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From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] wwwstatic: wire up buffer bypass for -httpd
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:43:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200124094352.19437-5-e@yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200124094352.19437-1-e@yhbt.net>

This prevents public-inbox-httpd from buffering ->getline
results from a static file into another temporary file when
writing to slow clients.  Instead we inject the static file
ref with offsets and length directly into the {wbuf} queue.

It took me a while to decide to go this route, some
rejected ideas:

1. Using Plack::Util::set_io_path and having PublicInbox::HTTP
   serve the result directly.  This is compatible with what
   some other PSGI servers do using sendfile.  However, neither
   Starman or Twiggy currently use sendfile for partial responses.

2. Parsing the Content-Range response header for offsets and
   lengths to use with set_io_path for partial responses.

These rejected ideas required increasing the complexity of HTTP
response writing in PublicInbox::HTTP in the common, non-static
file cases.  Instead, we made minor changes to the colder write
buffering path of PublicInbox::DS and leave the hot paths
untouched.

We still support generic PSGI servers via ->getline.  However,
since we don't know the characteristics of other PSGI servers,
we no longer do a 64K initial read in an attempt to negotiate a
larger TCP window.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwStatic.pm | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStatic.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStatic.pm
index e1f536f3..174f4752 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStatic.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStatic.pm
@@ -51,7 +51,24 @@ sub r ($;$) {
 	  [ $msg ] ]
 }
 
-sub prepare_range {
+sub getline_response ($$$$$) {
+	my ($env, $in, $off, $len, $path) = @_;
+	my $r = bless {}, __PACKAGE__;
+	if ($env->{'pi-httpd.async'}) { # public-inbox-httpd-only mode
+		$env->{'psgix.no-compress'} = 1; # do not chunk response
+		%$r = ( bypass => [$in, $off, $len, $env->{'psgix.io'}] );
+	} else {
+		%$r = ( in => $in, off => $off, len => $len, path => $path );
+	}
+	$r;
+}
+
+sub getline_generic ($$$$) {
+	my ($in, $off, $len, $p) = @_;
+	bless { in => $in, off => $off, len => $len, path => $p }, __PACKAGE__;
+}
+
+sub setup_range {
 	my ($env, $in, $h, $beg, $end, $size) = @_;
 	my $code = 200;
 	my $len = $size;
@@ -81,9 +98,6 @@ sub prepare_range {
 		if ($len <= 0) {
 			$code = 416;
 		} else {
-			if ($in) {
-				sysseek($in, $beg, SEEK_SET) or return r(500);
-			}
 			push @$h, qw(Accept-Ranges bytes Content-Range);
 			push @$h, "bytes $beg-$end/$size";
 
@@ -95,7 +109,7 @@ sub prepare_range {
 		push @$h, 'Content-Range', "bytes */$size";
 		return [ 416, $h, [] ];
 	}
-	($code, $len);
+	($code, $beg, $len);
 }
 
 # returns a PSGI arrayref response iff .gz and non-.gz mtimes match
@@ -131,6 +145,7 @@ sub response ($$$;$) {
 			return r(500);
 		}
 		return r(404) unless -f $in;
+		binmode $in, ':unix'; # reduce syscalls for read() >8192 bytes
 	}
 	my $size = -s _; # bare "_" reuses "struct stat" from "-f" above
 	my $mtime = time2str((stat(_))[9]);
@@ -142,30 +157,37 @@ sub response ($$$;$) {
 	my $len = $size;
 	my $code = 200;
 	push @$h, 'Content-Type', $type;
+	my $off = 0;
 	if (($env->{HTTP_RANGE} || '') =~ /\bbytes=([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)\z/) {
-		($code, $len) = prepare_range($env, $in, $h, $1, $2, $size);
+		($code, $off, $len) = setup_range($env, $in, $h, $1, $2, $size);
 		return $code if ref($code);
 	}
 	push @$h, 'Content-Length', $len, 'Last-Modified', $mtime;
-	my $body = $in ? bless {
-		initial_rd => 65536,
-		len => $len,
-		in => $in,
-		path => $path,
-		env => $env,
-	}, __PACKAGE__ : [];
-	[ $code, $h, $body ];
+	[ $code, $h, $in ? getline_response($env, $in, $off, $len, $path) : [] ]
 }
 
 # called by PSGI servers on each response chunk:
 sub getline {
 	my ($self) = @_;
+
+	# avoid buffering, by becoming the buffer! (public-inbox-httpd)
+	if (my $tmpio = delete $self->{bypass}) {
+		my $http = pop @$tmpio; # PublicInbox::HTTP
+		push @{$http->{wbuf}}, $tmpio; # [ $in, $off, $len ]
+		$http->flush_write;
+		return; # undef, EOF
+	}
+
+	# generic PSGI runs this:
 	my $len = $self->{len} or return; # undef, tells server we're done
-	my $n = delete($self->{initial_rd}) // 8192;
+	my $n = 8192;
 	$n = $len if $len < $n;
-	my $r = sysread($self->{in}, my $buf, $n);
+	seek($self->{in}, $self->{off}, SEEK_SET) or
+			die "seek ($self->{path}): $!";
+	my $r = read($self->{in}, my $buf, $n);
 	if (defined $r && $r > 0) { # success!
 		$self->{len} = $len - $r;
+		$self->{off} += $r;
 		return $buf;
 	}
 	my $m = defined $r ? "EOF with $len bytes left" : "read error: $!";

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-24  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-24  9:43 [PATCH 0/4] -httpd static file improvements Eric Wong
2020-01-24  9:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] http: eliminate short-lived cyclic ref for psgix.io Eric Wong
2020-01-24  9:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] wwwstatic: offload error handling to PSGI server Eric Wong
2020-01-24  9:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] ds: tmpio: store offsets per-buffer Eric Wong
2020-01-24 19:07   ` Eric Wong
2020-01-24  9:43 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2020-01-25 19:27   ` [PATCH 4/4] wwwstatic: wire up buffer bypass for -httpd Eric Wong
2020-01-25 19:34   ` Eric Wong

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