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The API changes made so far turned out to increase the memory footprint and consumption while our intention was actually decreasing them. Memory consumption issue: When there are many connections which does not exchange data frequently, the old Netty 4 API spent a lot more memory than 3 because it always allocates per-handler buffer for each connection unless otherwise explicitly stated by a user. In a usual real world load, a client doesn't always send requests without pausing, so the idea of having a buffer whose life cycle if bound to the life cycle of a connection didn't work as expected. Memory footprint issue: The old Netty 4 API decreased overall memory footprint by a great deal in many cases. It was mainly because the old Netty 4 API did not allocate a new buffer and event object for each read. Instead, it created a new buffer for each handler in a pipeline. This works pretty well as long as the number of handlers in a pipeline is only a few. However, for a highly modular application with many handlers which handles connections which lasts for relatively short period, it actually makes the memory footprint issue much worse. Changes: All in all, this is about retaining all the good changes we made in 4 so far such as better thread model and going back to the way how we dealt with message events in 3. To fix the memory consumption/footprint issue mentioned above, we made a hard decision to break the backward compatibility again with the following changes: - Remove MessageBuf - Merge Buf into ByteBuf - Merge ChannelInboundByte/MessageHandler and ChannelStateHandler into ChannelInboundHandler - Similar changes were made to the adapter classes - Merge ChannelOutboundByte/MessageHandler and ChannelOperationHandler into ChannelOutboundHandler - Similar changes were made to the adapter classes - Introduce MessageList which is similar to `MessageEvent` in Netty 3 - Replace inboundBufferUpdated(ctx) with messageReceived(ctx, MessageList) - Replace flush(ctx, promise) with write(ctx, MessageList, promise) - Remove ByteToByteEncoder/Decoder/Codec - Replaced by MessageToByteEncoder<ByteBuf>, ByteToMessageDecoder<ByteBuf>, and ByteMessageCodec<ByteBuf> - Merge EmbeddedByteChannel and EmbeddedMessageChannel into EmbeddedChannel - Add SimpleChannelInboundHandler which is sometimes more useful than ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter - Bring back Channel.isWritable() from Netty 3 - Add ChannelInboundHandler.channelWritabilityChanges() event - Add RecvByteBufAllocator configuration property - Similar to ReceiveBufferSizePredictor in Netty 3 - Some existing configuration properties such as DatagramChannelConfig.receivePacketSize is gone now. - Remove suspend/resumeIntermediaryDeallocation() in ByteBuf This change would have been impossible without @normanmaurer's help. He fixed, ported, and improved many parts of the changes.
47 lines
1.6 KiB
Java
47 lines
1.6 KiB
Java
/*
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* Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
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*
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* The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
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* version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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* with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
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*
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* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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*
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* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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* WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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* License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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* under the License.
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*/
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package io.netty.channel;
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import java.net.SocketAddress;
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/**
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* Represents the properties of a {@link Channel} implementation.
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*/
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public final class ChannelMetadata {
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private final boolean hasDisconnect;
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/**
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* Create a new instance
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*
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* @param hasDisconnect {@code true} if and only if the channel has the {@code disconnect()} operation
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* that allows a user to disconnect and then call {@link Channel#connect(SocketAddress)}
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* again, such as UDP/IP.
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*/
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public ChannelMetadata(boolean hasDisconnect) {
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this.hasDisconnect = hasDisconnect;
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}
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/**
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* Returns {@code true} if and only if the channel has the {@code disconnect()} operation
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* that allows a user to disconnect and then call {@link Channel#connect(SocketAddress)} again,
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* such as UDP/IP.
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*/
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public boolean hasDisconnect() {
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return hasDisconnect;
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}
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}
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