The function allocated a constant-sized chunk of memory for all messages
which was excessive as well as potentially dangerous when used with large
strings.
If a DCB was closed and a hangup event was sent to it via
dcb_hangup_foreach shortly after it was closed, the DCB would still
receive it even if it was closed. To prevent this, events must only be
delivered to DCBs if they haven't been closed.
There is a race condition between the addition of the DCB into epoll and
the execution of the event that initiates the protocol pointer for the DCB
and sends the handshake to the client. If a hangup event would occur
before the handshake would be sent, it would be possible that the DCB
would get freed before the code that sends the handshake is executed.
By picking the worker who owns the DCB before the DCB is placed into the
owner's epoll instance, we make sure no events arrive on the DCB while the
control is transferred from the accepting worker to the owning
worker.
When poll_add_dcb was called for a DCB that once was polling system but
was subsequently removed, the DCB would appear twice in the worker's list
of DCBs. This caused a hang when the DCB was the last one in the worker's
list and dcb_foreach_local would be called.
To prevent the aforementioned problem, the DCBs are now added and removed
directly to and from the workers instead of indirectly via poll_add_dcb
and poll_remove_dcb.
Most of the ones still remaining outside are special cases.
Also, removed locking from status manipulation functions as it
has not been required for quite some time.
The error flag was set before the function was called which caused the
function to never be used. As the core should handle the filtering of
multiple errors on the same DCB, the protocol modules should not check it.
When doing a loop over each DCB, don't process DCBs without sessions. For
now this is correct behavior as only DCBs in the persistent pool have no
session.
Allocating the session before a DCB guarantees that at no point will a DCB
have a null session. This further clarifies the concept of the session and
also allows the listener reference to be moved there.
Ideally, the session itself would allocate and assign the client DCB but
since the Listener is the only one who does it, it's acceptable for now.
As each connection now immediately gets a session the dummy session is no
longer required. The next step would be to combine parts of the session
and the client DCB into one entity. This would prevent the possibility of
a client DCB with no associated session. Backend DCBs are different as
they can move from one session to another when the persistent connection
pool is in use.
More of the DCB initialization is now done in the DCB constructor. This
makes the creation of new DCBs simpler but it can be even simpler. By
passing the file descriptor that the DCB should use into the constructor
almost all of the initialization would be done inside it.
Also removed the unused path member variable.
Moved the code into listener.cc as it's the only place where it is
used. Placed the DCB callback assignment into the DCB constructor as it
depended on static functions that were in dcb.cc.
Replaced the DCB with a single file descriptor that the listener listens
on and which is added to all of the workers. The Listener also extends the
MXB_POLL_DATA which allows it to handle epoll events.
Moved the code that creates the listening socket into listener.cc where it
belongs and did a minor cleanup of it.
By doing the actual accepting of the new DCB in the core, the protocol
modules can only do the actual protocol level work. This removes some of
the redundant code that was in the protocol modules.
By storing the reference in the DCB, the two-way dependency between the
listeners and services is severed. Now the services have no direct link to
listeners and after the destruction of a listener it will be freed once
all connections through it have closed.
Due to the fact that a listener itself has a DCB that must point to a
valid listener, a self-reference is stored in the listener DCB. This is
extremely confusing and is only here to keep the code functional until the
DCB part of the listener can be factored out.
Allocating DCB with new allows the use of C++ objects in the DCB
struct. Also the explicit poll field can be replaced by inheriting from
MXB_POLL_DATA.
Modified the functions to use a listener instead of a DCB in the accepting
process. This removes some of the dependenices that the listeners have on
the DCB system.
By loading the entry points required by a DCB when the Listener is
created, the extra cost of finding the module is removed. It also
simplifies DCB creation by removing the possibility of all failures to
load modules at DCB creation time.
The value would otherwise be assigned outside of it and in some cases not
at all. Now all DCBs (apart from internal ones) have a valid SERVICE
pointer.
The SERV_LISTENER pointer should not be in the DCBs but in the
session. This way the listener is an attribute of a session instead of a
connection. If this is implemented, the authenticator data can be more
easily shared.
