Aligning the statistics object indices to cache line size reduces the CPU
overhead of gathering the statistics. This allows the statistics to more
accurately measure the polling system without the measurement affecting
the outcome.
Router and filter instances cannot be destroyed before all worker
threads have exited. Otherwise there is a risk that data gets deleted
while someone might still be accessing it. Further, since all router
and filter instances are created by the main-thread it is better that
they are deleted by that thread as well (and not by whichever thread
happens to execute service_shutdown()). That will reduce the risk that
some unknown assumptions are violated.
The code prevented scaling by imposing global spinlocks for the DCBs and
SESSIONs. Removing this list means that a thread-local list must be taken
into use to replace it.
Because each thread has their own epoll file descriptor and only one
thread can process a DCB, it makes sense to move to a per thread zombie
queue. This removes one of the last restrictions on scalability.
The service header in include/maxscale/ contains the public part of the
service API. These functions can be safely used by the modules.
The internal header located in service/core/maxscale/ is used by the core
to initialize MaxScale at startup or to provide other services in a more
controlled way (the config_runtime, for example).
When C and C++ are mixed in a project, main() should be compiled
as C++ to ensure that all C++ static initializations are performed
properly. That may not be strictly true anymore, depending on the
used compiler and environment, but better to do that to be on the
safe side.
