the type and state patch tries hard not to form pipelines behind resources that
could become head of line blockers. But of course that requires the ability to
predict the future, and won't be perfect.
This patch reacts to a transaction that has a large response body (defined by
either a large content-length header or actually reading a large number of
chunked bytes) by cancelling any transactions that have been pipelined down the
same connection and rescheduling them elsewhere. It also changes the type of
the connection to "solo", which prevents new transactions from being pipelined
onto this one and provides class-specific negative feedback to the pipeline
manager so that near-future requests to the same host of the same type (e.g.
general) will not be pipelined but other types (e.g. img or js/css) can still
do that.
Content-Length is ideal, because it allows us to identify the problem so early.
But even actually reading the document for a fairly long time gives it a fairly
high probability of not ending soon. (i.e. long document sizes are spread over
a larger range than small ones. duh.)
The pref network.http.pipelining.maxsize controls the threshold. I set the
default at 300KB, which is roughly the bandwidth delay product of a 2mbit 120ms
rtt connection and 1 rtt is mostly what you are giving up by canceling it on
one connection and sending it on another. (modulo maybe needing a handshake).
When a connection that involves a pipelined transaction has been stalled (i.e.
idle with an open transaction, not an idle persistent connection) for a
second move any transactions that are pipelined after the current one onto
different connections (and implicitly close this connection when done with the
current transaction).
when it has been stalled for 10 seconds (pref configurable), cancel the current
transaction itself too - depending on its state it can hopefully be restarted
on a clean connection.
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : 58377c9eab2f8a81b7a2d3b9a5f12e1134da4031
the type and state patch tries hard not to form pipelines behind resources that
could become head of line blockers. But of course that requires the ability to
predict the future, and won't be perfect.
This patch reacts to a transaction that has a large response body (defined by
either a large content-length header or actually reading a large number of
chunked bytes) by cancelling any transactions that have been pipelined down the
same connection and rescheduling them elsewhere. It also changes the type of
the connection to "solo", which prevents new transactions from being pipelined
onto this one and provides class-specific negative feedback to the pipeline
manager so that near-future requests to the same host of the same type (e.g.
general) will not be pipelined but other types (e.g. img or js/css) can still
do that.
Content-Length is ideal, because it allows us to identify the problem so early.
But even actually reading the document for a fairly long time gives it a fairly
high probability of not ending soon. (i.e. long document sizes are spread over
a larger range than small ones. duh.)
The pref network.http.pipelining.maxsize controls the threshold. I set the
default at 300KB, which is roughly the bandwidth delay product of a 2mbit 120ms
rtt connection and 1 rtt is mostly what you are giving up by canceling it on
one connection and sending it on another. (modulo maybe needing a handshake).
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : ebc44f8dfc3fa7bcee613ff3b74269d908ceac51
Patrick McManus
Michal Novotny
Henri Sivonen
Jim Mathies
julian.reschke@gmx.de
Matt Brubeck
Gervase Markham
Phil Ringnalda
Chris Jones
Jason Duell
John Daggett
Derrick Rice
Daniel Holbert
Justin Lebar
Kai Engert