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authorAnders Svensson <[email protected]>2015-01-23 20:02:25 +0100
committerAnders Svensson <[email protected]>2015-02-20 01:51:34 +0100
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Add transport_opt() pool_size
Transport processes are started by diameter one at a time. In the listening case, a transport process accepts a connection, tells the peer_fsm process, which tells its watchdog process, which tells its service process, which then starts a new watchdog, which starts a new peer_fsm, which starts a new transport process, which (finally) goes about accepting another connection. In other words, not particularly aggressive in accepting new connections. This behaviour doesn't do particularly well with a large number of concurrent connections: with TCP and 250 connecting peers we see connections being refused. This commit adds the possibilty of configuring a pool of accepting processes, by way of a new transport option, pool_size. Instead of diameter:add_transport/2 starting just a single process, it now starts the configured number, so that instead of a single process waiting for a connection there's now a pool. The option is even available for connecting processes, which provides an alternate to adding multiple transports when multiple connections to the same peer are required. In practice this also means configuring {restrict_connections, false}: this is not implicit. For backwards compatibility, the form of diameter:service_info(_,transport) differs in the connecting case, depending on whether or not pool_size is configured. Note that transport processes for the same transport_ref() can be started concurrently when pool_size > 1. This places additional requirements on diameter_{tcp,sctp}, that will be dealt with in a subsequent commit.
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diff --git a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml
index 00b54ffbc4..538011b789 100644
--- a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml
+++ b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
<copyright>
<year>2011</year>
-<year>2014</year>
+<year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -1188,6 +1188,19 @@ See &man_tcp; for the behaviour of that module.</p>
</note>
</item>
+<tag><c>{pool_size, pos_integer()}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Number of transport processes to start.
+For a listening transport, defines the size of the pool of accepting
+transport processes, a larger number being desirable for processing
+multiple concurrent peer connection attempts.
+For a connecting transport, the &service_opt;
+<c>restrict_connections</c> must also be configured on the service in
+question to allow multiple connections to the same peer.</p>
+
+</item>
+
<marker id="spawn_opt"/>
<tag><c>{spawn_opt, [term()]}</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -1737,6 +1750,14 @@ connection might look as follows.</p>
The information presented here is as in the <c>connect</c> case except
that the client connections are grouped under an <c>accept</c> tuple.</p>
+<p>
+Whether or not the &transport_opt; <c>pool_size</c> affects the format
+of the listing in the case of a connecting transport, since a value
+greater than 1 implies multiple transport processes for the same
+<c>&transport_ref;</c>, as in the listening case.
+The format in this case is similar to the listening case, with a
+<c>pool</c> tuple in place of an <c>accept</c> tuple.</p>
+
</item>
<tag><c>connections</c></tag>