Re: Split out client protocols from protocol_t

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:22:54 +1000

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:17 +0200, kinkie wrote:
> > http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1763 has attached to it
> > a split out of the client protocol support from protocol_t.
> >
> > This is fairly important to folk wanting to write new client protocol
> > modules - at the moment they need to perform shotgun surgery all through
> > the code base because the protocol gets listed as a protocol_t, which
> > also appears in the logic for request forwarding etc etc etc.
> >
> > The patch is good enough to commit at the moment IMO.
>
> Hi,
> I haven't tested it, but skimming over its contents I had some thoughts
> popping out:
>
> Is the allocator stuff intentionally in? (cosmetic issue)

Its required - the per-protocol ClientProtocolStats need to be allocated
via mempools as they have 1000's of instances on busy caches and will
fragment if not slab allocated.

> Is it complete? (logTypeIsAHit seems only halfway refactored)

No, thats complete, a log type is a hit if its a UDP hit, or any of the
tcp hits.

> Aren't we losing information by moving the allocator of ClientInfo from
> memAllocate to xmalloc?

Huh ?

Its still MemPool allocated.

Cheers,
Rob

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