1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 // A Predictor object is instantiated once in the browser process, and manages
6 // both preresolution of hostnames, as well as TCP/IP preconnection to expected
8 // Most hostname lists are provided by the renderer processes, and include URLs
9 // that *might* be used in the near future by the browsing user. One goal of
10 // this class is to cause the underlying DNS structure to lookup a hostname
11 // before it is really needed, and hence reduce latency in the standard lookup
13 // Subresource relationships are usually acquired from the referrer field in a
14 // navigation. A subresource URL may be associated with a referrer URL. Later
15 // navigations may, if the likelihood of needing the subresource is high enough,
16 // cause this module to speculatively create a TCP/IP connection. If there is
17 // only a low likelihood, then a DNS pre-resolution operation may be performed.
19 #ifndef CHROME_BROWSER_NET_PREDICTOR_H_
20 #define CHROME_BROWSER_NET_PREDICTOR_H_
28 #include "base/gtest_prod_util.h"
29 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
30 #include "base/memory/weak_ptr.h"
31 #include "chrome/browser/net/referrer.h"
32 #include "chrome/browser/net/spdyproxy/proxy_advisor.h"
33 #include "chrome/browser/net/timed_cache.h"
34 #include "chrome/browser/net/url_info.h"
35 #include "chrome/common/net/predictor_common.h"
36 #include "net/base/host_port_pair.h"
49 class URLRequestContextGetter
;
52 namespace user_prefs
{
53 class PrefRegistrySyncable
;
56 namespace chrome_browser_net
{
58 typedef chrome_common_net::UrlList UrlList
;
59 typedef chrome_common_net::NameList NameList
;
60 typedef std::map
<GURL
, UrlInfo
> Results
;
62 // Predictor is constructed during Profile construction (on the UI thread),
63 // but it is destroyed on the IO thread when ProfileIOData goes away. All of
64 // its core state and functionality happens on the IO thread. The only UI
65 // methods are initialization / shutdown related (including preconnect
66 // initialization), or convenience methods that internally forward calls to
70 // A version number for prefs that are saved. This should be incremented when
71 // we change the format so that we discard old data.
72 static const int kPredictorReferrerVersion
;
74 // Given that the underlying Chromium resolver defaults to a total maximum of
75 // 8 paralell resolutions, we will avoid any chance of starving navigational
76 // resolutions by limiting the number of paralell speculative resolutions.
77 // This is used in the field trials and testing.
78 // TODO(jar): Move this limitation into the resolver.
79 static const size_t kMaxSpeculativeParallelResolves
;
81 // To control the congestion avoidance system, we need an estimate of how
82 // many speculative requests may arrive at once. Since we currently only
83 // keep 8 subresource names for each frame, we'll use that as our basis.
84 // Note that when scanning search results lists, we might actually get 10 at
85 // a time, and wikipedia can often supply (during a page scan) upwards of 50.
86 // In those odd cases, we may discard some of the later speculative requests
87 // mistakenly assuming that the resolutions took too long.
88 static const int kTypicalSpeculativeGroupSize
;
90 // The next constant specifies an amount of queueing delay that is
91 // "too large," and indicative of problems with resolutions (perhaps due to
92 // an overloaded router, or such). When we exceed this delay, congestion
93 // avoidance will kick in and all speculations in the queue will be discarded.
94 static const int kMaxSpeculativeResolveQueueDelayMs
;
96 // We don't bother learning to preconnect via a GET if the original URL
97 // navigation was so long ago, that a preconnection would have been dropped
98 // anyway. We believe most servers will drop the connection in 10 seconds, so
99 // we currently estimate this time-till-drop at 10 seconds.
100 // TODO(jar): We should do a persistent field trial to validate/optimize this.
101 static const int kMaxUnusedSocketLifetimeSecondsWithoutAGet
;
103 // |max_concurrent| specifies how many concurrent (parallel) prefetches will
104 // be performed. Host lookups will be issued through |host_resolver|.
105 explicit Predictor(bool preconnect_enabled
);
107 virtual ~Predictor();
109 // This function is used to create a predictor. For testing, we can create
110 // a version which does a simpler shutdown.
111 static Predictor
* CreatePredictor(bool preconnect_enabled
,
112 bool simple_shutdown
);
114 static void RegisterProfilePrefs(user_prefs::PrefRegistrySyncable
* registry
);
116 // ------------- Start UI thread methods.
118 virtual void InitNetworkPredictor(PrefService
* user_prefs
,
119 PrefService
* local_state
,
121 net::URLRequestContextGetter
* getter
);
123 // The Omnibox has proposed a given url to the user, and if it is a search
124 // URL, then it also indicates that this is preconnectable (i.e., we could
125 // preconnect to the search server).
126 void AnticipateOmniboxUrl(const GURL
& url
, bool preconnectable
);
128 // Preconnect a URL and all of its subresource domains.
129 void PreconnectUrlAndSubresources(const GURL
& url
,
130 const GURL
& first_party_for_cookies
);
132 static UrlList
GetPredictedUrlListAtStartup(PrefService
* user_prefs
,
133 PrefService
* local_state
);
135 static void set_max_queueing_delay(int max_queueing_delay_ms
);
137 static void set_max_parallel_resolves(size_t max_parallel_resolves
);
139 virtual void ShutdownOnUIThread();
141 // ------------- End UI thread methods.
143 // ------------- Start IO thread methods.
145 // Cancel pending requests and prevent new ones from being made.
148 // In some circumstances, for privacy reasons, all results should be
149 // discarded. This method gracefully handles that activity.
150 // Destroy all our internal state, which shows what names we've looked up, and
151 // how long each has taken, etc. etc. We also destroy records of suggesses
152 // (cache hits etc.).
153 void DiscardAllResults();
155 // Add hostname(s) to the queue for processing.
156 void ResolveList(const UrlList
& urls
,
157 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
);
159 void Resolve(const GURL
& url
, UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
);
161 // Record details of a navigation so that we can preresolve the host name
162 // ahead of time the next time the users navigates to the indicated host.
163 // Should only be called when urls are distinct, and they should already be
164 // canonicalized to not have a path.
165 void LearnFromNavigation(const GURL
& referring_url
, const GURL
& target_url
);
167 // When displaying info in about:dns, the following API is called.
168 static void PredictorGetHtmlInfo(Predictor
* predictor
, std::string
* output
);
170 // Dump HTML table containing list of referrers for about:dns.
171 void GetHtmlReferrerLists(std::string
* output
);
173 // Dump the list of currently known referrer domains and related prefetchable
174 // domains for about:dns.
175 void GetHtmlInfo(std::string
* output
);
177 // Discards any referrer for which all the suggested host names are currently
178 // annotated with negligible expected-use. Scales down (diminishes) the
179 // expected-use of those that remain, so that their use will go down by a
180 // factor each time we trim (moving the referrer closer to being discarded in
182 // The task is performed synchronously and completes before returing.
183 void TrimReferrersNow();
185 // Construct a ListValue object that contains all the data in the referrers_
186 // so that it can be persisted in a pref.
187 void SerializeReferrers(base::ListValue
* referral_list
);
189 // Process a ListValue that contains all the data from a previous reference
190 // list, as constructed by SerializeReferrers(), and add all the identified
191 // values into the current referrer list.
192 void DeserializeReferrers(const base::ListValue
& referral_list
);
194 void DeserializeReferrersThenDelete(base::ListValue
* referral_list
);
196 void DiscardInitialNavigationHistory();
198 void FinalizeInitializationOnIOThread(
199 const std::vector
<GURL
>& urls_to_prefetch
,
200 base::ListValue
* referral_list
,
202 bool predictor_enabled
);
204 // During startup, we learn what the first N urls visited are, and then
205 // resolve the associated hosts ASAP during our next startup.
206 void LearnAboutInitialNavigation(const GURL
& url
);
208 // Renderer bundles up list and sends to this browser API via IPC.
209 // TODO(jar): Use UrlList instead to include port and scheme.
210 void DnsPrefetchList(const NameList
& hostnames
);
212 // May be called from either the IO or UI thread and will PostTask
213 // to the IO thread if necessary.
214 void DnsPrefetchMotivatedList(const UrlList
& urls
,
215 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
);
217 // May be called from either the IO or UI thread and will PostTask
218 // to the IO thread if necessary.
219 void SaveStateForNextStartupAndTrim(PrefService
* prefs
);
221 void SaveDnsPrefetchStateForNextStartupAndTrim(
222 base::ListValue
* startup_list
,
223 base::ListValue
* referral_list
,
224 base::WaitableEvent
* completion
);
226 // May be called from either the IO or UI thread and will PostTask
227 // to the IO thread if necessary.
228 void EnablePredictor(bool enable
);
230 void EnablePredictorOnIOThread(bool enable
);
232 // May be called from either the IO or UI thread and will PostTask
233 // to the IO thread if necessary.
234 void PreconnectUrl(const GURL
& url
, const GURL
& first_party_for_cookies
,
235 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
, int count
);
237 void PreconnectUrlOnIOThread(const GURL
& url
,
238 const GURL
& first_party_for_cookies
,
239 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
,
242 void RecordPreconnectTrigger(const GURL
& url
);
244 void RecordPreconnectNavigationStat(const std::vector
<GURL
>& url_chain
,
245 bool is_subresource
);
247 void RecordLinkNavigation(const GURL
& url
);
249 // ------------- End IO thread methods.
251 // The following methods may be called on either the IO or UI threads.
253 // Instigate pre-connection to any URLs, or pre-resolution of related host,
254 // that we predict will be needed after this navigation (typically
255 // more-embedded resources on a page). This method will actually post a task
256 // to do the actual work, so as not to jump ahead of the frame navigation that
257 // instigated this activity.
258 void PredictFrameSubresources(const GURL
& url
,
259 const GURL
& first_party_for_cookies
);
261 // Put URL in canonical form, including a scheme, host, and port.
262 // Returns GURL::EmptyGURL() if the scheme is not http/https or if the url
263 // cannot be otherwise canonicalized.
264 static GURL
CanonicalizeUrl(const GURL
& url
);
267 void SetHostResolver(net::HostResolver
* host_resolver
) {
268 host_resolver_
= host_resolver
;
271 void SetProxyAdvisor(ProxyAdvisor
* proxy_advisor
) {
272 proxy_advisor_
.reset(proxy_advisor
);
275 size_t max_concurrent_dns_lookups() const {
276 return max_concurrent_dns_lookups_
;
279 void SetShutdown(bool shutdown
) {
280 shutdown_
= shutdown
;
283 // Flag setting to use preconnection instead of just DNS pre-fetching.
284 bool preconnect_enabled() const {
285 return preconnect_enabled_
;
288 // Flag setting for whether we are prefetching dns lookups.
289 bool predictor_enabled() const {
290 return predictor_enabled_
;
295 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, BenefitLookupTest
);
296 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, ShutdownWhenResolutionIsPendingTest
);
297 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, SingleLookupTest
);
298 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, ConcurrentLookupTest
);
299 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, MassiveConcurrentLookupTest
);
300 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, PriorityQueuePushPopTest
);
301 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, PriorityQueueReorderTest
);
302 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, ReferrerSerializationTrimTest
);
303 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, SingleLookupTestWithDisabledAdvisor
);
304 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, SingleLookupTestWithEnabledAdvisor
);
305 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(PredictorTest
, TestSimplePreconnectAdvisor
);
306 friend class WaitForResolutionHelper
; // For testing.
310 // A simple priority queue for handling host names.
311 // Some names that are queued up have |motivation| that requires very rapid
312 // handling. For example, a sub-resource name lookup MUST be done before the
313 // actual sub-resource is fetched. In contrast, a name that was speculatively
314 // noted in a page has to be resolved before the user "gets around to"
315 // clicking on a link. By tagging (with a motivation) each push we make into
316 // this FIFO queue, the queue can re-order the more important names to service
317 // them sooner (relative to some low priority background resolutions).
318 class HostNameQueue
{
322 void Push(const GURL
& url
,
323 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
);
324 bool IsEmpty() const;
328 // The names in the queue that should be serviced (popped) ASAP.
329 std::queue
<GURL
> rush_queue_
;
330 // The names in the queue that should only be serviced when rush_queue is
332 std::queue
<GURL
> background_queue_
;
334 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(HostNameQueue
);
337 // The InitialObserver monitors navigations made by the network stack. This
338 // is only used to identify startup time resolutions (for re-resolution
339 // during our next process startup).
340 // TODO(jar): Consider preconnecting at startup, which may be faster than
341 // waiting for render process to start and request a connection.
342 class InitialObserver
{
346 // Recording of when we observed each navigation.
347 typedef std::map
<GURL
, base::TimeTicks
> FirstNavigations
;
349 // Potentially add a new URL to our startup list.
350 void Append(const GURL
& url
, Predictor
* predictor
);
352 // Get an HTML version of our current planned first_navigations_.
353 void GetFirstResolutionsHtml(std::string
* output
);
355 // Persist the current first_navigations_ for storage in a list.
356 void GetInitialDnsResolutionList(base::ListValue
* startup_list
);
358 // Discards all initial loading history.
359 void DiscardInitialNavigationHistory() { first_navigations_
.clear(); }
362 // List of the first N URL resolutions observed in this run.
363 FirstNavigations first_navigations_
;
365 // The number of URLs we'll save for pre-resolving at next startup.
366 static const size_t kStartupResolutionCount
= 10;
369 // A map that is keyed with the host/port that we've learned were the cause
370 // of loading additional URLs. The list of additional targets is held
371 // in a Referrer instance, which is a value in this map.
372 typedef std::map
<GURL
, Referrer
> Referrers
;
374 // Depending on the expected_subresource_use_, we may either make a TCP/IP
375 // preconnection, or merely pre-resolve the hostname via DNS (or even do
376 // nothing). The following are the threasholds for taking those actions.
377 static const double kPreconnectWorthyExpectedValue
;
378 static const double kDNSPreresolutionWorthyExpectedValue
;
379 // Referred hosts with a subresource_use_rate_ that are less than the
380 // following threshold will be discarded when we Trim() the list.
381 static const double kDiscardableExpectedValue
;
382 // During trimming operation to discard hosts for which we don't have likely
383 // subresources, we multiply the expected_subresource_use_ value by the
384 // following ratio until that value is less than kDiscardableExpectedValue.
385 // This number should always be less than 1, an more than 0.
386 static const double kReferrerTrimRatio
;
388 // Interval between periodic trimming of our whole referrer list.
389 // We only do a major trimming about once an hour, and then only when the user
390 // is actively browsing.
391 static const int64 kDurationBetweenTrimmingsHours
;
392 // Interval between incremental trimmings (to avoid inducing Jank).
393 static const int64 kDurationBetweenTrimmingIncrementsSeconds
;
394 // Number of referring URLs processed in an incremental trimming.
395 static const size_t kUrlsTrimmedPerIncrement
;
397 // Only for testing. Returns true if hostname has been successfully resolved
399 bool WasFound(const GURL
& url
) const {
400 Results::const_iterator
it(results_
.find(url
));
401 return (it
!= results_
.end()) &&
402 it
->second
.was_found();
405 // Only for testing. Return how long was the resolution
406 // or UrlInfo::NullDuration() if it hasn't been resolved yet.
407 base::TimeDelta
GetResolutionDuration(const GURL
& url
) {
408 if (results_
.find(url
) == results_
.end())
409 return UrlInfo::NullDuration();
410 return results_
[url
].resolve_duration();
414 size_t peak_pending_lookups() const { return peak_pending_lookups_
; }
416 // If a proxy advisor is defined, let it know that |url| will be prefetched or
417 // preconnected to. Can be called on either UI or IO threads and will post to
418 // the IO thread if necessary, invoking AdviseProxyOnIOThread().
419 void AdviseProxy(const GURL
& url
,
420 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
,
423 // ------------- Start IO thread methods.
425 // Perform actual resolution or preconnection to subresources now. This is
426 // an internal worker method that is reached via a post task from
427 // PredictFrameSubresources().
428 void PrepareFrameSubresources(const GURL
& url
,
429 const GURL
& first_party_for_cookies
);
431 // Access method for use by async lookup request to pass resolution result.
432 void OnLookupFinished(LookupRequest
* request
, const GURL
& url
, bool found
);
434 // Underlying method for both async and synchronous lookup to update state.
435 void LookupFinished(LookupRequest
* request
,
436 const GURL
& url
, bool found
);
438 // Queue hostname for resolution. If queueing was done, return the pointer
439 // to the queued instance, otherwise return NULL. If the proxy advisor is
440 // enabled, and |url| is likely to be proxied, the hostname will not be
441 // queued as the browser is not expected to fetch it directly.
442 UrlInfo
* AppendToResolutionQueue(const GURL
& url
,
443 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
);
445 // Check to see if too much queuing delay has been noted for the given info,
446 // which indicates that there is "congestion" or growing delay in handling the
447 // resolution of names. Rather than letting this congestion potentially grow
448 // without bounds, we abandon our queued efforts at pre-resolutions in such a
450 // To do this, we will recycle |info|, as well as all queued items, back to
451 // the state they had before they were queued up. We can't do anything about
452 // the resolutions we've already sent off for processing on another thread, so
453 // we just let them complete. On a slow system, subject to congestion, this
454 // will greatly reduce the number of resolutions done, but it will assure that
455 // any resolutions that are done, are in a timely and hence potentially
457 bool CongestionControlPerformed(UrlInfo
* info
);
459 // Take lookup requests from work_queue_ and tell HostResolver to look them up
460 // asynchronously, provided we don't exceed concurrent resolution limit.
461 void StartSomeQueuedResolutions();
463 // Performs trimming similar to TrimReferrersNow(), except it does it as a
464 // series of short tasks by posting continuations again an again until done.
465 void TrimReferrers();
467 // Loads urls_being_trimmed_ from keys of current referrers_.
468 void LoadUrlsForTrimming();
470 // Posts a task to do additional incremental trimming of referrers_.
471 void PostIncrementalTrimTask();
473 // Calls Trim() on some or all of urls_being_trimmed_.
474 // If it does not process all the URLs in that vector, it posts a task to
475 // continue with them shortly (i.e., it yeilds and continues).
476 void IncrementalTrimReferrers(bool trim_all_now
);
478 // If a proxy advisor is defined, let it know that |url| will be prefetched or
480 void AdviseProxyOnIOThread(const GURL
& url
,
481 UrlInfo::ResolutionMotivation motivation
,
484 // ------------- End IO thread methods.
486 scoped_ptr
<InitialObserver
> initial_observer_
;
488 // Reference to URLRequestContextGetter from the Profile which owns the
489 // predictor. Used by Preconnect.
490 scoped_refptr
<net::URLRequestContextGetter
> url_request_context_getter_
;
492 // Status of speculative DNS resolution and speculative TCP/IP connection
494 bool predictor_enabled_
;
496 // work_queue_ holds a list of names we need to look up.
497 HostNameQueue work_queue_
;
499 // results_ contains information for existing/prior prefetches.
502 std::set
<LookupRequest
*> pending_lookups_
;
504 // For testing, to verify that we don't exceed the limit.
505 size_t peak_pending_lookups_
;
507 // When true, we don't make new lookup requests.
510 // The number of concurrent speculative lookups currently allowed to be sent
511 // to the resolver. Any additional lookups will be queued to avoid exceeding
512 // this value. The queue is a priority queue that will accelerate
513 // sub-resource speculation, and retard resolutions suggested by page scans.
514 const size_t max_concurrent_dns_lookups_
;
516 // The maximum queueing delay that is acceptable before we enter congestion
517 // reduction mode, and discard all queued (but not yet assigned) resolutions.
518 const base::TimeDelta max_dns_queue_delay_
;
520 // The host resolver we warm DNS entries for.
521 net::HostResolver
* host_resolver_
;
523 // Are we currently using preconnection, rather than just DNS resolution, for
524 // subresources and omni-box search URLs.
525 bool preconnect_enabled_
;
527 // Most recent suggestion from Omnibox provided via AnticipateOmniboxUrl().
528 std::string last_omnibox_host_
;
530 // The time when the last preresolve was done for last_omnibox_host_.
531 base::TimeTicks last_omnibox_preresolve_
;
533 // The number of consecutive requests to AnticipateOmniboxUrl() that suggested
534 // preconnecting (because it was to a search service).
535 int consecutive_omnibox_preconnect_count_
;
537 // The time when the last preconnection was requested to a search service.
538 base::TimeTicks last_omnibox_preconnect_
;
540 class PreconnectUsage
;
541 scoped_ptr
<PreconnectUsage
> preconnect_usage_
;
543 // For each URL that we might navigate to (that we've "learned about")
544 // we have a Referrer list. Each Referrer list has all hostnames we might
545 // need to pre-resolve or pre-connect to when there is a navigation to the
546 // orginial hostname.
547 Referrers referrers_
;
549 // List of URLs in referrers_ currently being trimmed (scaled down to
550 // eventually be aged out of use).
551 std::vector
<GURL
> urls_being_trimmed_
;
553 // A time after which we need to do more trimming of referrers.
554 base::TimeTicks next_trim_time_
;
556 scoped_ptr
<base::WeakPtrFactory
<Predictor
> > weak_factory_
;
558 scoped_ptr
<ProxyAdvisor
> proxy_advisor_
;
560 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Predictor
);
563 // This version of the predictor is used for testing.
564 class SimplePredictor
: public Predictor
{
566 explicit SimplePredictor(bool preconnect_enabled
)
567 : Predictor(preconnect_enabled
) {}
568 virtual ~SimplePredictor() {}
569 virtual void InitNetworkPredictor(
570 PrefService
* user_prefs
,
571 PrefService
* local_state
,
573 net::URLRequestContextGetter
* getter
) OVERRIDE
;
574 virtual void ShutdownOnUIThread() OVERRIDE
;
577 } // namespace chrome_browser_net
579 #endif // CHROME_BROWSER_NET_PREDICTOR_H_