Motivation:
4bba7526e2 introduced changes which made pooled and unpooled derived buffers inconsistent in a few ways:
- Pooled derived buffers always generated a duplicate buffer when duplicate() was called and always generated a sliced buffer when slice() was called. Unpooled derived buffers some times generated a sliced buffer when duplicate() was called.
- The indexes that were set for duplicate buffers generated from slices were not always consistent.
There were also some various bugs in the derived pooled buffer implementation.
Modifications:
- Make pooled/unpooled consistently generate duplicate buffers when duplicate() is called and sliced buffers when slice() is called.
- Fix bugs in the derived pooled buffer
Result:
More consistent behavior from the derived pooled/unpooled buffers.
Motivation:
Currently the ByteBuf created as a result of retained[Slice|Duplicate] maintains its own reference count, and when this reference count is depleated it will release the ByteBuf returned from unwrap(). The unwrap() buffer is designed to be the 'root parent' and will skip all intermediate layers of buffers. If the intermediate layers of buffers contain a retained[Slice|Duplicate] then these reference counts will be ignored during deallocation. This may lead to deallocating the 'root parent' before all derived pooled buffers are actually released. This same issue holds if a retained[Slice|Duplicate] is in the heirachy and a 'regular' slice() or duplicate() buffer is created.
Modifications:
- AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf must maintain a reference to the direct parent (the buffer which retained[Slice|Duplicate] was called on) and release on this buffer instead of the 'root parent' returned by unwrap()
- slice() and duplicate() buffers created from AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf must also delegate reference count operations to their immediate parent (or first ancestor which maintains an independent reference count).
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/5999
Motivation:
Netty provides a adaptor from ByteBuf to Java's InputStream interface. The JDK Stream interfaces have an explicit lifetime because they implement the Closable interface. This lifetime may be differnt than the ByteBuf which is wrapped, and controlled by the interface which accepts the JDK Stream. However Netty's ByteBufInputStream currently does not take reference count ownership of the underlying ByteBuf. There may be no way for existing classes which only accept the InputStream interface to communicate when they are done with the stream, other than calling close(). This means that when the stream is closed it may be appropriate to release the underlying ByteBuf, as the ownership of the underlying ByteBuf resource may be transferred to the Java Stream.
Motivation:
- ByteBufInputStream.close() supports taking reference count ownership of the underyling ByteBuf
Result:
ByteBufInputStream can assume reference count ownership so the underlying ByteBuf can be cleaned up when the stream is closed.
Motivation:
In some ByteBuf implementations we not correctly implement getBytes(index, ByteBuffer).
Modifications:
Correct code to do what is defined in the javadocs and adding test.
Result:
Implementation works as described.
Motivation:
We need to ensure we release all direct memory once the DirectPoolArena is collected. Otherwise we may never reclaim the memory and so leak memory.
Modifications:
Ensure we destroy all PoolChunk memory when DirectPoolArena is collected.
Result:
Free up unreleased memory when DirectPoolArena is collected.
Motivation:
We can share the code in retain() and retain(...) and also in release() and release(...).
Modifications:
Share code.
Result:
Less duplicated code.
Motivation:
We introduced a regression in 1abdbe6f67 which let the iteration start from the wrong index.
Modifications:
Fix start index and add tests.
Result:
Fix regression.
Motivation:
Result of ByteBufUtil.compare(ByteBuf a, ByteBuf b) is dependent on ByteOrder of supplied ByteBufs which should not be the case (as stated in the javadocs).
Modifications:
Ensure we get a consistent behavior when calling ByteBufUtil.compare(ByteBuf a, ByteBuf b) and not depend on ByteOrder.
Result:
ByteBufUtil.compare(ByteBuf a, ByteBuf b) and so AbstractByteBuf.compare(...) works correctly as stated in the javadocs.
Motivation:
Sometimes it is useful to be able to wrap an existing memory address (a.k.a pointer) and create a ByteBuf from it. This way its easier to interopt with other libraries.
Modifications:
Add a new Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(....) method that takes a memory address.
Result:
Be able to wrap an existing memory address into a ByteBuf.
Motivation:
The default limit for the maximum amount of bytes that a method will be inlined is 35 bytes. AbstractByteBuf#forEach and AbstractByteBuf#forEachDesc comprise of method calls which are more than this maximum default threshold and may prevent or delay inlining for occuring. The byte code for these methods can be reduced to allow for easier inlining. Here are the current byte code sizes:
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByte (24 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByte(int,int,..) (14 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteAsc0 (71 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteDesc (24 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteDesc(int,int,.) (24 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteDesc0 (69 bytes)
Modifications:
- Reduce the code for each method in the AbstractByteBuf#forEach and AbstractByteBuf#forEachDesc call stack
Result:
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByte (25 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByte(int,int,..) (25 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteAsc0 (29 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteDesc (25 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteDesc(int,int,..) (27 bytes)
AbstractByteBuf::forEachByteDesc0 (29 bytes)
Motivation:
We not need to do an extra conditional check in retain(...) as we can just check for overflow after we did the increment.
Modifications:
- Remove extra conditional check
- Add test code.
Result:
One conditional check less.
Motivation:
AbstractReferenceCountedByteBuf as independent conditional statements to check the bounds of the retain IllegalReferenceCountException condition. One of the exceptions also uses the incorrect increment. The same fix was done for AbstractReferenceCounted as 01523e7835.
Modifications:
- Combined independent conditional checks into 1 where possible
- Correct IllegalReferenceCountException with incorrect increment
- Remove the subtract to check for overflow and re-use the addition and check for overflow to remove 1 arithmetic operation (see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.18.2)
Result:
AbstractReferenceCountedByteBuf has less independent branch statements and more correct IllegalReferenceCountException. Compilation size of AbstractReferenceCountedByteBuf.retain() is reduced.
Motivation:
Some usages of findNextPositivePowerOfTwo assume that bounds checking is taken care of by this method. However bounds checking is not taken care of by findNextPositivePowerOfTwo and instead assert statements are used to imply the caller has checked the bounds. This can lead to unexpected non power of 2 return values if the caller is not careful and thus invalidate any logic which depends upon a power of 2.
Modifications:
- Add a safeFindNextPositivePowerOfTwo method which will do runtime bounds checks and always return a power of 2
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/5601
Motivation:
When Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(...) is called with an array of ByteBuf with length >= 2 and the first ByteBuf is not readable it will result in double releasing of these empty buffers when release() is called on the returned buffer.
Modifications:
- Ensure we only wrap readable buffers.
- Add unit test
Result:
No double release of buffers.
Motivation:
retainSlice() currently does not unwrap the ByteBuf when creating the ByteBuf wrapper. This effectivley forms a linked list of ByteBuf when it is only necessary to maintain a reference to the unwrapped ByteBuf.
Modifications:
- retainSlice() and retainDuplicate() variants should only maintain a reference to the unwrapped ByteBuf
- create new unit tests which generally verify the retainSlice() behavior
- Remove unecessary generic arguments from AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf
- Remove unecessary int length member variable from the unpooled sliced ByteBuf implementation
- Rename the unpooled sliced/derived ByteBuf to include Unpooled in their name to be more consistent with the Pooled variants
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/5582
Motivation:
SwappedByteBuf.retainedSlice(...) did not return a retained buffer.
Modifications:
Correctly delegate to retainedSlice(..) calls.
Result:
Correctly return retained slice.
Motivation:
Because of a bug we missed to include the first PoolSubpage when collection metrics.
Modifications:
- Correctly include all subpages
- Add unit test
Result:
Correctly include all subpages
Allow users of Netty to plug in their own leak detector for the purpose
of instrumentation.
Motivation:
We are rolling out a large Netty deployment and want to be able to
track the amount of leaks we're seeing in production via custom
instrumentation. In order to achieve this today, I had to plug in a
custom `ByteBufAllocator` into the bootstrap and have it initialize a
custom `ResourceLeakDetector`. Due to these classes mostly being marked
`final` or having private or static methods, a lot of the code had to
be copy-pasted and it's quite ugly.
Modifications:
* I've added a static loader method for the `ResourceLeakDetector` in
`AbstractByteBuf` that tries to instantiate the class passed in via the
`-Dio.netty.customResourceLeakDetector`, otherwise falling back to the
default one.
* I've modified `ResourceLeakDetector` to be non-final and to have the
reporting broken out in to methods that can be overridden.
Result:
You can instrument leaks in your application by just adding something
like the following:
```java
public class InstrumentedResourceLeakDetector<T> extends
ResourceLeakDetector<T> {
@Monitor("InstanceLeakCounter")
private final AtomicInteger instancesLeakCounter;
@Monitor("LeakCounter")
private final AtomicInteger leakCounter;
public InstrumentedResourceLeakDetector(Class<T> resource) {
super(resource);
this.instancesLeakCounter = new AtomicInteger();
this.leakCounter = new AtomicInteger();
}
@Override
protected void reportTracedLeak(String records) {
super.reportTracedLeak(records);
leakCounter.incrementAndGet();
}
@Override
protected void reportUntracedLeak() {
super.reportUntracedLeak();
leakCounter.incrementAndGet();
}
@Override
protected void reportInstancesLeak() {
super.reportInstancesLeak();
instancesLeakCounter.incrementAndGet();
}
}
```
Motivation:
See #82.
Modifications:
- Added `isText` to validate if the given ByteBuf is compliant with the specified charset.
- Optimized for UTF-8 and ASCII. For other cases, `CharsetDecoder.decoder` is used.
Result:
Users can validate ByteBuf with given charset.
Motivation:
We need to first store a reference to the wrapped buffer before recycle the AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf instance. This is needed as otherwise it is possible that the same AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf is again obtained and init(...) is called before we actually have a chance to call release(). This leads to call release() on the wrong buffer.
Modifications:
Store a reference to the wrapped buffer before call recycle and call release on the previous stored reference.
Result:
Always release the correct wrapped buffer when deallocate the AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf.
Motivation:
If the user uses unsafe direct buffers with no cleaner we can use Unsafe.reallocateMemory(...) as optimization when we need to expand the buffer.
Modifications:
Use Unsafe.relocateMemory(...) in UnpooledUnsafeNoCleanerDirectByteBuf.
Result:
Less expensive expanding of buffers.
Motivation:
Using the Cleaner to release the native memory has a few drawbacks:
- Cleaner.clean() uses static synchronized internally which means it can be a performance bottleneck
- It put more load on the GC
Modifications:
Add new buffer implementations that can be enabled with a system flag as optimizations. In this case no Cleaner is used at all and the user must ensure everything is always released.
Result:
Less performance impact by direct buffers when need to be allocated and released.
Motivation:
Unsafe offers a method to set memory to a specific value. This can be used to implement an optimized version of setZero(...) and writeZero(...)
Modifications:
Add implementation for all Unsafe*ByteBuf implementations.
Result:
Faster setZero(...) and writeZero(...)
Motivation:
At the moment the user is responsible to increase the writer index of the composite buffer when a new component is added. We should add some methods that handle this for the user as this is the most popular usage of the composite buffer.
Modifications:
Add new methods that autoamtically increase the writerIndex when buffers are added.
Result:
Easier usage of CompositeByteBuf.
Motivation:
We missed to override a few methods and so some actions on the ByteBuf failed.
Modifications:
- Override all methods
- Add unit tests to ensure all is fixed.
Result:
All *LeakAware*ByteBuf have correct implementations
Motivation:
Recycler.recycle(...) should not be used anymore and be replaced by Handle.recycle().
Modifications:
Mark it as deprecated and update usage.
Result:
Correctly document deprecated api.
Motivation:
DefaultByteBufHolder.equals(...) and hashCode() should be implemented so it works correctly with instances that share the same content.
Modifications:
Add implementations and a unit-test.
Result:
Have correctly working equals(...) and hashCode() method
Related: #4333#4421#5128
Motivation:
slice(), duplicate() and readSlice() currently create a non-recyclable
derived buffer instance. Under heavy load, an application that creates a
lot of derived buffers can put the garbage collector under pressure.
Modifications:
- Add the following methods which creates a non-recyclable derived buffer
- retainedSlice()
- retainedDuplicate()
- readRetainedSlice()
- Add the new recyclable derived buffer implementations, which has its
own reference count value
- Add ByteBufHolder.retainedDuplicate()
- Add ByteBufHolder.replace(ByteBuf) so that..
- a user can replace the content of the holder in a consistent way
- copy/duplicate/retainedDuplicate() can delegate the holder
construction to replace(ByteBuf)
- Use retainedDuplicate() and retainedSlice() wherever possible
- Miscellaneous:
- Rename DuplicateByteBufTest to DuplicatedByteBufTest (missing 'D')
- Make ReplayingDecoderByteBuf.reject() return an exception instead of
throwing it so that its callers don't need to add dummy return
statement
Result:
Derived buffers are now recycled when created via retainedSlice() and
retainedDuplicate() and derived from a pooled buffer
Motivation:
We called deallocationsHuge.decrement() but it needs to be increment()
Modifications:
Replace decrement() with increment()
Result:
Correct metrics.
Motivation:
Often users either need to read or write CharSequences to a ByteBuf. We should add methods for this to ByteBuf as we can do some optimizations for this depending on the implementation.
Modifications:
Add setCharSequence, writeCharSequence, getCharSequence and readCharSequence
Result:
Easier reading / writing of CharSequence with ByteBuf.
Motivation:
Reduce nag warnings when compiling, make it easier for IDEs to display what's deprecated.
Modifications:
Added @Deprecated in a few places
Result:
No more warnings.
Motivation:
We lately added ByteBuf.isReadOnly() which allows to detect if a buffer is read-only or not. We should add ByteBuf.asReadOnly() to allow easily access a read-only version of a buffer.
Modifications:
- Add ByteBuf.asReadOnly()
- Deprecate Unpooled.unmodifiableBuffer(Bytebuf)
Result:
More consistent api.
Motivation:
When FixedCompositeByteBuf was constructed with new ByteBuf[0] and IndexOutOfboundsException was thrown.
Modifications:
Fix constructor
Result:
No more exception
Motivation:
We should not cache the SwappedByteBuf in AbstractByteBuf to reduce the memory footprint.
Modifications:
Not cache the SwappedByteBuf.
Result:
Less memory footprint.
Motivation:
Some ByteBuf implementations do not override all necessary methods,
which can lead to potentially sub-optimal behavior.
Also, SlicedByteBuf does not perform the range check correctly due to
missing overrides.
Modifications:
- Add missing overrides
- Use unwrap() instead of direct member access in derived buffers for
consistency
- Merge unwrap0() into unwrap() using covariant return type
- Deprecate AbstractDerivedByteBuf and its subtypes, because they were
not meant to be public
Result:
Correctness
Motivation:
ByteBuf.readBytes(...) uses Unpooled.buffer(...) internally which will use a heap ByteBuf and also not able to make use of the allocator which may be pooled. We should better make use of the allocator.
Modifications:
Use the allocator for thenew buffer.
Result:
Take allocator into account when copy bytes.
Motiviation:
Sometimes it is useful to dump the status of the PooledByteBufAllocator and log it. Doing this is currently a bit cumbersome as the user needs to basically iterate through all the metrics and compose the String. we would better provide an easy way to do this.
Modification:
Add dumpStats() method.
Result:
Easier to get a view into the status of the allocator.
Motivation:
PoolChunkList.allocate(...) should return false without the need to walk all the contained PoolChunks when the requested capacity is larger then the capacity that can be allocated out of the PoolChunks in respect to the minUsage() and maxUsage() of the PoolChunkList.
Modifications:
Precompute the maximal capacity that can be allocated out of the PoolChunks that are contained in the PoolChunkList and use this to fast return from the allocate(...) method if an allocation capacity larger then that is requested.
Result:
Faster detection of allocations that can not be handled by the PoolChunkList and so faster allocations in general via the PoolArena.
Motivation:
To better understand how much memory is used by Netty for ByteBufs it is useful to understand how many bytes are currently active (allocated) per PoolArena.
Modifications:
- Add PoolArenaMetric.numActiveBytes()
Result:
The user is able to get better insight into the PooledByteBufAllocator.
Motivation:
To make it easier to understand PoolChunk and PoolArena we should cleanup duplicated code.
Modifications:
- Move reused code into methods
- Use Math.max(...)
Result:
Cleaner code and easier to understand.
Motivation:
When doing a normal allocation in PoolArena we also tried to allocate out of the PoolChunkList that only contains completely full PoolChunks. This makes no sense as these are full anyway so an allocation will never work here and just gives a perf hit as we need to walk the whole list of PoolChunks in the list.
Modifications:
Not try to allocate from PoolChunkList that only contains full PoolChunks
Result:
Faster allocation times when a new PoolChunk must be created.
Motivation:
We should better use Math utilities as these are intrinsics. This is a cleanup for ea3ffb8536.
Modifications:
Use Math utilities.
Result:
Cleaner code and use of intrinsics.
Motivation:
When a PoolChunk needs to get moved to the previous PoolChunkList because of the minUsage / maxUsage constraints we always just moved it one level which is incorrect and so could lead to have PoolChunks in the wrong PoolChunkList (in respect to their minUsage / maxUsage settings). This then could have the effect that PoolChunks are not released / freed in a timely fashion and so.
Modifications:
- Correctly move PoolChunks between PoolChunkLists, which includes moving it multiple "levels".
- Add unit test
Result:
Correctlty move the PoolChunk to PoolChunkList when it is freed, even if its multiple layers.
Motivation:
The PoolChunkList.minUsage() and maxUsage() needs to take special action to translate Integer.MIN_VALUE / MAX_VALUE as these are used internal for tail and head of the linked-list structure.
Modifications:
- Correct the minUsage() and maxUsage() methods.
- Add unit test.
Result:
Correct metrics
Motivation:
Sometimes it is useful to allow to disable the leak detection of buffers if the UnpooledByteBufAllocator is used. This is for example true if the app wants to leak buffers into user code but not want to put the burden on the user to always release the buffer.
Modifications:
Add another constructor to UnpooledByteBufAllocator that allows to completely disable leak-detection for all buffers that are allocator out of the UnpooledByteBufAllocator.
Result:
It's possible to disable leak-detection when the UnpooledByteBufAllocator is used.
Motivation:
We should only increment the metric for the huge / normal allocation after it is done. Also we should only decrement once deallocate.
Modifications:
- Move increment after the allocation.
- Fix deallocation metric and move it after deallocation
Result:
More correct metrics.