Libevent 2.0 has a "changelist" feature that avoids making redundant
syscalls if we wind up doing a lot of event_add/event_del operations
on the same fd in a row. Unfortunately, due to a weird design
choice in Linux, it doesn't work right with epoll when multiple fds
refer to the same socket (e.g., one is a dup() of the other). We
don't dup() anything we give to Libevent, though, so it is safe for
us to explicitly turn this feature on.
Doing so could make Libevent call Libevent from inside a Libevent
logging call, which is a recipe for reentrant confusion and
hard-to-debug crashes. This would especially hurt if Libevent
debug-level logging is enabled AND the user has a controller
watching for low-severity log messages.
Fix bug 2190; fix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
The short version is, "where we want to do it, we have nothing real to
chose from and we can't do it easily. Where it's easy to do, we have
no reason to do it yet."
This requires the latest Git version of Libevent as of 24 March 2010.
In the future, we'll just say it requires Libevent 2.0.5-alpha or
later.
Since Libevent doesn't yet support hierarchical rate limit groups,
there isn't yet support for tracking relayed-bytes separately when
using the bufferevent system. If a future version does add support
for hierarchical buckets, we can add that back in.
This should make us conflict less with system files named "log.h".
Yes, we shouldn't have been conflicting with those anyway, but some
people's compilers act very oddly.
The actual change was done with one "git mv", by editing
Makefile.am, and running
find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs perl -i -pe 'if (/^#include.*\Wlog.h/) {s/log.h/torlog.h/; }'
These timers behave better with non-monotonic clocks than our old
ones, and also try harder to make once-per-second events get called
one second apart, rather than one-plus-epsilon seconds apart.
This fixes bug 943 for everybody using Libevent 2.0 or later.
This patch adds a new compat_libevent.[ch] set of files, and moves our
Libevent compatibility and utilitity functions there. We build them
into a separate .a so that nothing else in src/commmon depends on
Libevent (partially fixing bug 507).
Also, do not use our own built-in evdns copy when we have Libevent
2.0, whose evdns is finally good enough (thus fixing Bug 920).
