Refactor request parsing code for efficiency

src/networking.c

@@ -28,13 +28,11 @@ redisClient *createClient(int fd) {
     selectDb(c,0);
     c->fd = fd;
     c->querybuf = sdsempty();
-    c->newline = NULL;
+    c->reqtype = 0;
     c->argc = 0;
     c->argv = NULL;
+    c->multibulklen = 0;
     c->bulklen = -1;
-    c->multibulk = 0;
-    c->mbargc = 0;
-    c->mbargv = NULL;
     c->sentlen = 0;
     c->flags = 0;
     c->lastinteraction = time(NULL);
@@ -374,13 +372,9 @@ void acceptHandler(aeEventLoop *el, int fd, void *privdata, int mask) {
 
 static void freeClientArgv(redisClient *c) {
     int j;
-
     for (j = 0; j < c->argc; j++)
         decrRefCount(c->argv[j]);
-    for (j = 0; j < c->mbargc; j++)
-        decrRefCount(c->mbargv[j]);
     c->argc = 0;
-    c->mbargc = 0;
 }
 
 void freeClient(redisClient *c) {
@@ -461,7 +455,6 @@ void freeClient(redisClient *c) {
     }
     /* Release memory */
     zfree(c->argv);
-    zfree(c->mbargv);
     freeClientMultiState(c);
     zfree(c);
 }
@@ -549,6 +542,7 @@ void sendReplyToClient(aeEventLoop *el, int fd, void *privdata, int mask) {
 
         /* Close connection after entire reply has been sent. */
         if (c->flags & REDIS_QUIT) freeClient(c);
+        if (c->flags & REDIS_CLOSE_AFTER_REPLY) freeClient(c);
     }
 }
 
@@ -633,9 +627,9 @@ void sendReplyToClientWritev(aeEventLoop *el, int fd, void *privdata, int mask)
 /* resetClient prepare the client to process the next command */
 void resetClient(redisClient *c) {
     freeClientArgv(c);
+    c->reqtype = 0;
+    c->multibulklen = 0;
     c->bulklen = -1;
-    c->multibulk = 0;
-    c->newline = NULL;
 }
 
 void closeTimedoutClients(void) {
@@ -666,10 +660,136 @@ void closeTimedoutClients(void) {
     }
 }
 
-void processInputBuffer(redisClient *c) {
+int processInlineBuffer(redisClient *c) {
-    int seeknewline = 0;
+    char *newline = strstr(c->querybuf,"\r\n");
+    int argc, j;
+    sds *argv;
+    size_t querylen;
 
-again:
+    /* Nothing to do without a \r\n */
+    if (newline == NULL)
+        return REDIS_ERR;
+
+    /* Split the input buffer up to the \r\n */
+    querylen = newline-(c->querybuf);
+    argv = sdssplitlen(c->querybuf,querylen," ",1,&argc);
+
+    /* Leave data after the first line of the query in the buffer */
+    c->querybuf = sdsrange(c->querybuf,querylen+2,-1);
+
+    /* Setup argv array on client structure */
+    if (c->argv) zfree(c->argv);
+    c->argv = zmalloc(sizeof(robj*)*argc);
+
+    /* Create redis objects for all arguments. */
+    for (c->argc = 0, j = 0; j < argc; j++) {
+        if (sdslen(argv[j])) {
+            c->argv[c->argc] = createObject(REDIS_STRING,argv[j]);
+            c->argc++;
+        } else {
+            sdsfree(argv[j]);
+        }
+    }
+    zfree(argv);
+    return REDIS_OK;
+}
+
+/* Helper function. Trims query buffer to make the function that processes
+ * multi bulk requests idempotent. */
+static void setProtocolError(redisClient *c, int pos) {
+    c->flags |= REDIS_CLOSE_AFTER_REPLY;
+    c->querybuf = sdsrange(c->querybuf,pos,-1);
+}
+
+int processMultibulkBuffer(redisClient *c) {
+    char *newline = NULL;
+    char *eptr;
+    int pos = 0, tolerr;
+    long bulklen;
+
+    if (c->multibulklen == 0) {
+        /* The client should have been reset */
+        redisAssert(c->argc == 0);
+
+        /* Multi bulk length cannot be read without a \r\n */
+        newline = strstr(c->querybuf,"\r\n");
+        if (newline == NULL)
+            return REDIS_ERR;
+
+        /* We know for sure there is a whole line since newline != NULL,
+         * so go ahead and find out the multi bulk length. */
+        redisAssert(c->querybuf[0] == '*');
+        c->multibulklen = strtol(c->querybuf+1,&eptr,10);
+        pos = (newline-c->querybuf)+2;
+        if (c->multibulklen <= 0) {
+            c->querybuf = sdsrange(c->querybuf,pos,-1);
+            return REDIS_OK;
+        }
+
+        /* Setup argv array on client structure */
+        if (c->argv) zfree(c->argv);
+        c->argv = zmalloc(sizeof(robj*)*c->multibulklen);
+
+        /* Search new newline */
+        newline = strstr(c->querybuf+pos,"\r\n");
+    }
+
+    redisAssert(c->multibulklen > 0);
+    while(c->multibulklen) {
+        /* Read bulk length if unknown */
+        if (c->bulklen == -1) {
+            newline = strstr(c->querybuf+pos,"\r\n");
+            if (newline != NULL) {
+                if (c->querybuf[pos] != '$') {
+                    addReplyErrorFormat(c,
+                        "Protocol error: expected '$', got '%c'",
+                        c->querybuf[pos]);
+                    setProtocolError(c,pos);
+                    return REDIS_ERR;
+                }
+
+                bulklen = strtol(c->querybuf+pos+1,&eptr,10);
+                tolerr = (eptr[0] != '\r');
+                if (tolerr || bulklen == LONG_MIN || bulklen == LONG_MAX ||
+                    bulklen < 0 || bulklen > 1024*1024*1024)
+                {
+                    addReplyError(c,"Protocol error: invalid bulk length");
+                    setProtocolError(c,pos);
+                    return REDIS_ERR;
+                }
+                pos += eptr-(c->querybuf+pos)+2;
+                c->bulklen = bulklen;
+            } else {
+                /* No newline in current buffer, so wait for more data */
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /* Read bulk argument */
+        if (sdslen(c->querybuf)-pos < (unsigned)(c->bulklen+2)) {
+            /* Not enough data (+2 == trailing \r\n) */
+            break;
+        } else {
+            c->argv[c->argc++] = createStringObject(c->querybuf+pos,c->bulklen);
+            pos += c->bulklen+2;
+            c->bulklen = -1;
+            c->multibulklen--;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* Trim to pos */
+    c->querybuf = sdsrange(c->querybuf,pos,-1);
+
+    /* We're done when c->multibulk == 0 */
+    if (c->multibulklen == 0) {
+        return REDIS_OK;
+    }
+    return REDIS_ERR;
+}
+
+void processInputBuffer(redisClient *c) {
+    /* Keep processing while there is something in the input buffer */
+    while(sdslen(c->querybuf)) {
         /* Before to process the input buffer, make sure the client is not
          * waitig for a blocking operation such as BLPOP. Note that the first
          * iteration the client is never blocked, otherwise the processInputBuffer
@@ -682,79 +802,27 @@ again:
          * buffer is flushed (with the OK), the connection will be dropped. */
         if (c->flags & REDIS_QUIT) return;
 
-    if (seeknewline && c->bulklen == -1) c->newline = strchr(c->querybuf,'\n');
+        /* Determine request type when unknown. */
-    seeknewline = 1;
+        if (!c->reqtype) {
-    if (c->bulklen == -1) {
+            if (c->querybuf[0] == '*') {
-        /* Read the first line of the query */
+                c->reqtype = REDIS_REQ_MULTIBULK;
-        size_t querylen;
-
-        if (c->newline) {
-            char *p = c->newline;
-            sds query, *argv;
-            int argc, j;
-
-            c->newline = NULL;
-            query = c->querybuf;
-            c->querybuf = sdsempty();
-            querylen = 1+(p-(query));
-            if (sdslen(query) > querylen) {
-                /* leave data after the first line of the query in the buffer */
-                c->querybuf = sdscatlen(c->querybuf,query+querylen,sdslen(query)-querylen);
-            }
-            *p = '\0'; /* remove "\n" */
-            if (*(p-1) == '\r') *(p-1) = '\0'; /* and "\r" if any */
-            sdsupdatelen(query);
-
-            /* Now we can split the query in arguments */
-            argv = sdssplitlen(query,sdslen(query)," ",1,&argc);
-            sdsfree(query);
-
-            if (c->argv) zfree(c->argv);
-            c->argv = zmalloc(sizeof(robj*)*argc);
-
-            for (j = 0; j < argc; j++) {
-                if (sdslen(argv[j])) {
-                    c->argv[c->argc] = createObject(REDIS_STRING,argv[j]);
-                    c->argc++;
             } else {
-                    sdsfree(argv[j]);
+                c->reqtype = REDIS_REQ_INLINE;
             }
         }
-            zfree(argv);
-            if (c->argc) {
-                /* Execute the command. If the client is still valid
-                 * after processCommand() return and there is something
-                 * on the query buffer try to process the next command. */
-                if (processCommand(c) && sdslen(c->querybuf)) goto again;
-            } else {
-                /* Nothing to process, argc == 0. Just process the query
-                 * buffer if it's not empty or return to the caller */
-                if (sdslen(c->querybuf)) goto again;
-            }
-            return;
-        } else if (sdslen(c->querybuf) >= REDIS_REQUEST_MAX_SIZE) {
-            redisLog(REDIS_VERBOSE, "Client protocol error");
-            freeClient(c);
-            return;
-        }
-    } else {
-        /* Bulk read handling. Note that if we are at this point
-           the client already sent a command terminated with a newline,
-           we are reading the bulk data that is actually the last
-           argument of the command. */
-        int qbl = sdslen(c->querybuf);
 
-        if (c->bulklen <= qbl) {
+        if (c->reqtype == REDIS_REQ_INLINE) {
-            /* Copy everything but the final CRLF as final argument */
+            if (processInlineBuffer(c) != REDIS_OK) break;
-            c->argv[c->argc] = createStringObject(c->querybuf,c->bulklen-2);
+        } else if (c->reqtype == REDIS_REQ_MULTIBULK) {
-            c->argc++;
+            if (processMultibulkBuffer(c) != REDIS_OK) break;
-            c->querybuf = sdsrange(c->querybuf,c->bulklen,-1);
+        } else {
-            /* Process the command. If the client is still valid after
+            redisPanic("Unknown request type");
-             * the processing and there is more data in the buffer
-             * try to parse it. */
-            if (processCommand(c) && sdslen(c->querybuf)) goto again;
-            return;
         }
+
+        /* Multibulk processing could see a <= 0 length. */
+        if (c->argc > 0)
+            processCommand(c);
+        resetClient(c);
     }
 }
 
@@ -780,14 +848,8 @@ void readQueryFromClient(aeEventLoop *el, int fd, void *privdata, int mask) {
         return;
     }
     if (nread) {
-        size_t oldlen = sdslen(c->querybuf);
         c->querybuf = sdscatlen(c->querybuf,buf,nread);
         c->lastinteraction = time(NULL);
-        /* Scan this new piece of the query for the newline. We do this
-         * here in order to make sure we perform this scan just one time
-         * per piece of buffer, leading to an O(N) scan instead of O(N*N) */
-        if (c->bulklen == -1 && c->newline == NULL)
-            c->newline = strchr(c->querybuf+oldlen,'\n');
     } else {
         return;
     }

src/redis.c

@@ -889,79 +889,6 @@ void call(redisClient *c, struct redisCommand *cmd) {
 int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
     struct redisCommand *cmd;
 
-    /* Handle the multi bulk command type. This is an alternative protocol
-     * supported by Redis in order to receive commands that are composed of
-     * multiple binary-safe "bulk" arguments. The latency of processing is
-     * a bit higher but this allows things like multi-sets, so if this
-     * protocol is used only for MSET and similar commands this is a big win. */
-    if (c->multibulk == 0 && c->argc == 1 && ((char*)(c->argv[0]->ptr))[0] == '*') {
-        c->multibulk = atoi(((char*)c->argv[0]->ptr)+1);
-        if (c->multibulk <= 0) {
-            resetClient(c);
-            return 1;
-        } else {
-            decrRefCount(c->argv[c->argc-1]);
-            c->argc--;
-            return 1;
-        }
-    } else if (c->multibulk) {
-        if (c->bulklen == -1) {
-            if (((char*)c->argv[0]->ptr)[0] != '$') {
-                addReplyError(c,"multi bulk protocol error");
-                resetClient(c);
-                return 1;
-            } else {
-                char *eptr;
-                long bulklen = strtol(((char*)c->argv[0]->ptr)+1,&eptr,10);
-                int perr = eptr[0] != '\0';
-
-                decrRefCount(c->argv[0]);
-                if (perr || bulklen == LONG_MIN || bulklen == LONG_MAX ||
-                    bulklen < 0 || bulklen > 1024*1024*1024)
-                {
-                    c->argc--;
-                    addReplyError(c,"invalid bulk write count");
-                    resetClient(c);
-                    return 1;
-                }
-                c->argc--;
-                c->bulklen = bulklen+2; /* add two bytes for CR+LF */
-                return 1;
-            }
-        } else {
-            c->mbargv = zrealloc(c->mbargv,(sizeof(robj*))*(c->mbargc+1));
-            c->mbargv[c->mbargc] = c->argv[0];
-            c->mbargc++;
-            c->argc--;
-            c->multibulk--;
-            if (c->multibulk == 0) {
-                robj **auxargv;
-                int auxargc;
-
-                /* Here we need to swap the multi-bulk argc/argv with the
-                 * normal argc/argv of the client structure. */
-                auxargv = c->argv;
-                c->argv = c->mbargv;
-                c->mbargv = auxargv;
-
-                auxargc = c->argc;
-                c->argc = c->mbargc;
-                c->mbargc = auxargc;
-
-                /* We need to set bulklen to something different than -1
-                 * in order for the code below to process the command without
-                 * to try to read the last argument of a bulk command as
-                 * a special argument. */
-                c->bulklen = 0;
-                /* continue below and process the command */
-            } else {
-                c->bulklen = -1;
-                return 1;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    /* -- end of multi bulk commands processing -- */
-
     /* The QUIT command is handled separately. Normal command procs will
      * go through checking for replication and QUIT will cause trouble
      * when FORCE_REPLICATION is enabled and would be implemented in
@@ -970,7 +897,7 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
     if (!strcasecmp(c->argv[0]->ptr,"quit")) {
         c->flags |= REDIS_QUIT;
         addReply(c,shared.ok);
-        return 0;
+        return REDIS_ERR;
     }
 
     /* Now lookup the command and check ASAP about trivial error conditions
@@ -979,46 +906,14 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
     if (!cmd) {
         addReplyErrorFormat(c,"unknown command '%s'",
             (char*)c->argv[0]->ptr);
-        resetClient(c);
+        return REDIS_OK;
-        return 1;
     } else if ((cmd->arity > 0 && cmd->arity != c->argc) ||
                (c->argc < -cmd->arity)) {
         addReplyErrorFormat(c,"wrong number of arguments for '%s' command",
             cmd->name);
-        resetClient(c);
+        return REDIS_OK;
-        return 1;
+    }
-    } else if (cmd->flags & REDIS_CMD_BULK && c->bulklen == -1) {
-        /* This is a bulk command, we have to read the last argument yet. */
-        char *eptr;
-        long bulklen = strtol(c->argv[c->argc-1]->ptr,&eptr,10);
-        int perr = eptr[0] != '\0';
 
-        decrRefCount(c->argv[c->argc-1]);
-        if (perr || bulklen == LONG_MAX || bulklen == LONG_MIN ||
-            bulklen < 0 || bulklen > 1024*1024*1024)
-        {
-            c->argc--;
-            addReplyError(c,"invalid bulk write count");
-            resetClient(c);
-            return 1;
-        }
-        c->argc--;
-        c->bulklen = bulklen+2; /* add two bytes for CR+LF */
-        /* It is possible that the bulk read is already in the
-         * buffer. Check this condition and handle it accordingly.
-         * This is just a fast path, alternative to call processInputBuffer().
-         * It's a good idea since the code is small and this condition
-         * happens most of the times. */
-        if ((signed)sdslen(c->querybuf) >= c->bulklen) {
-            c->argv[c->argc] = createStringObject(c->querybuf,c->bulklen-2);
-            c->argc++;
-            c->querybuf = sdsrange(c->querybuf,c->bulklen,-1);
-        } else {
-            /* Otherwise return... there is to read the last argument
-             * from the socket. */
-            return 1;
-        }
-    }
     /* Let's try to encode the bulk object to save space. */
     if (cmd->flags & REDIS_CMD_BULK)
         c->argv[c->argc-1] = tryObjectEncoding(c->argv[c->argc-1]);
@@ -1026,8 +921,7 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
     /* Check if the user is authenticated */
     if (server.requirepass && !c->authenticated && cmd->proc != authCommand) {
         addReplyError(c,"operation not permitted");
-        resetClient(c);
+        return REDIS_OK;
-        return 1;
     }
 
     /* Handle the maxmemory directive.
@@ -1040,8 +934,7 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
         zmalloc_used_memory() > server.maxmemory)
     {
         addReplyError(c,"command not allowed when used memory > 'maxmemory'");
-        resetClient(c);
+        return REDIS_OK;
-        return 1;
     }
 
     /* Only allow SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE in the context of Pub/Sub */
@@ -1050,8 +943,7 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
         cmd->proc != subscribeCommand && cmd->proc != unsubscribeCommand &&
         cmd->proc != psubscribeCommand && cmd->proc != punsubscribeCommand) {
         addReplyError(c,"only (P)SUBSCRIBE / (P)UNSUBSCRIBE / QUIT allowed in this context");
-        resetClient(c);
+        return REDIS_OK;
-        return 1;
     }
 
     /* Exec the command */
@@ -1066,10 +958,7 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
             blockClientOnSwappedKeys(c,cmd)) return 1;
         call(c,cmd);
     }
-
+    return REDIS_OK;
-    /* Prepare the client for the next command */
-    resetClient(c);
-    return 1;
 }
 
 /*================================== Shutdown =============================== */

src/redis.h

@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@
 #define REDIS_IO_WAIT 32    /* The client is waiting for Virtual Memory I/O */
 #define REDIS_DIRTY_CAS 64  /* Watched keys modified. EXEC will fail. */
 #define REDIS_QUIT 128      /* Client will be disconnected after reply is sent */
+#define REDIS_CLOSE_AFTER_REPLY 256 /* Close connection immediately once the
+                                     * reply has been sent. */
+
+/* Client request types */
+#define REDIS_REQ_INLINE 1
+#define REDIS_REQ_MULTIBULK 2
 
 /* Slave replication state - slave side */
 #define REDIS_REPL_NONE 0   /* No active replication */
@@ -286,11 +292,11 @@ typedef struct redisClient {
     redisDb *db;
     int dictid;
     sds querybuf;
-    robj **argv, **mbargv;
+    int argc;
-    char *newline;          /* pointing to the detected newline in querybuf */
+    robj **argv;
-    int argc, mbargc;
+    int reqtype;
-    long bulklen;            /* bulk read len. -1 if not in bulk read mode */
+    int multibulklen;       /* number of multi bulk arguments left to read */
-    int multibulk;          /* multi bulk command format active */
+    long bulklen;           /* length of bulk argument in multi bulk request */
     list *reply;
     int sentlen;
     time_t lastinteraction; /* time of the last interaction, used for timeout */