[mod_cluster-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (MODCLUSTER-556) Consider protobuf-c (plain C Google Protocol Buffers) to replace shm slotmem and allow multiple httpd instances state sharing

[Michal Karm Babacek (JIRA)]

Michal Karm Babacek created MODCLUSTER-556:
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             Summary: Consider protobuf-c (plain C Google Protocol Buffers) to replace shm slotmem and allow multiple httpd instances state sharing
                 Key: MODCLUSTER-556
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/MODCLUSTER-556
             Project: mod_cluster
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Native (httpd modules)
            Reporter: Michal Karm Babacek
            Assignee: Michal Karm Babacek


Lemme leave it here for future coding spree:

* shm is PITA, any update of data model is very scary
* the only description of data is in code, our structures and additional meta data like timestamps
* adding and removing records from shm causes leftover artifacts that are not cleaned up
* meticulous locking on shm access is a bottleneck, it is making httpd slower than Java Undertow implementation when it comes to huge concurrency
* storing and loading data structures as Google Protocol Buffers would allow for httpd processes to behave as actors, sending and receiving messages and thus achieve much higher level of concurrency than locking a single shared mem file
* furthermore, it would actually allow multiple httpd instances to share mod_proxy_cluster state, blurring the difference between httpd child processes and separate httpd instances
* Google Protocol Buffers https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
* protobuf-c (plain C) https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c 




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