netty5/transport
Trustin Lee 00853d9453 Fix an event ordering issue
Motivation:

In the early days of 5.0, we merged ChannelInboundHandler and
ChannelOutboundHandler into ChannelHandler, and introduced the
annotation called 'Skip'.  The annotation 'Skip' was introduced to
determine which handler methods are no-op (i.e. simply forwarding the
event to the next handler) so that DefaultChannelHandlerContext doesn't
even need to submit an event-invoking task to an EventExecutor,
significantly reducing the context switches.

However, this introduced a regression for the handlers which implemented
write() but not flush(). Because flush() was skippable for such
handlers, flush() event went through to the next handler before write() does.

To address this problem, we came up with a naive workaround that sets
MASK_FLUSH when MASK_WRITE is set.

Although the previous workaround works fine for many cases, we still
seem to have an event ordering problem.  We keep seeing the intermittant
failure of LocalTransportThreadModelTest.testStagedExecution(), because
other handler methods are still skipped.

Modifications:

We do not skip the execution of handler methods annotated with 'Skip'
unless all inbound methods (or all outbound methods) are marked with
'Skip'.

Result:

This change Brings back the event ordering behavior of 4.x, making
LocalTransportThreadModelTest.testStagedExecution() pass.
2014-05-22 11:14:36 +09:00
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src Fix an event ordering issue 2014-05-22 11:14:36 +09:00
pom.xml [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration 2013-12-22 22:06:15 +09:00