Go request registration should be removed before C request memory freed.
C request address used as a key in Go map. Freed memory can be instantly
reused for other request and older request registration should removed at this
point to avoid collisions.
- Main process should be connected to all other processes.
- Controller should be connected to Router.
- Router should be connected to Controller and all Workers.
- Workers should be connected to Router worker thread ports only.
This filtering helps to avoid unnecessary communication and various errors
during massive application workers stop / restart.
"All problems in computer science can be
solved by another level of indirection"
Butler Lampson
Completion handlers for application response buffers executed after
sending the data to client. Application worker can be stopped right
after send response buffers to router. Worker stop causes removal
of all data structures for the worker.
To prevent shared memory segment unmap, need to count the number of
buffers which uses it. So instead of direct reference to shared
memory, need to reference to intermediate 'handler' structure with
use counter and pointer to shared memory.
Two different router threads may send different requests to single
application worker. In this case shared memory fds from worker
to router will be send over 2 different router ports. These fds
will be received and processed by different threads in any order.
This patch made possible to add incoming shared memory segments in
arbitrary order. Additionally, array and memory pool are no longer
used to store segments because of pool's single threaded nature.
Custom array-like structure nxt_port_mmaps_t introduced.
This allows to use shared memory to communicate with main process.
This patch changes shared memory segment format and breaks compatibility
with older modules.
- Each sendmsg() transmits no more than port->max_size payload data.
- Longer buffers are fragmented and send using multiple sendmsg() calls.
- On receive side, buffers are connected in chain.
- Number of handler calls is the same as number of nxt_port_socket_write()
calls.
- nxt_buf_make_plain() function introduced to make single plain buffer from
the chain.
Only purpose of request<->app link instance is to be enqueued in application
requests queue.
It is possible to avoid request<->app link allocation from memory pool in
case when spare application port is available. Instance from local stack
can be used to prepare and send message to application.
Port message handler may perform fork() and then close port read file
descriptor and enable write on same event fd. Next read attempt in this case
may cause different errors in log file.
Remove pid proxying to worker engines implementation was originally
overcomplicated. Memory pool and 2 engine posts (there and back again) are
optimized out and replaced with band new nxt_port_post() call.
Request <-> application link structure (nxt_req_app_link_t) used to register
the request in application request queue (nxt_app_t.requests) and generate
application-specific port message.
Now it is allocated from request pool. This pool created for request parsing
and used to allocate and store information specific to this request.
