This rips out the connection hashtable implementation along with
MAX_CLIENTS and replaces it with a dynamically allocated fds array
and lookup table along the same lines as the new extpoll implementation
from Edwin van den Oetelaar.
It detects the max number of file descriptors possible at context init
time and allocates accordingly; this can be externally controlled by
ulimit and the server run as a specific user to facilitate targeting
specific ulimit rules at it.
Many operations that translated between socket descriptors and struct
websocket or pollfd objects have had iteration removed by this patch
and under load will be a lot faster.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
This leverages the refactor patches to introduce the ability to
disable building any client side code in the library or the client
side test apps.
This will be a considerable size saving for embedded server-only
case.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
From an idea by Edwin van den Oetelaar <oetelaar.automatisering@gmail.com>
When testing libwebsockets with ab, Edwin found an unexpected bump in
the distribution of latencies, some connections were held back almost
the whole test duration.
http://ml.libwebsockets.org/pipermail/libwebsockets/2013-January/000006.html
Studying the problem revealed that when there are mass pending connections
amongst many active connections, we do not service the listen socket often
enough to clear the backlog, some seem to get stale violating FIFO ordering.
This patch introduces listen socket service "piggybacking", where every n
normal socket service actions we also check the listen socket and deal with
pending connections there.
Normally, it checks the listen socket gratuitously every 10 normal socket
services. However, if it finds something waiting, it forces a check on the
next normal socket service too by keeping stats on how often something was
waiting. If the probability of something waiting each time becomes high,
it will allow up to two waiting connections to be serviced for each normal
socket service.
In that way it has low burden in the normal case, but rapidly adapts by
detecting mass connection loads as found in ab.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
Default remains at SOMAXCONN, you can force it at configure time
along these lines
./configure CFLAGS="-DLWS_SOMAXCONN=16384"
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
Previously we sat and looped to dump a file over http protocol.
Actually that's a source of blocking to the other sockets being serviced.
This patch breaks up the file service into a roundtrip around the poll()
loop for each 512-byte packet. It doesn't make much difference if the
server is idle, but if it's busy it makes sure everyone else is getting
service while the file is sent.
It doesn't try to optimize multiple users of the file or to keep the
descriptor open, the point of this patch is to establish the breaking up
of the file send action into the poll loop.
On the user side, there are two differences:
- context is now needed in the first argument to libwebsockets_serve_http_file()
that's not too bad since we provide context in the callback.
- file send is now asynchronous to the user code, you get a new callback coming
in protocol 0 when it's done, LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP_FILE_COMPLETION
libwebsockets-test-server is updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
"4b0e01f Retry SSL_connect when SSL_get_error requests it. " from David Galeano
noticed the problem that client connect may receive SSL_ERROR_WANT_* from
SSL_connect, which is basically WOULDBLOCK. That patch tried to deal with it
by blocking in a while(1) until the condition went away.
That's problematic because of it blocks service of anything else (including
the host application sockets in the external socket poll sharing case) for
up to 5s controlled by conditions at one client.
After fiddling with and researching this, the actual problem with the code is
we are not getting the SSL layer error correctly, it is not contained in the
code returned from the Connect api directly.
I was unable to get a renegotiation forced on my modern SSL libs, it complained
about protocol error are reopened the connection instead. So I think the stuff
found in the docs and the web about the SSL_ERROR_WANT_ is probably not something
we will see in reality (if we check the right error code...)
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
I run a web socket server that requires clients to present a certificate.
context_ssl_ = libwebsocket_create_context(wssPort_, wssIpAddr_.c_str(), protocols_ssl,
libwebsocket_internal_extensions,
cert_path.c_str(), key_path.c_str(), -1, -1,
LWS_SERVER_OPTION_REQUIRE_VALID_OPENSSL_CLIENT_CERT);
I am getting a crash in the OpenSSL_verify_callback().
The SSL_get_ex_data() call is returning NULL
I could not find a call to SSL_set_ex_data() for server mode operation.
Has anyone seen this crash in the newer versions?
Signed-off-by: Larry Hayes <larry.hayes@prodeasystems.com>
This patch allows control of the main compiletime constants in libwebsockets
from the configure commandline.
README is updated with documentation on what's available, how to set them
and the defaults.
The constants are logged with "info" severity (not visible by default) at
context create time.
The zlib constant previously exposed like this is moved to private-libwebsockets.h
so it can be printed along with the rest.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
David found that uclibc did not provide this slightly esoteric api
and provided one from BSD that can be built by the library internally.
AG: Made contingent on configure option --enable-builtin-getifaddrs
Signed-off-by: David <cymerio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
- multiple debug context calls lwsl_ err, warn, debug, parser, ext, client
- api added to set which contexts output to stderr using a bitfield log_level
- --disable-debug on configure removes all code that is not err or warn severity
- err and warn contexts always output to stderr unless disabled by log_level
- err and warn enabled by default in log_level
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Shay noticed we're no longer initializing the initial lookup of
server canonical hostname correctly
Reported-by: Shay Zuker <shay@boxee.tv>
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org>
When creating a context with NULL extensions list,
a segmentation fault was yelled when trying to
destroy the context. This checks if the
extension list is NULL before go through the list.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Roberto Urio <paulourio@gmail.com>
I was under the impression extensions could be null, so heres a patch to fix this error in libwebsockets. Cheers!
Signed-off-by: Andrew Chambers <andrewchamberss@gmail.com>
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