Hijackers were functions designed to inject data into channels in the
distant past. They became unused around 1.3.16, and since there has
not been any user of this mechanism to date, it's uncertain whether
the mechanism still works (and it's not really useful anymore). So
better remove it as well as the pointer it uses in the channel struct.
Most calls to channel_forward() are performed with short byte counts and
are already optimized in channel_forward() taking just a few instructions.
Thus it's a waste of CPU cycles to call a function for this, let's just
inline the short byte count case and fall back to the common one for
remaining situations.
Doing so has increased the chunked encoding parser's performance by 12% !
With this commit, we now separate the channel from the buffer. This will
allow us to replace buffers on the fly without touching the channel. Since
nobody is supposed to keep a reference to a buffer anymore, doing so is not
a problem and will also permit some copy-less data manipulation.
Interestingly, these changes have shown a 2% performance increase on some
workloads, probably due to a better cache placement of data.
This is a massive rename of most functions which should make use of the
word "channel" instead of the word "buffer" in their names.
In concerns the following ones (new names) :
unsigned long long channel_forward(struct channel *buf, unsigned long long bytes);
static inline void channel_init(struct channel *buf)
static inline int channel_input_closed(struct channel *buf)
static inline int channel_output_closed(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_check_timeouts(struct channel *b)
static inline void channel_erase(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_shutr_now(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_shutw_now(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_abort(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_stop_hijacker(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_auto_connect(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_dont_connect(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_auto_close(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_dont_close(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_auto_read(struct channel *buf)
static inline void channel_dont_read(struct channel *buf)
unsigned long long channel_forward(struct channel *buf, unsigned long long bytes)
Some functions provided by channel.[ch] have kept their "buffer" name because
they are really designed to act on the buffer according to some information
gathered from the channel. They have been moved together to the same place in
the file for better readability but they were not changed at all.
The "buffer" memory pool was also renamed "channel".
Get rid of these confusing BF_* flags. Now channel naming should clearly
be used everywhere appropriate.
No code was changed, only a renaming was performed. The comments about
channel operations was updated.
These functions do not depend on the channel flags anymore thus they're
much better suited to be used on plain buffers. Move them from channel
to buffer.
This is similar to the recent removal of BF_OUT_EMPTY. This flag was very
problematic because it relies on permanently changing information such as the
to_forward value, so it had to be updated upon every change to the buffers.
Previous patch already got rid of its users.
One part of the change is sensible : the flag was also part of BF_MASK_STATIC,
which is used by process_session() to rescan all analysers in case the flag's
status changes. At first glance, none of the analysers seems to change its
mind base on this flag when it is subject to change, so it seems fine not to
add variation checks here. Otherwise it's possible that checking the buffer's
input and output is more reliable than checking the flag's replacement.
This flag was very problematic because it was composite in that both changes
to the pipe or to the buffer had to cause this flag to be updated, which is
not always simple (eg: there may not even be a channel attached to a buffer
at all).
There were not that many users of this flags, mostly setters. So the flag got
replaced with a macro which reports whether the channel is empty or not, by
checking both the pipe and the buffer.
One part of the change is sensible : the flag was also part of BF_MASK_STATIC,
which is used by process_session() to rescan all analysers in case the flag's
status changes. At first glance, none of the analysers seems to change its
mind base on this flag when it is subject to change, so it seems fine not to
add variation checks here. Otherwise it's possible that checking the buffer's
output size is more useful than checking the flag's replacement.
