServerSocketChannelFactory} can have one or more worker
+ * threads.  A worker thread performs non-blocking read and write for one or
+ * more {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel}s in a non-blocking mode.
+ *
+ * <h3>Life cycle of threads and graceful shutdown</h3>
+ * <p>
+ * All threads are acquired from the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor}s which were specified
+ * when a {@link SctpServerSocketChannelFactory} was created.  Boss threads are
+ * acquired from the {@code bossExecutor}, and worker threads are acquired from
+ * the {@code workerExecutor}.  Therefore, you should make sure the specified
+ * {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor}s are able to lend the sufficient number of threads.
+ * It is the best bet to specify {@linkplain java.util.concurrent.Executors#newCachedThreadPool() a cached thread pool}.
+ * <p>
+ * Both boss and worker threads are acquired lazily, and then released when
+ * there's nothing left to process.  All the related resources such as
+ * {@link java.nio.channels.Selector} are also released when the boss and worker threads are
+ * released.  Therefore, to shut down a service gracefully, you should do the
+ * following:
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ * <li>unbind all channels created by the factory,
+ * <li>close all child channels accepted by the unbound channels, and
+ *     (these two steps so far is usually done using {@link org.jboss.netty.channel.group.ChannelGroup#close()})</li>
+ * <li>call {@link #releaseExternalResources()}.</li>
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * Please make sure not to shut down the executor until all channels are
+ * closed.  Otherwise, you will end up with a {@link java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException}
+ * and the related resources might not be released properly.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ *
+ * @apiviz.landmark
+ */
+public class SctpServerSocketChannelFactory implements ServerChannelFactory {
+
+    final Executor bossExecutor;
+    private final Executor workerExecutor;
+    private final ChannelSink sink;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance.  Calling this constructor is same with calling
+     * {@link #SctpServerSocketChannelFactory(java.util.concurrent.Executor, java.util.concurrent.Executor, int)} with 2 *
+     * the number of available processors in the machine.  The number of
+     * available processors is obtained by {@link Runtime#availableProcessors()}.
+     *
+     * @param bossExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the boss threads
+     * @param workerExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the I/O worker threads
+     */
+    public SctpServerSocketChannelFactory(
+            Executor bossExecutor, Executor workerExecutor) {
+        this(bossExecutor, workerExecutor, SelectorUtil.DEFAULT_IO_THREADS);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new instance.
+     *
+     * @param bossExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the boss threads
+     * @param workerExecutor
+     *        the {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} which will execute the I/O worker threads
+     * @param workerCount
+     *        the maximum number of I/O worker threads
+     */
+    public SctpServerSocketChannelFactory(
+            Executor bossExecutor, Executor workerExecutor,
+            int workerCount) {
+        if (bossExecutor == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("bossExecutor");
+        }
+        if (workerExecutor == null) {
+            throw new NullPointerException("workerExecutor");
+        }
+        if (workerCount <= 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "workerCount (" + workerCount + ") " +
+                    "must be a positive integer.");
+        }
+        this.bossExecutor = bossExecutor;
+        this.workerExecutor = workerExecutor;
+        sink = new SctpServerPipelineSink(workerExecutor, workerCount);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public SctpServerChannel newChannel(ChannelPipeline pipeline) {
+        return new SctpServerChannelImpl(this, pipeline, sink);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void releaseExternalResources() {
+        ExecutorUtil.terminate(bossExecutor, workerExecutor);
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SctpWorker.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import com.sun.nio.sctp.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBufferFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpSendBufferPool.SendBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.SocketAddress;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.*;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Queue;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.LinkedTransferQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReadWriteLock;
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock;
+
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+class SctpWorker implements Runnable {
+
+    private static final InternalLogger logger =
+            InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SctpWorker.class);
+
+    private static final int CONSTRAINT_LEVEL = SctpProviderMetadata.CONSTRAINT_LEVEL;
+
+    static final int CLEANUP_INTERVAL = 256; // XXX Hard-coded value, but won't need customization.
+
+    private final Executor executor;
+    private boolean started;
+    private volatile Thread thread;
+    volatile Selector selector;
+    private final AtomicBoolean wakenUp = new AtomicBoolean();
+    private final ReadWriteLock selectorGuard = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
+    private final Object startStopLock = new Object();
+    private final Queue<Runnable> registerTaskQueue = new LinkedTransferQueue<Runnable>();
+    private final Queue<Runnable> writeTaskQueue = new LinkedTransferQueue<Runnable>();
+    private volatile int cancelledKeys; // should use AtomicInteger but we just need approximation
+
+    private final SctpReceiveBufferPool recvBufferPool = new SctpReceiveBufferPool();
+    private final SctpSendBufferPool sendBufferPool = new SctpSendBufferPool();
+
+    private SctpNotificationHandler notificationHandler;
+
+    SctpWorker(Executor executor) {
+        this.executor = executor;
+    }
+
+    void register(SctpChannelImpl channel, ChannelFuture future) {
+
+        boolean server = !(channel instanceof SctpClientChannel);
+        Runnable registerTask = new RegisterTask(channel, future, server);
+        notificationHandler = new SctpNotificationHandler(channel, this);
+        Selector selector;
+
+        synchronized (startStopLock) {
+            if (!started) {
+                // Open a selector if this worker didn't start yet.
+                try {
+                    this.selector = selector = Selector.open();
+                } catch (Throwable t) {
+                    throw new ChannelException(
+                            "Failed to create a selector.", t);
+                }
+
+                // Start the worker thread with the new Selector.
+                boolean success = false;
+                try {
+                    DeadLockProofWorker.start(executor, this);
+                    success = true;
+                } finally {
+                    if (!success) {
+                        // Release the Selector if the execution fails.
+                        try {
+                            selector.close();
+                        } catch (Throwable t) {
+                            logger.warn("Failed to close a selector.", t);
+                        }
+                        this.selector = selector = null;
+                        // The method will return to the caller at this point.
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+                // Use the existing selector if this worker has been started.
+                selector = this.selector;
+            }
+
+            assert selector != null && selector.isOpen();
+
+            started = true;
+            boolean offered = registerTaskQueue.offer(registerTask);
+            assert offered;
+        }
+
+        if (wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+            selector.wakeup();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        thread = Thread.currentThread();
+
+        boolean shutdown = false;
+        Selector selector = this.selector;
+        for (; ;) {
+            wakenUp.set(false);
+
+            if (CONSTRAINT_LEVEL != 0) {
+                selectorGuard.writeLock().lock();
+                // This empty synchronization block prevents the selector
+                // from acquiring its lock.
+                selectorGuard.writeLock().unlock();
+            }
+
+            try {
+                SelectorUtil.select(selector);
+
+                // 'wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)' is always evaluated
+                // before calling 'selector.wakeup()' to reduce the wake-up
+                // overhead. (Selector.wakeup() is an expensive operation.)
+                //
+                // However, there is a race condition in this approach.
+                // The race condition is triggered when 'wakenUp' is set to
+                // true too early.
+                //
+                // 'wakenUp' is set to true too early if:
+                // 1) Selector is waken up between 'wakenUp.set(false)' and
+                //    'selector.select(...)'. (BAD)
+                // 2) Selector is waken up between 'selector.select(...)' and
+                //    'if (wakenUp.get()) { ... }'. (OK)
+                //
+                // In the first case, 'wakenUp' is set to true and the
+                // following 'selector.select(...)' will wake up immediately.
+                // Until 'wakenUp' is set to false again in the next round,
+                // 'wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)' will fail, and therefore
+                // any attempt to wake up the Selector will fail, too, causing
+                // the following 'selector.select(...)' call to block
+                // unnecessarily.
+                //
+                // To fix this problem, we wake up the selector again if wakenUp
+                // is true immediately after selector.select(...).
+                // It is inefficient in that it wakes up the selector for both
+                // the first case (BAD - wake-up required) and the second case
+                // (OK - no wake-up required).
+
+                if (wakenUp.get()) {
+                    selector.wakeup();
+                }
+
+                cancelledKeys = 0;
+                processRegisterTaskQueue();
+                processWriteTaskQueue();
+                processSelectedKeys(selector.selectedKeys());
+
+                // Exit the loop when there's nothing to handle.
+                // The shutdown flag is used to delay the shutdown of this
+                // loop to avoid excessive Selector creation when
+                // connections are registered in a one-by-one manner instead of
+                // concurrent manner.
+                if (selector.keys().isEmpty()) {
+                    if (shutdown ||
+                            executor instanceof ExecutorService && ((ExecutorService) executor).isShutdown()) {
+
+                        synchronized (startStopLock) {
+                            if (registerTaskQueue.isEmpty() && selector.keys().isEmpty()) {
+                                started = false;
+                                try {
+                                    selector.close();
+                                } catch (IOException e) {
+                                    logger.warn(
+                                            "Failed to close a selector.", e);
+                                } finally {
+                                    this.selector = null;
+                                }
+                                break;
+                            } else {
+                                shutdown = false;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        // Give one more second.
+                        shutdown = true;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    shutdown = false;
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                logger.warn(
+                        "Unexpected exception in the selector loop.", t);
+
+                // Prevent possible consecutive immediate failures that lead to
+                // excessive CPU consumption.
+                try {
+                    Thread.sleep(1000);
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    // Ignore.
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void processRegisterTaskQueue() throws IOException {
+        for (; ;) {
+            final Runnable task = registerTaskQueue.poll();
+            if (task == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            task.run();
+            cleanUpCancelledKeys();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void processWriteTaskQueue() throws IOException {
+        for (; ;) {
+            final Runnable task = writeTaskQueue.poll();
+            if (task == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            task.run();
+            cleanUpCancelledKeys();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void processSelectedKeys(final Set<SelectionKey> selectedKeys) throws IOException {
+        for (Iterator<SelectionKey> i = selectedKeys.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
+            SelectionKey k = i.next();
+            i.remove();
+            try {
+                int readyOps = k.readyOps();
+                if ((readyOps & SelectionKey.OP_READ) != 0 || readyOps == 0) {
+                    if (!read(k)) {
+                        // Connection already closed - no need to handle write.
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                }
+                if ((readyOps & SelectionKey.OP_WRITE) != 0) {
+                    writeFromSelectorLoop(k);
+                }
+            } catch (CancelledKeyException e) {
+                close(k);
+            }
+
+            if (cleanUpCancelledKeys()) {
+                break; // break the loop to avoid ConcurrentModificationException
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private boolean cleanUpCancelledKeys() throws IOException {
+        if (cancelledKeys >= CLEANUP_INTERVAL) {
+            cancelledKeys = 0;
+            selector.selectNow();
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private boolean read(SelectionKey k) {
+        final SctpChannelImpl channel = (SctpChannelImpl) k.attachment();
+
+        final ReceiveBufferSizePredictor predictor =
+                channel.getConfig().getReceiveBufferSizePredictor();
+        final int predictedRecvBufSize = predictor.nextReceiveBufferSize();
+
+        boolean messageReceived = false;
+        boolean failure = true;
+        MessageInfo messageInfo = null;
+
+        ByteBuffer bb = recvBufferPool.acquire(predictedRecvBufSize);
+        try {
+            messageInfo = channel.channel.receive(bb, null, notificationHandler);
+            if (messageInfo != null) {
+                messageReceived = true;
+                if (messageInfo.isComplete()) {
+                    failure = false;
+                } else {
+                    logger.error("Received incomplete sctp packet, can not continue! Expected SCTP_EXPLICIT_COMPLETE message");
+                    failure = true;
+                }
+            } else {
+                messageReceived = false;
+                failure = false;
+            }
+        } catch (ClosedChannelException e) {
+            // Can happen, and does not need a user attention.
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+        }
+
+        if (messageReceived) {
+            bb.flip();
+
+            final ChannelBufferFactory bufferFactory =
+                    channel.getConfig().getBufferFactory();
+            final int receivedBytes = bb.remaining();
+            final ChannelBuffer buffer = bufferFactory.getBuffer(receivedBytes);
+            buffer.setBytes(0, bb);
+            buffer.writerIndex(receivedBytes);
+
+            recvBufferPool.release(bb);
+
+            // Update the predictor.
+            predictor.previousReceiveBufferSize(receivedBytes);
+
+            // Fire the event.
+            fireMessageReceived(channel,
+                    new SctpPayload(messageInfo.streamNumber(),
+                            messageInfo.payloadProtocolID(),
+                            buffer),
+                    messageInfo.address());
+        } else {
+            recvBufferPool.release(bb);
+        }
+
+        if (channel.channel.isBlocking() && !messageReceived || failure) {
+            k.cancel(); // Some JDK implementations run into an infinite loop without this.
+            close(channel, succeededFuture(channel));
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    private void close(SelectionKey k) {
+        SctpChannelImpl ch = (SctpChannelImpl) k.attachment();
+        close(ch, succeededFuture(ch));
+    }
+
+    void writeFromUserCode(final SctpChannelImpl channel) {
+        if (!channel.isConnected()) {
+            cleanUpWriteBuffer(channel);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (scheduleWriteIfNecessary(channel)) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // From here, we are sure Thread.currentThread() == workerThread.
+
+        if (channel.writeSuspended) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (channel.inWriteNowLoop) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        write0(channel);
+    }
+
+    void writeFromTaskLoop(final SctpChannelImpl ch) {
+        if (!ch.writeSuspended) {
+            write0(ch);
+        }
+    }
+
+    void writeFromSelectorLoop(final SelectionKey k) {
+        SctpChannelImpl ch = (SctpChannelImpl) k.attachment();
+        ch.writeSuspended = false;
+        write0(ch);
+    }
+
+    private boolean scheduleWriteIfNecessary(final SctpChannelImpl channel) {
+        final Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
+        final Thread workerThread = thread;
+        if (currentThread != workerThread) {
+            if (channel.writeTaskInTaskQueue.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                boolean offered = writeTaskQueue.offer(channel.writeTask);
+                assert offered;
+            }
+
+            if (!(channel instanceof SctpAcceptedChannel) ||
+                    ((SctpAcceptedChannel) channel).bossThread != currentThread) {
+                final Selector workerSelector = selector;
+                if (workerSelector != null) {
+                    if (wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                        workerSelector.wakeup();
+                    }
+                }
+            } else {
+                // A write request can be made from an acceptor thread (boss)
+                // when a user attempted to write something in:
+                //
+                //   * channelOpen()
+                //   * channelBound()
+                //   * channelConnected().
+                //
+                // In this case, there's no need to wake up the selector because
+                // the channel is not even registered yet at this moment.
+            }
+
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private void write0(SctpChannelImpl channel) {
+        boolean open = true;
+        boolean addOpWrite = false;
+        boolean removeOpWrite = false;
+
+        long writtenBytes = 0;
+
+        final SctpSendBufferPool sendBufferPool = this.sendBufferPool;
+        final com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel ch = channel.channel;
+        final Queue<MessageEvent> writeBuffer = channel.writeBuffer;
+        final int writeSpinCount = channel.getConfig().getWriteSpinCount();
+        synchronized (channel.writeLock) {
+            channel.inWriteNowLoop = true;
+            for (; ;) {
+                MessageEvent evt = channel.currentWriteEvent;
+                SendBuffer buf;
+                if (evt == null) {
+                    if ((channel.currentWriteEvent = evt = writeBuffer.poll()) == null) {
+                        removeOpWrite = true;
+                        channel.writeSuspended = false;
+                        break;
+                    }
+
+                    channel.currentWriteBuffer = buf = sendBufferPool.acquire(evt.getMessage());
+                } else {
+                    buf = channel.currentWriteBuffer;
+                }
+
+                ChannelFuture future = evt.getFuture();
+                try {
+                    long localWrittenBytes = 0;
+                    for (int i = writeSpinCount; i > 0; i--) {
+                        localWrittenBytes = buf.transferTo(ch);
+                        if (localWrittenBytes != 0) {
+                            writtenBytes += localWrittenBytes;
+                            break;
+                        }
+                        if (buf.finished()) {
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    if (buf.finished()) {
+                        // Successful write - proceed to the next message.
+                        buf.release();
+                        channel.currentWriteEvent = null;
+                        channel.currentWriteBuffer = null;
+                        evt = null;
+                        buf = null;
+                        future.setSuccess();
+                    } else {
+                        // Not written fully - perhaps the kernel buffer is full.
+                        addOpWrite = true;
+                        channel.writeSuspended = true;
+
+                        if (localWrittenBytes > 0) {
+                            // Notify progress listeners if necessary.
+                            future.setProgress(
+                                    localWrittenBytes,
+                                    buf.writtenBytes(), buf.totalBytes());
+                        }
+                        break;
+                    }
+                } catch (AsynchronousCloseException e) {
+                    // Doesn't need a user attention - ignore.
+                } catch (Throwable t) {
+                    buf.release();
+                    channel.currentWriteEvent = null;
+                    channel.currentWriteBuffer = null;
+                    buf = null;
+                    evt = null;
+                    future.setFailure(t);
+                    fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+                    if (t instanceof IOException) {
+                        open = false;
+                        close(channel, succeededFuture(channel));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            channel.inWriteNowLoop = false;
+        }
+
+        if (open) {
+            if (addOpWrite) {
+                setOpWrite(channel);
+            } else if (removeOpWrite) {
+                clearOpWrite(channel);
+            }
+        }
+
+        fireWriteComplete(channel, writtenBytes);
+    }
+
+    private void setOpWrite(SctpChannelImpl channel) {
+        Selector selector = this.selector;
+        SelectionKey key = channel.channel.keyFor(selector);
+        if (key == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        if (!key.isValid()) {
+            close(key);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // interestOps can change at any time and at any thread.
+        // Acquire a lock to avoid possible race condition.
+        synchronized (channel.interestOpsLock) {
+            int interestOps = channel.getRawInterestOps();
+            if ((interestOps & SelectionKey.OP_WRITE) == 0) {
+                interestOps |= SelectionKey.OP_WRITE;
+                key.interestOps(interestOps);
+                channel.setRawInterestOpsNow(interestOps);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void clearOpWrite(SctpChannelImpl channel) {
+        Selector selector = this.selector;
+        SelectionKey key = channel.channel.keyFor(selector);
+        if (key == null) {
+            return;
+        }
+        if (!key.isValid()) {
+            close(key);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // interestOps can change at any time and at any thread.
+        // Acquire a lock to avoid possible race condition.
+        synchronized (channel.interestOpsLock) {
+            int interestOps = channel.getRawInterestOps();
+            if ((interestOps & SelectionKey.OP_WRITE) != 0) {
+                interestOps &= ~SelectionKey.OP_WRITE;
+                key.interestOps(interestOps);
+                channel.setRawInterestOpsNow(interestOps);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    void close(SctpChannelImpl channel, ChannelFuture future) {
+        boolean connected = channel.isConnected();
+        boolean bound = channel.isBound();
+        try {
+            channel.channel.close();
+            cancelledKeys++;
+
+            if (channel.setClosed()) {
+                future.setSuccess();
+                if (connected) {
+                    fireChannelDisconnected(channel);
+                }
+                if (bound) {
+                    fireChannelUnbound(channel);
+                }
+
+                cleanUpWriteBuffer(channel);
+                fireChannelClosed(channel);
+            } else {
+                future.setSuccess();
+            }
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            future.setFailure(t);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void cleanUpWriteBuffer(SctpChannelImpl channel) {
+        Exception cause = null;
+        boolean fireExceptionCaught = false;
+
+        // Clean up the stale messages in the write buffer.
+        synchronized (channel.writeLock) {
+            MessageEvent evt = channel.currentWriteEvent;
+            if (evt != null) {
+                // Create the exception only once to avoid the excessive overhead
+                // caused by fillStackTrace.
+                if (channel.isOpen()) {
+                    cause = new NotYetConnectedException();
+                } else {
+                    cause = new ClosedChannelException();
+                }
+
+                ChannelFuture future = evt.getFuture();
+                channel.currentWriteBuffer.release();
+                channel.currentWriteBuffer = null;
+                channel.currentWriteEvent = null;
+                evt = null;
+                future.setFailure(cause);
+                fireExceptionCaught = true;
+            }
+
+            Queue<MessageEvent> writeBuffer = channel.writeBuffer;
+            if (!writeBuffer.isEmpty()) {
+                // Create the exception only once to avoid the excessive overhead
+                // caused by fillStackTrace.
+                if (cause == null) {
+                    if (channel.isOpen()) {
+                        cause = new NotYetConnectedException();
+                    } else {
+                        cause = new ClosedChannelException();
+                    }
+                }
+
+                for (; ;) {
+                    evt = writeBuffer.poll();
+                    if (evt == null) {
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    evt.getFuture().setFailure(cause);
+                    fireExceptionCaught = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (fireExceptionCaught) {
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, cause);
+        }
+    }
+
+    void setInterestOps(
+            SctpChannelImpl channel, ChannelFuture future, int interestOps) {
+        boolean changed = false;
+        try {
+            // interestOps can change at any time and at any thread.
+            // Acquire a lock to avoid possible race condition.
+            synchronized (channel.interestOpsLock) {
+                Selector selector = this.selector;
+                SelectionKey key = channel.channel.keyFor(selector);
+
+                if (key == null || selector == null) {
+                    // Not registered to the worker yet.
+                    // Set the rawInterestOps immediately; RegisterTask will pick it up.
+                    channel.setRawInterestOpsNow(interestOps);
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                // Override OP_WRITE flag - a user cannot change this flag.
+                interestOps &= ~Channel.OP_WRITE;
+                interestOps |= channel.getRawInterestOps() & Channel.OP_WRITE;
+
+                switch (CONSTRAINT_LEVEL) {
+                    case 0:
+                        if (channel.getRawInterestOps() != interestOps) {
+                            key.interestOps(interestOps);
+                            if (Thread.currentThread() != thread &&
+                                    wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                                selector.wakeup();
+                            }
+                            changed = true;
+                        }
+                        break;
+                    case 1:
+                    case 2:
+                        if (channel.getRawInterestOps() != interestOps) {
+                            if (Thread.currentThread() == thread) {
+                                key.interestOps(interestOps);
+                                changed = true;
+                            } else {
+                                selectorGuard.readLock().lock();
+                                try {
+                                    if (wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                                        selector.wakeup();
+                                    }
+                                    key.interestOps(interestOps);
+                                    changed = true;
+                                } finally {
+                                    selectorGuard.readLock().unlock();
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                        break;
+                    default:
+                        throw new Error();
+                }
+
+                if (changed) {
+                    channel.setRawInterestOpsNow(interestOps);
+                }
+            }
+
+            future.setSuccess();
+            if (changed) {
+                fireChannelInterestChanged(channel);
+            }
+        } catch (CancelledKeyException e) {
+            // setInterestOps() was called on a closed channel.
+            ClosedChannelException cce = new ClosedChannelException();
+            future.setFailure(cce);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, cce);
+        } catch (Throwable t) {
+            future.setFailure(t);
+            fireExceptionCaught(channel, t);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final class RegisterTask implements Runnable {
+        private final SctpChannelImpl channel;
+        private final ChannelFuture future;
+        private final boolean server;
+
+        RegisterTask(
+                SctpChannelImpl channel, ChannelFuture future, boolean server) {
+
+            this.channel = channel;
+            this.future = future;
+            this.server = server;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void run() {
+            SocketAddress localAddress = channel.getLocalAddress();
+            SocketAddress remoteAddress = channel.getRemoteAddress();
+            if (localAddress == null || remoteAddress == null) {
+                if (future != null) {
+                    future.setFailure(new ClosedChannelException());
+                }
+                close(channel, succeededFuture(channel));
+                return;
+            }
+
+            try {
+                if (server) {
+                    channel.channel.configureBlocking(false);
+                }
+
+                synchronized (channel.interestOpsLock) {
+                    channel.channel.register(
+                            selector, channel.getRawInterestOps(), channel);
+                }
+                if (future != null) {
+                    channel.setConnected();
+                    future.setSuccess();
+                }
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                if (future != null) {
+                    future.setFailure(e);
+                }
+                close(channel, succeededFuture(channel));
+                if (!(e instanceof ClosedChannelException)) {
+                    throw new ChannelException(
+                            "Failed to register a socket to the selector.", e);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (!server) {
+                if (!((SctpClientChannel) channel).boundManually) {
+                    fireChannelBound(channel, localAddress);
+                }
+                fireChannelConnected(channel, remoteAddress);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/SelectorUtil.java

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
+import org.jboss.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.channels.CancelledKeyException;
+import java.nio.channels.Selector;
+
+/**
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+final class SelectorUtil {
+    private static final InternalLogger logger =
+        InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SelectorUtil.class);
+
+    static final int DEFAULT_IO_THREADS = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() * 2;
+
+    static void select(Selector selector) throws IOException {
+        try {
+            selector.select(10);// does small timeout give more throughput + less CPU usage?
+        } catch (CancelledKeyException e) {
+            // Harmless exception - log anyway
+            logger.debug(
+                    CancelledKeyException.class.getSimpleName() +
+                    " raised by a Selector - JDK bug?", e);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/sctp/package-info.java

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_I/O">NIO</a>-based socket channel
+ * API implementation - recommended for a large number of connections (&gt;= 1000).
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp;

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/sctp/SctpClient.java

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.example.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.bootstrap.ClientBootstrap;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipelineFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpClientSocketChannelFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.ExecutionHandler;
+import org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor;
+
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+
+/**
+ * Simple SCTP Echo Client
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public class SctpClient {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+        // Configure the client.
+        ClientBootstrap bootstrap = new ClientBootstrap(
+                new SctpClientSocketChannelFactory(
+                        Executors.newCachedThreadPool(),
+                        Executors.newCachedThreadPool()));
+
+        final ExecutionHandler executionHandler = new ExecutionHandler(
+                new OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor(16, 1048576, 1048576));
+
+        // Set up the pipeline factory.
+        bootstrap.setPipelineFactory(new ChannelPipelineFactory() {
+            @Override
+            public ChannelPipeline getPipeline() throws Exception {
+                return Channels.pipeline(executionHandler, new SctpClientHandler());
+            }
+        });
+
+        bootstrap.setOption("sendBufferSize", 1048576);
+        bootstrap.setOption("receiveBufferSize", 1048576);
+
+        bootstrap.setOption("sctpNoDelay", true);
+
+        // Start the connection attempt.
+        ChannelFuture future = bootstrap.connect(new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 2955), new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 2956));
+
+        // Wait until the connection is closed or the connection attempt fails.
+        future.getChannel().getCloseFuture().awaitUninterruptibly();
+
+       //  Please check SctpClientHandler to see, how echo message is sent & received
+
+        // Shut down thread pools to exit.
+        bootstrap.releaseExternalResources();
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/sctp/SctpClientHandler.java

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.example.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.*;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpPayload;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+/**
+ * Handler implementation for the echo client.  It initiates the message
+ * and upon receiving echo back to the server
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public class SctpClientHandler extends SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler {
+    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(SctpClientHandler.class.getName());
+
+    private final AtomicLong counter = new AtomicLong(0);
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a client-side handler.
+     */
+    public SctpClientHandler() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * After connection is initialized, start the echo from client
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void channelConnected(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelStateEvent stateEvent) {
+        stateEvent.getChannel().write(new SctpPayload(0, 0, ChannelBuffers.wrappedBuffer("SCTP ECHO".getBytes())));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void messageReceived(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, MessageEvent messageEvent) {
+        // Send back the received message to the remote peer.
+        logger.log(Level.INFO, "Received " + counter.incrementAndGet() + "th message from server, sending it back.");
+        messageEvent.getChannel().write(messageEvent.getMessage());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ExceptionEvent exceptionEvent) {
+        // Close the connection when an exception is raised.
+        logger.log(Level.WARNING, "Unexpected exception from downstream.", exceptionEvent.getCause());
+        exceptionEvent.getChannel().close();
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/sctp/SctpServer.java

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.example.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipelineFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.sctp.SctpServerSocketChannelFactory;
+import org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.ExecutionHandler;
+import org.jboss.netty.handler.execution.OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor;
+
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+
+/**
+ * Echoes back any received data from a client.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public class SctpServer {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        // Configure the server.
+        ServerBootstrap bootstrap = new ServerBootstrap(
+                new SctpServerSocketChannelFactory(
+                        Executors.newCachedThreadPool(),
+                        Executors.newCachedThreadPool()));
+
+        final ExecutionHandler executionHandler = new ExecutionHandler(
+                new OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor(16, 1048576, 1048576));
+
+        // Set up the pipeline factory.
+        bootstrap.setPipelineFactory(new ChannelPipelineFactory() {
+            @Override
+            public ChannelPipeline getPipeline() throws Exception {
+                return Channels.pipeline(executionHandler, new SctpServerHandler());
+            }
+        });
+        bootstrap.setOption("sendBufferSize", 1048576);
+        bootstrap.setOption("receiveBufferSize", 1048576);
+
+        bootstrap.setOption("child.sctpNoDelay", true);
+
+        // Bind and start to accept incoming connections.
+        bootstrap.bind(new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 2955));
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/example/sctp/SctpServerHandler.java

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 The Netty Project
+ *
+ * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
+ * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.jboss.netty.example.sctp;
+
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.ExceptionEvent;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.MessageEvent;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+/**
+ * Handler implementation for the echo server.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
+ * @author <a href="http://github.com/jestan">Jestan Nirojan</a>
+ */
+public class SctpServerHandler extends SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler {
+    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(SctpServerHandler.class.getName());
+
+    private final AtomicLong counter = new AtomicLong(0);
+
+    @Override
+    public void messageReceived(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, MessageEvent messageEvent) {
+        // Send back the received message to the remote peer.
+        logger.log(Level.INFO, "Received " + counter.incrementAndGet() + "th message from client, sending it back.");
+        messageEvent.getChannel().write(messageEvent.getMessage());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ExceptionEvent event) {
+        // Close the connection when an exception is raised.
+        logger.log(Level.WARNING, "Unexpected exception from downstream.", event.getCause());
+        event.getChannel().close();
+    }
+}

src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/execution/ChannelEventRunnable.java

@@ -24,15 +24,15 @@ import org.jboss.netty.util.EstimatableObjectWrapper;
 /**
  * a {@link Runnable} which sends the specified {@link ChannelEvent} upstream.
  * Most users will not see this type at all because it is used by
- * {@link Executor} implementors only
+ * {@link Executor} implementers only
  *
  * @author <a href="http://www.jboss.org/netty/">The Netty Project</a>
  * @author <a href="http://gleamynode.net/">Trustin Lee</a>
  */
 public class ChannelEventRunnable implements Runnable, EstimatableObjectWrapper {
 
-    private final ChannelHandlerContext ctx;
-    private final ChannelEvent e;
+    protected final ChannelHandlerContext ctx;
+    protected final ChannelEvent e;
     int estimatedSize;
 
     /**