Multiple pipelines and limiting the number of connections.
authorLinus Nielsen Feltzing <linus@haxx.se>
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:50:45 +0000 (11:50 +0100)
committerLinus Nielsen Feltzing <linus@haxx.se>
Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:55:24 +0000 (23:55 +0100)
commit0f147887b0d592d5fa72215282e84103eb165ad7
tree4ad5bc8185f3f8df0eed54ee45afd26d692b44a0
parent911b2d3f677eb1538d8469d43df5780e8b7c7abc
Multiple pipelines and limiting the number of connections.

Introducing a number of options to the multi interface that
allows for multiple pipelines to the same host, in order to
optimize the balance between the penalty for opening new
connections and the potential pipelining latency.

Two new options for limiting the number of connections:

CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS - Limits the number of running connections
to the same host. When adding a handle that exceeds this limit,
that handle will be put in a pending state until another handle is
finished, so we can reuse the connection.

CURLMOPT_MAX_TOTAL_CONNECTIONS - Limits the number of connections in total.
When adding a handle that exceeds this limit,
that handle will be put in a pending state until another handle is
finished. The free connection will then be reused, if possible, or
closed if the pending handle can't reuse it.

Several new options for pipelining:

CURLMOPT_MAX_PIPELINE_LENGTH - Limits the pipeling length. If a
pipeline is "full" when a connection is to be reused, a new connection
will be opened if the CURLMOPT_MAX_xxx_CONNECTIONS limits allow it.
If not, the handle will be put in a pending state until a connection is
ready (either free or a pipe got shorter).

CURLMOPT_CONTENT_LENGTH_PENALTY_SIZE - A pipelined connection will not
be reused if it is currently processing a transfer with a content
length that is larger than this.

CURLMOPT_CHUNK_LENGTH_PENALTY_SIZE - A pipelined connection will not
be reused if it is currently processing a chunk larger than this.

CURLMOPT_PIPELINING_SITE_BL - A blacklist of hosts that don't allow
pipelining.

CURLMOPT_PIPELINING_SERVER_BL - A blacklist of server types that don't allow
pipelining.

See the curl_multi_setopt() man page for details.
37 files changed:
docs/libcurl/curl_multi_setopt.3
docs/libcurl/libcurl-errors.3
docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
include/curl/curl.h
include/curl/multi.h
lib/Makefile.inc
lib/README.pipelining
lib/hash.h
lib/http.c
lib/multi.c
lib/multihandle.h
lib/multiif.h
lib/pipeline.c [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/pipeline.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/sendf.c
lib/strerror.c
lib/transfer.c
lib/url.c
lib/urldata.h
tests/README
tests/data/Makefile.am
tests/data/test1900 [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/data/test1901 [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/data/test1902 [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/data/test1903 [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/data/test2033 [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/data/test530
tests/data/test536
tests/data/test584
tests/http_pipe.py [new file with mode: 0755]
tests/libtest/.gitignore
tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
tests/libtest/lib1900.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tests/libtest/lib530.c
tests/libtest/libntlmconnect.c
tests/runtests.pl
tests/serverhelp.pm