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3 daysUnify the peerlists for v4 and v6Dirk Engling
This commit finishes what started with unifying v4 and v6 trackers, from then on, torrents carried a peer list per family, with obvious redundancies. With the race to save memory, these became burdening enough that now these peerlist pointers have been moved into a single struct, holding both v4 and v6 peers in their respective ot_vectors, so the per- torrent cost shrunk by another pointer's size. Each peerlist also lost its peer count cache, as in most cases, it's trivial to load it directly from the ot_vector's entry count. The seed counts that were kept per family only to be aggregated later for every consumer, are also merged now. Total savings depend on the tracker's actual load. In some corner cases, where only one address family dominates the torrents, we actually use a few bytes more in the ot_vector for the absent family, but even that mostly becomes noise: before it actually adds to the memory load, the peer payload will be the deciding factor. Most wins are on what often is experienced on trackers: A long tail of abandoned torrents now needs eight fewer bytes, slipping into a smaller allocation unit on glibc's allocator.
3 daysStart to opentracker's memory requirementsDirk Engling
* peer lists for v4 and v6 are now lazily allocated and, more importantly, will be freed once there are no more peers * The downloaded count is now per torrent and not per peer list anymore, moving in what was alignment loss, anyway * The (now) per torrent downloaded and the per peer list peer and seed count shrunk from size_t to uint32_t * A helper guards accesses to the peer and seed count to prevent null pointer dereferences * The base time also shrank from time_t to uint32_t, minutes since the epoch currently fits in 25 bits
4 daystake -pie out of macos hardening build flagsDirk Engling
4 daysEnable RELRO everywhere than macosDirk Engling
4 daysAdd hardening parameters to the default buildsDirk Engling
4 daysAdd a wall clock helper so that statedumps can be written and re-readDirk Engling
5 daysExplain the cleaner exception in the wait mechanicsDirk Engling
5 daysDocument the reasoning behind the udp not sending an error packet on blacklisted torrentsDirk Engling
5 daysAdd the paragraph in the design decisions documentDirk Engling
5 daysStart describing design considerations for the startup (and teardown) orderDirk Engling
8 daysMove the build sources into src/Dirk Engling
8 daysTurn the bucket count into a knob, but keep cleaner wake-ups at a constant rateDirk Engling
11 daysStart documenting design decisions and measurmentsDirk Engling