Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:51:31 +0000 (21:51 +0000)]
xapcmd: delay over->check_inodes trigger
We must not trigger wakeups on InboxIdle users until after we've
renamed all files into place. Otherwise, the InboxIdle caller
may just reopen the old (soon-to-be-unlinked) file.
Eric Wong [Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:23:28 +0000 (02:23 +0000)]
xt/mem-imapd-tls: avoid EMFILE in -imapd process
Test::More dups standard FDs and may create FDs for other
purposes. run_mode => 0 lets us rely on FD_CLOEXEC to ensure
-imapd has enough FDs to accept all incoming connections at
the cost of higher (one-off) startup time.
Eric Wong [Tue, 7 Jul 2020 20:37:38 +0000 (20:37 +0000)]
wwwatomstream: avoid uninitialized warnings for $email
As in Import, we'll fall back to Sender: if From: is missing,
and use the primary_address of the inboxes to indicate the total
absence of those fields.
Eric Wong [Tue, 7 Jul 2020 06:17:24 +0000 (06:17 +0000)]
t/spawn: fix test reliability
Since Perl doesn't internally use a self-pipe for
sleep/select/poll/etc, wake up every 10ms to ensure
it can see the SIGCHLD; since neither signalfd nor EVFILT_SIGNAL
are always available.
Fixes: 761baa2a300e4268 ("spawn: unblock SIGCHLD in subprocess")
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:44:52 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
doc/technical/whyperl: note Perl 7 announcement
Right now[1] the Perl upstream plan is to maintain 5 compatibility
in Perl 7 for at least 5 years[1], and perhaps drop it when Perl 8
comes along. That said, distros may pick it and maintain 5 on their
own given the vast amounts of perfectly good legacy code out there.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:44:49 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
git: use v5.10.1, parent.pm and Time::HiRes::stat
parent.pm is leaner than base.pm, and Time::HiRes::stat is
more accurate, so take advantage of these Perl 5.10+-isms
since it's been over a year since we left 5.8 behind.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:57 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
gzipfilter: drop HTTP connection on bugs or data corruption
While all the {async_next} callbacks needed eval guards anyways
because of DS->write, {async_eml} callbacks did not.
Ensure any bugs in our code or data corruption result in
termination of the HTTP connection, so as not to leave clients
hanging on a response which never comes or is mangled in some
way.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:56 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwattach: support async blob retrievals
We can reuse some of the GzipFilter infrastructure used by other
WWW components to handle slow blob retrieval, here. The
difference from previous changes is we don't decide on the 200
status code until we've retrieved the blob and found the
attachment.
While we're at it, ensure we can compress text attachment
responses once again, since all text attachments are served
as text/plain.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:55 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwtext: simplify gzf_maybe use
gzf_maybe always returns a GzipFilter object, even if it uses
CompressNoop. We can also use ->zflush instead of
->translate(undef) here for the final bit.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:52 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwstream: eliminate ::response, use html_oneshot
All of our streaming responses use ::aresponse, now, and our
synchronous responses use html_oneshot. So there's no need
for the old WwwStream::response.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:51 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
view: /$INBOX/$MSGID/t/: avoid extra hash lookup in eml case
We can build and buffer the HTML <head> section once the first
non-ghost message in a thread is loaded, so there's no need to
perform an extra check on $ctx->{nr} once the $eml is ready.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:41 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
remove unused/redundant zlib-related imports
Z_FINISH is the default for Compress::Raw::Zlib::Deflate->flush,
anyways, so there's no reason to import it. And none of C::R::Z
is needed in WwwText now that gzf_maybe handles it all.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:40 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
www: start making gzipfilter the parent response class
Virtually all of our responses are going to be gzipped, anyways.
This will allow us to utilize zlib as a buffering layer and
share common code for async blob retrieval responses.
To streamline this and allow GzipFilter to be a parent class,
we'll replace the NoopFilter with a similar CompressNoop class
which emulates the two Compress::Raw::Zlib::Deflate methods we
use.
This drops a bunch of redundant code and will hopefully make
upcoming WwwStream changes easier to reason about.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:39 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwstream: reduce blob fetch paths for ->getline
This will make it easier to support asynchronous blob
retrievals. The `$ctx->{nr}' counter is no longer implicitly
supplied since many users didn't care for it, so stack overhead
is slightly reduced.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:38 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwstream: reduce object graph depth
Like with WwwAtomStream and MboxGz, we can bless the existing
$ctx object directly to avoid allocating a new hashref. We'll
also switch from "->" to "::" to reduce stack utilization.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:37 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwatomstream: support async blob fetch
This allows -httpd to handle other requests while waiting
for git to retrieve and decode blobs. We'll also break
apart t/psgi_v2.t further to ensure tests run against
-httpd in addition to generic PSGI testing.
Using xt/httpd-async-stream.t to test against clones of meta@public-inbox.org
shows a 10-12% performance improvement with the following env:
TEST_JOBS=1000 TEST_CURL_OPT=--compressed TEST_ENDPOINT=new.atom
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:32 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
mbox: async blob fetch for "single message" raw mboxrd
This restores gzip-by-default behavior for /$INBOX/$MSGID/raw
endpoints for all indexed inboxes. Unindexed v1 inboxes will
remain uncompressed, for now.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:30 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
mboxgz: do asynchronous git blob retrievals
This lets the -httpd worker process make better use of time
instead of waiting for git-cat-file to respond. With 4 jobs in
the new test case against a clone of
<https://public-inbox.org/meta/>, a speedup of 10-12% is shown.
Even a single job shows a 2-5% improvement on an SSD.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:29 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
stop auto-loading Plack::Middleware::Deflater
Instead of gzipping some (mbox.gz, manifest.js.gz) responses and
leaving P::M::D to do the rest, we gzip everything ourselves,
now, so P::M::D is redundant.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:27 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwstatic: support gzipped directory listings
This will allow others to mimic our award-winning homepage
design without needing to rely on Plack::Middleware::Deflater
or varnish to compress responses.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:25 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
{gzip,noop}filter: ->zmore returns undef, always
This simplifies callers, as witnessed by the change to
WwwListing. It adds overhead to NoopFilter, but NoopFilter
should see little use as nearly all HTTP clients request gzip.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:24 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
gzipfilter: replace Compress::Raw::Deflate usages
The new ->zmore and ->zflush APIs make it possible to replace
existing verbose usages of Compress::Raw::Deflate and simplify
buffering logic for streaming large gzipped data.
One potentially user visible change is we now break the mbox.gz
response on zlib failures, instead of silently continuing onto
the next message. zlib only seems to fail on OOM, which should
be rare; so it's ideal we drop the connection anyways.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:18 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
wwwstream: oneshot: perform gzip without middleware
Plack::Middleware::Deflater forces us to use a memory-intensive
closure. Instead, work towards building compressed strings in
memory to reduce the overhead of buffering large HTML output.
Eric Wong [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:27:17 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
gzipfilter: minor cleanups
We currently don't use bytes::length in ->write, so there's no
need to `use bytes'. Favor `//=' to describe the intent of the
conditional assignment since the C::R::Z::Deflate object is
always truthy. Also use the local $gz variable to avoid
unnecessary {gz} hash lookups.
Eric Wong [Mon, 6 Jul 2020 06:11:02 +0000 (06:11 +0000)]
git_async_cat: unref pipes on EOF from git->cleanup
We avoided a managed circular reference in 10ee3548084c125f
but introduced a pipe FD leak, instead. So handle the EOF
we get when the "git cat-file --batch" process exits and
closes its stdout FD.
v2: remove ->close entirely. PublicInbox::Git->cleanup
handles all cleanup. This prevents us from inadvertantly
deleting the {async_cat} field associated with a different
pipe than the one GAC is monitoring.
Eric Wong [Sat, 4 Jul 2020 20:25:25 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
t/import: test for nasty characters
Spammers may send emails with nasty characters which can throw
off git-fast-import. Users with non-existent or weaker spam
filters may be susceptible to corruption in the fast-import
stream as a result.
This was actually quietly fixed in git on 2020-06-01 by
commit 9ab886546cc89f37819e1ef09cb49fd9325b3a41
("smsg: introduce ->populate method"), but no test case
was created.
Eric Wong [Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:33:13 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
watch: don't burn CPU on IDLE failures
Network connections fail and need to be detected sooner rather
than later during IDLE to avoid backtrace floods. In case the
IDLE process dies completely, don't respawn right away, either,
to avoid entering a respawn loop.
Eric Wong [Wed, 1 Jul 2020 21:06:18 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
tests: add use/require statements for TEST_RUN_MODE=0
The default (and fast) TEST_RUN_MODE=2 preloads most modules,
but TEST_RUN_MODE=0 is more realistic and can catch some
problems which may show up in real-world use.
Eric Wong [Wed, 1 Jul 2020 21:06:17 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
watch: retry signals to kill IDLE and polling processes
To ensure reliable signal delivery in Perl, it seems we need to
repeatedly signal processes which aren't using signalfd (or
EVFILT_SIGNAL) with our event loop.
Eric Wong [Thu, 2 Jul 2020 03:32:56 +0000 (03:32 +0000)]
inboxidle: avoid per-inbox anonymous subs
Anonymous subs cost over 5K each on x86-64. So prefer the
less-recommended-but-still-documented way of using
Linux::Inotify2::watch to register watchers.
This also updates FakeInotify to detect modifications correctly
when used on systems with neither IO::KQueue nor
Linux::Inotify2.
Eric Wong [Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:34:21 +0000 (10:34 +0000)]
watch: make waitpid() synchronous for Maildir scans
Maildir scanning still happens in the main process. Scanning
dozens of Maildirs is still time-consuming and monopolizes the
event loop during WatchMaildir::event_step. This can cause
cause zombies to accumulate before Sigfd::event_step triggers
DS::reap_pids.
Eric Wong [Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:34:19 +0000 (10:34 +0000)]
watch: ensure SIGCHLD works in forked children
In case our git or spam checker subprocesses spawn
subprocesses of their own. We'll also ensure signal
handlers are properly setup before unblocking them.
Eric Wong [Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:34:17 +0000 (10:34 +0000)]
watch: check for duplicates in ->over before spamcheck
It's cheaper to check for duplicates than run `spamc'
repeatedly when rechecking. We already do this for
v1 with by using the "ls" command with fast-import,
but v2 requires checking against over.sqlite3.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:04:00 +0000 (10:04 +0000)]
watch: simplify internal structures
We won't be attempting to reuse Mail::IMAPConnections used to
check authentication info, for now, so stop storing
$self->{mics}.
We can also combine $poll initialization for IMAP and NNTP
to avoid data structure duplication. Furthermore, rely on
autovivification to create {idle_pids} and {poll_pids}.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:59 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
imaptracker: use flock(2) around writes
SQLite only issues non-blocking F_SETLK ops (not F_SETLKW) and
retries failures using a configurable busy_timeout. SQLite's
busy loop sleeps for a millisecond and retries the lock until
the configured busy_timeout is hit.
Trying to set ->sqlite_busy_timeout to larger values (e.g. 30000
milliseconds) still leads to failure when running the new stress
test with 8 processes with TMPDIR on a 7200 RPM HDD.
Inspection of SQLite source reveals there's no built-in way to
use F_SETLKW, so tack on the existing flock(2) support we use to
synchronize git + SQLite + Xapian for inbox writing. We use
flock(2) instead of POSIX fcntl(2) locks since Perl doesn't
provide a way to manipulate "struct flock" portably.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:58 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: support ~/.netrc via Net::Netrc
While git-credential-netrc exists in git.git contrib/, it may
not be widely known or installed. Net::Netrc is already a
standard part of most (if not all) Perl installations, so use it
directly if available.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:57 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: use our own "git credential" wrapper
Git.pm may not be installed on some systems; or some users have
multiple Perl installations and Git.pm is not available to the
Perl running -watch. Accomodate both those types of users by
providing our own "git credential" wrapper.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:56 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: enable autoflush for STDOUT and STDERR
In case output is redirected to a pipe, ensure stdout and stderr
are always unbuffered, as -watch may go long periods without
any output to fill up buffers.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:55 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: show user-specified URL consistently.
Since we use the non-ref scalar URL in many error messages,
favor keeping the unblessed URL in the long-lived process.
This avoids showing "snews://" to users who've specified
"nntps://" URLs, since "nntps" is IANA-registered nowadays and
what we show in our documentation, while "snews" was just a
draft the URI package picked up decades ago.
Existing use of the $ENV{TAIL} relied on parsing --std{out,err},
which was only usable for read-only daemons. However, -watch
doesn't use PublicInbox::Daemon code(*), so attempt to figure
out redirects.
(*) -watch won't able to run as a daemon in cases when
git-credential prompts for IMAP/NNTP passwords.
PublicInbox::Daemon is also designed for read-only
parallelism where all worker processes are the same.
Any subprocesses spawned by -watch are to do specific
tasks for a particular set of inboxes.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:52 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: just use ->urlmatch
We may just modify PublicInbox::Config->urlmatch in the future
to support git <1.8.5, but I wonder if there's enough users on
git <1.8.5 to justify it.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:50 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: support multiple watch: directives per-inbox
Some users will find it useful to merge several Maildir or
IMAP mailboxes into one public-inbox. Let them do it, since
we've always supported multi-address inboxes.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:49 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: imap: be quiet about disconnecting on quit
If ->idle_done was handled successfully, we can just
let normal ->DESTROY disconnect and avoid ugly backtraces
when a user hits Ctrl-C to take down the process group.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:48 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: support imap.fetchBatchSize parameter
IMAP allows retrieving multiple messages with a single command,
and Mail::IMAPClient supports that. Unfortunately, it means we
slurp multiple messages into memory at once. This option allows
users to trade off memory usage to reduce network round-trips.
Ideally, we'd support pipelining; but AFAIK no widely installed
Perl IMAP library supports it.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:47 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: avoid long transaction to IMAPTracker
With different polling intervals, multiple processes may
simultaneously write to IMAPtracker. This ought to reduce
SQLite busy waiting and contention issues when importing
many inboxes in parallel.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:46 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
imaptracker: drop {dbname} field
It's not used anywhere since the IMAPTracker object doesn't
disconnect and reconnect. If we ever need the filename,
{dbh}->sqlite_db_filename may be used.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:45 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
imaptracker: add {url} field to reduce args
Passing a $url parameter to every function was error-prone
and having {url} field for a short-lived object is appropriate.
This matches the version of IMAPTracker posted by
Eric W. Biederman on 2020-05-15 at:
https://public-inbox.org/meta/87ftc0c3r4.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org/
The version I originally imported was based on the one
posted on 2019-10-09:
https://public-inbox.org/meta/874l0i9vhc.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org/
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:42 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: stop importers before forking
This fixes cases where watch is handling both Maildirs and IMAP
connections. While we're at it, close open directories in the
IMAP children to save FDs.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:40 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: support IMAP polling
Not all IMAP servers support IDLE, and IDLE may be prohibitively
expensive for some IMAP servers with many inboxes. So allow
configuring a imap.$IMAP_URL.pollInterval=SECONDS to poll
mailboxes.
We'll also need to poll for NNTP servers in the future.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:39 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: wire up IMAP IDLE reapers to DS
We can avoid synchronous `waitpid(-1, 0)' and save a process
when simultaneously watching Maildirs.
One DS bug is fixed: ->Reset needs to clear the DS $in_loop flag
in forked children so dwaitpid() fails and allows git processes
to be reaped synchronously. TestCommon also calls DS->Reset
when spawning new processes, since t/imapd.t uses DS->EventLoop
while waiting on -watch to write.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:38 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
ds: remove fields.pm usage
Since the removal of pseudo-hash support in Perl 5.10, the
"fields" module no longer provides the space or speed benefits
it did in 5.8. It also does not allow for compile-time checks,
only run-time checks.
To me, the extra developer overhead in maintaining "use fields"
args has become a hassle. None of our non-DS-related code uses
fields.pm, nor do any of our current dependencies. In fact,
Danga::Socket (which DS was originally forked from) and its
subclasses are the only fields.pm users I've ever encountered in
the wild. Removing fields may make our code more approachable
to other Perl hackers.
So stop using fields.pm and locked hashes, but continue to
document what fields do for non-trivial classes.
Eric Wong [Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:37 +0000 (10:03 +0000)]
watch: use signalfd for Maildir watching
We can get rid of the janky wannabe
self-using-a-directory-instead-of-pipe thing we needed to
workaround Filesys::Notify::Simple being blocking.
For existing Maildir users, this should be more robust and
immune to missed wakeups for signalfd and kqueue-enabled
systems; as well as being immune to BOFHs clearing $TMPDIR
and preventing notifications from firing.
The IMAP IDLE code still uses normal Perl signals, so it's still
vulnerable to missed wakeups. That will be addressed in future
commits.