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38fd85c676a072ebf256e806beda9d7533790baa http: replace WorkQueue and threads handling for ThreadPool (furszy)
c323f882ed3841401edee90ab5261d68215ab316 fuzz: add test case for threadpool (TheCharlatan)
c528dd5f8ccc3955b00bdba869f0a774efa97fe1 util: introduce general purpose thread pool (furszy)
6354b4fd7fe819eb13274b212e426a7d10ca75d3 tests: log node JSON-RPC errors during test setup (furszy)
45930a79412dc45f9d391cd7689d029fa4f0189e http-server: guard against crashes from unhandled exceptions (furszy)
Pull request description:
This has been a recent discovery; the general thread pool class created for #26966, cleanly
integrates into the HTTP server. It simplifies init, shutdown and requests execution logic.
Replacing code that was never unit tested for code that is properly unit and fuzz tested.
Although our functional test framework extensively uses this RPC interface (that’s how
we’ve been ensuring its correct behavior so far - which is not the best).
This clearly separates the responsibilities:
The HTTP server now focuses solely on receiving and dispatching requests, while ThreadPool handles
concurrency, queuing, and execution.
This will also allows us to experiment with further performance improvements at the task queuing and
execution level, such as a lock-free structure or task prioritization or any other implementation detail
like coroutines in the future, without having to deal with HTTP code that lives on a different layer.
Note:
The rationale behind introducing the ThreadPool first is to be able to easily cherry-pick it across different
working paths. Some of the ones that are benefited from it are #26966 for the parallelization of the indexes
initial sync, #31132 for the parallelization of the inputs fetching procedure, #32061 for the libevent replacement,
the kernel API #30595 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595#discussion_r2413702370) to avoid blocking validation among others use cases not publicly available.
Note 2:
I could have created a wrapper around the existing code and replaced the `WorkQueue` in a subsequent
commit, but it didn’t seem worth the extra commits and review effort. The `ThreadPool` implements
essentially the same functionality in a more modern and cleaner way.
ACKs for top commit:
Eunovo:
ReACK 38fd85c676
sedited:
Re-ACK 38fd85c676a072ebf256e806beda9d7533790baa
pinheadmz:
ACK 38fd85c676a072ebf256e806beda9d7533790baa
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