Qpzone employs a locking strategy where rwlocks are grouped into
buckets, and each zone gets 17 buckets.
This strategy is suboptimal in two ways:
- If named is serving a single zone or a zone is the majority of the
traffic, this strategy pretty much guarantees contention when using
more than a dozen threads.
- If named is serving many small zones, it causes substantial memory
usage.
This commit switches the locking to a global table initialized at start
time. This should have three effects:
- Performance should improve in the single zone case, since now we are
selecting from a bigger pool of locks.
- Memory consumption should go down significantly in the many zone
cases.
- Performance should not degrade substantially in the many zone cases.
The reason for this is that, while we could have substantially more
zones than locks, we can query/edit only O(num threads) at the same
time. So by making the global table much bigger than the expected
number of threads, we can limit contention.
Since BIND 9 headers are not longer public, there's no reason to keep
the ISC_LANG_BEGINDECL and ISC_LANG_ENDDECL macros to support including
them from C++ projects.
