Motivation:
UTF-16 can not represent the full range of Unicode characters, and thus has the concept of Surrogate Pair (http://unicode.org/glossary/#surrogate_pair) where 2 16-bit code units can be used to represent the missing characters. ByteBufUtil.writeUtf8 is currently does not support this and is thus incomplete.
Modifications:
- Add support for surrogate pairs in ByteBufUtil.writeUtf8
Result:
ByteBufUtil.writeUtf8 now supports surrogate pairs and is correctly converting to UTF-8.
Motivation:
DefaultPromiseTest has dead code which was left over from a code restructure. Shared code between 2 tests was moved into a common method, but some code which was not cleaned up in each of these methods after the code was moved.
Modifications:
- Delete dead code in DefaultPromiseTest
Result:
Less dead code
Motivation:
AbstractFuture currently wraps CancellationException in a ExecutionException. However the interface of Future says that this exception should be directly thrown.
Modifications:
- Throw CancellationException from AbstractFuture.get
Result:
Interface contract for CancellationException is honored in AbstractFuture.
Motivation:
There is a notification ordering issue in DefaultPromise when the lateListener collection is in use. The ordering issue can be observed in situations where a late listener is added to a Future returned from a write operation. It is possible that this future will run after a read operation scheduled on the I/O thread, even if the late listener is added on the I/O thread. This can lead to unexpected ordering where a listener for a write operation which must complete in order for the read operation to happen is notified after the read operation is done.
Modifications:
- If the lateListener collection becomes empty, it should be treated as though it was null when checking if lateListeners can be notified immediatley (instead of executing a task on the executor)
Result:
Ordering is more natural and will not be perceived as being out of order relative to other tasks on the same executor.
Motivation:
If netty used as part of application, should be a way to prefix service thread name to easy distinguish such threads (for example, used in IntelliJ Platform)
Modifications:
Introduce system property io.netty.serviceThreadPrefix
Result:
ThreadDeathWatcher thread has a readable name "Netty threadDeathWatcher-2-1" if io.netty.serviceThreadPrefix set to "Netty"
Motivation:
In 4.1 and master the isValid utility has been moved to MathUtil. We should stay consistent for internal APIs.
Modifications:
- Move isValid to MathUtil
Result:
More consistent internal structure across branches.
Motivation:
DefaultPromise.toString() returns 'DefaultPromise(incomplete)' when it's
actually complete with non-null result.
Modifications:
Handle the case where the promise is done and its result is non-null in
toString()
Result:
The String returned by DefaultPromise.toString() is not confusing
anymore.
Motivation:
Modulo operations are slow, we can use bitwise operation to detect if resource leak detection must be done while sampling.
Modifications:
- Ensure the interval is a power of two
- Use bitwise operation for sampling
- Add benchmark.
Result:
Faster sampling.
Motivation:
When the ImmediateEventExecutor is in use it is possible to get a StackOverFlowException if when a promise completes a new listener is added to that promise.
Modifications:
- Protect against the case where LateListeners.run() smashes the stack.
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4395
Motivation:
sun.misc.Unsafe allows us to handle heap ByteBuf in a more efficient matter. We should use special ByteBuf implementation when sun.misc.Unsafe can be used to increase performance.
Modifications:
- Add PooledUnsafeHeapByteBuf and UnpooledUnsafeHeapByteBuf that are used when sun.misc.Unsafe is ready to use.
- Add UnsafeHeapSwappedByteBuf
Result:
Better performance when using heap buffers and sun.misc.Unsafe is ready to use.
Motivation:
We had a bug in our implemention which double "reversed" bytes on systems which not support unaligned access.
Modifications:
- Correctly only reverse bytes if needed.
- Share code between unsafe implementations.
Result:
No more data-corruption on sytems without unaligned access.
Motivation:
We started the thread before store it in a field which could lead to an assert error when the thread is executed before we actually store it.
Modifications:
Store thread before start it.
Result:
No more assert error possible.
Motivation:
At the moment we only forward decoded messages that were added the out List once the full decode loop was completed. This has the affect that resources may not be released as fast as possible and as an application may incounter higher latency if the user triggeres a writeAndFlush(...) as a result of the decoded messages.
Modifications:
- forward decoded messages after each decode call
Result:
Forwarding decoded messages through the pipeline in a more eager fashion.
Motivation:
Leak detector, when it detects a leak, will print the last 5 stack
traces that touched the ByteBuf. In some cases that might not be enough
to identify the root cause of the leak.
Also, sometimes users might not be interested in tracing all the
operations on the buffer, but just the ones that are affecting the
reference count.
Modifications:
Added command line properties to override default values:
* Allow to configure max number of stack traces to collect
* Allow to only record retain/release operation on buffers
Result:
Users can increase the number of stack traces to debug buffer leaks
with lot of retain/release operations.
Motivation:
for debugging and metrics reasons its sometimes useful to be able to get details of the the Thread that powers a SingleThreadEventExecutor.
Modifications:
- Expose ThreadProperties
- Add unit test.
Result:
It's now possible to get details of the Thread that powers a SingleThreadEventExecutor.
Motivation:
Sometimes it is useful to disable recycling completely if memory constraints are very tight.
Modifications:
Allow to use -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacity.default=0 to disable recycling completely.
Result:
It's possible to disable recycling now.
Motivation:
The javadocs are incorrect and so give false impressions of use-pattern.
Modifications:
- Fix javadocs of which operations are allowed from multiple threads concurrently.
- Let isEmpty() work concurrently.
Result:
Correctly document usage-patterns.
Motivation:
The StringUtil class creates a Formatter object, but does not close it. There are also a 2 utility methods which would be generally useful.
Modifications:
- Close the Formatter
- Add length and isNullOrEmpty
Result:
No more resource leaks. Additional utility methods.
Motivation:
The HttpObjectDecoder is on the hot code path for the http codec. There are a few hot methods which can be modified to improve performance.
Modifications:
- Modify AppendableCharSequence to provide unsafe methods which don't need to re-check bounds for every call.
- Update HttpObjectDecoder methods to take advantage of new AppendableCharSequence methods.
Result:
Peformance boost for decoding http objects.
Motivation:
Prior we used a purge task that would remove previous canceled scheduled tasks from the internal queue. This could introduce some delay and so use a lot of memory even if the task itself is already canceled.
Modifications:
Schedule removal of task from queue via EventLoop if cancel operation is not done in the EventLoop Thread or just remove directly if the Thread that cancels the scheduled task is in the EventLoop.
Result:
Faster possibility to GC a canceled ScheduledFutureTask.
Motivation:
PoolThreadCache did only cache allocations if the allocation and deallocation Thread were the same. This is not optimal as often people write from differen thread then the actual EventLoop thread.
Modification:
- Add MpscArrayQueue which was forked from jctools and lightly modified.
- Use MpscArrayQueue for caches and always add buffer back to the cache that belongs to the allocation thread.
Result:
ThreadPoolCache is now also usable and so gives performance improvements when allocation and deallocation thread are different.
Performance when using same thread for allocation and deallocation is noticable worse then before.
Motivation:
The PooledByteBufAllocator is more or less a black-box atm. We need to expose some metrics to allow the user to get a better idea how to tune it.
Modifications:
- Expose different metrics via PooledByteBufAllocator
- Add *Metrics interfaces
Result:
It is now easy to gather metrics and detail about the PooledByteBufAllocator and so get a better understanding about resource-usage etc.
Motivation:
In the SslHandler we schedule a timeout at which we close the Channel if a timeout was detected during close_notify. Because this can race with notify the flushFuture we can see an IllegalStateException when the Channel is closed.
Modifications:
- Use a trySuccess() and tryFailure(...) to guard against race.
Result:
No more race.
Motivation:
All read operations should be safe to execute from multiple threads which was not the case and so could produce a livelock.
Modifications:
Modify methods so these are safe to be called from multiple threads.
Result:
No more livelock.
Motivation:
Many projects need some kind a Channel/Connection pool implementation. While the protocols are different many things can be shared, so we should provide a generic API and implementation.
Modifications:
Add ChannelPool / ChannelPoolMap API and implementations.
Result:
Reusable / Generic pool implementation that users can use.
Motivation:
When a SecurityManager is in place that preven reading the somaxconn file trying to bootstrap a channel later will result in a ClassNotFoundError.
Modifications:
- Reading the file in a privileged block.
Result:
No more ClassNotFoundError when a SecurityManager is in place.
Motivation:
static Package getPackage(Class<?> c) uses synchronized block internally.
Thanks to @jingene for the hint and initial report of the issue.
Modifications:
-Use simple lastIndexOf(...) and substring for a faster implementation
Result:
No more lock condition.
Motivation:
Attribute.getAndRemove() will return the value but also remove the AttributeKey itself from the AttributeMap. This may not
what you want as you may want to keep an instance of it and just set it later again. Document the contract so the user know what to expect.
Modifications:
- Make it clear when to use AttributeKey.getAndRemove() / AttributeKey.remove() and when AttributeKey.getAndSet(null) / AttributeKey.set(null).
Result:
Less suprising behaviour.
Motivation:
To support HTTP2 we need APLN support. This was not provided before when using OpenSslEngine, so SSLEngine (JDK one) was the only bet.
Beside this CipherSuiteFilter was not supported
Modifications:
- Upgrade netty-tcnative and make use of new features to support ALPN and NPN in server and client mode.
- Guard against segfaults after the ssl pointer is freed
- support correctly different failure behaviours
- add support for CipherSuiteFilter
Result:
Be able to use OpenSslEngine for ALPN / NPN for server and client.
