MEDIUM: connection: make the subscribe() call able to wakeup if ready
There's currently an internal API limitation at the connection layer
regarding conn_subscribe(). We must not subscribe if we haven't yet
met EAGAIN or such a condition, so we sometimes force ourselves to read
in order to meet this condition and being allowed to call subscribe.
But reading cannot always be done (e.g. at the end of a loop where we
cannot afford to retrieve new data and start again) so we instead
perform a tasklet_wakeup() of the requester's io_cb. This is what is
done in mux_h1 for example. The problem with this is that it forces
a new receive when we're not necessarily certain we need one. And if
the FD is not ready and was already being polled, it's a useless
wakeup.
The current patch improves the connection-level subscribe() so that
it really manipulates the polling if the FD is marked not-ready, but
instead schedules the argument tasklet for a wakeup if the FD is
ready. This guarantees we'll wake this tasklet up in any case once the
FD is ready, either immediately or after polling.
By doing so, a test on pure close mode shows we cut in half the number
of epoll_ctl() calls and almost eliminate failed recvfrom():
$ ./h1load -n 100000 -r 1 -t 4 -c 1000 -T 20 -F 127.0.0.1:8001/?s=1k/t=20
before:
399464 epoll_ctl 1
200007 recvfrom 1
200000 sendto 1
100000 recvfrom -1
7508 epoll_wait 1
after:
205739 epoll_ctl 1
200000 sendto 1
200000 recvfrom 1
6084 epoll_wait 1
2651 recvfrom -1
On keep-alive there is no change however.
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