The function is an exact copy of b_peek_varint() with ofs==0 and doing a
b_del() at the end. We can simply call that other one and delete the
contents. It turns out that the code is bigger with this change because
b_peek_varint() passes its offset to b_peek() which performs a wrapping
check. When ofs==0 the wrapping cannot happen, but there's no real way
to tell that to the compiler. Instead conditioning the if() in b_peek()
with (!__builtin_constant_p(ofs) || ofs) does the job, but it's not worth
it at the moment since we have no users of b_get_varint() for now. Let's
just stick to the simple normal code.
Some large functions were moved to buf.c by commit ac66df4e2 ("REORG:
buffers: move some of the heavy functions from buf.h to buf.c"). However,
as found by Amaury, haring doesn't build anymore. Upon close inspection,
b_getblk_nc() isn't that big since it's very much inlinable, and a part
of its apparently large size comes from the BUG_ON_HOT() that were
implemented. Regarding b_peek_varint(), it doesn't have any dependency
and is used only at 4 places in the DNS code, so its loop will not have
big impacts, and the rest around can be optimised away by the compiler
so it remains relevant to keep it inlined. Also it can serve as a base
to deduplicate the code in b_get_varint().
No backport needed.
The buffer ring is problematic in multiple aspects, one of which being
that it is only usable by one entity. With multiplexed protocols, we need
to have shared buffers used by many entities (streams and connection),
and the only way to use the buffer ring model in this case is to have
each entity store its own array, and keep a shared counter on allocated
entries. But even with the default 32 buf and 100 streams per HTTP/2
connection, we're speaking about 32*101*32 bytes = 103424 bytes per H2
connection, just to store up to 32 shared buffers, spread randomly in
these tables. Some users might want to achieve much higher than default
rates over high speed links (e.g. 30-50 MB/s at 100ms), which is 3 to 5
MB storage per connection, hence 180 to 300 buffers. There it starts to
cost a lot, up to 1 MB per connection, just to store buffer indexes.
Instead this patch introduces a variant which we call a buffer list.
That's basically just a free list encoded in an array. Each cell
contains a buffer structure, a next index, and a few flags. The index
could be reduced to 16 bits if needed, in order to make room for a new
struct member. The design permits initializing a whole freelist at once
using memset(0).
The list pointer is stored at a single location (e.g. the connection)
and all users (the streams) will just have indexes referencing their
first and last assigned entries (head and tail). This means that with
a single table we can now have all our buffers shared between multiple
streams, irrelevant to the number of potential streams which would want
to use them. Now the 180 to 300 entries array only costs 7.2 to 12 kB,
or 80 times less.
Two large functions (bl_deinit() & bl_get()) were implemented in buf.c.
A basic doc was added to explain how it works.
Over time, some of the buffer management functions grew quite a bit,
and were still forced to remain inlined since all defined in buf.h.
Let's create buf.c and move the heaviest ones there. All those moved
here were above 200 bytes.
