We have a couple of patch series we’re working on (ObjectDB/Read-Object,
Watchman integration) where we could use the ability to have a
background process running that can accept multiple commands thus
avoiding the overhead of spawning a new process for every command.
The ability to do this was added in:
Commit edcc85814c ("convert: add filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16)
keeps the external process running and processes all commands
but it is integrated into the convert code. This patch series takes the
code from convert.c and refactors it into a separate “sub-process”
module so that we can centralize and reuse this logic in other areas.
Once the code was refactored into sub-process, convert.c was updated to
use the new module.
Ben Peart (3):
pkt-line: add packet_write_list_gently()
sub-process: refactor the filter process code into a reusable module
convert: use new sub-process module for filter processes
Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt | 55 ++++++++++
Makefile | 1 +
convert.c | 154 +++++-----------------------
pkt-line.c | 19 ++++
pkt-line.h | 1 +
sub-process.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++
sub-process.h | 46 +++++++++
7 files changed, 259 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt
create mode 100644 sub-process.c
create mode 100644 sub-process.h
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