The srv_del_conn_from_list() function is now responsible to update the server
counters and the connection flags when a connection is removed from an idle list
(safe, idle or available). It is called when a connection is released or when a
connection is set as private. This function also removes the connection from the
idle list if necessary.
The srv_use_idle_conn() function is now responsible to update the server
counters and the connection flags when an idle connection is reused. The same
function is called when a new connection is created. This simplifies a bit the
connect_server() function.
When a new connection is created, its target is always set just after. So the
connection target may set when it is created instead, during its initialisation
to be precise. It is the purpose of this patch. Now, conn_new() function is
called with the connection target as parameter. The target is then passed to
conn_init(). It means the target must be passed when cs_new() is called. In this
case, the target is only used when the conn-stream is created with no
connection. This only happens for tcpchecks for now.
To set a connection as private, the conn_set_private() function must now be
called. It sets the CO_FL_PRIVATE flags, but it also remove the connection from
the available connection list, if necessary. For now, it never happens because
only HTTP/1 connections may be set as private after their creation. And these
connections are never inserted in the available connection list.
We used to have 3 thread-based arrays for toremove_lock, idle_cleanup,
and toremove_connections. The problem is that these items are small,
and that this creates false sharing between threads since it's possible
to pack up to 8-16 of these values into a single cache line. This can
cause real damage where there is contention on the lock.
This patch creates a new array of struct "idle_conns" that is aligned
on a cache line and which contains all three members above. This way
each thread has access to its variables without hindering the other
ones. Just doing this increased the HTTP/1 request rate by 5% on a
16-thread machine.
The definition was moved to connection.{c,h} since it appeared a more
natural evolution of the ongoing changes given that there was already
one of them declared in connection.h previously.
Checks.c remains one of the largest file of the project and it contains
too many things. The tcpchecks code represents half of this file, and
both parts are relatively isolated, so let's move it away into its own
file. We now have tcpcheck.c, tcpcheck{,-t}.h.
Doing so required to export quite a number of functions because check.c
has almost everything made static, which really doesn't help to split!
The current state of the logging is a real mess. The main problem is
that almost all files include log.h just in order to have access to
the alert/warning functions like ha_alert() etc, and don't care about
logs. But log.h also deals with real logging as well as log-format and
depends on stream.h and various other things. As such it forces a few
heavy files like stream.h to be loaded early and to hide missing
dependencies depending where it's loaded. Among the missing ones is
syslog.h which was often automatically included resulting in no less
than 3 users missing it.
Among 76 users, only 5 could be removed, and probably 70 don't need the
full set of dependencies.
A good approach would consist in splitting that file in 3 parts:
- one for error output ("errors" ?).
- one for log_format processing
- and one for actual logging.
The type file is becoming a mess, half of it is for the proxy protocol,
another good part describes conn_streams and mux ops, it would deserve
being split again. At least it was reordered so that elements are easier
to find, with the PP-stuff left at the end. The MAX_SEND_FD macro was moved
to compat.h as it's said to be the value for Linux.
