feature: applied the delayed-posted-events patch to the nginx core for adding "delayed posted events" which run in the next event cycle with 0 delay.

this nginx core feature is needed by the ngx.sleep(0) feature in
ngx_lua, for example.

Signed-off-by: Yichun Zhang (agentzh) <agentzh@gmail.com>

patches/nginx-1.11.2-delayed_posted_events.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event.c b/src/event/ngx_event.c
+index 57af8132..4853945f 100644
+--- a/src/event/ngx_event.c
++++ b/src/event/ngx_event.c
+@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ ngx_process_events_and_timers(ngx_cycle_t *cycle)
+     ngx_uint_t  flags;
+     ngx_msec_t  timer, delta;
+ 
++    ngx_queue_t     *q;
++    ngx_event_t     *ev;
++
+     if (ngx_timer_resolution) {
+         timer = NGX_TIMER_INFINITE;
+         flags = 0;
+@@ -215,6 +218,13 @@ ngx_process_events_and_timers(ngx_cycle_t *cycle)
+ #endif
+     }
+ 
++    if (!ngx_queue_empty(&ngx_posted_delayed_events)) {
++        ngx_log_debug0(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, cycle->log, 0,
++                       "posted delayed event queue not empty"
++                       " making poll timeout 0");
++        timer = 0;
++    }
++
+     if (ngx_use_accept_mutex) {
+         if (ngx_accept_disabled > 0) {
+             ngx_accept_disabled--;
+@@ -257,6 +267,35 @@ ngx_process_events_and_timers(ngx_cycle_t *cycle)
+     }
+ 
+     ngx_event_process_posted(cycle, &ngx_posted_events);
++
++    while (!ngx_queue_empty(&ngx_posted_delayed_events)) {
++        q = ngx_queue_head(&ngx_posted_delayed_events);
++
++        ev = ngx_queue_data(q, ngx_event_t, queue);
++        if (ev->delayed) {
++            /* start of newly inserted nodes */
++            for (/* void */;
++                 q != ngx_queue_sentinel(&ngx_posted_delayed_events);
++                 q = ngx_queue_next(q))
++            {
++                ev = ngx_queue_data(q, ngx_event_t, queue);
++                ev->delayed = 0;
++
++                ngx_log_debug1(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, cycle->log, 0,
++                               "skipping delayed posted event %p,"
++                               " till next iteration", ev);
++            }
++
++            break;
++        }
++
++        ngx_log_debug1(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, cycle->log, 0,
++                       "delayed posted event %p", ev);
++
++        ngx_delete_posted_event(ev);
++
++        ev->handler(ev);
++    }
+ }
+ 
+ 
+@@ -600,6 +639,7 @@ ngx_event_process_init(ngx_cycle_t *cycle)
+ 
+     ngx_queue_init(&ngx_posted_accept_events);
+     ngx_queue_init(&ngx_posted_events);
++    ngx_queue_init(&ngx_posted_delayed_events);
+ 
+     if (ngx_event_timer_init(cycle->log) == NGX_ERROR) {
+         return NGX_ERROR;
+diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_posted.c b/src/event/ngx_event_posted.c
+index d851f3d1..b6cea009 100644
+--- a/src/event/ngx_event_posted.c
++++ b/src/event/ngx_event_posted.c
+@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
+ 
+ ngx_queue_t  ngx_posted_accept_events;
+ ngx_queue_t  ngx_posted_events;
++ngx_queue_t  ngx_posted_delayed_events;
+ 
+ 
+ void
+diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_posted.h b/src/event/ngx_event_posted.h
+index 145d30fe..6c388553 100644
+--- a/src/event/ngx_event_posted.h
++++ b/src/event/ngx_event_posted.h
+@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ void ngx_event_process_posted(ngx_cycle_t *cycle, ngx_queue_t *posted);
+ 
+ extern ngx_queue_t  ngx_posted_accept_events;
+ extern ngx_queue_t  ngx_posted_events;
++extern ngx_queue_t  ngx_posted_delayed_events;
++
++#define HAVE_POSTED_DELAYED_EVENTS_PATCH
+ 
+ 
+ #endif /* _NGX_EVENT_POSTED_H_INCLUDED_ */

util/mirror-tarballs

@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ else
     fi
 fi
 
+answer=`$root/util/ver-ge "$main_ver" 1.11.2`
+if [ "$answer" = "Y" ]; then
+    echo "$info_txt applying the delayed-posted-events patch"
+    patch -p1 < $root/patches/nginx-$main_ver-delayed_posted_events.patch || exit 1
+    echo
+fi
+
 answer=`$root/util/ver-ge "$main_ver" 1.11.2`
 if [ "$answer" = "Y" ]; then
     echo "$info_txt applying the privileged-agent-process patch"