http: speed up shutdown

This continues/fixes #6719.

`event_base_loopbreak` was not doing what I expected it to, at least in
libevent 2.0.21.
What I expected was that it sets a timeout, given that no other pending
events it would exit in N seconds. However, what it does was delay the
event loop exit with 10 seconds, even if nothing is pending.

Solve it in a different way: give the event loop thread time to exit
out of itself, and if it doesn't, send loopbreak.

This speeds up the RPC tests a lot, each exit incurred a 10 second
overhead, with this change there should be no shutdown overhead in the
common case and up to two seconds if the event loop is blocking.

As a bonus this breaks dependency on boost::thread_group, as the HTTP
server minds its own offspring.
This commit is contained in:
Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-11-11 17:34:10 +01:00
parent 3ac7060934
commit a264c32e33
3 changed files with 22 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ bool InitHTTPServer();
* This is separate from InitHTTPServer to give users race-condition-free time
* to register their handlers between InitHTTPServer and StartHTTPServer.
*/
bool StartHTTPServer(boost::thread_group& threadGroup);
bool StartHTTPServer();
/** Interrupt HTTP server threads */
void InterruptHTTPServer();
/** Stop HTTP server */