nginx 源码学习——处理stale event

处理stale event

添加到epoll后，worker进程会进入ngx_epoll_process_events函数，epoll_wait等待客户端发起连接请求，触发事件。而在对读写事件进行操作时，都会出现一个instance，这个变量到底是何用意？
我们首先看看man手册关于epoll的注解：

*If there is a large amount of I/O space, it is possible that by trying to drain it the other files will not get processed causing
starvation.
This is not specific to epoll. The solution is to maintain a ready list and mark the file descriptor as ready in its associated data structure, thereby allowing the application to remember which files need to be processed but still round robin amongst all the ready files. This also supports ignoring subsequent events you receive for fd’s that are already ready.
o If using an event cache…
If you use an event cache or store all the fd’s returned from epoll_wait(2), then make sure to provide a way to mark its closure dynamically (ie- caused by a previous event’s processing). Suppose you receive 100 events from epoll_wait(2), and in event #47 a condition causes event #13 to be closed. If you remove the structure and close() the fd for event #13, then your event cache might still say there are events waiting for that fd causing confusion.
One solution for this is to call, during the processing of event 47, epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL) to delete fd 13 and close(), then mark its associated data structure as removed and link it to a cleanup list. If you find another event for fd 13 in your batch processi