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diff --git a/src/core/ext/client_channel/README.md b/src/core/ext/client_channel/README.md index eda01e3e71..7c209db12e 100644 --- a/src/core/ext/client_channel/README.md +++ b/src/core/ext/client_channel/README.md @@ -5,28 +5,27 @@ This library provides high level configuration machinery to construct client channels and load balance between them. Each grpc_channel is created with a grpc_resolver. It is the resolver's duty -to resolve a name into configuration data for the channel. Such configuration -data might include: +to resolve a name into a set of arguments for the channel. Such arguments +might include: - a list of (ip, port) addresses to connect to - a load balancing policy to decide which server to send a request to - a set of filters to mutate outgoing requests (say, by adding metadata) -The resolver provides this data as a stream of grpc_resolver_result objects to -the channel. We represent configuration as a stream so that it can be changed -by the resolver during execution, by reacting to external events (such as a -new configuration file being pushed to some store). +The resolver provides this data as a stream of grpc_channel_args objects to +the channel. We represent arguments as a stream so that they can be changed +by the resolver during execution, by reacting to external events (such as +new service configuration data being pushed to some store). Load Balancing -------------- -Load balancing configuration is provided by a grpc_lb_policy object, stored as -part of grpc_resolver_result. +Load balancing configuration is provided by a grpc_lb_policy object. -The primary job of the load balancing policies is to pick a target server given only the -initial metadata for a request. It does this by providing a grpc_subchannel -object to the owning channel. +The primary job of the load balancing policies is to pick a target server +given only the initial metadata for a request. It does this by providing +a grpc_subchannel object to the owning channel. Sub-Channels |