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This is a prelude to #159 which introduces upgrade requests, and much
of the diff is identical, with a few trivial changes in `Reqd` and a few
major changes in `Server_connection`.

The goals here are:

1. Make `Reqd` return better types that encapsulate its state instead of
   requiring the user to probe it with `requires_<input|output>` and
   `is_complete`.

2. Try to make queue management easier to reason about by folding bits
   of logic from `advance_request_queue_if_necessary` into
   `next_read_operation` and `next_write_operation` such that we only
   perform side-effects when the operation in question demands it.

One of the ways I tried to make this easier to reason about was to make
the `yield_<reader|writer>` and `next_<read|write>_operation` functions
very parallel. For one, the extra logic in `yield_writer` was puzzling.
Ideally, if you're calling `yield_writer`, you're doing so because you
just called `next_action` and were told to `Yield`, so all of the
conditions being checked should not be possible.

Looking at the next-operation functions, they both start out with a
short-circuit for shutting down when the server can no longer make
progress (reader is closed and queue is empty). This doesn't feel like
it belongs here. Perhaps this check should be part of
`advance_request_queue` with some extra logic triggering in
`shutdown_reader`? After that, the next-operation functions use some
very simple probing of the input/output state of `Reqd` to determine
what to do next. Only in the case of `Complete` do we move into a
separate function (to make it easier to read):
`_final_<read|write>_operation`.

In these functions, we decide if we should shutdown the respective
reader/writer or consider the `reqd` complete and move it off the queue.
When we do shift it off, we recursively ask for the next operation given
the new queue state. In all cases, before we return the result, we
wakeup the other side so that it too can evaluate the next operation
given the new queue state.

Though on the surface, these pieces feel fairly straightforward, there
are still a slew of re-entrancy bugs to consider. I think there are two
things that we can do to make this drastically easier to manage:

1. We call `t.request_handler` in two places, and this is mostly because
   we want to keep the invariant that the head of the request queue has
   already been passed off to the handler. I feel like splitting this up
   into a simple queue of unhandled requests and a [Reqd.t option] that
   represents the current request would be easier to manage.

2. It would be nice to schedule calls. Things like waking up the writer
   before you let the read loop know its next operation just immediately
   makes my mind fall apart and lose track of state. There's a fairly
   obvious solution of asking for a `schedule : (unit -> unit) -> unit`
   function from the runtime that promises to not call the thunk
   synchronously, but rather waits until it is outside of the read and
   write loops. But maybe we can solve it using what we have now, like
   establishing a contract that when the reader/writer is woken up, they
   must schedule their work for a fresh call stack and not immediately
   ask for operations.

I added a `Queue.clear` to shutdown, not because it was necessary in any
sense, but because it was part of `advance_request_queue_if_necessary`,
which could have come into play in certain situations where `shutdown`
was called from the runtime (e.g., in case of some exception).

I would like to note that despite the fact that all tests pass, I have
very little confidence in this being correct right now and would like to
do some further testing within the actual runtimes.
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9 changes: 0 additions & 9 deletions lib/reqd.ml
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Expand Up @@ -243,15 +243,6 @@ let output_state t : Output_state.t =
| Waiting -> Waiting
;;

let is_complete t =
match input_state t with
| Ready -> false
| Complete ->
(match output_state t with
| Waiting | Ready -> false
| Complete -> true)
;;

let flush_request_body t =
let request_body = request_body t in
if Body.has_pending_output request_body
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110 changes: 64 additions & 46 deletions lib/server_connection.ml
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Expand Up @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ let current_reqd_exn t =

let yield_reader t k =
if is_closed t
then failwith "on_wakeup_reader on closed conn"
then failwith "yield_reader on closed conn"
else if Optional_thunk.is_some t.wakeup_reader
then failwith "yield_reader: only one callback can be registered at a time"
else t.wakeup_reader <- Optional_thunk.some k
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ let error_code t =
else None

let shutdown t =
Queue.clear t.request_queue;
shutdown_reader t;
shutdown_writer t;
wakeup_reader t;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -182,53 +183,44 @@ let set_error_and_handle ?request t error =
let report_exn t exn =
set_error_and_handle t (`Exn exn)

let advance_request_queue_if_necessary t =
if is_active t then begin
let reqd = current_reqd_exn t in
if Reqd.persistent_connection reqd then begin
if Reqd.is_complete reqd then begin
ignore (Queue.take t.request_queue);
if not (Queue.is_empty t.request_queue)
then t.request_handler (current_reqd_exn t);
wakeup_reader t;
end
end else begin
(* Take the head of the queue, close the remaining request bodies, clear
* the queue, and push the head back on. We do not plan on processing any
* more requests after the current one. *)
ignore (Queue.take t.request_queue);
Queue.iter Reqd.close_request_body t.request_queue;
Queue.clear t.request_queue;
Queue.push reqd t.request_queue;
if Reqd.is_complete reqd
then shutdown t
else
match Reqd.input_state reqd with
| Ready -> ()
| Complete -> shutdown_reader t
end
end else if Reader.is_closed t.reader
then shutdown t

let _next_read_operation t =
advance_request_queue_if_necessary t;
if is_active t
then (
let advance_request_queue t =
ignore (Queue.take t.request_queue);
if not (Queue.is_empty t.request_queue)
then t.request_handler (Queue.peek_exn t.request_queue);
;;

let rec _next_read_operation t =
if not (is_active t) then (
if Reader.is_closed t.reader
then shutdown t;
Reader.next t.reader
) else (
let reqd = current_reqd_exn t in
match Reqd.input_state reqd with
| Ready -> Reader.next t.reader
| Complete ->
if Reqd.persistent_connection reqd
then `Yield
else (
shutdown_reader t;
Reader.next t.reader)
| Complete -> _final_read_operation_for t reqd
)
else Reader.next t.reader

and _final_read_operation_for t reqd =
let next =
if not (Reqd.persistent_connection reqd) then (
shutdown_reader t;
Reader.next t.reader;
) else (
match Reqd.output_state reqd with
| Waiting | Ready -> `Yield
| Complete ->
advance_request_queue t;
_next_read_operation t;
)
in
wakeup_writer t;
next
;;

let next_read_operation t =
match _next_read_operation t with
(* XXX(dpatti): These two [`Error _] constructors are never returned *)
| `Error (`Parse _) -> set_error_and_handle t `Bad_request; `Close
| `Error (`Bad_request request) -> set_error_and_handle ~request t `Bad_request; `Close
| (`Read | `Yield | `Close) as operation -> operation
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -259,13 +251,39 @@ let read t bs ~off ~len =
let read_eof t bs ~off ~len =
read_with_more t bs ~off ~len Complete

let next_write_operation t =
advance_request_queue_if_necessary t;
if is_active t
then (
let rec _next_write_operation t =
if not (is_active t) then (
if Reader.is_closed t.reader
then shutdown t;
Writer.next t.writer
) else (
let reqd = current_reqd_exn t in
Reqd.flush_response_body reqd);
Writer.next t.writer
match Reqd.output_state reqd with
| Waiting -> `Yield
| Ready ->
Reqd.flush_response_body reqd;
Writer.next t.writer
| Complete -> _final_write_operation_for t reqd
)

and _final_write_operation_for t reqd =
let next =
if not (Reqd.persistent_connection reqd) then (
shutdown_writer t;
Writer.next t.writer;
) else (
match Reqd.input_state reqd with
| Ready -> assert false
| Complete ->
advance_request_queue t;
_next_write_operation t;
)
in
wakeup_reader t;
next
;;

let next_write_operation t = _next_write_operation t

let report_write_result t result =
Writer.report_result t.writer result

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