Motivation:
When "Too many open files" happens,the URLClassLoader cannot do any classloading because URLClassLoader need a FD for findClass. Because of this the anonymous inner class that is created to re-enable auto read may cause a problem.
Modification:
Pre-create Runnable that is scheduled and so ensure it is not lazy loaded.
Result:
No more problems when try to recover.
Motivation:
We have our own ThreadLocalRandom implementation to support older JDKs . That said we should prefer the JDK provided when running on JDK >= 7
Modification:
Using ThreadLocalRandom implementation of the JDK when possible.
Result:
Make use of JDK implementations when possible.
Motivation:
SelectedSelectionKeySet currently uses 2 arrays internally and users are expected to call flip() to access the underlying array and switch the active array. However we do not concurrently use 2 arrays at the same time and we can get away with using a single array if we are careful about when we reset the elements of the array.
Modifications:
- Introduce SelectedSelectionKeySetSelector which wraps a Selector and ensures we reset the underlying SelectedSelectionKeySet data structures before we select
- The loop bounds in NioEventLoop#processSelectedKeysOptimized can be defined more precisely because we know the real size of the underlying array
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/6058
Motivation:
Initialization of PlatformDependent0 fails on Java 9 in static initializer when calling setAccessible(true).
Modifications:
Add RefelectionUtil which can be used to safely try if setAccessible(true) can be used or not and if not fail back to non reflection.
Result:
Fixed [#6345]
Motivation:
EPOLL annotates some exceptions to provide the remote address, but the original exception is not preserved. This may make determining a root cause more difficult. The static EPOLL exceptions references the native method that failed, but does not provide a description of the actual error number. Without the description users have to know intimate details about the native calls and how they may fail to debug issues.
Modifications:
- annotated exceptions should preserve the original exception
- static exceptions should include the string description of the expected errno
Result:
EPOLL exceptions provide more context and are more useful to end users.
Motivation:
Result of validatePromise() is always inverted with if (!validatePromise()).
Modification:
validatePromise() renamed to isNotValidPromise() and now returns inverted state so you don't need to invert state in conditions. Also name is now more meaningful according to returned result.
Added more tests for validatePromise corner cases with Exceptions.
Result:
Code easier to read. No need in inverted result.
Motivation:
We used various mocking frameworks. We should only use one...
Modifications:
Make usage of mocking framework consistent by only using Mockito.
Result:
Less dependencies and more consistent mocking usage.
Motivation:
NioDatagramChannel fails a write with NotYetConnectedException when the DatagramChannel was not yet connected and a ByteBuf is written. The same should be done for OioDatagramChannel as well.
Modifications:
Make OioDatagramChannel consistent with NioDatagramChannel
Result:
Correct and consistent implementations of DatagramChannel
Motivation:
Currently Netty does not wrap socket connect, bind, or accept
operations in doPrivileged blocks. Nor does it wrap cases where a dns
lookup might happen.
This prevents an application utilizing the SecurityManager from
isolating SocketPermissions to Netty.
Modifications:
I have introduced a class (SocketUtils) that wraps operations
requiring SocketPermissions in doPrivileged blocks.
Result:
A user of Netty can grant SocketPermissions explicitly to the Netty
jar, without granting it to the rest of their application.
Motivation:
We not warned about not-supported ChannelOptions when set the options for the ServerChannel.
Modifications:
- Share code for setting ChannelOptions during bootstrap
Result:
Warning is logged when a ChannelOption is used that is not supported during bootstrap a Channel. See also [#6192]
Motivation:
The comment on AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeHandler() is incorrect and missleading. See [#6177]
Modifications:
Change true to false to correct the comment.
Result:
Fix missleading and incorrect comment.
Motivation:
`SimpleChannelPool` subclasses are likely to override the `connectChannel` method, and are likely to clobber the cloned `Bootstrap` handler in the process. To allow subclasses to properly notify the pool listener of new connections, we should expose (at least) the `handler` property of the pool to subclasses.
Modifications:
Expose `SimpleChannelPool` properties to subclasses via `protected` getters.
Result:
Subclasses can now use the bootstrap, handler, health checker, and health-check-on-release preoperties from their superclass.
Motivation:
In later Java8 versions our Atomic*FieldUpdater are slower then the JDK implementations so we should not use ours anymore. Even worse the JDK implementations provide for example an optimized version of addAndGet(...) using intrinsics which makes it a lot faster for this use-case.
Modifications:
- Remove methods that return our own Atomic*FieldUpdaters.
- Use the JDK implementations everywhere.
Result:
Faster code.
Motivation:
e102a008b6 changed a conditional where previously the NIO ServerChannel would not be closed in the event of an exception.
Modifications:
- Restore the logic prior to e102a008b6 which does not automatically close ServerChannels for IOExceptions
Result:
NIO ServerChannel doesn't close automatically for an IOException.
Motivation:
We should not catch ConcurrentModificationException as this can never happen because things are executed on the EventLoop thread.
Modifications:
Remove try / catch
Result:
Cleaner code.
Modifications:
LocalChannel#releaseInboundBuffers should always clear/release the queue and set readInProgress to false
Result:
LocalChannel queue is more reliably cleaned up.
Motivation:
LocalChannel attempts to close its peer socket when ever it is closed. However if the channels are on different EventLoops we may attempt to process events for the peer channel on the wrong EventLoop.
Modifications:
- Ensure the close process ensures we are on the correct thread before accessing data
Result:
More correct LocalChannel close code.
Motivation:
PlatformDependent#getSystemClassLoader may throw a wide variety of exceptions based upon the environment. We should handle all exceptions and continue initializing the slow path if an exception occurs.
Modifications:
- Catch Throwable in cases where PlatformDependent#getSystemClassLoader is used
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/6038
Motivation:
To guard against the case that a user will enqueue a lot of empty or small buffers and so raise an OOME we need to also take the overhead of the ChannelOutboundBuffer / PendingWriteQueue into account when detect if a Channel is writable or not. This is related to #5856.
Modifications:
When calculate the memory for an message that is enqueued also add some extra bytes depending on the implementation.
Result:
Better guard against OOME.
Motivation
It's possible to extend LocalChannel as well as LocalServerChannel but the LocalServerChannel's serve(peer) method is hardcoded to create only instances of LocalChannel.
Modifications
Add a protected factory method that returns by default new LocalChannel(...) but users may override it to customize it.
Result
It's possible to customize the LocalChannel instance on either end of the virtual connection.
Motivation:
Some unit tests in SingleThreadEventLoopTest rely upon Thread.sleep for sequencing events between threads. This can be unreliable and result in spurious test failures if thread scheduling does not occur in a fair predictable manner.
Modifications:
- Reduce the reliance on Thread.sleep in SingleThreadEventLoopTest
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/5851
Motivation:
When using java.nio.DatagramChannel we should not close the channel when a SocketException was thrown as we can still use the channel.
Modifications:
Not close the Channel when SocketException is thrown
Result:
More robust and correct handling of exceptions when using NioDatagramChannel.
Motivation:
If an exception is thrown while processing the ready channels in the EventLoop we should still run all tasks as this may allow to recover. For example a OutOfMemoryError may be thrown and runAllTasks() will free up memory again. Beside this we should also ensure we always allow to shutdown even if an exception was thrown.
Modifications:
- Call runAllTasks() in a finally block
- Ensure shutdown is always handles.
Result:
More robust EventLoop implementations for NIO and Epoll.
Motivation:
We should better first process OP_WRITE before OP_READ as this may allow us to free memory in a faster fashion for previous queued writes.
Modifications:
Process OP_WRITE before OP_READ
Result:
Free memory faster for queued writes.
the implicit #fireChannelReadComplete() in EmbeddedChannel#writeInbound().
Motivation
We use EmbeddedChannels to implement a ProxyChannel of some sorts that shovels
messages between a source and a destination Channel. The latter are real network
channels (such as Epoll) and they may or may not be managed in a ChannelPool. We
could fuse both ends directly together but the EmbeddedChannel provides a nice
disposable section of a ChannelPipeline that can be used to instrument the messages
that are passing through the proxy portion.
The ideal flow looks abount like this:
source#channelRead() -> proxy#writeOutbound() -> destination#write()
source#channelReadComplete() -> proxy#flushOutbound() -> destination#flush()
destination#channelRead() -> proxy#writeInbound() -> source#write()
destination#channelReadComplete() -> proxy#flushInbound() -> source#flush()
The problem is that #writeOutbound() and #writeInbound() emit surplus #flush()
and #fireChannelReadComplete() events which in turn yield to surplus #flush()
calls on both ends of the pipeline.
Modifications
Introduce a new set of write methods that reain the same sematics as the #write()
method and #flushOutbound() and #flushInbound().
Result
It's possible to implement the above ideal flow.
Fix for EmbeddedChannel#ensureOpen() and Unit Tests for it
Some PR stuff.
Motivation:
To make it easier to debug why notification of a promise failed we should log extra info and make it consistent.
Modifications:
- Create a new PromiseNotificationUtil that has static methods that can be used to try notify a promise and log.
- Reuse this in AbstractChannelHandlerContext, ChannelOutboundBuffer and PromiseNotifier
Result:
Easier to debug why a promise could not be notified.
Motivation:
The JDK implementation of SocketChannel has an internal state that is tracked for its operations. Because of this we need to ensure we call finishConnect() before try to call read(...) / write(...) as otherwise it may produce a NotYetConnectedException.
Modifications:
First process OP_CONNECT flag.
Result:
No more possibility of NotYetConnectedException because OP_CONNECT is handled not early enough when processing interestedOps for a Channel.
Motivation:
When attempting to set the selectedKeys fields on the selector
implementation, JDK 9 can throw an inaccessible object exception.
Modications:
Catch and log this exception as an possible course of action if the
sun.nio.ch package is not exported from java.base.
Result:
The selector replacement will fail gracefully as an expected course of
action if the sun.nio.ch package is not exported from java.base.
Motivation:
The NIO transport used an IllegalStateException if a user tried to issue another connect(...) while the connect was still in process. For this case the JDK specified a ConnectPendingException which we should use. The same issues exists in the EPOLL transport. Beside this the EPOLL transport also does not throw the right exceptions for ENETUNREACH and EISCONN errno codes.
Modifications:
- Replace IllegalStateException with ConnectPendingException in NIO and EPOLL transport
- throw correct exceptions for ENETUNREACH and EISCONN in EPOLL transport
- Add test case
Result:
More correct error handling for connect attempts when using NIO and EPOLL transport
Motivation:
The API documentation in ChannelConfig states that a a channel is writable,
if the number of pending bytes is below the low watermark and a
channel is not writable, if the number of pending bytes exceeds the high
watermark.
Therefore, we should use < operators instead of <= as well as > instead of >=.
Using <= and >= is also problematic, if the low watermark is equal to the high watermark,
as then a channel could be both writable and unwritable with the same number of pending
bytes (depending on whether remove() or addMessage() is called first).
The use of <= and >= was introduced in PR https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/3036, but
I don't understand why, as there doesn't seem to have been any discussion around that.
Modifications:
Use < and > operators instead of <= and >=.
Result:
High and low watermarks are treated as stated in the API docs.
Motivation:
We need to ensure we also call fireChannelActive() if the Channel is directly closed in a ChannelFutureListener that is belongs to the promise for the connect. Otherwise we will see missing active events.
Modifications:
Ensure we always call fireChannelActive() if the Channel was active.
Result:
No missing events.
Motivation:
We use often javachannel().socket().* in NIO as these methods exists in java6. The problem is that these will throw often very general Exceptions (Like SocketException) while it is more expected to throw the Exceptions listed in the nio interfaces. When possible we should use the new methods available in java7+ which throw the correct exceptions.
Modifications:
Check for java version and depending on it using the socket or the javachannel.
Result:
Throw expected Exceptions.
Motivation:
To make it easier to debug connect exceptions we create new exceptions which also contain the remote address. For this we basically created a new instance and call setStackTrace(...). When doing this we pay an extra penality because it calls fillInStackTrace() when calling the super constructor.
Modifications:
Create special sub-classes of Exceptions that override the fillInStackTrace() method and so eliminate the overhead.
Result:
Less overhead when "annotate" connect exceptions.
Motivation:
Comments stating that AUTO_CLOSE will be removed in Netty 5.0 are wrong,
as there is no Netty 5.0.
Modifications:
Removed comment.
Result:
No more references to Netty 5.0
