Previously h2load used default flow control window as described in
HTTP/2 and SPDY specification. The window size is 64KiB, which is a
bit small, and cannot utilize full server performance when response
size is not too small. Basically, we do this kind of benchmarking
test to measure server's throughput, and optimal performance. Smaller
window certainly degrades performance even in local testing because
server is so fast that it has to wait for WINDOW_UPDATE from h2load.
To make default behaviour suitable for peak performance test, we
decided to disable flow control in h2load by setting large enough
window size.
Most users used h2load without -w or -W options, so they were
implicitly throttled by flow control and the result was affected by
that negatively. Now flow control is disabled by default, the result
may improve depending on the implementations.
Previously to create manual page for bundled programs, we use help2man
to create man page from program's help output. Then our man2rst.py
script converts man page to rst document. Sphinx generates html from
rst documents.
Now help2rst.py produces rst document from programs output. We use
Sphinx solely to produce both man pages and html files.
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa