Merge branch 'anders/diameter/performance/OTP-14343'

* anders/diameter/performance/OTP-14343: (50 commits)
  Let spawn_opt config replace erlang:spawn_opt/2 for request processes
  Move (most of) diameter_gen.hrl to diameter_gen.erl
  Change signature associated with dictionary @custom_type/@codecs
  Avoid sending answer terms between processes unnecessarily
  Refactor handling of incoming requests
  Restore diameter_codec:decode/2, update diameter_codec(3)
  Add diameter_codec option ordered_encode
  Restore undocumented Failed-AVP setting convenience
  Fix/simplify setting of one Failed-AVP
  Avoid recreating records
  Avoid recreating records
  Avoid recreating records
  Avoid recreating records
  Adapt test suites to modified encode/decode
  Simplify diameter_caps construction
  Don't compute URI defaults unnecessarily
  Don't deconstruct {TPid, Caps} unnecessarily
  Remove use of process dictionary in decode
  Remove minor diameter_config bloat
  Fix maximum AVP arity check
  ...

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml
index 91e96058dd..0117c1c88a 100644
--- a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml
+++ b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 <erlref>
 <header>
 <copyright>
-<year>2012</year><year>2016</year>
+<year>2012</year>
+<year>2017</year>
 <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
 </copyright>
 <legalnotice>
@@ -53,17 +54,17 @@ communicated to &man_app; callbacks.
 Similarly, outgoing Diameter messages are encoded into binary() before
 being passed to the appropriate &man_transport; module for
 transmission.
-The functions in this module implement this encode/decode.</p>
+The functions documented here implement the default encode/decode.</p>
 
-<note>
+<warning>
 <p>
-Calls to this module are made by diameter itself as a consequence of
-configuration passed to &mod_start_service;.
-The encode/decode functions may also be useful for other purposes (eg.
-test) but the diameter user does not need to call them explicitly when
+The diameter user does not need to call functions here explicitly when
 sending and receiving messages using &mod_call; and the callback
-interface documented in &man_app;.</p>
-</note>
+interface documented in &man_app;: diameter itself provides encode/decode
+as a consequence of configuration passed to &mod_start_service;, and
+the results may differ from those returned by the functions documented
+here, depending on configuration.</p>
+</warning>
 
 <p>
 The &header; and &packet; records below
diff --git a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml
index 9584d682c2..94016d9466 100644
--- a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml
+++ b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 <header>
 
 <copyright>
-<year>2011</year><year>2016</year>
+<year>2011</year>
+<year>2017</year>
 <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
 </copyright>
 <legalnotice>
@@ -307,11 +308,11 @@ The P flag has been deprecated by &the_rfc;.</p>
 <p>
 Specifies AVPs for which module Mod provides encode/decode functions.
 The section contents consists of AVP names.
-For each such name, <c>Mod:Name(encode|decode, Type, Data)</c> is
+For each such name, <c>Mod:Name(encode|decode, Type, Data, Opts)</c> is
 expected to provide encode/decode for values of the AVP, where Name is
 the name of the AVP, Type is it's type as declared in the
-<c>@avp_types</c> section of the dictionary and Data is the value to
-encode/decode.</p>
+<c>@avp_types</c> section of the dictionary, Data is the value to
+encode/decode, and Opts is a term that is passed through encode/decode.</p>
 
 <p>
 Example:</p>
@@ -328,8 +329,8 @@ Framed-IP-Address
 <item>
 <p>
 Like <c>@custom_types</c> but requires the specified module to export
-<c>Mod:Type(encode|decode, Name, Data)</c> rather than
-<c>Mod:Name(encode|decode, Type, Data)</c>.</p>
+<c>Mod:Type(encode|decode, Name, Data, Opts)</c> rather than
+<c>Mod:Name(encode|decode, Type, Data, Opts)</c>.</p>
 
 <p>
 Example:</p>