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7834 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Norman Maurer
4950a523a7 Not attempt to read from fd when channel is closed during read loop. Related to [#5031]
Motivation:

We need to break out of the read loop for two reasons:

- If the input was shutdown in between (which may be the case when the user did it in the
  fireChannelRead(...) method we should not try to read again to not produce any
  miss-leading exceptions.

- If the user closes the channel we need to ensure we not try to read from it again as
  the filedescriptor may be re-used already by the OS if the system is handling a lot of
  concurrent connections and so needs a lot of filedescriptors. If not do this we risk
  reading data from a filedescriptor that belongs to another socket then the socket that
  was "wrapped" by this Channel implementation.

Modification:

Break the reading loop if the input was shutdown from within the channelRead(...) method.

Result:

No more meaningless exceptions and no risk to read data from wrong socket after the original was closed.
2016-03-29 10:50:38 +02:00
Vladimir Kostyukov
84bbbf7e09 Read if needed on NEED_UNWRAP
Motivation:

There are some use cases when a client may only be willing to read from a channel once
its previous write is finished (eg: serial dispatchers in Finagle). In this case, a
connection with SslHandler installed and ctx.channel().config().isAutoRead() == false
will stall in 100% of cases no matter what order of "channel active", "write", "flush"
events was.

The use case is following (how Finagle serial dispatchers work):

1. Client writeAndFlushes and waits on a write-promise to perform read() once it's satisfied.
2. A write-promise will only be satisfied once SslHandler finishes with handshaking and
   sends the unencrypted queued message.
3. The handshaking process itself requires a number of read()s done by a client but the
   SslHandler doesn't request them explicitly assuming that either auto-read is enabled
   or client requested at least one read() already.
4. At this point a client will stall with NEED_UNWRAP status returned from underlying engine.

Modifiations:

Always request a read() on NEED_UNWRAP returned from engine if

a) it's handshaking and
b) auto read is disabled and
c) it wasn't requested already.

Result:

SslHandler is now completely tolerant of whether or not auto-read is enabled and client
is explicitly reading a channel.
2016-03-29 08:47:54 +02:00
Norman Maurer
f0f014d0c7 [#4637] More helpful exception message when a non PKCS#8 key is used.
Motivation:

We should throw a more helpful exception when a non PKCS#8 key is used by the user.

Modifications:

Change exception message to give a hint what is wrong.

Result:

Easier for user to understand whats wrong with their used key.
2016-03-27 20:20:50 +02:00
Scott Mitchell
61cfdd7671 e24a5d8 compile error
Motivation:
e24a5d8 was cherry-picked but had a compile error.

Modifications:
- Fix the compile error in e24a5d8

Result:
Build now compiles.
2016-03-25 12:51:13 -07:00
Eric Anderson
e24a5d8839 Map HTTP/2 Streams to Channels
Motivation:

This allows using handlers for Streams in normal Netty-style. Frames are
read/written to the channel as messages, not directly as a
callback/method call. Handlers allow mixing and can ease HTTP/1 and
HTTP/2 interoperability by eventually supporting HTTP/1 handlers in
HTTP/2 and vise versa.

Modifications:

New handler Http2MultiplexCodec that converts from the current HTTP/2
API to a message-based API and child channels for streams.

Result:

The basics are done for server-side: new streams trigger creation of new
channels in much the same appearance to how new connections trigger new
channel creation. The basic frames HEADERS and DATA are handled, but
also GOAWAY and RST_STREAM.

Inbound flow control is implemented, but outbound is not. That will be
done later, along with not completing write promises on the child
channel until the write actually completes on the parent.

There is not yet support for outbound priority/weight, push promises,
and many other features.

There is a generic Object that may be set on stream frames. This also
paves the way for client-side support which needs a way to refer to
yet-to-be-created streams (due to how HEADERS allocates a stream id, and
the allocation order must be the same as transmission order).
2016-03-25 12:14:44 -07:00
Scott Mitchell
5eab79a464 EPOLL Socket Shutdown Fix
Motivation:
8dbf5d02e5 modified the shutdown code for Socket but did not correctly calculate the change in shutdown state and only applying this change. This is significant because if sockets are being opening and closed quickly and the underlying FD happens to be reused we need to take care that we don't unintentionally change the state of the new FD by acting on an object which represents the old incarnation of that FD.

Modifications:
- Calculate the shutdown change, and only apply what has changed, or exit if no change.

Result:
Socket.shutdown can not inadvertently affect the state of another logical FD.
2016-03-25 12:01:03 -07:00
Scott Mitchell
99c85ef4f5 cf171ff525 Close Regression
Motivation:
cf171ff525 introduced a change in behavior when dealing with closing channel in the read loop. This changed behavior may use stale state to determine if a channel should be shutdown and may be incorrect.

Modifications:
- Revert the usage of potentially stale state

Result:
Closing a channel in the read loop is based upon current state instead of potentially stale state.
2016-03-24 14:52:04 -07:00
Norman Maurer
15f3b69b9e [#5033] Fix typo in exception message introduced by acbca192bd
Motivation:

I introduced a typo as part of acbca192bd.

Modifications:

Fix typo

Result:

Correct message in exception.
2016-03-24 16:25:32 +01:00
Norman Maurer
6bf7e24389 [#5014] Correctly encode / decode zero-length names when encoding DnsRecords.
Motivation:

Zero-length names needs to be "prefixed" by the length as well when encoded into a ByteBuf. Also some servers not correctly prefix these so we should ensure we can workaround this and even decode in such case.

Modifications:

- Always encode the length of the name into the ByteBuf even if its zero-length.
- If there are no readable bytes for the name just asume its an empty name to workaround dns servers that not fully respect the RFC.

Result:

Correctly encode zero-length names and be able to decode empty names even when the rfc is not strictly followed.
2016-03-24 13:51:04 +01:00
Norman Maurer
9a183ec38f Add methods to easily release messages from inbound / outbound buffer of EmbeddedChannel
Motivation:

Often the user uses EmbeddedChannel within unit tests where the only "important" thing is to know if any pending messages were in the buffer and then release these.
We should provide methods for this so the user not need to manually loop through these and release.

Modifications:

Add methods to easily handle releasing of messages.

Result:

Less boiler-plate code for the user to write.
2016-03-24 11:03:30 +01:00
Norman Maurer
269677820d Cleanup of codec-mqtt
Motivation:

codec-mqtt had some typos and was not restrict enough in terms of making things final and private constructors.

Modifications:

- Fix typos
- Make most pojos final
- Remove redundant else blocks.

Result:

Cleaner and more restrict code.
2016-03-24 11:02:24 +01:00
Norman Maurer
2c390ae66b [#5029] Fix type of EpollChannelOption.TCP_QUICKACK
Motivation:

TCP_QUICKACK uses Integer but needs to be Boolean

Modifications:

Fix type

Result:

Be able to use EpollChannelOption.TCP_QUICKACK
2016-03-18 01:08:13 +01:00
Stephane Landelle
3d115349b5 Fix type inference w/ JDK8
Motivation:

Compile crash w/ JDK8:

```
[ERROR]
/Users/slandelle/Documents/dev/workspaces/workspace-ahc2/async-http-clie
nt-project/netty-bp/codec-dns/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/dns/D
nsMessageUtil.java:[176,16] reference to append is ambiguous
  both method append(java.lang.String) in java.lang.StringBuilder and
method append(java.lang.StringBuffer) in java.lang.StringBuilder match
```

Modification:

Force type explicitly

Result:

Class compile w/ JDK8
2016-03-23 18:06:38 +01:00
Carsten Varming
d6bf388343 Prevent nepotism with generational GCs.
Motivation:

If a single Encoder object is promoted to the old generation then every object
reachable from the promoted object will eventually be promoted as well. A queue
illustrates the problem very well. Say a sequence of inserts and deletions
generate an object graph:

   A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F -> G -> H,

the head of the queue is E, the tail of the queue is H, and A, B, C, D are
dead. If all queue nodes are in the young generation, then a young gc will
clean up the object graph and leave us with:

   E -> F -> G -> H

on the other hand, if B and C were previously promoted to the old generation,
then a young collection assumes the refernece from C to D is from a live object
(this is a key result of generational gc, no need to mark the old generation).
Hence the young collection assumes the refence to D is a gc root and leave us
with the object graph:

   B-> C -> D -> E -> F -> G -> H.

Eventually D, E, F, G, H, and all queue nodes ever seen from this point on will
be promoted, regardless of their global live or dead status. It is generally
trivial to fix nepotism issues by simply breaking the reference chain after
dequeuing a node.

Currently Encoder objects do not null their references when removed from the
hash map. We have observed a 20X increase in promoted Encoder objects due to
nepotism.

Modifications:

Null before, after, and next fields when removing Encoder objects from maps.

Result:

Fewer promoted Encoder objects, fewer Encoder objects in the old generation,
shorter young collection times, old collections spaced further apart (nepotism
is just really bad). Enjoy.
2016-03-23 17:27:00 +01:00
Norman Maurer
2941c8393a Upgrade netty-tcnative to 1.1.33.Fork15
Motivation:

We should upgrade to latest netty-tcnative version.

Modifications:

Upgrade to version 1.1.33.Fork15

Result:

Latest netty-tcnative version is used.
2016-03-23 11:46:13 +01:00
Xiaoyan Lin
3ad55eb839 Speed up the slow path of FastThreadLocal
Motivation:

The current slow path of FastThreadLocal is much slower than JDK ThreadLocal. See #4418

Modifications:

- Add FastThreadLocalSlowPathBenchmark for the flow path of FastThreadLocal
- Add final to speed up the slow path of FastThreadLocal

Result:

The slow path of FastThreadLocal is improved.
2016-03-23 11:36:16 +01:00
Norman Maurer
a11412fab0 Cleanup transport-native-epoll code.
Motivation:

The code of transport-native-epoll missed some things in terms of static keywords, @deprecated annotations and other minor things.

Modifications:

- Add missing @deprecated annotation
- Not using FQCN in javadocs
- Add static keyword where possible
- Use final fields when possible
- Remove throws IOException from method where it is not needed.

Result:

Cleaner code.
2016-03-23 10:59:42 +01:00
Norman Maurer
e7b7b77efc [#5013] Fix typo in DefaultStompFrame.toString() method.
Motivation:

DefaultStompFrame.toString() implementations returned a String that contained DefaultFullStompFrame.

Modifications:

Replace DefaultFullStompFrame with DefaultStompFrame.

Result:

Less confusing and more correct return value of toString()
2016-03-23 10:48:13 +01:00
Norman Maurer
ee4d2c4b74 Correctly handle DefaultStompFrame.retain(increment)
Motivation:

DefaultStompFrame.retain(increment) missed to pass on the increment parameter.

Modifications:

Correctly pass on increment paramter.

Result:

Correctly handle the retain when increment value is given.
2016-03-23 10:47:16 +01:00
Norman Maurer
b0242585d7 Cleanup code and so eliminate warnings.
Motivation:

There were some warning in the resolver-dns code base.

Modifications:

- Fix javadocs
- Use the base class to call static method.

Result:

Cleaner code.
2016-03-23 09:38:58 +01:00
Bruno Harbulot
9ebb4b7164 Using distinct aliases when building the trust manager factory, and renamed trustCertChain into trustCertCollection.
Motivation:

SSLContext.buildTrustManagerFactory(...) builds a KeyStore to
initialize the TrustManagerFactory from an array of X509Certificates,
assuming that array is a chain and that each certificate will have a
unique Subject Distinguised Name.
However, the collection of certificates used as trust anchors is generally
not a chain (it is an unordered collection), and it is legitimate for it
to contain multiple certificates with the same Subject DN.
The existing code uses the Subject DN as the alias name when filling in
the `KeyStore`, thereby overwriting other certificates with the same
Subject DN in this collection, so some certificates may be discarded.
In addition, the code related to building trust managers can take an array of
X509Certificate instances to use as trust anchors. The variable name is
usually trustCertChain, and the documentation refers to them as a "chain".
However, while it makes sense to talk about a "chain" from a keymanager
point of view, these certificates are just an unordered collection in a
trust manager. (There is no chaining requirement, having the Subject DN
matching its predecessor's Issuer DN.)
This can create confusion to for users not used with PKI concepts.

Modifications:

SSLContext.buildTrustManagerFactory(...) now uses a distinct alias for each
array (simply using a counter, since this name is never used for reference
later). This patch also includes a unit test with CA certificates using the
same Subject DN.
Also renamed trustCertChain into trustCertCollection, and changed the
references to "chain" in the Javadoc.

Result:

Each loaded certificate now has a unique identifier when loaded, so it is
now possible to use multiple certificates with the same Subject DN as
trust anchors.
Hopefully, renaming the parameter should also reduce confusion around PKI
concepts.
2016-03-22 21:12:10 +01:00
Stephane Landelle
881ff3cd98 Drop broken DefaultCookie name validation, close #4999
Motivation:

DefaultCookie constructor performs a name validation that doesn’t match
RFC6265. Moreover, such validation is already performed in strict
encoders and decoders.

Modifications:

Drop DefaultCookie name validation, rely on encoders and decoders.

Result:

no more duplicate broken validation
2016-03-22 12:32:09 +01:00
Norman Maurer
48506f5b05 [#4993] Correctly handle trailing dot in DNS requests and responses for the hostname.
Motivation:

We need to handle the trailing dot in the correct manner when creating DNS questions and responses.

Modifications:

- Add a trailing dot if not given to the hostname when construct a AbstractDnsRecord (this is the same as dig does).

Result:

Correctly handle trailing dots.
2016-03-22 12:30:46 +01:00
Karas Lukáš
42419d918d Fix setBytes when source is read-only ByteBuffer and target is pooled buffer
Motivation:

The method setBytes creates temporary heap buffer when source buffer is read-only.
But this temporary buffer is not used correctly and may lead to data corruption.
This problem occurs when target buffer is pooled and temporary buffer
arrayOffset() is not zero.

Modifications:

Use correct arrayOffset when calling PlatformDependent.copyMemory.
Unit test was added to test this case.

Result:

Setting buffer content works correctly when target is pooled buffer and source
is read-only ByteBuffer.
2016-03-22 09:18:44 +01:00
Norman Maurer
28d03adbfe [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2016-03-21 11:51:50 +01:00
Norman Maurer
4653dc1d05 [maven-release-plugin] prepare release netty-4.1.0.CR4 2016-03-21 11:51:12 +01:00
Norman Maurer
9330631097 Ensure all pending SSL data is written before closing channel during handshake error.
Motivation:

We need to ensure we call ctx.flush() before closing the actual channel when an handshake failure took place. If we miss to do so we may not send all pending data to the remote peer which also include SSL alerts.

Modifications:

Ensure we call ctx.flush() before ctx.close() on a handshake error.

Result:

All pending data (including SSL alerts) are written to the remote peer on a handshake error.
2016-03-21 08:37:17 +01:00
Norman Maurer
4e1760c91b Allow disable Recycler via -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacity=0
Motivation:

It should be possible to disable the Recycler with -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacity=0, but because of a typo this is not the case.

Modifications:

Replace <= with < to make it posible to disable the Recycler.

Result:

Correct behaviour when using -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacity=0
2016-03-21 08:34:42 +01:00
Norman Maurer
b26652a934 Fix typo in log message during static init of Recycler.
Motivation:

Fix a typo in the log message of the static initializer of Recycler.

Modifications:

Fix typo.

Result:

Correctly log system property io.netty.recycler.maxCapacity.
2016-03-21 08:23:31 +01:00
Norman Maurer
ebfb2832b2 Throw exception if KeyManagerFactory is used with OpenSslClientContext
Motivation:

We currently not supported using KeyManagerFactory with OpenSslClientContext and so should throw an exception if the user tries to do so. This will at least not give suprising and hard to debug problems later.

Modifications:

Throw exception if a user tries to construct a OpenSslClientContext with a KeyManagerFactory

Result:

Fail fast if the user tries to use something that is not supported.
2016-03-21 08:22:25 +01:00
Norman Maurer
15b1a94b2f Ensure native memory is released when OpenSslServercontext constructor throws exception
Motivation:

We need to ensure we do all checks inside of the try / catch block so we free native memory that was allocated in the constructor of the super class in a timely manner.
Modifications:

Move all checks inside of the try block.

Result:

Correctly release native memory (and not depend on the finalizer) when a check in the constructors fails
2016-03-21 08:17:39 +01:00
Norman Maurer
4e3a413047 Correctly handle UpgradeEvent.release(decrement).
Motivation:

We missed to pass the decrement value to the wrapped FullHttpRequest and so missed to decrement the reference count in the correct way.

Modifications:

Correctly pass the decrement value to the wrapped request.

Result:

UpgradeEvent.release(decrement) works as expected.
2016-03-20 09:34:12 +01:00
Scott Mitchell
fc099292fd HTTP/2 DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder data frame size incorrect if error
Motivation:
If an error occurs during a write operation then DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.FlowControlledData will clear the CoalescingBufferQueue which will reset the queue's readable bytes to 0. To recover from an error the DefaultHttp2RemoteFlowController will attempt to return bytes to the flow control window, but since the frame has reset its own size this will lead to invalid flow control accounting.

Modifications:
- DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.FlowControlledData should not reset its size if an error occurs

Result:
No more flow controller errors due to DefaultHttp2ConnectionEncoder.FlowControlledData setting its size to 0 if an error occurs.
2016-03-18 11:38:01 -07:00
Norman Maurer
8ec594c6eb Change HttpServerUpgradeHandler.UpgradeCodec to allow aborting upgrade
Motivation:

HttpServerUpgradeHandler.UpgradeCodec.prepareUpgradeResponse should allow to abort the upgrade and so just continue with using HTTP. Beside this we should only pass in the response HttpHeaders as this is inline with the docs.

Modifications:

- UpgradeCodec.prepareUpgradeResponse now allows to return a boolean and so allows to specifiy if the upgrade should take place.
- Change the param from FullHttpResponse to HttpHeaders to be inline with the javadocs.

Result:

More flexible and correct handling of upgrades.
2016-03-18 17:01:59 +01:00
Stephane Landelle
d747438366 Add ! to allowed cookie value chars
Motivation:

! is missing from allowed cookie value chars, as per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1.
Issue was originally reported on Play!, see https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/4460#issuecomment-198177302.

Modifications:

Stick to RFC6265 ranges.

Result:

RFC6265 compliance, ! is supported
2016-03-18 16:58:54 +01:00
Norman Maurer
0320ccb59f Let getSoError() throw IOException as well
Motivation:

In commit acbca192bd we changed to have our native operations which either gall getsockopt or setsockopt throw IOExceptions (to be more specific we throw a ClosedChannelException in some cases). Unfortunally I missed to also do the same for getSoError() and missed to add throws IOException to the native methods.

Modifications:

- Correctly throw IOException from getSoError()
- Add throws IOException to native methods where it was missed.

Result:

Correct declaration of getSoError() and other native methods.
2016-03-17 20:09:15 +01:00
Norman Maurer
ed9d6c79bc [#4972] Remove misleading argument from HttpServerUpgradeHandler.UpgradeCodec.upgradeTo
Motivation:

upgradeTo(...) takes the response as paramater, but the respone itself was already written to the Channel. This gives the user the impression the response can be changed or even act on it which may not be safe anymore once it was written and has been released.

Modifications:

Remove the response param from the method.

Result:

Less confusion and safer usage.
2016-03-17 10:50:07 +01:00
Norman Maurer
8d499a2419 Fix calculation of PoolArena metrics after introducing a regression in 89da788fd2 2016-03-17 10:37:22 +01:00
Norman Maurer
5c02397689 Support private key encrypted with empty password
Motivation:

A user may use a private key which is encrypted with an empty password. Because of this we should only handle a null password in a special way.

Modifications:

- Correctly handle private key that is encrypted with empty password.
- Make OpenSsl*Context implementions consistent in terms of initialization in the constructor.

Result:

Correctly support private key that is encrypted with empty password.
2016-03-17 09:07:28 +01:00
Norman Maurer
daa4efcfef Add proper synchronization when access metrics.
Motivation:

We also need to add synchronization when access fields to ensure we see the latest updates.

Modifications:

Add synchronization when read fields that are written concurrently.

Result:

Ensure correct visibility of updated.
2016-03-17 09:05:48 +01:00
Scott Mitchell
8dbf5d02e5 EPOLL SO_LINGER=0 sends FIN+RST
Motivation:
If SO_LINGER is set to 0 the EPOLL transport will send a FIN followed by a RST. This is not consistent with the behavior of the NIO transport. This variation in behavior can cause protocol violations in streaming protocols (e.g. HTTP) where a FIN may be interpreted as a valid end to a data stream, but RST may be treated as the data is corrupted and should be discarded.

https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4170 Claims the behavior of NIO always issues a shutdown when close occurs. I could not find any evidence of this in Netty's NIO transport nor in the JDK's SocketChannel.close() implementation.

Modifications:
- AbstractEpollChannel should be consistent with the NIO transport and not force a shutdown on every close
- FileDescriptor to keep state in a consistent manner with the JDK and not allow a shutdown after a close
- Unit tests for NIO and EPOLL to ensure consistent behavior

Result:
EPOLL is capable of sending just a RST to terminate a connection.
2016-03-16 22:35:04 -07:00
Xiaoyan Lin
01835fdf18 Add LineEncoder to append a line separator automatically
Motivation:

See #1811

Modifications:

Add LineEncoder and LineSeparator

Result:

The user can use LineEncoder to write a String with a line separator automatically
2016-03-16 20:31:01 +01:00
Xiaoyan Lin
abbdc70d8b Validate MQTT CONNECT reserved flag in variable header
Motivation:

According to the MQTT 3.1.1 Protocol Specification: The Server MUST validate that the reserved flag in the CONNECT Control Packet is set to zero and disconnect the Client if it is not zero. (http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v3.1.1/os/mqtt-v3.1.1-os.html#_Toc385349230)

Resolves #4182

Modifications:

Check the CONNECT reserved flag for MQTT 3.1.1. If it's not 0, throw an exception.

Result:

If the CONNECT reserved flag, a decode failure will be emitted.
2016-03-16 20:23:31 +01:00
Tibor Csögör
6e840d8e62 trivial javadoc fixes
- fix the formatting of the diagram in ChannelFuture's javadoc
- update external link in AutobahnServer
- fix various spelling issues
2016-03-16 20:18:29 +01:00
Norman Maurer
c3c1b4a6d2 [#4937] [#4935] Correctly valid domain name length and convert to ASCII.
Motivation:

Domain name labels must be converted to ASCII and not be longer then 63 chars.

Modifications:

Correctly convert to ASCII which also will enforce the 63 chars length.

Result:

Correctly guard against invalid input.
2016-03-16 11:55:19 +01:00
Norman Maurer
6796604f46 Remove double spacing
Motivation:

We had some double spacing in the methods which should be removed to keep things consistent.

Modifications:

Remove redundant spaces.

Result:

Cleaner / consistent coding style.
2016-03-16 10:25:48 +01:00
Norman Maurer
7d12333c38 Add final keyword which was missing in 47b598e6ce
Motivation:

The two fields should have final keyword.

Modifications:

Add final keyword

Result:

Cleaner code.
2016-03-16 10:25:00 +01:00
buchgr
83c349ffa9 Fix wrong use of assertTrue in unit test.
Motivation:

My previous commit b88a980482 introduced a flawed unit test,
that executes an assertion in a different thread than the test thread.
If this assertion fails, the test doesn't fail.

Modifications:

Replace the assertion by a proper workaround.

Result:

More correct unit test
2016-03-15 16:02:33 +01:00
Norman Maurer
acbca192bd ChannelConfig operations should wrap ClosedChannelException if Channel was closed before.
Motivation:

To be consistent with the JDK we should ensure our native methods throw a ClosedChannelException if the Channel was previously closed. This will then be wrapped in a ChannelException as usual. For all other errors we continue to just throw a ChannelException directly.

Modifications:

Ensure getsockopt and setsockopt will throw a ClosedChannelException if the channel was closed before, on other errors we throw a ChannelException as before diretly.

Result:

Consistent with the NIO Channel implementations.
2016-03-15 14:47:39 +01:00
buchgr
b88a980482 Change arena to thread cache mapping algorithm to be closer to ideal.
Motivation:
Circular assignment of arenas to thread caches can lead to less than optimal
mappings in cases where threads are (frequently) shutdown and started.

Example Scenario:
There are a total of 2 arenas. The first two threads performing an allocation
would lead to the following mapping:

Thread 0 -> Arena 0
Thread 1 -> Arena 1

Now, assume Thread 1 is shut down and another Thread 2 is started. The current
circular assignment algorithm would lead to the following mapping:

Thread 0 -> Arena 0
Thread 2 -> Arena 0

Ideally, we want Thread 2 to use Arena 1 though.

Presumably, this is not much of an issue for most Netty applications that do all
the allocations inside the eventloop, as eventloop threads are seldomly shut down
and restarted. However, applications that only use the netty-buffer package
or implement their own threading model outside the eventloop might suffer from
increased contention. For example, gRPC Java when using the blocking stub
performs some allocations outside the eventloop and within its own thread pool
that is dynamically sized depending on system load.

Modifications:

Implement a linear scan algorithm that assigns a new thread cache to the arena
that currently backs the fewest thread caches.

Result:

Closer to ideal mappings between thread caches and arenas. In order to always
get an ideal mapping, we would have to re-balance the mapping whenever a thread
dies. However, that's difficult because of deallocation.
2016-03-15 14:16:34 +01:00