When using "http-reuse safe", which is the default, a new incoming connection
does not automatically reuse an existing connection for the first request, as
we don't want to risk to lose the contents if we know the client will not be
able to replay the request. A side effect to this is that when dealing with
mostly http-close traffic, the reuse rate is extremely low and we keep
accumulating server-side connections that may even never be reused. At some
point we're limited to a ratio of file descriptors, but when the system is
configured with very high FD limits, we can still reach the limit of outgoing
source ports and make the system significantly slow down trying to find an
available port for outgoing connections. A simple test on my laptop with
ulimit 100000 and with the following config results in the load immediately
dropping after a few seconds :
listen l1
bind :4445
mode http
server s1 127.0.0.1:8000
As can be seen, the load falls from 38k cps to 400 cps during the first 200ms
(in fact when the source port table is full and connect() takes ages to find
a spare port for a new connection):
$ injectl464 -p 4 -o 1 -u 10 -G 127.0.0.1:4445/ -F -c -w 100
hits ^hits hits/s ^h/s bytes kB/s last errs tout htime sdht ptime
2439 2439 39338 39338 356094 5743 5743 0 0 0.4 0.5 0.4
7637 5198 38185 37666 1115002 5575 5499 0 0 0.7 0.5 0.7
7719 82 25730 820 1127002 3756 120 0 0 21.8 18.8 21.8
7797 78 19492 780 1138446 2846 114 0 0 61.4 2.5 61.4
7877 80 15754 800 1150182 2300 117 0 0 58.6 0.5 58.6
7920 43 13200 430 1156488 1927 63 0 0 58.9 0.3 58.9
At this point, lots of connections are indeed in use, for only 10 connections
on the frontend side:
$ ss -ant state established | wc -l
39022
This patch makes sure we never keep more idle connections than we've ever
had outstanding requests on a server. This way the total number of idle
connections will never exceed the sum of maximum connections. Thus highly
loaded servers will be able to get many connections and slightly loaded
servers will keep less. Ideally we should apply similar limits per process
and the per backend, but in practice this already addresses the issues
pretty well:
$ injectl464 -p 4 -o 1 -u 10 -G 127.0.0.1:4445/ -F -c -w 100
hits ^hits hits/s ^h/s bytes kB/s last errs tout htime sdht ptime
4423 4423 40209 40209 645758 5870 5870 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.2
8020 3597 40100 39966 1170920 5854 5835 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.2
12037 4017 40123 40170 1757402 5858 5864 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.2
16069 4032 40172 40320 2346074 5865 5886 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.2
20047 3978 40013 39386 2926862 5842 5750 0 0 0.3 0.4 0.3
24005 3958 40008 39979 3504730 5841 5837 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.2
$ ss -ant state established | wc -l
234
This patch must be backported to 2.0. It could be useful in 1.9 as well
eventhough pools and reuse are not enabled by default there.
As mentioned in previous commit, these flags do not map well to
modern poller capabilities. Let's use the FD_EV_*_{R,W} flags instead.
This first patch only performs a 1-to-1 mapping making sure that the
previously reported flags are still reported identically while using
the closest possible semantics in the pollers.
It's worth noting that kqueue will now support improvements such as
returning distinctions between shut and errors on each direction,
though this is not exploited for now.
These two functions are used to enable recv/send but only if the FD is
not marked as active yet. The purpose is to conditionally mark them as
tentatively usable without interfering with the polling if polling was
already enabled, when it's supposed to be likely true.
Given that all our I/Os are now directed from top to bottom and not the
opposite way around, and the FD cache was removed, it doesn't make sense
anymore to create FDs that are marked not ready since this would prevent
the first accesses unless the caller explicitly does an fd_may_recv()
which is not expected to be its job (which conn_ctrl_init() has to do
by the way). Let's move this into fd_insert() instead, and have a single
atomic operation for both directions via fd_may_both().
Now that we don't have to update FD_EV_POLLED_* at the same time as
FD_EV_ACTIVE_*, we don't need to use a CAS anymore, a bit-test-and-set
operation is enough. Doing so reduces the code size by a bit more than
1 kB. One function was special, fd_done_recv(), whose comments and doc
were inaccurate for the part related to the lack of polling.
Since commit 7ac0e35f2 in 1.9-dev1 ("MAJOR: fd: compute the new fd polling
state out of the fd lock") we've started to update the FD POLLED bit a
bit more aggressively. Lately with the removal of the FD cache, this bit
is always equal to the ACTIVE bit. There's no point continuing to watch
it and update it anymore, all it does is create confusion and complicate
the code. One interesting side effect is that it now becomes visible that
all fd_*_{send,recv}() operations systematically call updt_fd_polling(),
except fd_cant_recv()/fd_cant_send() which never saw it change.
The detail level initially based on syslog levels is not used, while
something related is missing, trace verbosity, to indicate whether or
not we want to call the decoding callback and what level of decoding
we want (raw captures etc). Let's change the field to "verbosity" for
this. A verbosity of zero means that the decoding callback is not
called, and all other levels are handled by this callback and are
source-specific. The source is now prompted to list the levels that
are proposed to the user. When the source doesn't define anything,
"quiet" and "default" are available.
Working on adding traces to mux-h2 revealed that the function names are
manually copied a lot in developer traces. The reason is that they are
not preprocessor macros and as such cannot be concatenated. Let's
slightly adjust the trace() function call to take a function name just
after the file:line argument. This argument is only added for the
TRACE_DEVEL and 3 new TRACE_ENTER, TRACE_LEAVE, and TRACE_POINT macros
and left NULL for others. This way the function name is only reported
for traces aimed at the developers. The pretty-print callback was also
extended to benefit from this. This will also significantly shrink the
data segment as the "entering" and "leaving" strings will now be merged.
One technical point worth mentioning is that the function name is *not*
passed as an ist to the inline function because it's not considered as
a builtin constant by the compiler, and would lead to strlen() being
run on it from all call places before calling the inline function. Thus
instead we pass the const char * (that the compiler knows where to find)
and it's the __trace() function that converts it to an ist for internal
consumption and for the pretty-print callback. Doing this avoids losing
5-10% peak performance.
The "payload" trace level was ambigous because its initial purpose was
to be able to dump received data. But it doesn't make sense to force to
report data transfers just to be able to report state changes. For
example, all snd_buf()/rcv_buf() operations coming from the application
layer should be tagged at this level. So here we move this payload level
above the state transitions and rename it to avoid the ambiguity making
one think it's only about request/response payload. Now it clearly is
about any data transfer and is thus just below the developer level. The
help messages on the CLI and the doc were slightly reworded to help
remove this ambiguity.
Save the authority TLV in a PROXYv2 header from the client connection,
if present, and make it available as fc_pp_authority.
The fetch can be used, for example, to set the SNI for a backend TLS
connection.
Previously the callback was almost mandatory so it made sense to have it
before the message. Now that it can default to the one declared in the
trace source, most TRACE() calls contain series of empty args and callbacks,
which make them suitable for being at the end and being totally omitted.
This patch thus reverses the TRACE arguments so that the message appears
first, then the mask, then arg1..arg4, then the callback. In practice
we'll mostly see 1 arg, or 2 args and nothing else, and it will not be
needed anymore to pass long series of commas in the middle of the
arguments. However if a source is enforced, the empty commas will still
be needed for all omitted arguments.
The principle is that when emitting a message, if some dropped events
were logged, we first attempt to report this counter before going
further. This is done under an exclusive lock while all logs are
produced under a shared lock. This ensures that the dropped line is
accurately reported and doesn't accidently arrive after a later
event.
The three functions (attach, IO handler, and release) are meant to be
called by any CLI command which requires to dump the contents of a ring
buffer. We do not implement anything generic to dump any ring buffer on
the CLI since it's meant to be used by other functionalities above.
However these functions deal with locking and everything so it's trivial
to embed them in other code.
This function tries to write to the ring buffer, possibly removing enough
old messages to make room for the new one. It takes two arrays of fragments
on input to ease the insertion of prefixes by the caller. It atomically
writes the message, possibly truncating it if desired, and returns the
operation's status.
Our circular buffers are well suited for being used as ring buffers for
not-so-structured data. The machanism here consists in making room in a
buffer before inserting a new record which is prefixed by its size, and
looking up next record based on the previous one's offset and size. We
can have up to 255 consumers watching for data (dump in progress, tail)
which guarantee that entrees are not recycled while they're being dumped.
The complete representation is described in the header file. For now only
ring_new(), ring_resize() and ring_free() are created.
Currently both logs and event sinks may use a file descriptor to
atomically emit some output contents. The two may use the same FD though
nothing is done to make sure they use the same lock. Also there is quite
some redundancy between the two. Better make a specific function to send
a fragmented message to a file descriptor which will take care of the
locking via the fd's lock. The function is also able to truncate a
message and to enforce addition of a trailing LF when building the
output message.
The new TRACE_<level>() macros take a mask, 4 args, a callback and a
static message. From this they also inherit the TRACE_SOURCE macro from
the caller, which contains the pointer to the trace source (so that it's
not required to paste it everywhere), and an ist string is also made by
the concatenation of the file name and the line number. This uses string
concatenation by the preprocessor, and turns it into an ist by the compiler
so that there is no operation at all to perform to adjust the data length
as the compiler knows where to cut during the optimization phase. Last,
the message is also automatically turned into an ist so that it's trivial
to put it into an iovec without having to run strlen() on it.
All arguments and the callback may be empty and will then automatically
be replaced with a NULL pointer. This makes the TRACE calls slightly
lighter especially since arguments are not always used. Several other
options were considered to use variadic macros but there's no outstanding
rule that justifies to place an argument before another one, and it still
looks convenient to have the message be the last one to encourage copy-
pasting of the trace statements.
A generic TRACE() macro takes TRACE_LEVEL in from the source file as the
trace level instead of taking it from its name. This may slightly simplify
the production of traces that always run at the same level (internal core
parts may probably only be called at developer level).
The trace() call will support an optional decoding callback and 4
arguments that this function is supposed to know how to use to provide
extra information. The output remains unchanged when the function is
NULL. Otherwise, the message is pre-filled into the thread-local
trace_buf, and the function is called with all arguments so that it
completes the buffer in a readable form depending on the expected
level of detail.
This new "level" argument will allow the trace sources to label the
traces for different purposes, and filter out some of them if they
are not relevant to the current target. Right now we have 5 different
levels:
- USER : the least verbose one, only a few functional information
- PAYLOAD: like user but also displays some payload-related information
- PROTO: focuses on the protocol's framing
- STATE: also indicate state internal transitions or non-transitions
- DEVELOPER: adds extra info about branches taken in the code (break
points, return points)
We now pass an extra argument "where" to the trace() call, which
is supposed to be an ist made of the concatenation of the filename
and the line number. We only keep the last 10 chars from this string
since the end of file names is most often easy to recognize. This
gives developers useful information at very low cost.
For now it remains quite basic. It performs a few state checks, calls
the source's sink if defined, and performs the transitions between
RUNNING, STOPPED and WAITING when the configured events match.
For now it lists the sources if one is not provided, and checks
for the source's existence. It lists the events if not provided,
checks for their existence if provided, and adjusts reported
events/start/stop/pause events, and performs state transitions.
It lists sinks and adjusts them as well. Filters, lock, and
level are not implemented yet.
The principle of this subsystem will be to support taking live traces
at various places in the code with conditional triggers, filters, and
ability to lock on some elements. The traces will support typed events
and will be sent into sinks made of ring buffers, file descriptors or
remote servers.
This is the most basic type of sink. It pre-registers "stdout" and
"stderr", and is able to use writev() on them. The writev() operation
is locked to avoid mixing outputs. It's likely that the registration
should move somewhere else to take into account the fact that stdout
and stderr are still opened or are closed.
The principle will be to be able to dispatch events to various destinations
called "sinks". This is already done in part in logs where log servers can
be either a UDP socket or a file descriptor. This will be needed with the
new trace subsystem where we may also want to add ring buffers. And it turns
out that all such destinations make sense at all places. Logs may need to be
sent to a TCP server via a ring buffer, or consulted from the CLI. Trace
events may need to be sent to stdout/stderr as well as to remote log servers.
This patch creates a new structure "sink" aiming at addressing these similar
needs. The goal is to merge together what is common to all of them, such as
the output format, the dropped events count, etc, and also keep separately
the target identification (network address, file descriptor). Provisions
were made to have a "waiter" on the sink. For a TCP log server it will be
the task to wake up after writing to the log buffer. For a ring buffer, it
could be the list of watchers on the CLI running a "tail" operation and
waiting for new events. A lock was also placed in the struct since many
operations will require some locking, including the FD ones. The output
formats covers those in use by logs and two extra ones prepending the ISO
time in front of the message (convenient for stdio/buffer).
For now only the generic infrastructure is present, no type-specific
output is implemented. There's the sink_write() function which prepares
and formats a message to be sent, trying hard to avoid copies and only
using pointer manipulation, where the type-specific code just has to be
added. Dropped messages are already counted (for now 100% drop). The
message is put into an iovec array as it will be trivial to use with
file descriptors and sockets.
The current functions are seen outside from the debugging code and are
convenient to export so that we can improve the thread dump output :
void hlua_applet_tcp_fct(struct appctx *ctx);
void hlua_applet_http_fct(struct appctx *ctx);
struct task *hlua_process_task(struct task *task, void *context, unsigned short state);
Of course they are only available when USE_LUA is defined.
When I/O events are being processed, we want to make sure to mark the
thread as not stuck. The reason is that some pollers (like poll()) which
do not limit the number of FDs they report could possibly report a huge
amount of FD all having to perform moderately expensive operations in
the I/O callback (e.g. via mux-pt which forwards to the upper layers),
making the watchdog think the thread is stuck since it does not schedule.
Of course this must never happen but if it ever does we must be liberal
about it.
This should be backported to 2.0, where the situation may happen more
easily due to the FD cache which can start to collect a large amount of
events. It may be related to the report in issue #201 though nothing is
certain about it.
These functions perform all the boring filling of the appctx's
cli struct needed by CLI parsers to return a message or an error,
and they return 1 so that they can be used as a single-line return
statement. They may be used for const messages or dynamic messages.
When parsing references to stick-tables declared as backends, they are added to
a list of proxies (they are proxies!) which refer to this stick-tables.
Before this patch we added them to these list without checking they were already
present, making the silly hypothesis the actions/sample were checked/resolved in the same
order the proxies are parsed.
This patch implement a simple inline function to in_proxies_list() to test
the presence of a proxy in a list of proxies. We use this function when resolving
/checking samples/actions.
This bug was introduced by 015e4d7 commit.
Must be backported to 2.0.
In the poller code, instead of just remembering if we're currently polling
a fd or not, remember if we're polling it for writing and/or for reading, that
way, we can avoid to modify the polling if it's already polled as needed.
Now that the architecture was changed so that attempts to receive/send data
always come from the upper layers, instead of them only trying to do so when
the lower layer let them know they could try, we can finally get rid of the
fd cache. We don't really need it anymore, and removing it gives us a small
performance boost.
Dragan Dosen found that the listeners lock is not sufficient to protect
the listeners list when proxies are stopping because the listeners are
also unlinked from the protocol list, and under certain situations like
bombing with soft-stop signals or shutting down many frontends in parallel
from multiple CLI connections, it could be possible to provoke multiple
instances of delete_listener() to be called in parallel for different
listeners, thus corrupting the protocol lists.
Such operations are pretty rare, they are performed once per proxy upon
startup and once per proxy on shut down. Thus there is no point trying
to optimize anything and we can use a global lock to protect the protocol
lists during these manipulations.
This fix (or a variant) will have to be backported as far as 1.8.
Empty error files may be used to disable the sending of any message for specific
error codes. A common use-case is to use the file "/dev/null". This way the
default error message is overridden and no message is returned to the client. It
was supported in the legacy HTTP mode, but not in HTX. Because of a bug, such
messages triggered an error.
This patch must be backported to 2.0 and 1.9. However, the patch will have to be
adapted.
When forcing the outgoing address of a connection, till now we used to
allocate this outgoing connection and set the address into it, then set
SF_ADDR_SET. With connection reuse this causes a whole lot of issues and
difficulties in the code.
Thanks to the previous changes, it is now possible to store the target
address into the stream instead, and copy the address from the stream to
the connection when initializing the connection. assign_server_address()
does this and as a result SF_ADDR_SET now reflects the presence of the
target address in the stream, not in the connection. The http_proxy mode,
the peers and the master's CLI now use the same mechanism. For now the
existing connection code was not removed to limit the amount of tricky
changes, but the allocated connection is not used anymore.
This change also revealed a latent issue that we've been having around
option http_proxy : the address was set in the connection but neither the
SF_ADDR_SET nor the SF_ASSIGNED flags were set. It looks like the connection
could establish only due to the fact that it existed with a non-null
destination address.
Now addresses are dynamically allocated when needed. Each connection is
created with src=dst=NULL, these entries are allocated on the fly, and
released when the connection is released.
This commit places calls to sockaddr_alloc() at the places where an address
is needed, and makes sure that the allocation is properly tested. This does
not add too many error paths since connection allocations are already in the
vicinity and share the same error paths. For the two cases where a
clear_addr() was called, instead the address was not allocated.
This pool will be used to allocate storage for source and destination
addresses used in connections. Two functions sockaddr_{alloc,free}()
were added and will have to be used everywhere an address is needed.
These ones are safe for progressive replacement as they check that the
existing pointer is set before replacing it. The pool is not yet used
during allocation nor freeing. Also they operate on pointers to pointers
so they will perform checks and replace values. The free one nulls the
pointer.
This is in preparation for the switch to dynamic address allocation,
let's migrate the code using the old fields to the pointers instead.
Note that no extra check was added for now, the purpose is only to
get the code to use the pointers and still work.
In the proxy protocol message handling we make sure the addresses are
properly allocated before declaring them unset.
At the moment we're facing difficulties with connection reuse based on
the fact that connections may be allocated very early only to set a
target address in transparent mode. With the imminent removal of the
legacy mode, the connection reuse by a same stream will not exist
anymore and all this awful complexity is not justified anymore. However
we still need to be able to assign addresses somewhere.
Thus instead of allocating a connection, we'll only place addresses where
needed in the stream during operations. But this takes quite some room
(typically 128 bytes). This is a nice opportunity for cleaning all this
up and dynamically allocatating the addresses fields, which will result
in actually saving memory from connection structs since most of the time
the client's "to" address is not used and the server's "from" is not used
either, thus saving ~256 bytes per end-to-end connection.
For now these new "src" and "dst" pointers point to addr.from and addr.to.
This will allow us to smoothly update the whole code to use these pointers
prior to going further and switching them to pools.
These functions are not used anymore. They didn't report failures and
as such were often misused. conn_get_src() and conn_get_dst() now
replaced them everywhere.
The backend connect code uses conn_get_{from,to}_addr to forward addresses
in transparent mode and to map server ports, without really checking if the
operation succeeds. In preparation of future changes, let's switch to
conn_get_{src,dst}() and integrate status check for possible failures.
These functions currently are the same as conn_get_from_addr() and
conn_get_to_addr() respectively except that they return a status for
the operation that the caller can test.
Default HTTP error messages are stored in an array of chunks. And since the HTX
was added, these messages are also converted in HTX and stored in another
array. But now, the first array is not used anymore because the legacy HTTP mode
was removed.
So now, only the array with the HTX messages are kept. The other one was
removed.
The old module proto_http does not exist anymore. All code dedicated to the HTTP
analysis is now grouped in the file proto_htx.c. So, to finish the polishing
after removing the legacy HTTP code, proto_htx.{c,h} files have been moved in
http_ana.{c,h} files.
In addition, all HTX analyzers and related functions prefixed with "htx_" have
been renamed to start with "http_" instead.
First of all, all legacy HTTP analyzers and all functions exclusively used by
them were removed. So the most of the functions in proto_http.{c,h} were
removed. Only functions to deal with the HTTP transaction have been kept. Then,
http_msg and hdr_idx modules were entirely removed. And finally the structure
http_msg was lightened of all its useless information about the legacy HTTP. The
structure hdr_ctx was also removed because unused now, just like unused states
in the enum h1_state. Note that the memory pool "hdr_idx" was removed and
"http_txn" is now smaller.
This commit breaks the compatibility with filters still relying on the legacy
HTTP code. The legacy callbacks were removed (http_data, http_chunk_trailers and
http_forward_data).
For now, the filters must still set the flag FLT_CFG_FL_HTX to be used on HTX
streams.
Since the legacy HTTP mode is disbabled, all HTTP sample fetches work on HTX
streams. So it is safe to remove all code relying on HTTP legacy mode. Among
other things, the function smp_prefetch_http() was removed with the associated
macros CHECK_HTTP_MESSAGE_FIRST() and CHECK_HTTP_MESSAGE_FIRST_PERM().
