The conflicts we're facing with polling is that handshake handlers have
precedence over data handlers and may change the polling requirements
regardless of what is expected by the data layer. This causes issues
such as missed events.
The real need is to have three polling levels :
- the "current" one, which is effective at any moment
- the data one, which reflects what the data layer asks for
- the sock one, which reflects what the socket layer asks for
Depending on whether a handshake is in progress or not, either one of the
last two will replace the current one, and the change will be propagated
to the lower layers.
At the moment, the shutdown status is not considered, and only handshakes
are used to decide which layer to chose. This will probably change.
The old EV_FD_SET() macro was confusing, as it would enable receipt but there
was no way to indicate that EAGAIN was received, hence the recently added
FD_WAIT_* flags. They're not enough as we're still facing a conflict between
EV_FD_* and FD_WAIT_*. So let's offer I/O functions what they need to explicitly
request polling.
These functions have a more explicity meaning and will offer provisions
for explicit polling.
EV_FD_ISSET() has been left for now as it is still in use in checks.
Up to now, we had to use a shutr/shutw interface per data layer, which
basically means 3 distinct functions when we include SSL :
- generic stream_interface
- sock_raw
- sock_ssl
With this change, the code located in the stream_interface manages all the
stream_interface and buffer updates, and calls the data layer hooks when
needed.
At the moment, the socket layer hook had been implicitly considered as
being a regular socket, so the si_shut*() functions call the normal
shutdown() and EV_FD_CLR() functions on the fd if a socket layer is
defined. This may change in the future. The stream_int_shut*()
functions don't call EV_FD_CLR() so that they can later be embedded
in lower layers.
Thus, the si->data->shutr() is not called anymore and si->data->shutw()
is called to close the data layer only (eg: only for SSL).
Proceeding like this is very important because it's the only way to be
able not to rely on these functions when called from the connection
handlers, and call the data layers' instead.
These primitives were initially introduced so that callers were able to
conditionally set/disable polling on a file descriptor and check in return
what the state was. It's been long since we last had an "if" on this, and
all pollers' functions were the same for cond_* and their systematic
counter parts, except that this required a check and a specific return
value that are not always necessary.
So let's simplify the FD API by removing this now unused distinction and
by making all specific functions return void.
Handshakes is not called anymore from the data handlers, they're only
called from the connection handler when their flag is set.
Also, this move has uncovered an issue with the stream interface notifier :
it doesn't consider the FD_WAIT_* flags possibly set by the handshake
handlers. This will result in a stuck handshake when no data is in the
output buffer. In order to cover this, for now we'll perform the EV_FD_SET
in the SSL handshake function, but this needs to be addressed separately
from the stream interface operations.
This new flag is used to indicate that the connection was already
connected. It can be used by I/O handlers to know that a connection
has just completed. It is used by stream_sock_update_conn(), allowing
the sock_opt handlers not to manipulate the SI timeout nor the
BF_WRITE_NULL flag anymore.
The sock_ops I/O callbacks made use of an FD till now. This has become
inappropriate and the struct connection is much more useful. It also
fixes the race condition introduced by previous change.
The socket data layer code must only focus on moving data between a
socket and a buffer. We need a special stream interface handler to
update the stream interface and the file descriptor status.
At the moment the code works but suffers from a race condition caused
by its API : the read/write callbacks still make use of the fd instead
of using the connection. And when a double shutdown is performed, a call
to ->write() after ->read() processed an error results in dereferencing
a NULL fdtab[]->owner. This is only a temporary issue which doesn't need
to be fixed now since this will automatically go away when the functions
change to use the connection instead.
Use a single tcp_connect_probe() instead of tcp_connect_write() and
tcp_connect_read(). We call this one only when no data layer function
have been processed, so this is a fallback to test for completion of
a connection attempt.
With this done, we don't have the need for any direct I/O callback
anymore.
The function still relies on ->write() to wake the stream interface up,
so it's not finished.
This handshake handler must be independant, so move it away from
proto_tcp. It has a dedicated connection flag. It is tested before
I/O handlers and automatically removes the CO_FL_WAIT_L4_CONN flag
upon success.
It also sets the BF_WRITE_NULL flag on the stream interface and
stops the SI timeout. However it does not perform the task_wakeup(),
and relies on the data handler to do so for now. The SI wakeup will
have to be moved elsewhere anyway.
fdtab[].state was only used to know whether a connection was in progress
or an error was encountered. Instead we now use connection->flags to store
a flag for both. This way, connection management will be able to update the
connection status on I/O.
In an attempt to get rid of fdtab[].state, and to move the relevant
parts to the connection struct, we remove the FD_STCLOSE state which
can easily be deduced from the <owner> pointer as there is a 1:1 match.
The correct spelling is "independent", not "independant". This patch
fixes the doc and the configuration parser to accept the correct form.
The config parser still allows the old naming for backwards compatibility.
This is used to enter values for stick tables. The most likely usage
is to set gpc0 for a specific IP address in order to block traffic
for abusers without having to reload. Since all data types are
supported, other usages are possible (eg: replace a users's assigned
server).
Source addresses of non-TCP families were not correctly handled by
tcp_src_to_stktable_key() as it forgot to return NULL and instead left
the previous value in the stick-table buffer.
This bug is 1.5-specific and was introduced by commit 4f92d320 in 1.5-dev6
so it does not need any backport.
The destination address is purely a connection thing and not an fd thing.
It's also likely that later the address will be stored into the connection
and linked to by the SI.
struct fdinfo only keeps the pointer to the port range and the local port
for now. All of this also needs to move to the connection but before this
the release of the port range must move from fd_delete() to a new function
dedicated to the connection.
It was not possible to kill remaining sessions from the admin interface,
which is annoying especially when switching to maintenance mode. Now it's
possible.
This implements the feature discussed in the earlier thread of killing
connections on backup servers when a non-backup server comes back up. For
example, you can use this to route to a mysql master & slave and ensure
clients don't stay on the slave after the master goes from down->up. I've done
some minimal testing and it seems to work.
[WT: added session flag & doc, moved the killing after logging the server UP,
and ensured that the new server is really usable]
When passing arguments to ACLs and samples, some types are stored as
strings then resolved later after config parsing is done. Upon exit,
the arguments need to be freed only if the string was not resolved
yet. At the moment we can encounter double free during deinit()
because some arguments (eg: userlists) are freed once as their own
type and once as a string.
The solution consists in adding an "unresolved" flag to the args to
say whether the value is still held in the <str> part or is final.
This could be debugged thanks to a useful bug report from Sander Klein.
httponly This option tells haproxy to add an "HttpOnly" cookie attribute
when a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a
user agent doesn't share the cookie with non-HTTP components.
Please check RFC6265 for more information on this attribute.
secure This option tells haproxy to add a "Secure" cookie attribute when
a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a user agent
never emits this cookie over non-secure channels, which means
that a cookie learned with this flag will be presented only over
SSL/TLS connections. Please check RFC6265 for more information on
this attribute.
This one was already taken care of in proxy_cfg_ensure_no_http(), so if a
cookie is presented in a TCP backend, we got two warnings.
This can be backported to 1.4 since it's been this way for 2 years (although not dramatic).
Cookies were mixed with many other options while they're not used as options.
Move them to a dedicated bitmask (ck_opts). This has released 7 flags in the
proxy options and leaves some room for new proxy flags.
Option httplog needs to be checked only once the proxy has been validated,
so that its final mode (tcp/http) can be used. Also we need to check for
httplog before checking the log format, so that we can report a warning
about this specific option and not about the format it implies.
Commit 13e66da introduced b_rew() but passes -adv which is an unsigned
quantity on 64-bit platforms, causing the buffer to advance in the wrong
direction.
No backport is needed.
This patch brings a new "whole" parameter to "balance uri" which makes
the hash work over the whole uri, not just the part before the query
string. Len and depth parameter are still honnored.
The reason for this new feature is explained below.
I have 3 backend servers, each accepting different form of HTTP queries:
http://backend1.server.tld/service1.php?q=...
http://backend1.server.tld/service2.php?q=...
http://backend2.server.tld/index.php?query=...&subquery=...
http://backend3.server.tld/image/49b8c0d9ff
Each backend server returns a different response based on either:
- the URI path (the left part of the URI before the question mark)
- the query string (the right part of the URI after the question mark)
- or the combination of both
I wanted to set up a common caching cluster (using 6 Squid servers, each
configured as reverse proxy for those 3 backends) and have HAProxy balance
the queries among the Squid servers based on URL. I also wanted to achieve
hight cache hit ration on each Squid server and send the same queries to
the same Squid servers. Initially I was considering using the 'balance uri'
algorithm, but that would not work as in case of backend2 all queries would
go to only one Squid server. The 'balance url_param' would not work either
as it would send the backend3 queries to only one Squid server.
So I thought the simplest solution would be to use 'balance uri', but to
calculate the hash based on the whole URI (URI path + query string),
instead of just the URI path.
The listener struct is now aware of the socket layer to use upon accept().
At the moment, only sock_raw is supported so this patch should not change
anything.
When the target is a client, it will be convenient to have a pointer to the
original listener so that we can retrieve some configuration information at
the stream interface level.
This function will be called later when splitting the shutdown in two
steps. It will be needed by SSL and for remote socket operations to
release unused contexts.
The state and the private pointer are not specific to the applets, since SSL
will require exactly both of them. Move them to the connection layer now and
rename them. We also now ensure that both are NULL on first call.
We start to move everything needed to manage a connection to a special
entity "struct connection". We have the data layer operations and the
control operations there. We'll also have more info in the future such
as file descriptors and applet contexts, so that in the end it becomes
detachable from the stream interface, which will allow connections to
be reused between sessions.
For now on, we start with minimal changes.
David Touzeau reported that haproxy dies when a server is checked and is
used in a farm with only "option transparent" and no LB algo. This is
because the LB params are NULL, the functions should be checked before
being called.
The same bug is present in 1.4 so this patch must be backported.
msg->som was zero before the body and was used to carry the beginning
of a chunk size for chunked-encoded messages, at a moment when msg->sol
is always zero.
Remove msg->som and replace it with msg->sol where needed.
This is a left-over from the buffer changes. Msg->sol is always null at the
end of the parsing, so we must not use it anymore to read headers or find
the beginning of a message. As a side effect, the dump of the request in
debug mode is working again because it was relying on msg->sol not being
null.
Maybe it will even be mergeable with another of the message pointers.
Calling the init() function in sess_establish was a bad idea, it is
too late to allow it to fail on lack of resource and does not help at
all. Remove it for now before it's used.
Before it was possible to resize the buffers using global.tune.bufsize,
the trash has always been the size of a buffer by design. Unfortunately,
the recent buffer sizing at runtime forgot to adjust the trash, resulting
in it being too short for content rewriting if buffers were enlarged from
the default value.
The bug was encountered in 1.4 so the fix must be backported there.
This flag indicates that we're not interested in keeping half-open
connections on a stream interface. It has the benefit of allowing
the socket layer to cause an immediate write close when detecting
an incoming read close. This releases resources much faster and
saves one syscall (either a shutdown or setsockopt).
This flag is only set by HTTP on the interface going to the server
since we don't want to continue pushing data there when it has
closed.
Another benefit is that it responds with a FIN to a server's FIN
instead of responding with an RST as it used to, which is much
cleaner.
Performance gains of 7.5% have been measured on HTTP connection
rate on empty objects.