CONTRIBUTORS
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:17:11 -0700
changeset 39577 d06834e0f48e
parent 5514 c29efd272395
permissions -rw-r--r--
wireprotov2peer: stream decoded responses Previously, wire protocol version 2 would buffer all response data. Only once all data was received did we CBOR decode it and resolve the future associated with the command. This was obviously not desirable. In future commits that introduce large response payloads, this caused significant memory bloat and slowed down client operations due to waiting on the server. This commit refactors the response handling code so that response data can be streamed. Command response objects now contain a buffered CBOR decoder. As new data arrives, it is fed into the decoder. Decoded objects are made available to the generator as they are decoded. Because there is a separate thread processing incoming frames and feeding data into the response object, there is the potential for race conditions when mutating response objects. So a lock has been added to guard access to critical state variables. Because the generator emitting decoded objects needs to wait on those objects to become available, we've added an Event for the generator to wait on so it doesn't busy loop. This does mean there is the potential for deadlocks. And I'm pretty sure they can occur in some scenarios. We already have a handful of TODOs around this. But I've added some more. Fixing this will likely require moving the background thread receiving frames into clienthandler. We likely would have done this anyway when implementing the client bits for the SSH transport. Test output changes because the initial CBOR map holding the overall response state is now always handled internally by the response object. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4474

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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent SeguĂ­ Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>