It was possible to slightly reduce the size and the number of
operations in session_process_counters(). Two 64 bit comparisons
were removed, reducing the code by 98 bytes on x86 due to the lack
of registers. The net observed performance gain is almost 2%, which
cannot be attributed to those optimizations, but more likely to
induced changes in code alignment in other functions.
By default, counters used for statistics calculation are incremented
only when a session finishes. It works quite well when serving small
objects, but with big ones (for example large images or archives) or
with A/V streaming, a graph generated from haproxy counters looks like
a hedgehog.
This patch implements a contstats (continous statistics) option.
When set counters get incremented continuously, during a whole session.
Recounting touches a hotpath directly so it is not enabled by default,
as it has small performance impact (~0.5%).
A new file, proto_uxst.c, implements support of PF_UNIX sockets
of type SOCK_STREAM. It relies on generic stream_sock_read/write
and uses its own accept primitive which also tries to be generic.
Right now it only implements an echo service in sight of a general
support for start dumping via unix socket. The echo code is more
of a proof of concept than useful code.
Now we try to free as many pools as possible when a proxy is stopping.
The reason is that we want to ease the process replacement when applying
a new configuration, without keeping too many unused memory allocated.
The fiprm and beprm were added to ease the transition between
a single listener mode to frontends+backends. They are no longer
needed and make the code a bit more complicated. Remove them.
Some parts of HTTP processing were incorrectly called "request" while
they are messages or transactions. The following structure members
have changed :
http_msg.hdr_state => msg_state
http_msg.sor => som
http_req.req_state => removed
http_req => http_txn
The HTTP parser has been rewritten for better compliance to RFC2616.
The same parser is now usable for both requests and responses, and
it now supports HTTP/0.9 as well as multi-line headers. It has also
been improved for speed ; a typicial HTTP request is parsed in about
2 microseconds on a 1 GHz processor.
The monitor-uri check has been moved so that the requests are not
logged. The httpclose option now tries to change as little as
possible in the request, and does not affect the first header if
it is already set to 'close'. HTTP/0.9 requests are converted to
HTTP/1.0 before being forwarded.
Headers and request transformations are now distinct. The headers
list is updated after each insertion/removal/transformation. The
request is re-parsed and checked after each transformation. It is
not possible anymore to remove a request, and requests which lead
to invalid request lines are now rejected.
A struct http_req has been created to collect every information
related to an HTTP request being processed. Right now, it is
still in the struct session but the frontier is clear now.
Since the introduction of hdr_idx, session_free() had not
been updated to free the header ! It implied a consumption
of about 400 bytes per new session.
There was a confusion about the way to find filters and backend
parameters from sessions. The chaining has been changed between
the session and the proxy.
Now, a session knows only two proxies : one frontend (->fe) and
one backend (->be). Each proxy has a link to the proxy providing
filters and to the proxy providing backend parameters (both self
by default).
The captures (cookies and headers) have been attached to the
frontend's filters for now.
The uri_auth and the statistics are attached to the backend's
filters so that the uri can depend on a hostname for instance.
The req_cap, hdr_state, hdr_idx, auth_hdr and req_line have been moved
to a dedicated hreq structure in the session. It makes is easier to
add HTTP-specific fields such as SOR (start of request) and EOF (end
of headers).
It also made it possible to fix two bugs introduced by last commit :
- end of headers not correctly detected
- hdr_idx not freed upon one specific error during session creation
When the backend side will be reworked, it should rely on a similar
structure.
The references to the proxy from the session have been turned into
Frontend (fe), Filters (fi) and Backend (be). This should ease the
migration to the L7 switching features. Next step will be to kill
the struct proxy and have 3 independant structs instead, each
referenced from entities called listener, frontend, filters and
backend.
The files are now stored under :
- include/haproxy for the generic includes
- include/types.h for the structures needed within prototypes
- include/proto.h for function prototypes and inline functions
- src/*.c for the C files
Most include files are now covered by LGPL. A last move still needs
to be done to put inline functions under GPL and not LGPL.
Version has been set to 1.3.0 in the code but some control still
needs to be done before releasing.
