Just a quick update.

I started to make some progress but I have been side-tracked by the
HTTP/2 timeout issue raised on users. I've been able to get the clean-up
in but the priority changes aren't going to make the next set of releases.

Mark


On 01/08/2019 09:19, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> One of the things that I took away from the HTTP workshop was that we
> weren't doing as much with h2 priorities as we could.
> 
> If the connection window is at capacity, the code does a reasonable job
> of allocating any additional capacity to waiting streams based on the h2
> priority tree.
> 
> However, if the connection window is not at capacity, Tomcat essentially
> ignores the priority tree. I'd like to see if I can improve this.
> 
> My general thinking is some sort of priority manager where multiple
> implementations are available. Something like:
> - NO-OP (current behaviour)
> - dependencies only (takes account of dependencies for write
>   ordering but not weights
> - full (takes account of dependencies and weights for write ordering)
> 
> I'm not sure the 'full' implementation is viable for a Servlet
> container. What is doable for a single thread managing the writes for
> multiple static resources gets a lot more complicated when you have one
> thread per resource generating those resources dynamically.
> 
> I am currently still trying to get my head around various locking /
> ordering / synchronization issues and I don't yet have anything that
> works. I have stumbled across a couple of places where the code could be
> usefully cleaned up. I'll try and extract those into separate commits
> and get them applied. Hopefully this week but certainly before I tag.
> 
> If I can solve this fairly quickly, my plan is to have the "NO-OP"
> implementation as the default for now so there should be no change in
> behaviour.
> 
> Mark
> 
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