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Change from level-triggered to edge-triggered epoll mode. More than halves CPU usage.
authorSteinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:49:54 +0000 (20:49 +0200)
committerSteinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:49:54 +0000 (20:49 +0200)
server.cpp
server.h

index 3e639cf7455a470d45072992cb7efd20eeaf30f9..c8d688996bfa5dcbc48870b98430c7d8d18e3813 100644 (file)
@@ -216,11 +216,11 @@ void Server::add_client_from_serialized(const ClientProto &client)
        // Start listening on data from this socket.
        epoll_event ev;
        if (client.state() == Client::READING_REQUEST) {
-               ev.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDHUP;
+               ev.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET | EPOLLRDHUP;
        } else {
                // If we don't have more data for this client, we'll be putting it into
                // the sleeping array again soon.
-               ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLRDHUP;
+               ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLET | EPOLLRDHUP;
        }
        ev.data.u64 = 0;  // Keep Valgrind happy.
        ev.data.fd = client.sock();
@@ -282,26 +282,32 @@ void Server::add_data(const string &stream_id, const char *data, size_t bytes)
        memcpy(stream->data + pos, data, bytes);
        wake_up_all_clients();
 }
-       
+
+// See the .h file for postconditions after this function.     
 void Server::process_client(Client *client)
 {
        switch (client->state) {
        case Client::READING_REQUEST: {
+read_request_again:
                // Try to read more of the request.
                char buf[1024];
                int ret;
                do {
                        ret = read(client->sock, buf, sizeof(buf));
                } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
+
+               if (ret == -1 && errno == EAGAIN) {
+                       // No more data right now. Nothing to do.
+                       // This is postcondition #2.
+                       return;
+               }
                if (ret == -1) {
                        perror("read");
                        close_client(client);
                        return;
                }
                if (ret == 0) {
-                       // No data? This really means that we were triggered for something else than
-                       // POLLIN (which suggests a logic error in epoll).
-                       fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: fd %d returned unexpectedly 0 bytes!\n", client->sock);
+                       // OK, the socket is closed.
                        close_client(client);
                        return;
                }
@@ -324,7 +330,8 @@ void Server::process_client(Client *client)
                               "\r\n\r\n", 4));
                if (ptr == NULL) {
                        // OK, we don't have the entire header yet. Fine; we'll get it later.
-                       return;
+                       // See if there's more data for us.
+                       goto read_request_again;
                }
 
                if (ptr != client->request.data() + client->request.size() - 4) {
@@ -339,17 +346,31 @@ void Server::process_client(Client *client)
                } else {
                        construct_error(client, error_code);
                }
-               break;
+
+               // We've changed states, so fall through.
+               assert(client->state == Client::SENDING_ERROR ||
+                      client->state == Client::SENDING_HEADER);
        }
        case Client::SENDING_ERROR:
        case Client::SENDING_HEADER: {
+sending_header_or_error_again:
                int ret;
                do {
                        ret = write(client->sock,
                                    client->header_or_error.data() + client->header_or_error_bytes_sent,
                                    client->header_or_error.size() - client->header_or_error_bytes_sent);
                } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
+
+               if (ret == -1 && errno == EAGAIN) {
+                       // We're out of socket space, so now we're at the “low edge” of epoll's
+                       // edge triggering. epoll will tell us when there is more room, so for now,
+                       // just return.
+                       // This is postcondition #4.
+                       return;
+               }
+
                if (ret == -1) {
+                       // Error! Postcondition #1.
                        perror("write");
                        close_client(client);
                        return;
@@ -359,22 +380,27 @@ void Server::process_client(Client *client)
                assert(client->header_or_error_bytes_sent <= client->header_or_error.size());
 
                if (client->header_or_error_bytes_sent < client->header_or_error.size()) {
-                       // We haven't sent all yet. Fine; we'll do that later.
-                       return;
+                       // We haven't sent all yet. Fine; go another round.
+                       goto sending_header_or_error_again;
                }
 
                // We're done sending the header or error! Clear it to release some memory.
                client->header_or_error.clear();
 
                if (client->state == Client::SENDING_ERROR) {
+                       // We're done sending the error, so now close.  
+                       // This is postcondition #1.
                        close_client(client);
-               } else {
-                       // Start sending from the end. In other words, we won't send any of the backlog,
-                       // but we'll start sending immediately as we get data.
-                       client->state = Client::SENDING_DATA;
-                       client->bytes_sent = find_stream(client->stream_id)->data_size;
+                       return;
                }
-               break;
+
+               // Start sending from the end. In other words, we won't send any of the backlog,
+               // but we'll start sending immediately as we get data.
+               // This is postcondition #3.
+               client->state = Client::SENDING_DATA;
+               client->bytes_sent = find_stream(client->stream_id)->data_size;
+               sleeping_clients.push_back(client);
+               return;
        }
        case Client::SENDING_DATA: {
                // See if there's some data we've lost. Ideally, we should drop to a block boundary,
@@ -411,7 +437,14 @@ void Server::process_client(Client *client)
                                            bytes_to_send);
                        } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
                }
+               if (ret == -1 && errno == EAGAIN) {
+                       // We're out of socket space, so return; epoll will wake us up
+                       // when there is more room.
+                       // This is postcondition #4.
+                       return;
+               }
                if (ret == -1) {
+                       // Error, close; postcondition #1.
                        perror("write/writev");
                        close_client(client);
                        return;
@@ -420,7 +453,11 @@ void Server::process_client(Client *client)
 
                if (client->bytes_sent == stream.data_size) {
                        // We don't have any more data for this client, so put it to sleep.
+                       // This is postcondition #3.
                        put_client_to_sleep(client);
+               } else {
+                       // XXX: Do we need to go another round here to explicitly
+                       // get the EAGAIN?
                }
                break;
        }
@@ -462,7 +499,7 @@ void Server::construct_header(Client *client)
        client->state = Client::SENDING_HEADER;
 
        epoll_event ev;
-       ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLRDHUP;
+       ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLET | EPOLLRDHUP;
        ev.data.u64 = 0;  // Keep Valgrind happy.
        ev.data.fd = client->sock;
 
@@ -483,7 +520,7 @@ void Server::construct_error(Client *client, int error_code)
        client->state = Client::SENDING_ERROR;
 
        epoll_event ev;
-       ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLRDHUP;
+       ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLET | EPOLLRDHUP;
        ev.data.u64 = 0;  // Keep Valgrind happy.
        ev.data.fd = client->sock;
 
@@ -501,8 +538,8 @@ void Server::close_client(Client *client)
        }
 
        // This client could be sleeping, so we'll need to fix that. (Argh, O(n).)
-       vector<int>::iterator new_end =
-               remove(sleeping_clients.begin(), sleeping_clients.end(), client->sock);
+       vector<Client *>::iterator new_end =
+               remove(sleeping_clients.begin(), sleeping_clients.end(), client);
        sleeping_clients.erase(new_end, sleeping_clients.end());
        
        // Bye-bye!
@@ -520,32 +557,16 @@ void Server::close_client(Client *client)
        
 void Server::put_client_to_sleep(Client *client)
 {
-       epoll_event ev;
-       ev.events = EPOLLRDHUP;
-       ev.data.u64 = 0;  // Keep Valgrind happy.
-       ev.data.fd = client->sock;
-
-       if (epoll_ctl(epoll_fd, EPOLL_CTL_MOD, client->sock, &ev) == -1) {
-               perror("epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_MOD)");
-               exit(1);
-       }
-
-       sleeping_clients.push_back(client->sock);
+       sleeping_clients.push_back(client);
 }
 
 void Server::wake_up_all_clients()
 {
-       for (unsigned i = 0; i < sleeping_clients.size(); ++i) {
-               epoll_event ev;
-               ev.events = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLRDHUP;
-               ev.data.u64 = 0;  // Keep Valgrind happy.
-               ev.data.fd = sleeping_clients[i];
-               if (epoll_ctl(epoll_fd, EPOLL_CTL_MOD, sleeping_clients[i], &ev) == -1) {
-                       perror("epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_MOD)");
-                       exit(1);
-               }
+       vector<Client *> to_process;
+       swap(sleeping_clients, to_process);
+       for (unsigned i = 0; i < to_process.size(); ++i) {
+               process_client(to_process[i]);
        }
-       sleeping_clients.clear();
 }
        
 Stream *Server::find_stream(const string &stream_id)
index cc1b78dd2a6a95da7fd7e4ec9819714c2170518c..24e2fcbac3a737a91211bed9eea590d9d1c1a86a 100644 (file)
--- a/server.h
+++ b/server.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ private:
        // Clients that are in SENDING_DATA, but that we don't listen on,
        // because we currently don't have any data for them.
        // See put_client_to_sleep() and wake_up_all_clients().
-       std::vector<int> sleeping_clients;
+       std::vector<Client *> sleeping_clients;
 
        // Recover the this pointer, and call do_work().
        static void *do_work_thunk(void *arg);
@@ -128,6 +128,19 @@ private:
        // The actual worker thread.
        void do_work();
 
+       // Process a client; read and write data as far as we can.
+       // After this call, one of these four is true:
+       //
+       //  1. The socket is closed, and the client deleted.
+       //  2. We are still waiting for more data from the client.
+       //  3. We've sent all the data we have to the client,
+       //     and put it in <sleeping_clients>.
+       //  4. The socket buffer is full (which means we still have
+       //     data outstanding).
+       //
+       // For #2, we listen for EPOLLIN events. For #3 and #4, we listen
+       // for EPOLLOUT in edge-triggered mode; it will never fire for #3,
+       // but it's cheaper than taking it in and out all the time.
        void process_client(Client *client);
 
        // Close a given client socket, and clean up after it.