This is the port shared between all application processes which use it to pass
requests for processing. Using it significantly simplifies the request
processing code in the router. The drawback is 2 more file descriptors per each
configured application and more complex libunit message wait/read code.
The application process needs to request the shared memory segment from the
router instead of the latter pushing the segment before sending a request to
the application. This is required to simplify the communication between the
router and the application and to prepare the router for using the application
shared port and then the queue.
The application process needs to request the port from the router instead of the
latter pushing the port before sending a request to the application. This is
required to simplify the communication between the router and the application
and to prepare the router to use the application shared port and then the queue.
The goal is to minimize the number of (pid, id) to port hash lookups which
require a library mutex lock. The response port is found once per request,
while the read port is initialized at startup.
- Changed the port management callbacks to notifications, which e. g. avoids
the need to call the libunit function
- Added context and library instance reference counts for a safer resource
release
- Added the router main port initialization
- OOSM (out of shared memory). Sent by application process to router
when application reaches the limit of allocated shared memory and
needs more.
- SHM_ACK. Sent by router to application when the application's shared
memory is released and the OOSM flag is enabled for the segment.
This implements blocking mode (the library waits for SHM_ACK in case of
out of shared memory condition and retries allocating the required memory
amount) and non-blocking mode (the library notifies the application that
it's out of shared memory and returns control to the application module
that sets up the output queue and puts SHM_ACK in the main message loop).
