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Enable HTTP/2 support

The binary cache store can now use HTTP/2 to do lookups. This is much
more efficient than HTTP/1.1 due to multiplexing: we can issue many
requests in parallel over a single TCP connection. Thus it's no longer
necessary to use a bunch of concurrent TCP connections (25 by
default).

For example, downloading 802 .narinfo files from
https://cache.nixos.org/, using a single TCP connection, takes 11.8s
with HTTP/1.1, but only 0.61s with HTTP/2.

This did require a fairly substantial rewrite of the Downloader class
to use the curl multi interface, because otherwise curl wouldn't be
able to do multiplexing for us. As a bonus, we get connection reuse
even with HTTP/1.1. All downloads are now handled by a single worker
thread. Clients call Downloader::enqueueDownload() to tell the worker
thread to start the download, getting a std::future to the result.
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2016-09-14 16:00:40 +02:00
parent a75d11a7e6
commit 90ad02bf62
9 changed files with 433 additions and 210 deletions

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@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv)
auto actualUri = resolveMirrorUri(state, uri);
/* Download the file. */
auto result = makeDownloader()->download(actualUri, DownloadOptions());
auto result = getDownloader()->download(DownloadRequest(actualUri));
AutoDelete tmpDir(createTempDir(), true);
Path tmpFile = (Path) tmpDir + "/tmp";