Pretty much everything assumes strings to be utf-8, but crypto
traditionally used binary strings, so we need to keep the default
that way until most users get off of that pattern.
If there is an encoding, and we do 'stream.push(chunk, enc)', and the
encoding argument matches the stated encoding, then we're converting from
a string, to a buffer, and then back to a string. Of course, this is a
completely pointless bit of work, so it's best to avoid it when we know
that we can do so safely.
Empirical evidence suggests that OS-level load balancing (that is,
having multiple processes listen on a socket and have the operating
system wake up one when a connection comes in) produces skewed load
distributions on Linux, Solaris and possibly other operating systems.
The observed behavior is that a fraction of the listening processes
receive the majority of the connections. From the perspective of the
operating system, that somewhat makes sense: a task switch is expensive,
to be avoided whenever possible. That's why the operating system likes
to give preferential treatment to a few processes, because it reduces
the number of switches.
However, that rather subverts the purpose of the cluster module, which
is to distribute the load as evenly as possible. That's why this commit
adds (and defaults to) round-robin support, meaning that the master
process accepts connections and distributes them to the workers in a
round-robin fashion, effectively bypassing the operating system.
Round-robin is currently disabled on Windows due to how IOCP is wired
up. It works and you can select it manually but it probably results in
a heavy performance hit.
Fixes#4435.
Commit 9352c19 ("child_process: don't emit same handle twice") trades
one bug for another.
Before said commit, a handle was sometimes delivered with messages it
didn't belong to.
The bug fix introduced another bug that needs some explaining. On UNIX
systems, handles are basically file descriptors that are passed around
with the sendmsg() and recvmsg() system calls, using auxiliary data
(SCM_RIGHTS) as the transport.
node.js and libuv depend on the fact that none of the supported systems
ever emit more than one SCM_RIGHTS message from a recvmsg() syscall.
That assumption is something we should probably address someday for the
sake of portability but that's a separate discussion.
So, SCM_RIGHTS messages are never coalesced. SCM_RIGHTS and normal
messages however _are_ coalesced. That is, recvmsg() might return this:
recvmsg(); // { "message-with-fd", "message", "message" }
The operating system implicitly breaks pending messages along
SCM_RIGHTS boundaries. Most Unices break before such messages but Linux
also breaks _after_ them. When the sender looks like this:
sendmsg("message");
sendmsg("message-with-fd");
sendmsg("message");
Then on most Unices the receiver sees messages arriving like this:
recvmsg(); // { "message" }
recvmsg(); // { "message-with-fd", "message" }
The bug fix in commit 9352c19 assumes this behavior. On Linux however,
those messages can also come in like this:
recvmsg(); // { "message", "message-with-fd" }
recvmsg(); // { "message" }
In other words, it's incorrect to assume that the file descriptor is
always attached to the first message. This commit makes node wise up.
Fixes#5330.
This adds proper support for the following situation:
w.cork();
w.write(...);
w.cork();
w.write(...);
w.uncork();
w.write(...);
w.uncork();
This is relevant when you have a function (as we do in HTTP) that wants
to use cork, but in some cases, want to have a cork/uncork *around*
that function, without losing the benefits of writev.
In synchronous Writable streams (where the _write cb is called on the
current tick), the 'finish' event (and thus the end() callback) can in
some cases be called before all the write() callbacks are called.
Use a counter, and have stream.Transform rely on the 'prefinish' event
instead of the 'finish' event.
This has zero effect on most streams, but it corrects an edge case and
makes it perform more deterministically, which is a Good Thing.
uv_async_t handles for dispatching of debug messages and
emitting NODE_DEBUG_ENABLED used to be initialized every time
node::EnableDebug() was called, which happened every time
user sends a SIGUSR1.
Now they are initialized only once from node::Init() during
application start.
Implement support for debugging cluster workers. Each worker process
is assigned a new debug port in an increasing sequence.
I.e. when master process uses port 5858, then worker 1 uses port 5859,
worker 2 uses port 5860, and so on.
Introduce new command-line parameter '--debug-port=' which sets debug_port
but does not start debugger. This option works for all node processes, it
is not specific to cluster workers.
Fixesjoyent/node#5318.
Preserve default install prefix seen in process.config, but use DESTDIR
for installing to deliniate 32/64 versions, avoid conflicts with PREFIX
settings in config.mk
Preserve default install prefix seen in process.config, but use DESTDIR
for installing to deliniate 32/64 versions, avoid conflicts with PREFIX
settings in config.mk
isaacs
Benoit Vallée
Ben Noordhuis
Bert Belder
Nick Sullivan
Timothy J Fontaine
Robert Kowalski
Ben Kelly
Miroslav Bajtoš
Daniel Moore
Brian White
Trevor Norris
Kevin Locke