minio/rate-limit-handler.go

/*
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package main

import (
	"net/http"
	"sync"
)

// rateLimit - represents datatype of the functionality implemented to
// limit the number of concurrent http requests.
type rateLimit struct {
	handler     http.Handler
	rqueue      chan struct{}
	releaseOnce sync.Once
}

// acquire and release implement a way to send and receive from the
// channel this is in-turn used to rate limit incoming connections in
// ServeHTTP() http.Handler method.
func (c *rateLimit) acquire() { c.rqueue <- struct{}{} }
func (c *rateLimit) release() { <-c.rqueue }

// ServeHTTP is an http.Handler ServeHTTP method, implemented to rate
// limit incoming HTTP requests.
func (c *rateLimit) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	// Acquire the connection if queue is not full, otherwise
	// code path waits here until the previous case is true.
	c.acquire()

	// Serves the request.
	c.handler.ServeHTTP(w, r)

	// Release by draining the channel once.
	c.releaseOnce.Do(c.release)
}

// setRateLimitHandler limits the number of concurrent http requests based on MINIO_MAXCONN.
func setRateLimitHandler(handler http.Handler) http.Handler {
	if globalMaxConn == 0 {
		return handler
	} // else proceed to rate limiting.

	// For max connection limit of > '0' we initialize rate limit handler.
	return &rateLimit{
		handler: handler,
		rqueue:  make(chan struct{}, globalMaxConn),
	}
}