stream: Increase highWaterMark on large reads

If the consumer of a Readable is asking for N bytes, and N > hwm,
then clearly we have set the hwm to low, and ought to increase it.

Fix #4931

lib/_stream_readable.js

@@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ function howMuchToRead(n, state) {
   if (n <= 0)
     return 0;
 
+  // If we're asking for more than the target buffer level,
+  // then raise the water mark.
+  if (n > state.highWaterMark)
+    state.highWaterMark = n;
+
   // don't have that much.  return null, unless we've ended.
   if (n > state.length) {
     if (!state.ended) {

test/simple/test-stream-readable-flow-recursion.js

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+// Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.
+//
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+// OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
+// USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+var common = require('../common');
+var assert = require('assert');
+
+// this test verifies that passing a huge number to read(size)
+// will push up the highWaterMark, and cause the stream to read
+// more data continuously, but without triggering a nextTick
+// warning or RangeError.
+
+var Readable = require('stream').Readable;
+
+// throw an error if we trigger a nextTick warning.
+process.throwDeprecation = true;
+
+var stream = new Readable({ highWaterMark: 2, bufferSize: 2 });
+var reads = 0;
+stream._read = function(size) {
+  reads++;
+  stream.push(new Buffer(size));
+};
+
+var depth = 0;
+
+function flow(stream, size, callback) {
+  depth += 1;
+  var chunk = stream.read(size);
+
+  if (!chunk)
+    stream.once('readable', flow.bind(null, stream, size, callback));
+  else
+    callback(chunk);
+
+  depth -= 1;
+  console.log('flow(' + depth + '): exit');
+}
+
+flow(stream, 5000, function() {
+  console.log('complete (' + depth + ')');
+});
+
+process.on('exit', function(code) {
+  assert.equal(reads, 5000);
+  // we pushed up the high water mark
+  assert.equal(stream._readableState.highWaterMark, 5000);
+  assert.equal(stream._readableState.length, 5000);
+  assert(!code);
+  assert.equal(depth, 0);
+  console.log('ok');
+});