At a few places we were still using protocol_by_family() instead of
the richer protocol_lookup(). The former is limited as it enforces
SOCK_STREAM and a stream protocol at the control layer. At least with
protocol_lookup() we don't have this limitationn. The values were still
set for now but later we can imagine making them configurable on the
fly.
Instead of using sock_type and ctrl_type to select a protocol, let's
make use of the new protocol type. For now they always match so there
is no change. This is applied to address parsing and to socket retrieval
from older processes.
When the sample validity flags are computed to check if a sample is used in
a valid scope, the flags depending on the proxy capabilities must be
cumulated. Historically, for a sample on the request, only the frontend
capability was used to set the sample validity flags while for a sample on
the response only the backend was used. But it is a problem for listen or
defaults proxies. For those proxies, all frontend and backend samples should
be valid. However, at many place, only frontend ones are possible.
For instance, it is impossible to set the backend name (be_name) into a
variable from a listen proxy.
This bug exists on all stable versions. Thus this patch should probably be
backported. But with some caution because the code has probably changed
serveral times. Note that nobody has ever noticed this issue. So the need to
backport this patch must be evaluated for each branch.
TCP and HTTP rules can now be defined in defaults sections, but only those
with a name. Because these rules may use conditions based on ACLs, ACLs can
also be defined in defaults sections.
However there are some limitations:
* A defaults section defining TCP/HTTP rules cannot be used by a defaults
section
* A defaults section defining TCP/HTTP rules cannot be used bu a listen
section
* A defaults sections defining TCP/HTTP rules cannot be used by frontends
and backends at the same time
* A defaults sections defining 'tcp-request connection' or 'tcp-request
session' rules cannot be used by backends
* A defaults sections defining 'tcp-response content' rules cannot be used
by frontends
The TCP request/response inspect-delay of a proxy is now inherited from the
defaults section it uses. For now, these rules are only parsed. No evaluation is
performed.
If a not-ready default proxy is referenced by a proxy during the
configuration validity check, its configuration is also finished and
PR_FL_READY flag is set on it.
For now, the arguments resolution is the only step performed.
This patch is mandatory to support TCP/HTTP rules in defaults sections.
The PR_FL_READY flags must now be set on a proxy at the end of the
configuration validity check to notify it is fully configured and may be
safely used.
For now there is no real usage of this flag. But it will be usefull for
referenced default proxies to finish their configuration only once.
This patch is mandatory to support TCP/HTTP rules in defaults sections.
This change is required to support TCP/HTTP rules in defaults sections. The
'disabled' bitfield in the proxy structure, used to know if a proxy is
disabled or stopped, is replaced a generic bitfield named 'flags'.
PR_DISABLED and PR_STOPPED flags are renamed to PR_FL_DISABLED and
PR_FL_STOPPED respectively. In addition, everywhere there is a test to know
if a proxy is disabled or stopped, there is now a bitwise AND operation on
PR_FL_DISABLED and/or PR_FL_STOPPED flags.
.disabled field in the proxy structure is documented to be a bitfield. So
use it as a bitfield. This change was introduced to the 2.5, by commit
8e765b86f ("MINOR: proxy: disabled takes a stopping and a disabled state").
No backport is needed except if the above commit is backported.
In multi-threaded mode, on operating systems supporting multiple listeners on
the same IP:port, this will automatically create this number of multiple
identical listeners for the same line, all bound to a fair share of the number
of the threads attached to this listener. This can sometimes be useful when
using very large thread counts where the in-kernel locking on a single socket
starts to cause a significant overhead. In this case the incoming traffic is
distributed over multiple sockets and the contention is reduced. Note that
doing this can easily increase the CPU usage by making more threads work a
little bit.
If the number of shards is higher than the number of available threads, it
will automatically be trimmed to the number of threads. A special value
"by-thread" will automatically assign one shard per thread.
With groups at some point we'll have to have distinct masks/groups in the
receiver and the bind_conf, because a single bind_conf might require to
instantiate multiple receivers (one per group).
Let's split the thread mask and group to have one for the bind_conf and
another one for the receiver while it remains easy to do. This will later
allow to use different storage for the bind_conf if needed (e.g. support
multiple groups).
This takes care of unassigned threads groups and places unassigned
threads there, in a more or less balanced way. Too sparse allocations
may still fail though. For now with a maximum group number fixed to 1
nothing can really fail.
There is currently a problem related to time keeping. We're mixing
the functions to perform calculations with the os-dependent code
needed to retrieve and adjust the local time.
This patch extracts from time.{c,h} the parts that are solely dedicated
to time keeping. These are the "now" or "before_poll" variables for
example, as well as the various now_*() functions that make use of
gettimeofday() and clock_gettime() to retrieve the current time.
The "tv_*" functions moved there were also more appropriately renamed
to "clock_*".
Other parts used to compute stolen time are in other files, they will
have to be picked next.
We'll need to improve the API to pass other arguments in the future, so
let's start to adapt better to the current use cases. task_new() is used:
- 18 times as task_new(tid_bit)
- 18 times as task_new(MAX_THREADS_MASK)
- 2 times with a single bit (in a loop)
- 1 in the debug code that uses a mask
This patch provides 3 new functions to achieve this:
- task_new_here() to create a task on the calling thread
- task_new_anywhere() to create a task to be run anywhere
- task_new_on() to create a task to run on a specific thread
The change is trivial and will allow us to later concentrate the
required adaptations to these 3 functions only. It's still possible
to call task_new() if needed but a comment was added to encourage the
use of the new ones instead. The debug code was not changed and still
uses it.
As seen in commit 5ef965606 ("BUG/MINOR: lua: use strlcpy2() not
strncpy() to copy sample keywords"), configs with large values of
tune.bufsize were not practically usable since Lua was introduced,
regardless of the machine's available memory.
In addition, HTX encoding already limits block sizes to 256 MB, thus
it is not technically possible to use that large a buffer size when
HTTP is in use. This is absurdly high anyway, and for example Lua
initialization would take around one minute on a 4 GHz CPU. Better
prevent such a config from starting than having to deal with bug
reports that make no sense.
The check is only enforced if at least one HTX proxy was found, as
there is no techincal reason to block it for configs that are solely
based on raw TCP, and it could still be imagined that some such might
exist with single connections (e.g. a log forwarder that buffers to
cover for the storage I/O latencies).
This should be backported to all HTX-enabled versions (2.0 and above).
This option can be used to define a specific log format that will be
used in case of error, timeout, connection failure on a frontend... It
will be used for any log line concerned by the log-separate-errors
option. It will also replace the format of specific error messages
decribed in section 8.2.6.
If no "error-log-format" is defined, the legacy error messages are still
emitted and the other error logs keep using the regular log-format.
Mark servers that are referenced by configuration elements as non
purgeable. This includes the following list :
- tracked servers
- servers referenced in a use-server rule
- servers referenced in a sample fetch
Recent commit 83614a9fb ("MINOR: httpclient: initialize the proxy") broke
reg tests that match the output of "show stats" or "show servers state"
because it changed the proxies' numeric ID.
In fact it did nothing wrong, it just registers a proxy and adds it at
the head of the list. But the automatic numbering scheme, which was made
to make sure that temporarily disabled proxies in the config keep their
ID instead of shifting all others, sees one more proxy and increments
next_pxid for all subsequent proxies.
This patch avoids this by not assigning automatic IDs to such internal
proxies, leaving them with their ID of -1, and by not shifting next_pxid
for them. This is important because the user might experience them
appearing or disappearing depending on apparently unrelated config
options or build options, and this must not cause visible proxy IDs
to change (e.g. stats or minitoring may break).
Though the issue has always been there, it only became a problem with
the recent proxy additions so there is no need to backport this.
The internal proxies should be part of the proxies list, because of
this, the check_config_validity() fonction could emit warnings about
these proxies.
This patch disables 3 startup warnings for internal proxies:
- "has no 'bind' directive" (this one was already ignored for the CLI
frontend, but we made it generic instead)
- "missing timeouts"
- "log format ignored"
Allocate default tcp ruleset for every backend without explicit rules
defined, even if no server in the backend use check. This change is
required to implement checks for dynamic servers.
This allocation is done on check_config_validity. It must absolutely be
called before check_proxy_tcpcheck (called via post proxy check) which
allocate the implicit tcp connect rule.
This patch splits the disabled state of a proxy into a PR_DISABLED and a
PR_STOPPED state.
The first one is set when the proxy is disabled in the configuration
file, and the second one is set upon a stop_proxy().
This option had always been broken in HTX, which means that the first
breakage appeared in 1.9, that it was broken by default in 2.0 and that
no workaround existed starting with 2.1. The way this option works is
praticularly unfit to the rest of the configuration and to the internal
architecture. It had some uses when it was introduced 14 years ago but
nowadays it's possible to do much better and more reliable using a
set of "http-request set-dst" and "http-request set-uri" rules, which
additionally are compatible with DNS resolution (via do-resolve) and
are not exclusive to normal load balancing. The "option-http_proxy"
example config file was updated to reflect this.
The option is still parsed so that an error message gives hints about
what to look for.
Till now we were dealing with single-word expressions but in order to
extend the configuration condition language a bit more, we'll need to
support slightly more complex expressions involving operators, and we
must absolutely support spaces around them to keep them readable.
As all arguments are pointers to the same line with spaces replaced by
zeroes, we can trivially rebuild the whole line before calling the
condition evaluator, and remove the test for extraneous argument. This
is what this patch does.
The .if/.else/.endif and condition evaluation code is quite dirty and
was dumped into cfgparse.c because it was easy. But it should be tidied
quite a bit as it will need to evolve.
Let's move all that to cfgcond.{c,h}.
This patch provides the code to handle arrays of some
standard types (SINT, UINT, ULL and FRQP) in stick table.
This way we could define new "array" data types.
Note: the number of elements of an array was limited
to 100 to put a limit and to ensure that an encoded
update message will continue to fit into a buffer
when the peer protocol will handle such data types.
To avoid repeating the same source code, allocating memory and initializing
the per_thr field from the server structure is transferred to a separate
function.
Lots of places iterating over nbproc or comparing with nbproc could be
simplified. Further, "bind-process" and "process" parsing that was
already limited to process 1 or "all" or "odd" resulted in a bind_proc
field that was either 0 or 1 during the init phase and later always 1.
All the checks for compatibilities were removed since it's not possible
anymore to run a frontend and a backend on different processes or to
have peers and stick-tables bound on different ones. This is the largest
part of this patch.
The bind_proc field was removed from both the proxy and the receiver
structs.
Since the "process" and "bind-process" directives are still parsed,
configs making use of correct values allowing process 1 will continue
to work.
If the server id is fixed in the configuration, it is immediately
inserted in the 'used_server_id' backend tree via srv_parse_id. On
check_config_validity, the dynamic id generation is thus skipped for
fixed-id servers. However, it must nevertheless be inserted in the
'used_server_name' backend tree.
This bug seems to be not noticeable for the user. Indeed, before the
fix, the search in sticking_rule_find_target always returned NULL for
the name, then the fallback search with server id succeeded, so the
persistence is properly applied. However with the fix the fallback
search is not executed anymore, which saves from the locking of
STK_SESS.
This should be backported up to 2.0.
This one was deprecated in 2.3 and marked for removal in 2.5. It suffers
too many limitations compared to threads, and prevents some improvements
from being engaged. Instead of a bypassable startup error, there is now
a hard error.
The parsing code was removed, and very few obvious cases were as well.
The code is deeply rooted at certain places (e.g. "for" loops iterating
from 0 to nbproc) so it will not be that trivial to remove everywhere.
The "bind" and "bind-process" parsers will have to be adjusted, though
maybe not completely changed if we later want to support thread groups
for large NUMA machines. Some stats socket restrictions were removed,
and the doc was updated according to what was done. A few places in the
doc still refer to nbproc and will have to be revisited. The master-worker
code also refers to the process number to distinguish between master and
workers and will have to be carefully adjusted. The MAX_PROCS macro was
reset to 1, this will at least reduce the size of some remaining arrays.
Two regtests were dependieng on this directive, one with an explicit
"nbproc 1" and another one testing the master's CLI using nbproc 4.
Both were adapted.
This patch adds the `-cc` (check condition) argument to evaluate conditions on
startup and return the result as the exit code.
As an example this can be used to easily check HAProxy's version in scripts:
haproxy -cc 'version_atleast(2.4)'
This resolves GitHub issue #1246.
Co-authored-by: Tim Duesterhus <tim@bastelstu.be>
We can calculate the number of possible arguments based off the size of the
`args` array. We should do so to prevent the two values from getting out of
sync.
Initialize the parsing context when checking server config validity.
Adjust the log messages to remove redundant config file/line and server
name. Do a similar cleaning in prepare_srv from ssl_sock as this
function is called at the same stage.
This will standardize the stderr output on startup with the parse_server
function.
Set "config :" as a prefix for the user messages context before starting
the configuration parsing. All following stderr output will be prefixed
by it.
As a consequence, remove extraneous prefix "config" already specified in
various ha_alert/warning/notice calls.
A memory allocation failure happening in chash_init_server_tree while
trying to allocate a server's lb_nodes item used in consistent hashing
would have resulted in a crash. This function is only called during
configuration parsing.
It was raised in GitHub issue #1233.
It could be backported to all stable branches.
The function is defined when using linux+cpu affinity but is only used
if threads are enabled, so let's add this condition to avoid aa build
warning about an unused function when building with thread disabled.
This came in 2.4-dev17 with commit b56a7c89a ("MEDIUM: cfgparse: detect
numa and set affinity if needed") so no backport is needed.
These ones are used by virtually every config parser. Not only they
provide no benefit in being inlined, but they imply a very deep
dependency starting at proxy.h, which results for example in task.c
including openssl.
Let's move these two functions to cfgparse.c.
This one works just like .notice/.warning/.alert except that it prints
the message at level "DIAG" only when haproxy runs in diagnostic mode
(-dD). This can be convenient for example to pass a few hints to help
locate certain config parts or to leave messages about certain temporary
workarounds.
Example:
.diag "WTA/2021-05-07: $.LINE: replace 'redirect' with 'return' after final switch to 2.4"
http-request redirect location /goaway if ABUSE
These predicates respectively verify that the current version is at least
a given version or is before a specific one. The syntax is exactly the one
reported by "haproxy -v", though each component is optional, so both "1.5"
and "2.4-dev18-88910-48" are supported. Missing components equal zero, and
"dev" is below "pre" or "rc", which are both inferior to no such mention
(i.e. they are negative). Thus "2.4-dev18" is older than "2.4-rc1" which
is older than "2.4".
The "feature(name)" predicate will return true if <name> corresponds to
a name listed after a '+' in the features list, that is it was enabled at
build time with USE_<name>=1. Typical use cases will include OPENSSL, LUA
and LINUX_SPLICE. But maybe it will also be convenient to use with optional
addons such as PROMEX and the device detection modules to help keeping the
same configs across various deployments.
"streq(str1,str2)" will return true if the two strings match while
"strneq(str1,str2)" will return true only if they differ. This is
convenient to match an environment variable against a predefined value.
Now we can look up a list of known predicates and pre-parse their
arguments. For now the list is empty. The code needed to be arranged with
a common exit point to release all arguments because there's no default
argument freeing function (it likely only used to exist in the deinit
code). Since we only support simple arguments for now it's no big deal,
only a 2-liner loop.
Let's return the position of the first unparsable character on error,
so that instead of just saying "unparsable conditional expression blah"
we can have:
[ALERT] 125/150618 (13995) : parsing [test-conds2.cfg:1]: unparsable conditional expression '12/blah' in '.if' at position 1:
.if 12/blah
^
This is important because conditions will be made from environment
variables or later from more complex expressions where the error will
not always be easy to locate.
Let's add a few fields to the global struct to store information about
the current file being processed, the current line number and the current
section. This will be used to retrieve them using special variables.
Instead of duplicating the condition evaluations, let's have a single
function cfg_eval_condition() that returns true/false/error. It takes
less code and will ease its extension.
The doc about .if/.elif config block conditions says:
a non-nul integer (e.g. '1'), always returns "true"
So we must accept negative integers as well. The test was made on
atoi() > 0.
No backport is needed, this is only 2.4.
This missing state was causing a second elif condition to be evaluated
after a first one succeeded after a .if failed. For example in the test
below the else would be executed:
.if 0
.elif 1
.elif 0
.else
.endif
No backport is needed, this is 2.4-only.
The condition to skip the block in the ".if" evaluator forgot to check
that the level was high enough, resulting in rare cases where a random
value matched one of the 5 values that cause the block to be skipped.
No backport is needed as it's 2.4-only.
By default haproxy loads all files designated by a relative path from the
location the process is started in. In some circumstances it might be
desirable to force all relative paths to start from a different location
just as if the process was started from such locations. This is what this
directive is made for. Technically it will perform a temporary chdir() to
the designated location while processing each configuration file, and will
return to the original directory after processing each file. It takes an
argument indicating the policy to use when loading files whose path does
not start with a slash ('/').
A few options are offered, "current" (the default), "config" (files
relative to config file's dir), "parent" (files relative to config file's
parent dir), and "origin" with an absolute path.
This should address issue #1198.
In readcfgfile() when malloc() fails to allocate a buffer for the
config line, it currently says "parsing[<file>]: out of memory" while
the error is unrelated to the config file and may make one think it has
to do with the file's size. The second test (fopen() returning error)
needs to release the previously allocated line. Both directly return -1
which is not even documented as a valid error code for the function.
Let's simply make sure that the few variables freed at the end are
properly preset, and jump there upon error, after having displayed a
meaningful error message. Now at least we can get this:
$ ./haproxy -f /dev/kmem
[NOTICE] 116/191904 (23233) : haproxy version is 2.4-dev17-c3808c-13
[NOTICE] 116/191904 (23233) : path to executable is ./haproxy
[ALERT] 116/191904 (23233) : Could not open configuration file /dev/kmem : Permission denied
The error path of the NUMA topology detection introduced in commit
b56a7c89a ("MEDIUM: cfgparse: detect numa and set affinity if needed")
lacks an initialization resulting in possible crashes at boot. No
backport is needed since that was introduced in 2.4-dev.
The compilation is currently broken on platform without USE_CPU_AFFINITY
set. An error has been reported by the cygwin build of the CI.
This does not need to be backported.
In file included from include/haproxy/global-t.h:27,
from include/haproxy/global.h:26,
from include/haproxy/fd.h:33,
from src/ev_poll.c:22:
include/haproxy/cpuset-t.h:32:3: error: #error "No cpuset support implemented on this platform"
32 | # error "No cpuset support implemented on this platform"
| ^~~~~
include/haproxy/cpuset-t.h:37:2: error: unknown type name ‘CPUSET_REPR’
37 | CPUSET_REPR cpuset;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:944: src/ev_poll.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from include/haproxy/global-t.h:27,
from include/haproxy/global.h:26,
from include/haproxy/fd.h:33,
from include/haproxy/connection.h:30,
from include/haproxy/ssl_sock.h:27,
from src/ssl_sample.c:30:
include/haproxy/cpuset-t.h:32:3: error: #error "No cpuset support implemented on this platform"
32 | # error "No cpuset support implemented on this platform"
| ^~~~~
include/haproxy/cpuset-t.h:37:2: error: unknown type name ‘CPUSET_REPR’
37 | CPUSET_REPR cpuset;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:944: src/ssl_sample.o] Error 1
Render numa detection optional with a global configuration statement
'no numa-cpu-mapping'. This can be used if the applied affinity of the
algorithm is not optimal. Also complete the documentation with this new
keyword.
On process startup, the CPU topology of the machine is inspected. If a
multi-socket CPU machine is detected, automatically define the process
affinity on the first node with active cpus. This is done to prevent an
impact on the overall performance of the process in case the topology of
the machine is unknown to the user.
This step is not executed in the following condition :
- a non-null nbthread statement is present
- a restrictive 'cpu-map' statement is present
- the process affinity is already restricted, for example via a taskset
call
For the record, benchmarks were executed on a machine with 2 CPUs
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz. In both clear and ssl
scenario, the performance were sub-optimal without the automatic
rebinding on a single node.
Allow to specify multiple cpu ids/ranges in parse_cpu_set separated by a
comma. This is optional and must be activated by a parameter.
The comma support is disabled for the parsing of the 'cpu-map' config
statement. However, it will be useful to parse files in sysfs when
inspecting the cpus topology for NUMA automatic process binding.
Replace the unsigned long parameter by a hap_cpuset. This allows to
address CPU with index greater than LONGBITS.
This function is used to parse the 'cpu-map' statement. However at the
moment, the result is casted back to a long to store it in the global
structure. The next step is to replace ulong in in cpu_map in the
global structure with hap_cpuset.
The current "ADD" vs "ADDQ" is confusing because when thinking in terms
of appending at the end of a list, "ADD" naturally comes to mind, but
here it does the opposite, it inserts. Several times already it's been
incorrectly used where ADDQ was expected, the latest of which was a
fortunate accident explained in 6fa922562 ("CLEANUP: stream: explain
why we queue the stream at the head of the server list").
Let's use more explicit (but slightly longer) names now:
LIST_ADD -> LIST_INSERT
LIST_ADDQ -> LIST_APPEND
LIST_ADDED -> LIST_INLIST
LIST_DEL -> LIST_DELETE
The same is true for MT_LISTs, including their "TRY" variant.
LIST_DEL_INIT keeps its short name to encourage to use it instead of the
lazier LIST_DELETE which is often less safe.
The change is large (~674 non-comment entries) but is mechanical enough
to remain safe. No permutation was performed, so any out-of-tree code
can easily map older names to new ones.
The list doc was updated.
This patch registers the parsed file and the line where a log server
is declared to make those information available in configuration
post check.
Those new informations were added on error messages probed resolving
ring names on post configuration check.
L6 sample fetches are now ignored when called from an HTTP proxy. Thus, a
warning is emitted during the startup if such usage is detected. It is true
for most ACLs and for log-format strings. Unfortunately, it is a bit painful
to do so for sample expressions.
This patch relies on the commit "MINOR: action: Use a generic function to
check validity of an action rule list".
The check_action_rules() function is now used to check the validity of an
action rule list. It is used from check_config_validity() function to check
L5/6/7 rulesets.
If a 'switch-mode http' tcp action is configured on a listener with no
backend, a warning is displayed to remember HTTP connections cannot be
routed to TCP servers. Indeed, backend connection is still established using
the proxy mode.
It is just a small cleanup. AN_REQ_FLT_HTTP_HDRS and AN_RES_FLT_HTTP_HDRS
analysers are now set in HTTP analysers at the same place
AN_REQ_HTTP_XFER_BODY and AN_RES_HTTP_XFER_BODY are set.
No warning is emitted if some http-after-response rules are configured on a
TCP proxy while such warning messages are emitted for other HTTP ruleset in
same condition. It is just an oversight.
This patch may be backported as far as 2.2.
For now smp_resolve_args() complains on stderr via ha_alert(), but if we
want to make it a bit more dynamic, we need it to return errors in an
allocated message. Let's pass it an error pointer and have it fill it.
On return we indent the output if it contains more than one line.
Modify the API of parse_server function. Use flags to describe the type
of the parsed server instead of discrete arguments. These flags can be
used to specify if a server/default-server/server-template is parsed.
Additional parameters are also specified (parsing of the address
required, resolve of a name must be done immediately).
It is now unneeded to use strcmp on args[0] in parse_server. Also, the
calls to parse_server are more explicit thanks to the flags.
The idle conn task is is a global task used to cleanup backend
connections marked for deletion. Previously, it was only only allocated
if at least one server in the configuration has idle connections.
This assumption won't be valid anymore when new servers can be created
at runtime with idle connections. Always allocate the global idle conn
task.
If the configuration file contains a 'unix-bind prefix' directive, and
if we use the -S option and specify a UNIX socket path, the path of the
socket will be prepended with the value of the unix-bind prefix.
For instance, if we have 'unix-bind prefix /tmp/sockets/' and we use
'-S /tmp/master-socket' on the command line, we will get this error:
Starting proxy MASTER:
cannot bind UNIX socket (No such file or directory) [/tmp/sockets/tmp/master-socket]
So this patch adds an exception, and will ignore the unix-bind prefix
for the master CLI socket.
This patch can be backported as far as 1.9.
There were still a very small list of functions, variables and fields
called "stats_" while they were really purely CLI-centric. There's the
frontend called "stats_fe" in the global section, which instantiates a
"cli_applet" called "<CLI>" so it was renamed "cli_fe".
The "alloc_stats_fe" function cas renamed to "cli_alloc_fe" which also
better matches the naming convention of all cli-specific functions.
Finally the "stats_permission_denied_msg" used to return an error on
the CLI was renamed "cli_permission_denied_msg".
Now there's no more "stats_something" that designates the CLI.
Just like with the server keywords, now's the turn of "bind" keywords.
The difference is that 100% of the bind keywords are registered, thus
we do not need the list of extra keywords.
There are multiple bind line parsers today, all were updated:
- peers
- log
- dgram-bind
- cli
$ printf "listen f\nbind :8000 tcut\n" | ./haproxy -c -f /dev/stdin
[NOTICE] 070/101358 (25146) : haproxy version is 2.4-dev11-7b8787-26
[NOTICE] 070/101358 (25146) : path to executable is ./haproxy
[ALERT] 070/101358 (25146) : parsing [/dev/stdin:2] : 'bind :8000' unknown keyword 'tcut'; did you mean 'tcp-ut' maybe ?
[ALERT] 070/101358 (25146) : Error(s) found in configuration file : /dev/stdin
[ALERT] 070/101358 (25146) : Fatal errors found in configuration.
Instead of just reporting "unknown keyword", let's provide a function which
will look through a list of registered keywords for a similar-looking word
to the one that wasn't matched. This will help callers suggest correct
spelling. Also, given that a large part of the config parser still relies
on a long chain of strcmp(), we'll need to be able to pass extra candidates.
Thus the function supports an optional extra list for this purpose.
The actconns list creates massive contention on low server counts because
it's in fact a list of streams using a server, all threads compete on the
list's head and it's still possible to see some watchdog panics on 48
threads under extreme contention with 47 threads trying to add and one
thread trying to delete.
Moving this list per thread is trivial because it's only used by
srv_shutdown_streams(), which simply required to iterate over the list.
The field was renamed to "streams" as it's really a list of streams
rather than a list of connections.
There are multiple per-thread lists in the listeners, which isn't the
most efficient in terms of cache, and doesn't easily allow to store all
the per-thread stuff.
Now we introduce an srv_per_thread structure which the servers will have an
array of, and place the idle/safe/avail conns tree heads into. Overall this
was a fairly mechanical change, and the array is now always initialized for
all servers since we'll put more stuff there. It's worth noting that the Lua
code still has to deal with its own deinit by itself despite being in a
global list, because its server is not dynamically allocated.
Till now servers were only initialized as part of the proxy setup loop,
which doesn't cover peers, tcp log, dns, lua etc. Let's move this part
out of this loop and instead iterate over all registered servers. This
way we're certain to visit them all.
The patch looks big but it's just a move of a large block with the
corresponding reindent (as can be checked with diff -b). It relies
on the two previous ones ("MINOR: server: add a global list of all
known servers and" and "CLEANUP: lua: set a dummy file name and line
number on the dummy servers").
A few occurrences of calls to free() to free a section name,
peers name or server name were using casts and didn't include
the trailing free, let's switch them to ha_free().
This makes the code more readable and less prone to copy-paste errors.
In addition, it allows to place some __builtin_constant_p() predicates
to trigger a link-time error in case the compiler knows that the freed
area is constant. It will also produce compile-time error if trying to
free something that is not a regular pointer (e.g. a function).
The DEBUG_MEM_STATS macro now also defines an instance for ha_free()
so that all these calls can be checked.
178 occurrences were converted. The vast majority of them were handled
by the following Coccinelle script, some slightly refined to better deal
with "&*x" or with long lines:
@ rule @
expression E;
@@
- free(E);
- E = NULL;
+ ha_free(&E);
It was verified that the resulting code is the same, more or less a
handful of cases where the compiler optimized slightly differently
the temporary variable that holds the copy of the pointer.
A non-negligible amount of {free(str);str=NULL;str_len=0;} are still
present in the config part (mostly header names in proxies). These
ones should also be cleaned for the same reasons, and probably be
turned into ist strings.
These function names are unbearably long, they don't even fit into the
screen in "show profiling", let's trim the "_connections" to "_conns",
which happens to match the name of the lists there.
The maximum number of connections accepted at once by a thread for a single
listener used to default to 64 divided by the number of processes but the
tasklet-based model is much more scalable and benefits from smaller values.
Experimentation has shown that 4 gives the highest accept rate for all
thread values, and that 3 and 5 come very close, as shown below (HTTP/1
connections forwarded per second at multi-accept 4 and 64):
ac\thr| 1 2 4 8 16
------+------------------------------
4| 80k 106k 168k 270k 336k
64| 63k 89k 145k 230k 274k
Some tests were also conducted on SSL and absolutely no change was observed.
The value was placed into a define because it used to be spread all over the
code.
It might be useful at some point to backport this to 2.3 and 2.2 to help
those who observed some performance regressions from 1.6.
This patch splits current dns.c into two files:
The first dns.c contains code related to DNS message exchange over UDP
and in future other TCP. We try to remove depencies to resolving
to make it usable by other stuff as DNS load balancing.
The new resolvers.c inherit of the code specific to the actual
resolvers.
Note:
It was really difficult to obtain a clean diff dur to the amount
of moved code.
Note2:
Counters and stuff related to stats is not cleany separated because
currently counters for both layers are merged and hard to separate
for now.
Very often, especially since reg-tests, it would be desirable to be able
to conditionally comment out a config block, such as removing an SSL
binding when SSL is disabled, or enabling HTX only for certain versions,
etc.
This patch introduces a very simple nested block management which takes
".if", ".elif", ".else" and ".endif" directives to take or ignore a block.
For now the conditions are limited to empty string or "0" for false versus
a non-nul integer for true, which already suffices to test environment
variables. Still, it needs to be a bit more advanced with defines, versions
etc.
A set of ".notice", ".warning" and ".alert" statements are provided to
emit messages, often in order to provide advice about how to fix certain
conditions.
We don't want to expose this one anymore as we'll soon keep multiple
default proxies. Let's move it inside the parser which is the only
place which still uses it, and initialize it on the fly once needed
instead of doing it at boot time.
init_default_instance() was still left in cfgparse.c which is not the
best place to pre-initialize a proxy. Let's place it in proxy.c just
after init_new_proxy(), take this opportunity for renaming it to
proxy_preset_defaults() and taking out init_new_proxy() from it, and
let's pass it the pointer to the default proxy to be initialized instead
of implicitly assuming defproxy. We'll soon be able to exploit this.
Only two call places had to be updated.
In 2.1, commit ee4f5f83d ("MINOR: stats: get rid of the ST_CONVDONE flag")
introduced a subtle bug. By testing curproxy against defproxy in
check_config_validity(), it tried to eliminate the need for a flag
to indicate that stats authentication rules were already compiled,
but by doing so it left the issue opened for the case where a new
defaults section appears after the two proxies sharing the first
one:
defaults
mode http
stats auth foo:bar
listen l1
bind :8080
listen l2
bind :8181
defaults
# just to break above
This config results in:
[ALERT] 042/113725 (3121) : proxy 'f2': stats 'auth'/'realm' and 'http-request' can't be used at the same time.
[ALERT] 042/113725 (3121) : Fatal errors found in configuration.
Removing the last defaults remains OK. It turns out that the cleanups
that followed that patch render it useless, so the best fix is to revert
the change (with the up-to-date flags instead). The flag was marked as
belonging to the config. It's not exact but it's the closest to the
reality, as it's not there to configure the behavior but ti mention
that the config parser did its job.
This could be backported as far as 2.1, but in practice it looks like
nobody ever hit it.
Since commit 1.3.14 with commit 1fa3126ec ("[MEDIUM] introduce separation
between contimeout, and tarpit + queue"), check_config_validity() looks
at the last defaults section to update all proxies' queue and tarpit
timeouts if they were not set!
This was apparently an attempt to properly set them on the fallback values,
except that the fallback values were taken from the default proxy before
looking at the current proxy itself. The worst part of it is that it might
have randomly worked by accident for some configurations when there was a
single defaults section, but has certainly caused too short queue
expirations once another defaults section was added later in the file with
these explicitly defined.
Let's remove the defproxy part and keep only the curproxy ones. This could
be backported everywhere, the bug has been there for 13 years.
The server idle/safe/available connection lists are replaced with ebmb-
trees. This is used to store backend connections, with the new field
connection hash as the key. The hash is a 8-bytes size field, used to
reflect specific connection parameters.
This is a preliminary work to be able to reuse connection with SNI,
explicit src/dst address or PROXY protocol.
This is a preparation work for connection reuse with sni/proxy
protocol/specific src-dst addresses.
Protect every access to idle conn lists with a lock. This is currently
strictly not needed because the access to the list are made with atomic
operations. However, to be able to reuse connection with specific
parameters, the list storage will be converted to eb-trees. As this
structure does not have atomic operation, it is mandatory to protect it
with a lock.
For this, the takeover lock is reused. Its role was to protect during
connection takeover. As it is now extended to general idle conns usage,
it is renamed to idle_conns_lock. A new lock section is also
instantiated named IDLE_CONNS_LOCK to isolate its impact on performance.
This allows using the address of the server rather than the name of the
server for keeping track of servers in a backend for stickiness.
The peers code was also extended to support feeding the dictionary using
this key instead of the name.
Fixes#814
