Updated the ChannelGroup JavaDoc by removing b.releaseExternalResources();
[#2705] Call fireChannelReadComplete() if channelActive(...) decodes messages in ReplayingDecoder / ByteToMessageDecoder

Motivation:

In ReplayingDecoder / ByteToMessageDecoder channelInactive(...) method we try to decode a last time and fire all decoded messages throw the pipeline before call ctx.fireChannelInactive(...). To keep the correct order of events we also need to call ctx.fireChannelReadComplete() if we read anything.

Modifications:

- Channel channelInactive(...) to call ctx.fireChannelReadComplete() if something was decoded
- Move out.recycle() to finally block

Result:

Correct order of events.
Fix compile error
[#2662] Fix race in cancellation of TimerTasks which could let to NPE

Motivation:

Due some race-condition while handling canellation of TimerTasks it was possibleto corrupt the linked-list structure that is represent by HashedWheelBucket and so produce a NPE.

Modification:

Fix the problem by adding another MpscLinkedQueue which holds the cancellation tasks and process them on each tick. This allows to use no synchronization / locking at all while introduce a latency of max 1 tick before the TimerTask can be GC'ed.

Result:

No more NPE
Optimize native transport for gathering writes

Motivation:

While benchmarking the native transport with gathering writes I noticed that it is quite slow. This is due the fact that we need to do a lot of array copies to get the buffers into the iov array.

Modification:

Introduce a new class calles IovArray which allows to fill buffers directly in a iov array that can be passed over to JNI without any array copies. This gives a nice optimization in terms of speed when doing gathering writes.

Result:

Big performance improvement when doing gathering writes. See the included benchmark...

Before:
[nmaurer@xxx]~% wrk/wrk -H 'Host: localhost' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -d 120 -c 256 -t 16 --pipeline 256  http://xxx:8080/plaintext
Running 2m test @ http://xxx:8080/plaintext
  16 threads and 256 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency    23.44ms   16.37ms 259.57ms   91.77%
    Req/Sec   181.99k    31.69k  304.60k    78.12%
  346544071 requests in 2.00m, 46.48GB read
Requests/sec: 2887885.09
Transfer/sec:    396.59MB

With this change:
[nmaurer@xxx]~% wrk/wrk -H 'Host: localhost' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -d 120 -c 256 -t 16 --pipeline 256  http://xxx:8080/plaintext
Running 2m test @ http://xxx:8080/plaintext
  16 threads and 256 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency    21.93ms   16.33ms 305.73ms   92.34%
    Req/Sec   194.56k    33.75k  309.33k    77.04%
  369617503 requests in 2.00m, 49.57GB read
Requests/sec: 3080169.65
Transfer/sec:    423.00MB
Correctly write single ByteBuf with memoryAddress

Motivation:

While optimize gathering writes I introduced a bug when writing single ByteBuf that have a memoryAddress. This regression was introduced by 88bd6e7a9300073707f305409fa6481f1eeb2077.

Modifications:

Correctly use the writerIndex as argument when call Native.writeAddress(...)

Result:

No more corruption while write single buffers.
[#2692] Allows notify ChannelFutureProgressListener on complete writes

Motivation:

We have some inconsistency when handling writes. Sometimes we call ChannelOutboundBuffer.progress(...) also for complete writes and sometimes not. We should call it always.

Modifications:

Correctly call ChannelOuboundBuffer.progress(...) for complete and incomplete writes.

Result:

Consistent behavior
[#2708] DnsResource.duplicate() should return DnsResource and not ByteBufHolder

Motivation:

DnsResource.duplicate() should return DnsResource and not ByteBufHolder

Modifications:

Change return type from ByteBufHolder to DnsResource

Result:

No need to cast to the correct type when using duplicate()
[#2706] Allow pid up to 4194304

Motivation:

The PID_MAX_LIMIT on 64bit linux systems is 4194304 and on osx it is 99998. At the moment we use 65535 as an upper-limit which is too small.

Modifications:

Use 4194304 as max possible value

Result:

No more false-positives when try to detect current pid.
Fix broken test after change the maximal value of the pid. Part of [#2706]
Use correct exception message when throw exception from native code

Motivation:

We sometimes not use the correct exception message when throw it from the native code.

Modifications:

Fixed the message.

Result:

Correct message in exception
Fix a bug where AbstractConstant.compareTo() returns 0 for different constants

Related issue: #2354

Motivation:

AbstractConstant.compareTo() can return 0 even if the specified constant
object is not the same instance with 'this'.

Modifications:

- Compare the identityHashCode of constant first. If that fails,
  allocate a small direct buffer and use its memory address as a unique
  value.  If the platform does not provide a way to get the memory
  address of a direct buffer, use a thread-local random value.
- Signal cannot extend AbstractConstant. Use delegation.

Result:

It is practically impossible for AbstractConstant.compareTo() to return
0 for different constant objects.
Fix a ConstantPoolTest failure
Remove duplicate range check in AbstractByteBuf.skipBytes()
Use our own URL shortener wherever possible
[#2720] Check if /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn exists before try to parse it

Motivation:

As /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn does not exists on non-linux platforms you see a noisy stacktrace when debug level is enabled while the static method of NetUtil is executed.

Modifications:

Check if the file exists before try to parse it.

Result:

Less noisy logging on non-linux platforms.
Remove duplicated code
Improve Bzip2BitReader/Writer

Motivation:

Before this changes Bzip2BitReader and Bzip2BitWriter accessed to ByteBuf byte by byte. So tests for Bzip2 compression codec takes a lot of time if we ran them with paranoid level of resource leak detection. For more information see comments to #2681 and #2689.

Modifications:

- Increased size of bit buffers from 8 to 64 bits.
- Improved reading and writing operations.
- Save link to incoming ByteBuf inside Bzip2BitReader.
- Added methods to check possible readable bits and bytes in Bzip2BitReader.
- Updated Bzip2 classes to use new API of Bzip2BitReader.
- Added new constants to Bzip2Constants.

Result:

Increased size of bit buffers and improved performance of Bzip2 compression codec (for general work by 13% and for tests with paranoid level of resource leak detection by 55%).
Fix buffer leaks in DnsResponseDecoder and DnsResponseDecoderTest

Motivation:

There were two buffer leaks in the codec-dns.

Modifications:

- Fix buffer leak in DnsResponseTest.readResponseTest()
- Correctly release DnsResources on Exception

Result:

No more buffer leaks in the codec-dns module.
[#2718] Added private key decryption to JDK SSL server context.

Motivation:

Currently it is not possible to load an encrypted private key when
creating a JDK based SSL server context.

Modifications:

- Added static method to JdkSslServerContext which handles key spec generation for (encrypted) private keys and make use of it.
-Added tests for creating a SSL server context based on a (encrypted)
private key.

Result:

It is now possible to create a JDK based SSL server context with an
encrypted (password protected) private key.