GenericClientResponse of grpc while copyable, reports memory leak on …

…some cases.

Avoided to copy the entire bytebuffer, but just the slice which is individually
refcounted.

Added more allocator and minor improvements in buffer

conanfile.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 class SISLConan(ConanFile):
     name = "sisl"
-    version = "12.1.1"
+    version = "12.2.1"
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/eBay/sisl"
     description = "Library for fast data structures, utilities"

include/sisl/fds/buffer.hpp

@@ -229,6 +229,45 @@ class AlignedAllocator {
     AlignedAllocatorMetrics m_metrics;
 };
 
+template < typename T, std::size_t Alignment = 512 >
+class AlignedTypeAllocator {
+private:
+    static_assert(Alignment >= alignof(T),
+                  "Beware that types like int have minimum alignment requirements "
+                  "or access will result in crashes.");
+
+public:
+    /**
+     * This is only necessary because AlignedAllocator has a second template
+     * argument for the alignment that will make the default
+     * std::allocator_traits implementation fail during compilation.
+     * @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/48062758/2191065
+     *
+     * Taken this from link:
+     * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60169819/modern-approach-to-making-stdvector-allocate-aligned-memory
+     */
+    template < class OtherT >
+    struct rebind {
+        using other = AlignedTypeAllocator< OtherT, Alignment >;
+    };
+
+public:
+    constexpr AlignedTypeAllocator() noexcept = default;
+    constexpr AlignedTypeAllocator(const AlignedTypeAllocator&) noexcept = default;
+
+    template < typename U >
+    constexpr AlignedTypeAllocator(AlignedTypeAllocator< U, Alignment > const&) noexcept {}
+
+    T* allocate(std::size_t nelems) {
+        if (nelems > std::numeric_limits< std::size_t >::max() / sizeof(T)) { throw std::bad_array_new_length(); }
+        return r_cast< T* >(AlignedAllocator::allocator().aligned_alloc(Alignment, nelems * sizeof(T), buftag::common));
+    }
+
+    void deallocate(T* ptr, [[maybe_unused]] std::size_t nbytes) {
+        AlignedAllocator::allocator().aligned_free(uintptr_cast(ptr), buftag::common);
+    }
+};
+
 #define sisl_aligned_alloc sisl::AlignedAllocator::allocator().aligned_alloc
 #define sisl_aligned_free sisl::AlignedAllocator::allocator().aligned_free
 #define sisl_aligned_realloc sisl::AlignedAllocator::allocator().aligned_realloc
@@ -273,6 +312,9 @@ class aligned_shared_ptr : public std::shared_ptr< T > {
     aligned_shared_ptr(T* p) : std::shared_ptr< T >(p) {}
 };
 
+template < typename T, std::size_t Alignment = 512 >
+using aligned_vector = std::vector< T, AlignedTypeAllocator< T, Alignment > >;
+
 struct io_blob;
 using io_blob_list_t = folly::small_vector< sisl::io_blob, 4 >;
 
@@ -338,7 +380,7 @@ struct io_blob : public blob {
  */
 struct io_blob_safe final : public io_blob {
 public:
-    buftag m_tag;
+    buftag m_tag{buftag::common};
 
 public:
     io_blob_safe() = default;
@@ -367,6 +409,8 @@ struct io_blob_safe final : public io_blob {
         other.size_ = 0;
         return *this;
     }
+
+    void buf_alloc(size_t sz, uint32_t align_size = 512) { io_blob::buf_alloc(sz, align_size, m_tag); }
 };
 
 using byte_array_impl = io_blob_safe;

include/sisl/grpc/rpc_client.hpp

@@ -163,19 +163,18 @@ class ClientRpcDataFuture : public ClientRpcDataInternal< ReqT, RespT > {
     folly::Promise< Result< RespT > > m_promise;
 };
 
-class GenericClientResponse {
+class GenericClientResponse : public ObjLifeCounter< GenericClientResponse > {
 public:
     GenericClientResponse() = default;
     GenericClientResponse(grpc::ByteBuffer const& buf) : m_response_buf{buf} {}
 
     GenericClientResponse(GenericClientResponse&& other);
     GenericClientResponse& operator=(GenericClientResponse&& other);
     GenericClientResponse(GenericClientResponse const& other) = default;
-    GenericClientResponse& operator=(GenericClientResponse const& other) = default;
+    GenericClientResponse& operator=(GenericClientResponse const& other);
     ~GenericClientResponse() = default;
 
     io_blob response_blob();
-    grpc::ByteBuffer const& response_buf(bool need_contiguous = true);
 
 private:
     grpc::ByteBuffer m_response_buf;

include/sisl/utility/obj_life_counter.hpp

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ struct ObjLifeCounter {
         s_alive.fetch_sub(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
     }
 
-    ObjLifeCounter(const ObjLifeCounter& o) noexcept { s_alive.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed); }
+    ObjLifeCounter(const ObjLifeCounter&) noexcept { s_alive.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed); }
     static std::atomic< int64_t > s_created;
     static std::atomic< int64_t > s_alive;
     static ObjTypeWrapper< T > s_type;

src/grpc/rpc_client.cpp

@@ -196,21 +196,23 @@ GenericClientResponse& GenericClientResponse::operator=(GenericClientResponse&&
     return *this;
 }
 
-grpc::ByteBuffer const& GenericClientResponse::response_buf(bool need_contiguous) {
-    if (!need_contiguous || m_single_slice.size() || !m_response_buf.Valid()) { return m_response_buf; }
-
-    auto status = m_response_buf.TrySingleSlice(&m_single_slice);
-    if (status.ok()) { return m_response_buf; }
-
-    status = m_response_buf.DumpToSingleSlice(&m_single_slice);
-    RELEASE_ASSERT(status.ok(), "Failed to deserialize response: code: {}. msg: {}",
-                   static_cast< int >(status.error_code()), status.error_message());
-
-    return m_response_buf;
+GenericClientResponse& GenericClientResponse::operator=(GenericClientResponse const& other) {
+    m_response_buf = other.m_response_buf;
+    m_single_slice = other.m_single_slice;
+    return *this;
 }
 
 io_blob GenericClientResponse::response_blob() {
-    response_buf(true /* need_contiguous */);
+    if ((m_single_slice.size() == 0) && m_response_buf.Valid()) {
+        auto status = m_response_buf.TrySingleSlice(&m_single_slice);
+        if (!status.ok()) {
+            status = m_response_buf.DumpToSingleSlice(&m_single_slice);
+            RELEASE_ASSERT(status.ok(), "Failed to deserialize response: code: {}. msg: {}",
+                           static_cast< int >(status.error_code()), status.error_message());
+        }
+        m_response_buf.Clear(); // Since we dumped everything to a single slice, we don't need bytebyffer anymore
+    }
+
     auto const size = uint32_cast(m_single_slice.size());
     return size ? io_blob{m_single_slice.begin(), size, false /* is_aligned */} : io_blob{};
 }

src/grpc/tests/unit/client_test.cpp

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ using namespace ::grpc;
     buffer.Swap(&tmp);
 }
 
-static std::string DeserializeFromBuffer(ByteBuffer const& buffer) {
+[[maybe_unused]] static std::string DeserializeFromBuffer(ByteBuffer const& buffer) {
     std::vector< grpc::Slice > slices;
     (void)buffer.Dump(&slices);
     std::string buf;
@@ -67,18 +67,14 @@ static std::string blob_to_string(io_blob const& b) { return std::string(c_charp
 static void do_test(std::string const& msg, grpc::ByteBuffer& bbuf) {
     GenericClientResponse resp1(bbuf);
     {
-        auto const& rbuf1 = resp1.response_buf();
-        EXPECT_EQ(msg, DeserializeFromBuffer(rbuf1));
+        // EXPECT_EQ(msg, DeserializeFromBuffer(rbuf1));
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp1.response_blob()));
     }
 
     // move construction
     GenericClientResponse resp2(std::move(resp1));
     {
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp2.response_blob()));
-        EXPECT_TRUE(resp2.response_buf().Valid());
-
-        EXPECT_FALSE(resp1.response_buf().Valid());
         auto blb1 = resp1.response_blob();
         EXPECT_EQ(blb1.size(), 0);
         EXPECT_EQ(blb1.cbytes(), nullptr);
@@ -89,9 +85,6 @@ static void do_test(std::string const& msg, grpc::ByteBuffer& bbuf) {
     resp3 = std::move(resp2);
     {
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp3.response_blob()));
-        EXPECT_TRUE(resp3.response_buf().Valid());
-
-        EXPECT_FALSE(resp2.response_buf().Valid());
         auto blb2 = resp2.response_blob();
         EXPECT_EQ(blb2.size(), 0);
         EXPECT_EQ(blb2.cbytes(), nullptr);
@@ -101,9 +94,6 @@ static void do_test(std::string const& msg, grpc::ByteBuffer& bbuf) {
     {
         GenericClientResponse resp4(resp3);
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp4.response_blob()));
-        EXPECT_TRUE(resp4.response_buf().Valid());
-
-        EXPECT_TRUE(resp3.response_buf().Valid());
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp3.response_blob()));
     }
 
@@ -112,9 +102,6 @@ static void do_test(std::string const& msg, grpc::ByteBuffer& bbuf) {
         GenericClientResponse resp5;
         resp5 = resp3;
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp5.response_blob()));
-        EXPECT_TRUE(resp5.response_buf().Valid());
-
-        EXPECT_TRUE(resp3.response_buf().Valid());
         EXPECT_EQ(msg, blob_to_string(resp3.response_blob()));
     }
 }