There should be at least one worker connection for each listening socket,
plus an additional connection for channel between worker and master,
or starting worker processes will fail.
Previously, listenings sockets were not cloned if the worker_processes
directive was specified after "listen ... reuseport".
This also simplifies upcoming configuration check on the number
of worker connections, as it needs to know the number of listening
sockets before cloning.
This flag appeared in Linux 4.5 and is useful for avoiding thundering herd
problem.
The current Linux kernel implementation walks the list of exclusive waiters,
and queues an event to each epfd, until it finds the first waiter that has
threads blocked on it via epoll_wait().
Now it is believed that the accept mutex brings more harm than benefits.
Especially in various benchmarks it often results in situation where only
one worker grabs all connections.
Fixes various aspects of --test-build-devpoll, --test-build-eventport, and
--test-build-epoll.
In particular, if --test-build-devpoll was used on Linux, then "devpoll"
event method would be preferred over "epoll". Also, wrong definitions of
event macros were chosen.
As setitimer() isn't available on Windows, time wasn't updated at all
if timer_resolution was used with the select event method. Fix is
to ignore timer_resolution in such cases.
When configured, an individual listen socket on a given address is
created for each worker process. This allows to reduce in-kernel lock
contention on configurations with high accept rates, resulting in better
performance. As of now it works on Linux and DragonFly BSD.
Note that on Linux incoming connection requests are currently tied up
to a specific listen socket, and if some sockets are closed, connection
requests will be reset, see https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/. With
nginx, this may happen if the number of worker processes is reduced.
There is no such problem on DragonFly BSD.
Based on previous work by Sepherosa Ziehau and Yingqi Lu.
In theory, this can provide a bit better distribution of latencies.
Also it simplifies the code, since ngx_queue_t is now used instead
of custom implementation.
Use of accept mutex on win32 may result in a deadlock if there are multiple
worker_processes configured and the mutex is grabbed by a process which
can't accept connections.
And corresponding variable $connections_waiting was added.
Previously, waiting connections were counted as the difference between
active connections and the sum of reading and writing connections.
That made it impossible to count more than one request in one connection
as reading or writing (as is the case for SPDY).
Also, we no longer count connections in handshake state as waiting.
We don't have strong reason to inform about any errors
reported by close() call here, and there are no other things
to do with its return value.
Prodded by Coverity.
Instead of checking if there is events{} section present in configuration
in init_module handler we now do the same in init_conf handler. This
allows master process to detect incorrect configuration early and
reject it.
It is currently used from master process on abnormal worker termination to
unlock accept mutex (unlocking of accept mutex was broken in 1.0.2). It is
expected to be used in the future to unlock other mutexes as well.
Shared mutex code was rewritten to make this possible in a safe way, i.e.
with a check if lock was actually held by the exited process. We again use
pid to lock mutex, and use separate atomic variable for a count of processes
waiting in sem_wait().
