VMCI transport allows fast communication between the Host
and a virtual machine, between virtual machines on the same host,
and within a virtual machine (like IPC).
It requires VMware to be installed on the host and Guest Additions
to be installed on a guest.
Solution: specify the necessary EXTRA_DIST
I added a Makefile.am in builds that covers all systems except msvc,
which already has a Makefile.am that does this.
Fixes#1505
A memcpy is eliminated when receiving data on a ZMQ_STREAM socket. Instead
of receiving into a static buffer and then copying the data into the
buffer malloced in msg_t::init_size, the raw_decoder allocates the memory
for together with the reference-counter and creates a msg_t object
on top of that memory. This saves the memcpy operation.
For small messages, data is still copied and the receive buffer is reused.
The shared reference count was not shared but copied. msg_t cannot
store the refcnt itsef but has to store a pointer to an externally
allocated (shared) refcnter. The changes to lmsg are reverted to
use content_t again. Howver, this introduces an allocation in v2_decoder
when creating the message which can be avoided. When allocating the reception
buffer, space is allocated for the maximum number of reference counts
(8192 / max_vsm_size = 8192/64 = 128 zmq:atomic_counter objects). This
increases the buffer by 128*sizeof(atomic_counter) = 128*4 = 512 bytes only.
When creating a message, the refcnt member is set to the address of one of the
pre-allocated atomic_counter_t objects. To do so, a new msg_t type zcmsg
is introduced because msg::copy must discriminate between the message types
when releasing memory.
Problem: zmq_setsockpt() returns success when changing the
HWM after a bind or connect() even though the call has no effect.
Solution: Introduce a failing test a reminder we need to patch it.
Solution: as libzmq already provides this across all platforms,
expose an atomic counter API. I've not wrapped atomic pointers,
though someone who needs this may want to do so.
