2017-05-25

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs May 25th, 2017

STICKY

  • Triage duty: dragana
  • new untriaged bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zhk9yjf
  • NECKO-ACTIVE bugs: https://tinyurl.com/j8pj35u
  • NECKO NEXT bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zjwjfee
  • NECKO-BACKLOG bugs: https://tinyurl.com/hpkcxx3

Round Table:

  • "Reference hardware" (3-4 Acer Laptops) so we have a standard for performance metrics
  • people.mozilla.org going away

---PROJECT UPDATES--- - rust-url meeting notes: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozloha-rust-url - rcwn https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozaloha-rcwn - service workers https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozaloha-sw-necko

QUIC (Pat, Dragana, Daniel)

Race-Cache-with-Network (Michal, Valentin, Junior)

  • Enabled on nightly for a while
  • Next: land performance stats

Context-Driven Priority (Honza, Kershaw, Amy, Gary, Nick)

  • maybe we should give this a read? http://web.mit.edu/ravinet/www/polaris_nsdi16.pdf

PBackgroundHttp (SC, NIck)

Nick

  • NTLM Hell

Honza

Michal

  • triage
  • RCWN
  • 1177909 websocket doesn't work if firefox uses the system's proxy settings on ubuntu linux
  • 1365773 Firefox incorrectly appends top level domain to the host name when processing HTTP 401 authentication

Patrick

last week: mpendingq, 256fd telemetry, 0.9 telemetry, namespaces, neat tls, alt-svc, immutable bug, some non-necko stuff this week: neat tls, alt-svc, immutable bug, some non-necko stuff. more reviews.

Daniel

  • 1359639 - (sec-critical) heap-buffer-overflow READ size 4 in [@ nsDirIndexParser::ParseData] (to land on the 22nd)
  • 1360164 - The first async XHR done during startup blocks the main thread while initializing nsProtocolProxyService (- 1363989 windows build error)
  • 1364250 - Move JAR channel I/O off of main thread
  • 356831 - Proxy autodiscovery doesn't check DHCP ( "sorta")

Valentin

bug 945240 - make URLs hold punycode hosts

bug 1359697 - don't poll for CP detection

bug 1356097 - investigate weird telemetry metrics

Dragana

TFO

rel=preload

Bug 1364372 - Audit SpeculativeConnect Telemetry with TFO

Bug 1364189 - Make sure not to retry socketTransaction if nsHttpConnectionMgr cancels it

Gary

webpagetest is running through mitmproxy in transparent proxy mode.

Bug 1341266 - Set the highest priority when the transaction marked urgent-start on http2.

Junior

Bug 867798 - Cookie Service closes DB on main thread (investigation)

Bug 1354407 - Add new telemetry probe for saved time when we rcwn(land)

Bug 1354405 - Add new telemetry probe for bandwidth cost based on average cache hit when we rcwn(checkin needed)

Bug 1363472 - Crash in mozalloc_abort | NS_DebugBreak | mozilla::ipc::FatalError | mozilla::net::PNeckoChild::SendPWyciwygChannelConstructor(land)

Bug 1363659 - Prevent mozilla::ipc::FatalError from mozilla::net::PNeckoChild::SendP*Constructor(follow-up)

Amy

Bug 1331680 - Consider not doing sync IPC for document.cookie getter/setter

  • Josh offered a new design on comment 100.
  • I have finished to modify the data struct and operation on the document hash table.

Kershaw

[CDP]

Bug 1312515 - Lower priority of HTTP requests coming from tracking scripts

  • r+
  • Working on test case

Bug 1360581 - HTTP channel TP annotation happens too late

  • WIP

[Labeling]

Bug 1343743 - Label IPC actors in necko

  • WIP

SC

[HttpChannel]

  • PBackground-ify HttpChannel IPC

  • Bug 1015466 - PBackground-ify for ODA IPC

  • r+'ed for part 0 ~ 3, review comment addressed

  • upload final part 4, try looks good, waiting for @mayhemer's review

  • running talos to compare the performance difference

  • Bug 1338493 - move HttpChannel IPC from main thread to STS thread in content process

    • WIP provided, tested with page load, image rendering, video rendering on Linux

  • fix intermittent debug assertion Bug 1354455 -> should also fix Bug 1362626 [Quantum Flow]

  • Bug 1363421 - UserAgentOverrides.jsm is visible on startup profiles

    • try delay it until the creation of nsHttpHandler, got backout'ed
    • update patch to delay it until the first nsHttpChannel is created, try looks good, waiting for @mcmanus's review

  • Bug 1365566 - Use PR_GetSystemInfo to get OS version instead of using system info

    • upload a patch to workaround system info slowness, try looks good, waiting for @dragana's review