Events: available bytes calculation via ioctl(FIONREAD).

This makes it possible to avoid looping for a long time while working
with a fast enough peer when data are added to the socket buffer faster
than we are able to read and process them (ticket #1431).  This is
basically what we already do on FreeBSD with kqueue, where information
about the number of bytes in the socket buffer is returned by
the kevent() call.

With other event methods rev->available is now set to -1 when the socket
is ready for reading.  Later in ngx_recv() and ngx_recv_chain(), if
full buffer is received, real number of bytes in the socket buffer is
retrieved using ioctl(FIONREAD).  Reading more than this number of bytes
ensures that even with edge-triggered event methods the event will be
triggered again, so it is safe to stop processing of the socket and
switch to other connections.

Using ioctl(FIONREAD) only after reading a full buffer is an optimization.
With this approach we only call ioctl(FIONREAD) when there are at least
two recv()/readv() calls.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event.h b/src/event/ngx_event.h
index bb77c4ae6..97f9673c9 100644
--- a/src/event/ngx_event.h
+++ b/src/event/ngx_event.h
@@ -91,21 +91,14 @@ struct ngx_event_s {
      *   write:      available space in buffer when event is ready
      *               or lowat when event is set with NGX_LOWAT_EVENT flag
      *
-     * epoll with EPOLLRDHUP:
-     *   accept:     1 if accept many, 0 otherwise
-     *   read:       1 if there can be data to read, 0 otherwise
-     *
      * iocp: TODO
      *
      * otherwise:
      *   accept:     1 if accept many, 0 otherwise
+     *   read:       bytes to read when event is ready, -1 if not known
      */
 
-#if (NGX_HAVE_KQUEUE) || (NGX_HAVE_IOCP)
     int              available;
-#else
-    unsigned         available:1;
-#endif
 
     ngx_event_handler_pt  handler;