Previously only one address was used by the listen directive handler even if
host name resolved to multiple addresses. Now a separate listening socket is
created for each address.
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.
The IPV6_V6ONLY macro is now checked only while parsing appropriate flag
and when using the macro.
The ipv6only field in listen structures is always initialized to 1,
even if not supported on a given platform. This is expected to prevent
a module compiled without IPV6_V6ONLY from accidentally creating dual
sockets if loaded into main binary with proper IPV6_V6ONLY support.
In this phase, head of a stream is read and analysed before proceeding to the
content phase. Amount of data read is controlled by the module implementing
the phase, but not more than defined by the "preread_buffer_size" directive.
The time spent on processing preread is controlled by the "preread_timeout"
directive.
The typical preread phase module will parse the beginning of a stream and set
variable that may be used by the content phase, for example to make routing
decision.
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.
There is no need to set "i" to 0, as it's expected to be 0 assuming
the bindings are properly sorted, and we already rely on this when
explicitly set hport->naddrs to 1. Remaining conditional code is
replaced with identical "hport->naddrs = i + 1".
Identical modifications are done in the mail and stream modules,
in the ngx_mail_optimize_servers() and ngx_stream_optimize_servers()
functions, respectively.
No functional changes.