Hiya

In my quest to improve the multi interface, I'm now presenting my work as a
series of patches meant to be merged into mainline after this pending release.
For info and easier reviewing I'm posting them here first. Feedback, questions
and comments are all welcome!

The four patches, straight from git, are as follows:

commit 8b41b37881180616c6fb99c25a1f3aadbae3ef56
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon Aug 9 00:01:36 2010 +0200

     multi: make curl_multi_info_read perform O(1)

     Instead of looping over all attached easy handles, this now keeps a list
     of messages in the multi handle. It allows curl_multi_info_read() to
     perform O(1) no matter how many easy handles that are handled. This is
     of importance since this function may be polled very frequently by apps
     using the multi interface.

commit 6792d839e263ba2dacad7e9ecf8c65665fc7a827
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue Aug 10 10:52:26 2010 +0200

     Curl_llist_insert_next: allow insertion first in the list

     When we specify the "insert after" entry as NULL, this function now
     inserts the new entry first in the list.

commit a09f1cf748b466c472f2f0819c55bfa67e5e3d7b
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue Aug 10 11:02:07 2010 +0200

     multi: support timeouts

     Curl_expire() is now expanded to hold a list of timeouts for each easy
     handle. Only the closest in time will be the one used as the primary
     timeout for the handle and will be used for the splay tree (which sorts
     and lists all handles within the multi handle).

     When the main timeout has triggered/expired, the next timeout in time
     that is kept in the list will be moved to the main timeout position and
     used as the key to splay with. This way, all timeouts that are set with
     Curl_expire() internally will end up as a proper timeout. Previously any
     Curl_expire() that set a _later_ timeout than what was already set was
     just silently ignored and thus missed.

     Setting Curl_expire() with timeout 0 (zero) will cancel all previously
     added timeouts.

     Corrects known bug #62.

commit 2bb53f6739f31f00ef9065004b75f69bc2486d49
Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue Aug 10 14:12:05 2010 +0200

     multi: use timeouts properly for MAX_RECV/SEND_SPEED

     When detecting that the send or recv speed, the multi interface changes
     state to TOOFAST and previously there was no timeout set that would
     force a recheck but it would rely on the application to somehow call
     libcurl anyway. This now sets a timeout for a suitable future time to
     check again if the average transfer speed is then below the threshold
     again.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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