I completely agree. Priority is all about sending the most important data
first. Flow control is a distinct issue and mixing them together seems
complex and confusing in ways that would limit the effectiveness of
priority.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Stefan Eissing <
stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de> wrote:
> A stream is blocked only by flow-control, as I read it. The errata would
> suggest that the flow control of the parent would effectively rule those of
> its descendants? That does not make much sense to me.
>
> This could easily become very messy. If flow control of dependant nodes
> become entangled with their ancestors, then we basically have nested flow
> control windows? Please. no.
>
> -Stefan
>
> > Am 30.11.2016 um 14:49 schrieb Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <
> tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2016-11-30 22:05 GMT+09:00 Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 30 Nov 2016, at 13:04, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > My understanding is that you do not need to distinguish between
> completed, idle and blocked states.
> > >
> > > For a stream under either of the three states, the weight associated
> to the stream is distributed to the dependents.
> > >
> > > That is what nghttp2 does and H2O does (except for the fact that it
> does not remember closed streams), and I this behavior is what is suggested
> by the spec.
> > >
> > >
> > > My understanding of what Martin is suggesting is that that isn’t true:
> blocked streams do not distribute their weight to their dependants.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for pointing that out.
> >
> > My understanding is that there is no special casing for blocked
> > streams. Section 5.3.1 handles all the states we are discussing
> > equally, quote:
> >
> > Inside the dependency tree, a dependent stream SHOULD only be
> > allocated resources if either all of the streams that it depends on
> > (the chain of parent streams up to 0x0) are closed or it is not
> > possible to make progress on them.
> >
> > I also do not see why it would be beneficial to treat them differently.
> >
> >
> > I agree with Kazuho. I think RFC 7540 is written based on the idea
> that dependent stream can receive resource if the streams between it and
> root are all either in closed, idle or blocked.
> >
> > Actually, from nghttp2 commit log, I made a commit which implemented the
> proposed text. But we later reverted it, since there is no text in the
> draft at that time to mandate that behaviour.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > However, that’s also what the Python Priority implementation does.
> > >
> > > Cory
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kazuho Oku
> >
> >
>
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