We most often store the mux context there but it can also be something
else while setting up the connection. Better call it "ctx" and know
that it's the owner's context than misleadingly call it mux_ctx and
get caught doing suspicious tricks.
The SUB_CAN_SEND/SUB_CAN_RECV enum values have been confusing a few
times, especially when checking them on reading. After some discussion,
it appears that calling them SUB_RETRY_SEND/SUB_RETRY_RECV more
accurately reflects their purpose since these events may only appear
after a first attempt to perform the I/O operation has failed or was
not completed.
In addition the wait_reason field in struct wait_event which carries
them makes one think that a single reason may happen at once while
it is in fact a set of events. Since the struct is called wait_event
it makes sense that this field is called "events" to indicate it's the
list of events we're subscribed to.
Last, the values for SUB_RETRY_RECV/SEND were swapped so that value
1 corresponds to recv and 2 to send, as is done almost everywhere else
in the code an in the shutdown() call.
Add a new flag to conn_streams, CS_FL_ERR_PENDING. This is to be set instead
of CS_FL_ERR in case there's still more data to be read, so that we read all
the data before closing.
Instead of trying to get the session from the connection, which is not
always there, and of course there could be multiple sessions per connection,
provide it with the init() and attach() methods, so that we know the
session for each outgoing stream.
Add a new command, "pool-max-conn" that sets the maximum number of connections
waiting in the orphan idling connections list (as activated with idle-timeout).
Using "-1" means unlimited. Using pools is now dependant on this.
Add a new method to mux, "reset", that is used to let the mux know the
connection attempt failed, and we're about to retry, so it just have to
reinit itself. Currently only the H1 mux needs it.
CS_FL_RCV_MORE is used in two cases, to let the conn_stream
know there may be more data available, and to let it know that
it needs more room. We can't easily differentiate between the
two, and that may leads to hangs, so split it into two flags,
CS_FL_RCV_MORE, that means there may be more data, and
CS_FL_WANT_ROOM, that means we need more room.
This should not be backported.
Add a new keyword for servers, "idle-timeout". If set, unused connections are
kept alive until the timeout happens, and will be picked for reuse if no
other connection is available.
Add a new method to muxes, "max_streams", that returns the max number of
streams the mux can handle. This will be used to know if a mux is in use
or not.
Time to time, the need arises to get some info owned by the multiplexer about a
connection stream from the upper layer. Today we really need to get some dates
and durations specific to the conn_stream. It is only true for the mux H1 and
H2. Otherwise it will be impossible to have correct times reported in the logs.
To do so, the structure cs_info has been defined to provide all info we ever
need on a conn_stream from the upper layer. Of course, it is the first step. So
this structure will certainly envloved. But for now, only the bare minimum is
referenced. On the mux side, the callback get_cs_info() has been added in the
structure mux_ops. Multiplexers can now implement it, if necessary, to return a
pointer on a structure cs_info. And finally, the function si_get_cs_info()
should be used from the upper layer. If the stream interface is not attached to
a connection stream, this function returns NULL, likewise if the callback
get_cs_info() is not defined for the corresponding mux.
Instead of just storing the last connection in the session, store all of
the connections, for at most MAX_SRV_LIST (currently 5) targets.
That way we can do keepalive on more than 1 outgoing connection when the
client uses HTTP/2.
The flag CS_FL_READ_PARTIAL can be set by the mux on the conn_stream to notify
the stream interface that some data were received. Is is used in si_cs_recv to
re-arm read timeout on the channel.
By setting the flag CO_RFL_KEEP_RSV when calling mux->rcv_buf, the
stream-interface notifies the mux it must keep some space to preserve the
buffer's reserve. This flag is only useful for multiplexers handling structured
data, because in such case, the stream-interface cannot know the real amount of
free space in the channel's buffer.
By setting the flag CO_RFL_BUF_FLUSH when calling mux->rcv_buf, the
stream-interface notifies the mux it should flush its buffers without reading
more data. This flag is set when the SI want to use the kernel TCP splicing to
forward data. Of course, the mux can respect it or not, depending on its
state. It's just an information.
Introduce a new field in session, "srv_conn", and a linked list of sessions
in the connection. It will be used later when we'll switch connections
from being managed by the stream, to being managed by the session.
Add a new method for mux, avail_streams, that returns the number of streams
still available for a mux.
For the mux_pt, it'll return 1 if the connection is in idle, or 0. For
the H2 mux, it'll return the max number of streams allowed, minus the number
of streams currently in use.
This method is used to retrieve the first known good conn_stream from
the mux. It will be used to find the other end of a connection when
dealing with the proxy protocol for example.
This option makes a proxy use only HTX-compatible muxes instead of the
HTTP-compatible ones for HTTP modes. It must be set on both ends, this
is checked at parsing time.
Avoid using conn_xprt_want_send/recv, and totally nuke cs_want_send/recv,
from the upper layers. The polling is now directly handled by the connection
layer, it is activated on subscribe(), and unactivated once we got the event
and we woke the related task.
This flags will be used by multiplexers to warn a conn-stream (and, by
transitivity, a stream) it is not the first one created by the mux. It will help
mux H1 to handle keep-alive connections.
When subscribing, we don't need to provide a list element, only the h2 mux
needs it. So instead, Add a list element to struct h2s, and use it when a
list is needed.
This forces us to use the unsubscribe method, since we can't just unsubscribe
by using LIST_DEL anymore.
This patch is larger than it should be because it includes some renaming.
As we don't know how subscriptions are handled, we can't just assume we can
use LIST_DEL() to unsubscribe, so introduce a new method to mux and connections
to do so.
Till now it was very difficult for a mux to know what proxy it was
working for. Let's pass the proxy when the mux is instanciated at
init() time. It's not yet used but the H1 mux will definitely need
it, just like the H2 mux when dealing with backend connections.
Remove the recv() method from mux and conn_stream.
The goal is to always receive from the upper layers, instead of waiting
for the connection later. For now, recv() is still called from the wake()
method, but that should change soon.
For struct connection, struct conn_stream, and for the h2 mux, add 2 new
lists, one that handles waiters for recv, and one that handles waiters for
recv and send. That way we can ask to subscribe for either recv or send.
Multiplexers are not necessarily associated to an ALPN. ALPN is a TLS extension,
so it is not always defined or used. Instead, we now rather speak of
multiplexer's protocols. So in this patch, there are no significative changes,
some structures and functions are just renamed.
Now, a multiplexer can specify if it can be install on incoming connections
(ALPN_SIDE_FE), on outgoing connections (ALPN_SIDE_BE) or both
(ALPN_SIDE_BOTH). These flags are compatible with proxies' ones.
To be symmetrical with the recv() part, we no handle retryable and partial
transmission using a intermediary buffer in the conn_stream. For now it's only
set to BUF_NULL and never allocated nor used.
It cannot yet be used as-is without risking to lose data on close since
conn_streams need to be orphaned for this.
This is a partial revert of the commit deccd1116 ("MEDIUM: mux: make
mux->snd_buf() take the byte count in argument"). It is a requirement to do
zero-copy transfers. This will be mandatory when the TX buffer of the
conn_stream will be used.
So, now, data are consumed by mux->snd_buf() and not only sent. So it needs to
update the buffer state. On its side, the caller must be aware the buffer can be
replaced y an empty or unallocated one.
As a side effet of this change, the function co_set_data() is now only responsible
to update the channel set, by update ->output field.
In order to reorganize the connection layers, recv() operations will
need to be retryable and to support partial transfers. This requires
an intermediary buffer to hold the data coming from the mux. After a
few attempts, it turns out that this buffer is best placed inside the
conn_stream itself. For now it's only set to buf_empty and it will be
up to the caller to allocate it if required.
Totally nuke the "send" method, instead, the upper layer decides when it's
time to send data, and if it's not possible, uses the new subscribe() method
to be called when it can send data again.
Add a new "subscribe" method for connection, conn_stream and mux, so that
upper layer can subscribe to them, to be called when the event happens.
Right now, the only event implemented is "SUB_CAN_SEND", where the upper
layer can register to be called back when it is possible to send data.
The connection and conn_stream got a new "send_wait_list" entry, which
required to move a few struct members around to maintain an efficient
cache alignment (and actually this slightly improved performance).
Now all the code used to manipulate chunks uses a struct buffer instead.
The functions are still called "chunk*", and some of them will progressively
move to the generic buffer handling code as they are cleaned up.
With this flag we introduce the notion of "dry" vs "wet" buffers : some
demultiplexers like the H2 mux require as much room as possible for some
operations that are not retryable like decoding a headers frame. For this
they need to know if the buffer is congested with data scheduled for
leaving soon or not. Since the new API will not provide this information
in the buffer itself, the caller must indicate it. We never need to know
the amount of such data, just the fact that the buffer is not in its
optimal condition to be used for receipt. This "CO_RFL_BUF_WET" flag is
used to mention that such outgoing data are still pending in the buffer
and that a sensitive receiver should better let it "dry" before using it.
The mux and transport rcv_buf() now takes a "flags" argument, just like
the snd_buf() one or like the equivalent syscall lower part. The upper
layers will use this to pass some information such as indicating whether
the buffer is free from outgoing data or if the lower layer may allocate
the buffer itself.
It also returns a size_t. This is in order to clean the API. Note
that the H2 mux still uses some ints in the functions called from
h2_rcv_buf(), though it's not really a problem given that H2 frames
are smaller. It may deserve a general cleanup later though.
Just like we have a size_t for xprt->snd_buf(), we adjust to use size_t
for rcv_buf()'s count argument and return value. It also removes the
ambiguity related to the possibility to see a negative value there.
This way the mux doesn't need to modify the buffer's metadata anymore
nor to know the output's size. The mux->snd_buf() function now takes a
const buffer and it's up to the caller to update the buffer's state.
The return type was updated to return a size_t to comply with the count
argument.
This way the senders don't need to modify the buffer's metadata anymore
nor to know about the output's split point. This way the functions can
take a const buffer and it's clearer who's in charge of updating the
buffer after a send. That's why the buffer realignment is now performed
by the caller of the transport's snd_buf() functions.
The return type was updated to return a size_t to comply with the count
argument.