These macros (U2H, U2A, LIM2A, ...) have been used with an explicit
index for the local storage variable, making it difficult to change
log formats and causing a few issues from time to time. Let's have
a single macro with a rotating index so that up to 10 conversions
may be used in a single call.
At the moment, we need trash chunks almost everywhere and the only
correctly implemented one is in the sample code. Let's move this to
the chunks so that all other places can use this allocator.
Additionally, the get_trash_chunk() function now really returns two
different chunks. Previously it used to always overwrite the same
chunk and point it to a different buffer, which was a bit tricky
because it's not obvious that two consecutive results do alias each
other.
The dumpstats code looks like a spaghetti plate. Several functions are
supposed to be able to do several things but rely on complex states to
dispatch the work to independant functions. Most of the HTML output is
performed within the switch/case statements of the whole state machine.
Let's clean this up by adding new functions to emit the data and have
a few more iterators to avoid relying on so complex states.
The new stats dump sequence looks like this for CLI and for HTTP :
cli_io_handler()
-> stats_dump_sess_to_buffer() // "show sess"
-> stats_dump_errors_to_buffer() // "show errors"
-> stats_dump_raw_info_to_buffer() // "show info"
-> stats_dump_raw_info()
-> stats_dump_raw_stat_to_buffer() // "show stat"
-> stats_dump_csv_header()
-> stats_dump_proxy()
-> stats_dump_px_hdr()
-> stats_dump_fe_stats()
-> stats_dump_li_stats()
-> stats_dump_sv_stats()
-> stats_dump_be_stats()
-> stats_dump_px_end()
http_stats_io_handler()
-> stats_http_redir()
-> stats_dump_http() // also emits the HTTP headers
-> stats_dump_html_head() // emits the HTML headers
-> stats_dump_csv_header() // emits the CSV headers (same as above)
-> stats_dump_http_info() // note: ignores non-HTML output
-> stats_dump_proxy() // same as above
-> stats_dump_http_end() // emits HTML trailer
Using %[expression] it becomes possible to make the log engine fetch
some samples from the request or the response and provide them in the
logs. Note that this feature is still limited, it does not yet allow
to apply converters, to limit the output length, nor to specify the
direction which should be fetched when a fetch function works in both
directions.
However it's quite convenient to log SSL information or to include some
information that are used in stick tables.
It is worth noting that this has been done in the generic log format
handler, which means that the same information may be used to build the
unique-id header and to pass the information to a backend server.
The log-format parser reached a limit making it hard to add new features.
It also suffers from a weak handling of certain incorrect corner cases,
for example "%{foo}" is emitted as a litteral while syntactically it's an
argument to no variable. Also the argument parser had to redo some of the
job with some cases causing minor memory leaks (eg: ignored args).
This work aims at improving the situation so that slightly better reporting
is possible and that it becomes possible to extend the log format. The code
has a few more states but looks significantly simpler. The parser is now
capable of reporting ignored arguments and truncated lines.
stream_int_chk_rcv_conn() did not clear connection flags before updating them. It
is unsure whether this could have caused the stalled transfers that have been
reported since dev15.
In order to avoid such further issues, we now use a simple inline function to do
all the job.
Looking at the assembly code that updt_fd() and alloc/release_spec_entry
produce in the polling loops, it's clear that gcc has to recompute pointers
several times in a row because of limited spare registers. By better
grouping adjacent structure updates, we improve the code size by around
60 bytes in the fast path on x86.
The stick counters were in two distinct sets of struct members,
causing some code to be duplicated. Now we use an array, which
enables some processing to be performed in loops. This allowed
the code to be shrunk by 700 bytes.
Until now it was only possible to use track-sc1/sc2 with "src" which
is the IPv4 source address. Now we can use track-sc1/sc2 with any fetch
as well as any transformation type. It works just like the "stick"
directive.
Samples are automatically converted to the correct types for the table.
Only "tcp-request content" rules may use L7 information, and such information
must already be present when the tracking is set up. For example it becomes
possible to track the IP address passed in the X-Forwarded-For header.
HTTP request processing now also considers tracking from backend rules
because we want to be able to update the counters even when the request
was already parsed and tracked.
Some more controls need to be performed (eg: samples do not distinguish
between L4 and L6).
Both servers and proxies share a common set of parameters for outgoing
connections, and since they're not stored in a similar structure, a lot
of code is duplicated in the connection setup, which is one sensible
area.
Let's first define a common struct for these settings and make use of it.
Next patches will de-duplicate code.
This change also fixes a build breakage that happens when USE_LINUX_TPROXY
is not set but USE_CTTPROXY is set, which seem to be very unlikely
considering that the issue was introduced almost 2 years ago an never
reported.
Sessions using client certs are huge (more than 1 kB) and do not fit
in session cache, or require a huge cache.
In this new implementation sshcachesize set a number of available blocks
instead a number of available sessions.
Each block is large enough (128 bytes) to store a simple session (without
client certs).
Huge sessions will take multiple blocks depending on client certificate size.
Note: some unused code for session sync with remote peers was temporarily
removed.
When the PROXY protocol header is expected and fails, leading to an
abort of the incoming connection, we now emit a log message. If option
dontlognull is set and it was just a port probe, then nothing is logged.
Since the introduction of SSL, it became quite annoying not to get any useful
info in logs about handshake failures. Let's improve reporting for embryonic
sessions by checking a per-connection error code and reporting it into the logs
if an error happens before the session is completely instanciated.
The "dontlognull" option is supported in that if a connection does not talk
before being aborted, nothing will be emitted.
At the moment, only timeouts are considered for SSL and the PROXY protocol,
but next patches will handle more errors.
Commit 9b6700f added "v6only". As suggested by Vincent Bernat, it is
sometimes useful to have the opposite option to force binding to the
two protocols when the system is configured to bind to v6 only by
default. This option does exactly this. v6only still has precedence.
Depending on the content-types and accept-encoding fields, some responses
might or might not be compressed. Let's have a counter of the number of
compressed responses and report it in the stats to help improve compression
usage.
Some cosmetic issues were fixed in the CSV output too (missing commas at the
end).
Commit 0ffde2cc in 1.5-dev13 tried to always disable polling on file
descriptors when errors were encountered. Unfortunately it did not
always succeed in doing so because it relied on detecting polling
changes to disable it. Let's use a dedicated conn_stop_polling()
function that is inconditionally called upon error instead.
This managed to stop a busy loop observed when a health check makes
use of the send-proxy protocol and fails before the connection can
be established.
Commit 24db47e0 tried to improve support for delayed ACK upon connect
but it was incomplete, because checks with the proxy protocol would
always enable polling for data receive and there was no way of
distinguishing data polling and delayed ack.
So we add a distinct delack flag to the connect() function so that
the caller decides whether or not to use a delayed ack regardless
of pending data (eg: when send-proxy is in use). Doing so covers all
combinations of { (check with data), (sendproxy), (smart-connect) }.
Several places got the connection close sequence wrong because it
was not obvious. In practice we always need the same sequence when
aborting, so let's have a common function for this.
The porting of checks to using connections was totally bogus. Some checks
were considered successful as soon as the connection was established,
regardless of any response. Some errors would be triggered upon recv
if polling was enabled for send or if the send channel was shut down.
Now the behaviour is much better. It would be cleaner to perform the
fd_delete() in wake_srv_chk() and to process failures and timeouts
separately, but this is already a good start.
Some server check flag names were not properly choosen and cause
analysis trouble, especially the CHK_RUNNING one which does not
mean that a check is running but that the server is running...
Here's the rename :
CHK_RUNNING -> CHK_PASSED
CHK_ERROR -> CHK_FAILED
It was a bit frustrating to have no idea about the bandwidth saved by
HTTP compression. Now we have per-frontend and per-backend stats. The
stats on the HTTP interface are shown in a hover title in the "bytes out"
column if at least something was fed to the compressor. 3 new columns
appeared in the CSV stats output.
Some users need more than 64 characters to log large cookies. The limit
was set to 63 characters (and not 64 as previously documented). Now it
is possible to change this using the global "tune.http.cookielen" setting
if required.
New option 'maxcompcpuusage' in global section.
Sets the maximum CPU usage HAProxy can reach before stopping the
compression for new requests or decreasing the compression level of
current requests. It works like 'maxcomprate' but with the Idle.
This patch makes changes in the http_response_forward_body state
machine. It checks if the compress algorithm had consumed data before
swapping the temporary and the input buffer. So it prevents null sized
zlib chunks.
global.tune.maxaccept was used for all listeners. This becomes really not
convenient when some listeners are bound to a single process and other ones
are bound to many processes.
Now we change the principle : we count the number of processes a listener
is bound to, and apply the maxaccept either entirely if there is a single
process, or divided by twice the number of processes in order to maintain
fairness.
The default limit has also been increased from 32 to 64 as it appeared that
on small machines, 32 was too low to achieve high connection rates.
The new "cpu-map" directive allows one to assign the CPU sets that
a process is allowed to bind to. This is useful in combination with
the "nbproc" and "bind-process" directives.
The support is implicit on Linux 2.6.28 and above.
This is done by passing the default value to SSLCACHESIZE in sessions.
User can use tune.sslcachesize to change this value.
By default, it is set to 20000 sessions as openssl internal cache size.
Currently, a session entry size is between 592 and 616 bytes depending on the arch.
Instead of storing a couple of (int, ptr) in the struct connection
and the struct session, we use a different method : we only store a
pointer to an integer which is stored inside the target object and
which contains a unique type identifier. That way, the pointer allows
us to retrieve the object type (by dereferencing it) and the object's
address (by computing the displacement in the target structure). The
NULL pointer always corresponds to OBJ_TYPE_NONE.
This reduces the size of the connection and session structs. It also
simplifies target assignment and compare.
In order to improve the generated code, we try to put the obj_type
element at the beginning of all the structs (listener, server, proxy,
si_applet), so that the original and target pointers are always equal.
A lot of code was touched by massive replaces, but the changes are not
that important.
Before connections were introduced, it was possible to connect an
external task to a stream interface. However it was left as an
exercise for the brave implementer to find how that ought to be
done.
The feature was broken since the introduction of connections and
was never fixed since due to lack of users. Better remove this dead
code now.
Hijackers were functions designed to inject data into channels in the
distant past. They became unused around 1.3.16, and since there has
not been any user of this mechanism to date, it's uncertain whether
the mechanism still works (and it's not really useful anymore). So
better remove it as well as the pointer it uses in the channel struct.
Some servers are not totally HTTP-compliant when it comes to parsing the
Connection header. This is particularly true with WebSocket where it happens
from time to time that a server doesn't support having a "close" token along
with the "Upgrade" token in the Connection header. This broken behaviour has
also been noticed on some clients though the problem is less frequent on the
response path.
Sometimes the workaround consists in enabling "option http-pretend-keepalive"
to leave the request Connection header untouched, but this is not always the
most convenient solution. This patch introduces a new solution : haproxy now
also looks for the "Upgrade" token in the Connection header and if it finds
it, then it refrains from adding any other token to the Connection header
(though "keep-alive" and "close" may still be removed if found). The same is
done for the response headers.
This way, WebSocket much with less changes even when facing non-compliant
clients or servers. At least it fixes the DISCONNECT issue that was seen
on the websocket.org test.
Note that haproxy does not change its internal mode, it just refrains from
adding new tokens to the connection header.
Now that all pollers make use of speculative I/O, there is no point
having two epoll implementations, so replace epoll with the sepoll code
and remove sepoll which has just become the standard epoll method.
