2017-09-19

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs Sept 14th, 2017

STICKY

  • Triage duty: nwgh
  • new untriaged bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zhk9yjf (https://mzl.la/2ylkidL)
  • NECKO-ACTIVE bugs: https://tinyurl.com/j8pj35u (https://mzl.la/2he1C85)
  • NECKO NEXT bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zjwjfee (https://mzl.la/2yaD1aO)
  • NECKO-BACKLOG bugs: https://tinyurl.com/hpkcxx3 (https://mzl.la/2xcYzEL)
  • NECKO-WOULD-TAKE bugs: https://mzl.la/2hdnQXy
  • Triage Notes
    • Android crashes on infra are currently not symbolicated: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389805 (makes triaging/diagnosing android crash bugs hard/impossible)

Round Table:

  • 57 Nightly, Beta milestones https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jeypuqBqEyIh-4qxXT0UnE2aVjetN7uVD8W7L7TbWKg/edit

  • (15:48:00) annevk: if y'all have meetings, could you bring up fixing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363284 as part of some Quantum effort

  • (15:48:28) annevk: we even have Google devrel volunteering to draw up graphics how it makes Firefox faster than Chrome

  • (15:49:05) annevk: https://twitter.com/annevk/status/901493567855710208

Nick

Honza

Michal

  • 1392841 Enable RCWN on Nightly
  • 1398847 Enabling RCWN causes tp6_facebook regression
  • 1397593 Intermittent /content-security-policy/inside-worker/dedicated-inheritance.html | application crashed [@ mozilla::net::HttpBaseChannel::DoNotifyListener()]
  • 1393298 Intermittent /content-security-policy/inside-worker/dedicated-inheritance.html | application crashed [@ mozilla::net::nsHttpChannel::CallOnStartRequest()]
  • 1398941 test_race_cache_with_network.js test is failing after landing bug 1398847
  • 1399802 race only when disk storage is used

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

  • NEAT project work
  • Bug 1395914 - IPv6 network identification (Linux version reviewed OK, mac version coming)

Valentin

Tried to land Honza's patch

Bug 910207 - Speculative connections should prevent Client Certificate Selection dialog

  • created a regression so we backed it out Bug 1396307 - Crash in RtlEnterCriticalSection | mozilla::RecursiveMutexAutoLock::RecursiveMutexAutoLock

  • crash with auth caused by faulty rcwn logic? on beta Bug 1399541 - Add assertion that we rcwn is enabled when mRaceCacheWithNetwork == true

  • triggered some crashes - which means we have a logic bug

Dragana

TFO

rel=preload and no-cache

JAR

gmail issue - Bug 1389772 (reports in bug 1380896 gmail is slow or stops responding)

Bug 1391543 - Network stops occasionally during "Performing a TLS handshake to..."

Gary

Bug 1373708 - Convert Jar channels to stop using main thread I/O

  • fixing tests, some patches are submitted.

Junior

Bug 870460 - Lazy load of cookie service blocks main thread while cookie database loads

  • r? intend to implement: remove legacy upgrade: cookie.txt, DELETE null base basedomain

Amy

Bug 1376009 - Crash in mozalloc_abort | NS_DebugBreak | mozilla::ipc::LogicError | mozilla::net::PCookieServiceChild::SendGetCookieString

  • uplift to beta Bug 1360603 - Mark Save as... channels used for download as throttleable

  • f+

  • Have to ask dom peer to review this patch Bug 1386746 - HTTP response throttling: experiment with limiting the amount of data we read during the short don't-block-read period

  • Started to work on this bug.

Kershaw

Bug 1377208 - Move background transactions over h2 to the background group

  • landed

Bug 1395472 - Kill switch for moving background transactions over h2 to the background group

  • landed

Bug 1247843 - All s are downloaded during the critical path

  • WIP
  • Fix test failures

SC

[PBg-Http]

  • performance analysis
  • First Paint time for visible elements in HTML document is improved because HTML parser will start to create DOM element earlier. The difference can be observed from TALOS tp6 amazon/youtube. The average first paint time is improved around 50ms.
  • However for facebook no improvement is observed because there is no visible element in the HTML document. In the HTML document there is only for loading CSS/JS scripts and executing