Initial version of c->reply_bytes implementation backported from unstable to 2.4, in order to apply issue 327 patches.

src/aof.c

@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ struct redisClient *createFakeClient(void) {
      * so that Redis will not try to send replies to this client. */
     c->replstate = REDIS_REPL_WAIT_BGSAVE_START;
     c->reply = listCreate();
+    c->reply_bytes = 0;
     c->watched_keys = listCreate();
     listSetFreeMethod(c->reply,decrRefCount);
     listSetDupMethod(c->reply,dupClientReplyValue);

src/networking.c

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ redisClient *createClient(int fd) {
     c->authenticated = 0;
     c->replstate = REDIS_REPL_NONE;
     c->reply = listCreate();
+    c->reply_bytes = 0;
     listSetFreeMethod(c->reply,decrRefCount);
     listSetDupMethod(c->reply,dupClientReplyValue);
     c->bpop.keys = NULL;
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ void _addReplyObjectToList(redisClient *c, robj *o) {
             listAddNodeTail(c->reply,o);
         }
     }
+    c->reply_bytes += sdslen(o->ptr);
 }
 
 /* This method takes responsibility over the sds. When it is no longer
@@ -142,6 +144,7 @@ void _addReplySdsToList(redisClient *c, sds s) {
         return;
     }
 
+    c->reply_bytes += sdslen(s);
     if (listLength(c->reply) == 0) {
         listAddNodeTail(c->reply,createObject(REDIS_STRING,s));
     } else {
@@ -180,6 +183,7 @@ void _addReplyStringToList(redisClient *c, char *s, size_t len) {
             listAddNodeTail(c->reply,createStringObject(s,len));
         }
     }
+    c->reply_bytes += len;
 }
 
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -291,6 +295,7 @@ void setDeferredMultiBulkLength(redisClient *c, void *node, long length) {
 
     len = listNodeValue(ln);
     len->ptr = sdscatprintf(sdsempty(),"*%ld\r\n",length);
+    c->reply_bytes += sdslen(len->ptr);
     if (ln->next != NULL) {
         next = listNodeValue(ln->next);
 
@@ -398,6 +403,7 @@ void copyClientOutputBuffer(redisClient *dst, redisClient *src) {
     dst->reply = listDup(src->reply);
     memcpy(dst->buf,src->buf,src->bufpos);
     dst->bufpos = src->bufpos;
+    dst->reply_bytes = src->reply_bytes;
 }
 
 static void acceptCommonHandler(int fd) {
@@ -611,6 +617,7 @@ void sendReplyToClient(aeEventLoop *el, int fd, void *privdata, int mask) {
             if (c->sentlen == objlen) {
                 listDelNode(c->reply,listFirst(c->reply));
                 c->sentlen = 0;
+                c->reply_bytes -= objlen;
             }
         }
         /* Note that we avoid to send more thank REDIS_MAX_WRITE_PER_EVENT
@@ -1060,3 +1067,22 @@ void rewriteClientCommandVector(redisClient *c, int argc, ...) {
     redisAssert(c->cmd != NULL);
     va_end(ap);
 }
+
+/* This function returns the number of bytes that Redis is virtually
+ * using to store the reply still not read by the client.
+ * It is "virtual" since the reply output list may contain objects that
+ * are shared and are not really using additional memory.
+ *
+ * The function returns the total sum of the length of all the objects
+ * stored in the output list, plus the memory used to allocate every
+ * list node. The static reply buffer is not taken into account since it
+ * is allocated anyway.
+ *
+ * Note: this function is very fast so can be called as many time as
+ * the caller wishes. The main usage of this function currently is
+ * enforcing the client output length limits. */
+unsigned long getClientOutputBufferMemoryUsage(redisClient *c) {
+    unsigned long list_item_size = sizeof(listNode);
+
+    return c->reply_bytes + (list_item_size*listLength(c->reply));
+}

src/redis.h

@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ typedef struct redisClient {
     int multibulklen;       /* number of multi bulk arguments left to read */
     long bulklen;           /* length of bulk argument in multi bulk request */
     list *reply;
+    unsigned long reply_bytes; /* Tot bytes of objects in reply list */
     int sentlen;
     time_t lastinteraction; /* time of the last interaction, used for timeout */
     int flags;              /* REDIS_SLAVE | REDIS_MONITOR | REDIS_MULTI ... */