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perf: keep requests off the main thread for type-filtered and observer-only webRequest listeners - #53240
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…r-only webRequest listeners The IO-thread gate from #53115 sent every renderer request through the UI-thread ProxyingURLLoaderFactory as soon as the session had any webRequest listener, and the proxy itself wrapped every request in an InProgressRequest for the same reason: a listener may modify the request and re-runs on every redirect leg, so its URL filter cannot be applied up front. Two things can be decided up front though: - A request's resource type never changes across redirects, so the listeners' existing `types` filter is honored before the request reaches the UI thread: a blocking listener (onBeforeRequest, onBeforeSendHeaders, onHeadersReceived) registered with types: ['mainFrame', 'subFrame'] no longer pulls images, scripts and fetches through the main process. - onSendHeaders, onBeforeRedirect, onResponseStarted, onCompleted and onErrorOccurred cannot change anything. When only such listeners match a request's type, it goes straight to the network service and a pass-through URLLoaderClient on the IO thread reports the redirect, response and completion to api::WebRequest afterwards; the listeners get the same details objects (including onSendHeaders per redirect leg), the renderer never waits for them. InterceptState holds two resource-type masks instead of a boolean, recomputed whenever a listener is added or removed, and both the gate and the proxy's pass-through path consult them. Linux x64, page with 150 subresources from a local server while the main process is busy for 100 ms after commit: onCompleted + onErrorOccurred listeners 160 -> 55 ms (no listeners: 54 ms); fetch() round trip 0.59 -> 0.46 ms; main process CPU per request 335 -> 244 us. With onBeforeRequest / onHeadersReceived limited to frame types, subresources take the direct path as well (fetch 0.61 -> 0.42 ms, 321 -> 133 us per request); the document itself is still intercepted, so that page's load event lands at 108 ms under the same load. Co-authored-by: Shelley Vohr <shelley.vohr@gmail.com>
…ests on the direct path Co-authored-by: Shelley Vohr <shelley.vohr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: deepak1556 <hop2deep@gmail.com>
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Backport of #53204
See that PR for details.
Notes: Renderer network requests no longer waited on the main process when the session's
webRequestlisteners only observe requests (onCompleted,onErrorOccurred,onSendHeaders,onBeforeRedirect,onResponseStarted) or are filtered to other resource types.