From: Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:55:30 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: http2: Use huge HTTP/2 windows
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_52_0~108
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a4d8888;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

http2: Use huge HTTP/2 windows

- Improve performance by using a huge HTTP/2 window size.

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1102
Reported-by: afrind@users.noreply.github.com
Assisted-by: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
---

diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO
index c3bc4eb552..99c610fe9b 100644
--- a/docs/TODO
+++ b/docs/TODO
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
  5.1 Better persistency for HTTP 1.0
  5.2 support FF3 sqlite cookie files
  5.3 Rearrange request header order
- 5.4 Use huge HTTP/2 windows
  5.5 auth= in URLs
  5.6 Refuse "downgrade" redirects
  5.7 Brotli compression
@@ -528,13 +527,6 @@ This is not detailed in any FTP specification.
  headers use a default value so only headers that need to be moved have to be
  specified.
 
-5.4 Use huge HTTP/2 windows
-
- We're currently using nghttp2's default window size which is terribly small
- (64K). This becomes a bottle neck over high bandwidth networks. We should
- instead make the window size to be very big (512MB?) as we really don't do
- much flow control anyway.
-
 5.5 auth= in URLs
 
  Add the ability to specify the preferred authentication mechanism to use by
diff --git a/lib/http2.c b/lib/http2.c
index 6720984b01..202ab1b5df 100644
--- a/lib/http2.c
+++ b/lib/http2.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
 #define nghttp2_session_callbacks_set_error_callback(x,y)
 #endif
 
+#define HTTP2_HUGE_WINDOW_SIZE (1 << 30)
+
 /*
  * Curl_http2_init_state() is called when the easy handle is created and
  * allows for HTTP/2 specific init of state.
@@ -965,7 +967,7 @@ static ssize_t data_source_read_callback(nghttp2_session *session,
  */
 static nghttp2_settings_entry settings[] = {
   { NGHTTP2_SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS, 100 },
-  { NGHTTP2_SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE, NGHTTP2_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE },
+  { NGHTTP2_SETTINGS_INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE, HTTP2_HUGE_WINDOW_SIZE },
 };
 
 #define H2_BUFSIZE 32768
@@ -2031,7 +2033,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_http2_switched(struct connectdata *conn,
   else {
     /* stream ID is unknown at this point */
     stream->stream_id = -1;
-    rv = nghttp2_submit_settings(httpc->h2, NGHTTP2_FLAG_NONE, NULL, 0);
+    rv = nghttp2_submit_settings(httpc->h2, NGHTTP2_FLAG_NONE, settings,
+                                 sizeof(settings) / sizeof(settings[0]));
     if(rv != 0) {
       failf(data, "nghttp2_submit_settings() failed: %s(%d)",
             nghttp2_strerror(rv), rv);
@@ -2039,6 +2042,14 @@ CURLcode Curl_http2_switched(struct connectdata *conn,
     }
   }
 
+  rv = nghttp2_session_set_local_window_size(httpc->h2, NGHTTP2_FLAG_NONE, 0,
+                                             HTTP2_HUGE_WINDOW_SIZE);
+  if(rv != 0) {
+    failf(data, "nghttp2_session_set_local_window_size() failed: %s(%d)",
+          nghttp2_strerror(rv), rv);
+    return CURLE_HTTP2;
+  }
+
   /* we are going to copy mem to httpc->inbuf.  This is required since
      mem is part of buffer pointed by stream->mem, and callbacks
      called by nghttp2_session_mem_recv() will write stream specific