Continuing the effort of removing protocol specific calls from the
core libraries: let the command.c code call commandError() based on
PlaylistInfo's return value.
The playlist library shouldn't talk to the client if possible.
Introduce the "enum playlist_result" type which the caller
(i.e. command.c) may use to generate an error message.
Client's input values should be validated by the command
implementation, and the core libraries shouldn't talk to the client
directly if possible. Thus, setPlaylistRepeatStatus() and
setPlaylistRandomStatus() don't get the file descriptor, and cannot
fail (return void).
The function valid_playlist_name() checks the name, but it insists on
reporting an eventual error to the client. The new function
is_valid_playlist_name() is more generic: it just returns a boolean,
and does not care what the caller will use it for. The old function
valid_playlist_name() will be removed later.
Currently, when the tag cache is being serialized to hard disk, the
stdio buffer is flushed before every song, because tag_print.c
performs unbuffered writes on the raw file descriptor. Unfortunately,
the fdprintf() API allows buffered I/O only for a client connection by
looking up the client pointer owning the file descriptor - for stdio,
this is not possible. To re-enable proper stdio buffering, we have to
duplicate the tag_print.c code without fprintf() instead of our custom
fdprintf() hack. Add this duplicated code to tag_save.c.
Move everything which dumps song information (via tag_print.c) to a
separate source file. song_print.c gets code which writes song data
to the client; song_save.c is responsible for serializing songs from
the tag cache.
Based on client_puts(), client_printf() is the successor of
fdprintf(). As soon as all fdprintf() callers have been rewritten to
use client_printf(), we can remove fdprintf().
client_write() writes a buffer to the client and buffers it if
required. client_puts() does the same for a C string. The next patch
will add more tools which will replace fdprintf() later.
clearMpdTag could be called on a tag that was still in a
tag_begin_add transaction before tag_end_add is called. This
was causing free() to attempt to operate on bulk.items; which is
un-free()-able. Now instead we unmark the bulk.busy to avoid
committing the tags to the heap only to be immediately freed.
Additionally, we need to remember to call tag_end_add() when
a song is updated before we NULL song->tag to avoid tripping
an assertion the next time tag_begin_add() is called.
Since client->fd==-1 has become our "expired" flag, it may already be
-1 when client_close() is called. Don't assert that it is still
non-negative, and call client_set_expired() instead.
During the tag library refactoring, the shout plugin was disabled, and
I forgot about adapting it to the new API. Apply the same fixes to
the oggflac decoder plugin.
While parsing the tag cache, don't allocate the directory name from
the heap, but copy it into a buffer on the stack. This reduces heap
fragmentation by 1%.
If many tag_items are added at once while the tag cache is being
loaded, manage these items in a static fixed list, instead of
reallocating the list with every newly created item. This reduces
heap fragmentation.
Massif results again:
mk before: total 12,837,632; useful 10,626,383; extra 2,211,249
mk now: total 12,736,720; useful 10,626,383; extra 2,110,337
The "useful" value is the same since this patch only changes the way
we allocate the same amount of memory, but heap fragmentation was
reduced by 5%.
Try to detect if the string needs Latin1-UTF8 conversion, or
whitespace cleanup. If not, we don't need to allocate temporary
memory, leading to decreased heap fragmentation.
At several places, we create temporary copies of non-null-terminated
strings, just to use them in functions like validUtf8String(). We can
save this temporary allocation and avoid heap fragmentation if we
add a length parameter instead of expecting a null-terminated string.
Since the inline function cannot modify its caller's variables (which
is a good thing for code readability), the new string pointer is the
return value. The resulting binary should be the same as with the
macro.
The new source tag_pool.c manages a pool of reference counted tag_item
objects. This is used to merge tag items of the same type and value,
saving lots of memory. Formerly, only the value itself was pooled,
wasting memory for all the pointers and tag_item structs.
The following results were measured with massif. Started MPD on
amd64, typed "mpc", no song being played. My music database contains
35k tagged songs. The results are what massif reports as "peak".
0.13.2: total 14,131,392; useful 11,408,972; extra 2,722,420
eric: total 18,370,696; useful 15,648,182; extra 2,722,514
mk f34f694: total 15,833,952; useful 13,111,470; extra 2,722,482
mk now: total 12,837,632; useful 10,626,383; extra 2,211,249
This patch set saves 20% memory, and does a good job in reducing heap
fragmentation.
The value is stored in the same memory allocation as the tag_item
struct; this saves memory because we do not store the value pointer
anymore. Also remove the getTagItemString()/removeTagItemString()
dummies.
This patch makes MPD consume much more memory because string pooling
is disabled, but it prepares the next bunch of patches. Replace the
code in tagTracker.c with naive algorithms without the tree code. For
now, this should do; later we should find better algorithms,
especially for getNumberOfTagItems(), which has become wasteful with
temporary memory.
Unfortunately, the C standard postulates that the argument to free()
must be non-const. This does not makes sense, and virtually prevents
every pointer which must be freed at some time to be non-const. Use
the deconst hack (sorry for that) to allow us to free constant
pointers.
Instead of passing the pointer to the "expired" flag to
processListOfCommands(), this function should use the client API to
check this flag. We can now remove the "global_expired" hack
introduced recently.
Start exporting the client struct as an opaque struct. For now, pass
it only to processCommand() and processListOfCommands(), and provide a
function to extract the socket handle. Later, we will propagate the
pointer to all command implementations, and of course to
client_print() etc.
The old code tried to write a response to the client, without even
checking if it was already closed. Now that we have added more
assertions, these may fail... perform the "expired" check earlier.
Patch bdeb8e14 ("client: moved "expired" accesses into inline
function") was created under the wrong assumption that
processListOfCommands() could modify the expired flag, which is not
the case. Although "expired" is a non-const pointer,
processListOfCommands() just reads it, using it as the break condition
in a "while" loop. I will address this issue with a better overall
solution, but for now provide a pointer to a global "expired" flag.
client_defer_output() was modified so that it can create the
deferred_send list. With this patch, the assertion on
"deferred_send!=NULL" has become invalid. Remove it.
Warren hasn't been active in development in a while and probably
doesn't have much time to answer user questions. So point the
mailing contact to the public mailing lists where any developer
can see and answer.
