Motivation I noticed this while looking at something else. AbstractEpollStreamChannel::spliceQueue is an MPSC queue but only accessed from the event loop. So it could be just changed to e.g. an ArrayDeque. This PR instead reverts to using is as an MPSC queue to avoid dispatching a task to the EL, as appears was the original intention. Modification Change AbstractEpollStreamChannel::spliceQueue to be volatile and lazily initialized via double-checked locking. Add tasks directly to the queue from the public methods rather than possibly waking the EL just to enqueue. An alternative is just to change PlatformDependent.newMpscQueue() to new ArrayDeque() and be done with it :) Result Less disruptive channel/fd-splicing.
Netty Project
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
Links
How to build
For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit the developer guide. This page only gives very basic information.
You require the following to build Netty:
- Latest stable Oracle JDK 7
- Latest stable Apache Maven
- If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>
. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.
Usage with JDK 9
Netty can be used in modular JDK9 applications as a collection of automatic modules. The module names follow the reverse-DNS style, and are derived from subproject names rather than root packages due to historical reasons. They are listed below:
io.netty.all
io.netty.buffer
io.netty.codec
io.netty.codec.dns
io.netty.codec.haproxy
io.netty.codec.http
io.netty.codec.http2
io.netty.codec.memcache
io.netty.codec.mqtt
io.netty.codec.redis
io.netty.codec.smtp
io.netty.codec.socks
io.netty.codec.stomp
io.netty.codec.xml
io.netty.common
io.netty.handler
io.netty.handler.proxy
io.netty.resolver
io.netty.resolver.dns
io.netty.transport
io.netty.transport.epoll
(native
omitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.kqueue
(native
omitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.unix.common
(native
omitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.rxtx
io.netty.transport.sctp
io.netty.transport.udt
Automatic modules do not provide any means to declare dependencies, so you need to list each used module separately
in your module-info
file.