Motivation:
If we don't need the scheduled future, then it will be one less complication when we change Netty Future to no longer extend JDK Future.
It would also result in fewer elements in our API.
Modification:
There was only one real use of ScheduledFuture in our code, in Cache.
This has been changed to wrap an ordinary future with a deadline for implementing the Delayed interface.
All other places were effectively overspecifying by relying on ScheduledFuture.
A few places were also specifying JDK Futures - these have been changed to specify Netty Futures.
Result:
Reduced dependency on the ScheduledFuture interfaces.
Motivation:
The expression "not is success" can mean that either the future failed, or it has not yet completed.
However, many places where such an expression is used is expecting the future to have completed.
Specifically, they are expecting to be able to call `cause()` on the future.
It is both more correct, and semantically clearer, to call `isFailed()` instead of `!isSuccess()`.
Modification:
Change all places that used `!isSuccess()` to mean that the future had failed, to use `isFailed()`.
A few places are relying on `isSuccess()` returning `false` for _incomplete_ futures, and these places have been left unchanged.
Result:
Clearer code, with potentially fewer latent bugs.
Motivation:
We should just add `executor()` to the `ChannelOutboundInvoker` interface and override this method in `Channel` to return `EventLoop`.
Modifications:
- Add `executor()` method to `ChannelOutboundInvoker`
- Let `Channel` override this method and return `EventLoop`.
- Adjust all usages of `eventLoop()`
- Add some default implementations
Result:
API cleanup
Motivation:
The generics for the existing futures, promises, and listeners are too complicated.
This complication comes from the existence of `ChannelPromise` and `ChannelFuture`, which forces listeners to care about the particular _type_ of future being listened on.
Modification:
* Add a `FutureContextListener` which can take a context object as an additional argument. This allows our listeners to have the channel piped through to them, so they don't need to rely on the `ChannelFuture.channel()` method.
* Make the `FutureListener`, along with the `FutureContextListener` sibling, the default listener API, retiring the `GenericFutureListener` since we no longer need to abstract over the type of the future.
* Change all uses of `ChannelPromise` to `Promise<Void>`.
* Change all uses of `ChannelFuture` to `Future<Void>`.
* Change all uses of `GenericFutureListener` to either `FutureListener` or `FutureContextListener` as needed.
* Remove `ChannelFutureListener` and `GenericFutureListener`.
* Introduce a `ChannelFutureListeners` enum to house the constants that previously lived in `ChannelFutureListener`. These constants now implement `FutureContextListener` and take the `Channel` as a context.
* Remove `ChannelPromise` and `ChannelFuture` — all usages now rely on the plain `Future` and `Promise` APIs.
* Add static factory methods to `DefaultPromise` that allow us to create promises that are initialised as successful or failed.
* Remove `CompleteFuture`, `SucceededFuture`, `FailedFuture`, `CompleteChannelFuture`, `SucceededChannelFuture`, and `FailedChannelFuture`.
* Remove `ChannelPromiseNotifier`.
Result:
Cleaner generics and more straight forward code.
Motivation:
This fixes a bug that would result in an `io.netty.channel.unix.Errors$NativeIoException: connectx(..) failed: Address family not supported by protocol family` error.
This happens when the connecting socket is configured to use IPv6 but the address being connected to is IPv4.
This can occur because, for instance, Netty and `InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress()` have different preferences for IPv6 vs. IPv4.
Modification:
Pass the correct ipv6 or ipv4 flags to connectx, depending on whether the socket was created for AF_INET or AF_INET6, rather than relying on the IP version of the destination address.
Result:
No more issue with TCP FastOpen on MacOS when using addresses of the "wrong" IP version.
Motivation:
We should use StandardSocketOptions#IP_MULTICAST_IF as default source when joing multicast groups and only try to use the localAddress if this returns null.
Modifications:
First check if StandardSocketOptions#IP_MULTICAST_IF was set and if so use the network interface when joining mulicast groups
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/11541
Motivation:
The MacOS-specific `connectx(2)` system call make it possible to establish client-side connections with TCP FastOpen.
Modification:
Add support for TCP FastOpen to the KQueue transport, and add the `connectx(2)` system call to `BsdSocket`.
Result:
It's now possible to use TCP FastOpen when initiating connections on MacOS.
Motivation:
This test is inherently flaky due to file descriptor reuse.
Even though we have taken steps to make it less flaky, it still fails sometimes.
When it does, the error message is not very helpful.
Modification:
Make use of assertThrows and assertThat to get more descriptive error messages when the tests fail.
Result:
More meaningful messages on test failures, which may help us make the tests more resilient in the future
Motivation:
TCP FastOpen is a pure optimisation, that is opportunistically applied.
There is no reason to make it specific to the epoll transport, and in the future we could add support to other transports.
Besides, the client-side equivalent, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT, is already transport agnostic.
Modification:
Move the TCP_FASTOPEN channel option from EpollChannelOption to ChannelOption.
Mark the field in EpollChannelOption as deprecated.
Result:
All channel options related to TCP FastOpen are now transport agnostic.
However, we still only actually support TFO on the epoll transport.
Motivation:
We cannot control when "the system" reuses file descriptors.
This makes any test that assert on the behaviour of closed file descriptors inherently racy.
Modification:
Allow the EpollSocketChannelConfigTest socketoption tests a few tries to get the correct assertion on the behaviour of closed socket file descriptors.
Result:
The EpollSocketChannelConfigTest should now be much less flaky.
Motivation:
There are lots of imports which are unused. We should get rid of them to make the code look better,
Modification:
Removed unused imports.
Result:
No unused imports.
Bootstrap methods now return Future<Channel> instead of ChannelFuture
Motivation:
In #8516 it was proposed to at some point remove the specialised ChannelFuture and ChannelPromise.
Or at least make them not extend Future and Promise, respectively.
One pain point encountered in this discussion is the need to get access to the channel object after it has been initialised, but without waiting for the channel registration to propagate through the pipeline.
Modification:
Add a Bootstrap.createUnregistered method, which will return a Channel directly.
All other Bootstrap methods that previously returned ChannelFuture now return Future<Channel>
Result:
It's now possible to obtain an initialised but unregistered channel from a bootstrap, without blocking.
And the other bootstrap methods now only release their channels through the result of their futures, preventing racy access to the channels.
Motivation:
There are use cases when Unix domain datagram sockets are needed for communication.
This PR adds such support for Epoll/KQueue.
Modification:
- Expose Channel, Config and Packet interfaces/classes for Unix domain datagram sockets.
All interfaces/classes are in `transport-native-unix-common` module in order to be available
for KQueue and Epoll implementations
- Add JNI code for Unix domain datagram sockets
- Refactor `DatagramUnicastTest` so that it can be used for testing also Unix domain datagram sockets
- Add Unix domain datagram sockets implementation for KQueue transport
- Add Unix domain datagram sockets implementation for Epoll transport
Result:
Fixes#6737
Motivation:
Sometime in the past we introduced the concept of Void*Promise. As it turned out this was not a good idea at all as basically each handler in the pipeline need to be very careful to correctly handle this. We should better just remove this "optimization".
Modifications:
- Remove Void*Promise and all the related APIs
- Remove tests which were related to Void*Promise
Result:
Less error-prone API
Motivation:
JUnit 5 is more expressive, extensible, and composable in many ways, and it's better able to run tests in parallel.
Modifications:
Use JUnit5 in tests
Result:
Related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10757
Motivation:
We used assumeTrue(...) in some places before to detect if we could load the native library but this could lead to the sitation that we not notice if we break native loading.
Modifications:
Always fail if we cant load the native library
Result:
Ensure we not cause any regression in the native loading code in the future
Motivation:
`PlatformDependent#normalizedOs()` already caches normalized variant of
the value of `os.name` system property. Instead of inconsistently
normalizing it in every case, use the utility method.
Modifications:
- `PlatformDependent`: `isWindows0()` and `isOsx0()` use `NORMALIZED_OS`;
- `PlatformDependent#normalizeOs(String)` define `darwin` as `osx`;
- `OpenSsl#loadTcNative()` does not require `equalsIgnoreCase` bcz `os`
is already normalized;
- Epoll and KQueue: `Native#loadNativeLibrary()` use `normalizedOs()`;
- Use consistent `Locale.US` for lower case conversion of `os.name`;
- `MacOSDnsServerAddressStreamProvider#loadNativeLibrary()` uses
`PlatformDependent.isOsx()`;
Result:
Consistent approach for `os.name` parsing.
Motivation:
It turns out it is quite easy to cause a classloader deadlock in more recent java updates if you cause classloading while you are in native code. Because of this we should just workaround this issue by pre-load all the classes that needs to be accessed in the OnLoad function.
Modifications:
- Preload all classes that would otherwise be loaded by native OnLoad functions.
Result:
Workaround for https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/11209 and https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8266310
Motivation:
NullChecks resulting in a NullPointerException or IllegalArgumentException, numeric ranges (>0, >=0) checks, not empty strings/arrays checks must never be anonymous but with the parameter or variable name which is checked. They must be specific and should not be done with an "OR-Logic" (if a == null || b == null) throw new NullPointerEx.
Modifications:
* import static relevant checks
* Replace manual checks with ObjectUtil methods
Result:
All checks needed are done with ObjectUtil, some exception texts are improved.
Fixes#11170
Motivation:
While adding support for GRO (b05fdf3ff8) we broke support for IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR when using the native transport. Beside this we also didnt correctly handle IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR when recvmmsg was used.
Modifications:
- Fix support for IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR when using the native epoll transport for normal reads (recvmsg) but also for scattering reads (recvmmsg)
- Remove code from unix code-base as the support is linux specific and we not need the code there anymore
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/11141
Motivation:
We should avoid blocking in the event loop as much as possible.
The InputStream.read() is a blocking method, and we don't need to call it if available() returns a positive number.
Modification:
Bypass calling InputStream.read() if available() returns a positive number.
Result:
Fewer blocking calls in the event loop, in general, when ChunkedStream is used.
Motivation:
As we can supported SegmentedDatagramPacket in multiple native
transports (like in epoll and io_uring) we should just move it to
unix-common so we can share code.
Modification:
- Move SegmentedDatagrampPacket to transport-native-unixu
- Mark the SegmentedDatagramPacket in epoll as deprecated
- Update code to use updated package.
Result:
Possibility of code re-use
Motivation:
UDP_GRO can improve performance when reading UDP datagrams. This patch adds support for it.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/768995/
Modifications:
- Add recvmsg(...)
- Add support for UDP_GRO in recvmsg(...) and recvmmsg(...)
- Remove usage of recvfrom(...) and just always use recvmsg(...) or recvmmsg(...) to simplify things
- Refactor some code for sharing
- Add EpollChannelOption.UDP_GRO and the getter / setter in EpollDatagramConfig
Result:
UDP_GRO is supported when the underlying system supports it.
netty-jni-util 0.0.2.Final is incompatible with static linking. Before
the netty-jni-util dependency was introduced netty-tcnative supported
static linking via NETTY_BUILD_STATIC. netty-jni-util 0.0.3.Final adds
static linking compatibility.
Modifications:
Bump netty-jni-util to version 0.0.3.Final and update to its new API
which requires the caller to manage packagePrefix.
Result:
Using latest version of netty-jni-util and restored static linking
compatibility.
Motivation:
LSE (https://mysqlonarm.github.io/ARM-LSE-and-MySQL/) can have a huge performance difference. Let's ensure we use a compiler that can support it.
Modifications:
Update to gc10 when cross-compiling as it supports LSE and enables it by default
Result:
More optimized builds for aarch64
... number of bytes when using DatagramChannels
Motivation:
In our FixedRecvByteBufAllocator we dont continue to read if the number of bytes is less then what was configured. This is correct when using it for TCP but not when using it for UDP. When using UDP the number of bytes is the maximum of what we want to support but we often end up processing smaller datagrams in general. Because of this we should use contineReading(UncheckedBooleanSupplier) to determite if we should continue reading
Modifications:
- use contineReading(UncheckedBooleanSupplier) for DatagramChannels
Result:
Read more then once in the general case for DatagramChannels with the default config
Motivation:
Allow to configure the maximum number of messages to write per eventloop run. This can be useful to ensure we read data in a timely manner and not let writes dominate the CPU time. This is especially useful in protocols like QUIC where you need to read "fast enough" as otherwise you may not read the ACKs fast enough.
Modifications:
- Add new ChannelOption / config that allows to limit the number of messages to write per eventloop run.
- Respect this setting for DatagramChannels
Result:
Reduce the risk of having WRITES block the processing of other events in a timely manner
Co-authored-by: terrarier2111 <58695553+terrarier2111@users.noreply.github.com>
Motivation:
SslHandler owns the responsibility to flush non-application data
(e.g. handshake, renegotiation, etc.) to the socket. However when
TCP Fast Open is supported but the client_hello cannot be written
in the SYN the client_hello may not always be flushed. SslHandler
may not wrap/flush previously written/flushed data in the event
it was not able to be wrapped due to NEED_UNWRAP state being
encountered in wrap (e.g. peer initiated renegotiation).
Modifications:
- SslHandler to flush in channelActive() if TFO is enabled and
the client_hello cannot be written in the SYN.
- SslHandler to wrap application data after non-application data
wrap and handshake status is FINISHED.
- SocketSslEchoTest only flushes when writes are done, and waits
for the handshake to complete before writing.
Result:
SslHandler flushes handshake data for TFO, and previously flushed
application data after peer initiated renegotiation finishes.
Motivation:
The EpollSocketConnectTest was not correctly configuring TCP Fast Open on the server socket.
It's an option, not a child option.
Modification:
EpollSocketConnectTest now correctly enables TCP Fast Open on the server side, when available, for the test that needs it.
Result:
Test covers what it was intended to.
Motivation:
c22c6b845d introduced support for
UDP_SEGMENT but did restrict it to continous buffers. This is not needed
as it is also fine to use CompositeByteBuf
Modifications:
- Allow to use CompositeByteBuf as well
- Add unit test
Result:
More flexible usage of segmented datagrams possible
Motivation:
For protocols like QUIC using UDP_SEGMENT (GSO) can help to reduce the
overhead quite a bit. We should support it.
Modifications:
- Add a SegmentedDatagramPacket which can be used to use UDP_SEGMENT
- Add unit test
Result:
Be able to make use of UDP_SEGMENT
Motivation:
To make it possible to experiment with alternative buffer implementations, we need a way to abstract away the concrete buffers used throughout most of the Netty pipelines, while still having a common currency for doing IO in the end.
Modification:
- Introduce an ByteBufConvertible interface, that allow arbitrary objects to convert themselves into ByteBuf objects.
- Every place in the code, where we did an instanceof check for ByteBuf, we now do an instanceof check for ByteBufConvertible.
- ByteBuf itself implements ByteBufConvertible, and returns itself from the asByteBuf method.
Result:
It is now possible to use Netty with alternative buffer implementations, as long as they can be converted to ByteBuf.
This has been verified elsewhere, with an alternative buffer implementation.
Motivation:
#10995
when `io.netty.channel.unix.Socket` is ipv6 and join a multicast group with ipv4 address will cause `io.netty.channel.ChannelException: setsockopt() failed: Invalid argument` (at least in `Linux centos.dev 4.18.0-240.10.1.el8_3.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 17:05:51 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux`)
Modification:
check if target group address is ipv6 before call `io.netty.channel.epoll.LinuxSocket#joinGroup(java.net.InetAddress, java.net.NetworkInterface, java.net.InetAddress)`
I'm not sure if this modification is currect, but i checked source code of java NIO
```
Java_sun_nio_ch_Net_canJoin6WithIPv4Group0(JNIEnv* env, jclass cl)
{
#if defined(__APPLE__)
/* IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP can be used to join IPv4 multicast groups */
return JNI_TRUE;
#else
/* IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP cannot be used to join IPv4 multicast groups */
return JNI_FALSE;
#endif
}
```
seems ipv6 address can't join ipv4 group except osx
Result:
test on `Linux 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 22 16:42:41 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux` exception ` setsockopt() failed: Invalid argument` has fixed
Fixes#10995
Support TCP Fast Open for clients and make SslHandler take advantage
Motivation:
- TCP Fast Open allow us to send a small amount of data along side the initial SYN packet when establishing a TCP connection.
- The TLS Client Hello packet is small enough to fit in there, and is also idempotent (another requirement for using TCP Fast Open), so if we can save a round-trip when establishing TLS connections when using TFO.
Modification:
- Add support for client-side TCP Fast Open for Epoll, and also lowers the Linux kernel version requirements to 3.6.
- When adding the SslHandler to a pipeline, if TCP Fast Open is enabled for the channel (and the channel is not already active) then start the handshake early by writing it to the outbound buffer.
- An important detail to note here, is that the outbound buffer is not flushed at this point, like it would for normal handshakes. The flushing happens later as part of establishing the TCP connection.
Result:
- It is now possible for clients (on epoll) to open connections with TCP Fast Open.
- The SslHandler automatically detects when this is the case, and now send its Client Hello message as part of the initial data in the TCP Fast Open flow when available, saving a round-trip when establishing TLS connections.
Co-authored-by: Colin Godsey <crgodsey@gmail.com>
Motiviation:
We need to ensure we only register the methods for unix-native-common once as otherwise it may have strange side-effects.
Modifications:
- Add extra method that should be called to signal that we need to register the methods. The registration will only happen once.
- Adjust code to make use of it.
Result:
No more problems due incorrect registration of these methods.
Motivation:
Android seems to use a different field name so we should also try to access it with the name used by android.
Modifications:
Try first fd and if this fails try descriptor as field name
Result:
Workaround for android.
Motivation:
We should use aarch_64 in our classifier / jni libname on aarch64 as os.detected.arch uses the name. Being non consistent (especially across our different projects) already gave us a lot of trouble in the past.
Let's fix this once for all.
Modifications:
Use aarch_64
Result:
More consistent classifier usage on aarch64
Motivation:
In some enviroments sun.misc.Unsafe is not present. We should support these as well.
Modifications:
Fallback to JNI if we can't directly access the memoryAddress of the buffer.
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10813
Motivation:
https in xmlns URIs does not work and will let the maven release plugin fail:
```
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.779 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-11-10T07:45:21Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare (default-cli) on project netty-parent: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare failed: The namespace xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" could not be added as a namespace to "project": The namespace prefix "xsi" collides with an additional namespace declared by the element -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
```
See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24014.
Modifications:
Use http for xmlns
Result:
Be able to use maven release plugin
Motivation:
We had a lot of duplication in our jni code which was mostly due macros but also related to how we support shading. By using netty-jni-util we can share all the code between netty and netty-tcnative ( and possible other jni based netty projects in the future).
Modifications:
- Use netty-jni-util and re-use its macros / functions
- Remove duplicated code
- Adjust build files
Result:
Less code duplication for JNI
Motivation:
It's important to unload all previous registered native methods when there is a failure during loading the native lib. Failing to do so may lead to an "invalid state" and so may segfault the JVM when trying to call a native method that was previous loaded.
This was observed when two versions of netty-tcnative were on the classpath which had different requirements in terms of linking.
Something like this was reported in he hs log:
```
Instructions: (pc=0x0000000116413bf0)
0x0000000116413bd0:
[error occurred during error reporting (printing registers, top of stack, instructions near pc), id 0xb]
Register to memory mapping:
RAX=0x0000000116413bf0 is an unknown value
RBX={method} {0x000000011422e708} 'aprMajorVersion' '()I' in 'io/netty/internal/tcnative/Library'
RCX=0x000000000000000a is an unknown value
RDX=0x000000000000000a is an unknown value
```
Modifications:
- Unregister previous registered native methods on failure
- Unregister previous registered native methods on on unload of the native lib
Result:
No more segfault caused by invalid state when loading of the native lib fails in between. In this case the user will receive an error now like:
Motivation:
Thread.stop() works by producing a ThreadDeath error in the target thread. EventLoops swallow all Throwables, which makes them effectively unkillable. This is effectively a memory leak, for our application. Beside this we should also just regrow all `Error` as there is almost no way to recover.
Modification:
Edit the EventLoops that swallow Throwables to instead rethrow Error.
Result:
`EventLoop` can crash if `Error` is thrown
Motivation:
HTTP is a plaintext protocol which means that someone may be able
to eavesdrop the data. To prevent this, HTTPS should be used whenever
possible. However, maintaining using https:// in all URLs may be
difficult. The nohttp tool can help here. The tool scans all the files
in a repository and reports where http:// is used.
Modifications:
- Added nohttp (via checkstyle) into the build process.
- Suppressed findings for the websites
that don't support HTTPS or that are not reachable
Result:
- Prevent using HTTP in the future.
- Encourage users to use HTTPS when they follow the links they found in
the code.
Motivation:
DuplexChannel allow for half-closure, we should have a special config interface for it as well.
Modifications:
Add DuplexChannelConfig which allows to configure half-closure.
Result:
More consistent types
Motivation:
LGTM reports multiple issues. They need to be triaged,
and real ones should be fixed.
Modifications:
- Fixed multiple issues reported by LGTM, such as redundant conditions,
resource leaks, typos, possible integer overflows.
- Suppressed false-positives.
- Added a few testcases.
Result:
Fixed several possible issues, get rid of false alarms in the LGTM report.
Motivation:
All scheduled executors should behave in accordance to their API.
The bug here is that scheduled tasks were not run more than once because we executed the runnables directly, instead of through the provided runnable future.
Modification:
We now run tasks through the provided future, so that when each run completes, the internal state of the task is reset and the ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor is informed of the completion.
This allows the executor to prepare the next run.
Result:
The UnorderedThreadPoolEventExecutor is now able to run scheduled tasks more than once.
Which is what one would expect from the API.
Motivation:
Java 16 will come around eventually anyway, and this makes it easier for people to experiment with Early Access builds.
Modification:
- Added Maven profiles for JDK 16 to relevant pom files.
- Removed the `--add-exports java.base/sun.security.x509=ALL-UNNAMED` argument when running tests; we've not needed it since the Java11-as-baseline PR landed.
Result:
Netty now builds on JDK 16 pre-releases (provided they've not broken compatibility in some way).
Chris Vest
Norman Maurer
Aayush Atharva
Violeta Georgieva
Riley Park
Idel Pivnitskiy
Boris Unckel
Scott Mitchell
wangyuwei
greenjustin
Artem Smotrakov