event_hdl_sub_list_empty() may be used to know if the subscription list
passed as argument is empty or not (ie: if there currently are any
subcribers or not). It can be useful to know if the subscription is empty
is order to avoid unecessary preparation work and skip event publishing to
save CPU time if we already know that no one is interested in tracking the
changes for a given subscription list.
The local variable "event_hdl_async_max_notif_at_once" which was
introduced with the event_hdl API was left as is but with a TODO note
telling that we should make it a global tunable.
Well, we're doing this now. To prepare for upcoming tunables related to
event_hdl API, we add a dedicated struct named event_hdl_tune which is
globally exposed through the event_hdl header file so that it may be used
from everywhere. The struct is automatically initialized in
event_hdl_init() according to defaults.h.
"event_hdl_async_max_notif_at_once" now becomes
"event_hdl_tune.max_events_at_once" with it's dedicated
configuation keyword: "tune.events.max-events-at-once".
We're also taking this opportunity to raise the default value from 10
to 100 since it's seems quite reasonnable given existing async event_hdl
users.
The documentation was updated accordingly.
Add the ability to provide a cleanup function for event data passed
via the publishing function.
One use case could be the need to provide valid pointers in the safe
section of the data struct.
Cleanup function will be automatically called with data (or copy of data)
as argument when all handlers consumed the event, which provides an easy
way to release some memory or decrement refcounts to ressources that were
provided through the data struct.
data in itself may not be freed by the cleanup function, it is handled
by the API.
This would allow passing large (allocated) data blocks through the data
struct while keeping data struct size under the EVENT_HDL_ASYNC_EVENT_DATA
size limit.
To do so, when publishing an event, where we would currently do:
struct event_hdl_cb_data_new_family event_data;
/* safe data, available from both sync and async contexts
* may not use pointers to short-living resources
*/
event_data.safe.my_custom_data = x;
/* unsafe data, only available from sync contexts */
event_data.unsafe.my_unsafe_data = y;
/* once data is prepared, we can publish the event */
event_hdl_publish(NULL,
EVENT_HDL_SUB_NEW_FAMILY_SUBTYPE_1,
EVENT_HDL_CB_DATA(&event_data));
We could do:
struct event_hdl_cb_data_new_family event_data;
/* safe data, available from both sync and async contexts
* may not use pointers to short-living resources,
* unless EVENT_HDL_CB_DATA_DM is used to ensure pointer
* consistency (ie: refcount)
*/
event_data.safe.my_custom_static_data = x;
event_data.safe.my_custom_dynamic_data = malloc(1);
/* unsafe data, only available from sync contexts */
event_data.unsafe.my_unsafe_data = y;
/* once data is prepared, we can publish the event */
event_hdl_publish(NULL,
EVENT_HDL_SUB_NEW_FAMILY_SUBTYPE_1,
EVENT_HDL_CB_DATA_DM(&event_data, data_new_family_cleanup));
With data_new_family_cleanup func which would look like this:
void data_new_family_cleanup(const void *data)
{
const struct event_hdl_cb_data_new_family *event_data = ptr;
/* some data members require specific cleanup once the event
* is consumed
*/
free(event_data.safe.my_custom_dynamic_data);
/* don't ever free data! it is not ours */
}
Not sure if this feature will become relevant in the future, so I prefer not
to mention it in the doc for now.
But given that the implementation is trivial and does not put a burden
on the existing API, it's a good thing to have it there, just in case.
While working on event handling from lua, the need for a pause/resume
function to temporarily disable a subscription was raised.
We solve this by introducing the EHDL_SUB_F_PAUSED flag for
subscriptions.
The flag is set via _pause() and cleared via _resume(), and it is
checked prior to notifying the subscription in publish function.
Pause and Resume functions are also available for via lookups for
identified subscriptions.
If 68e692da0 ("MINOR: event_hdl: add event handler base api")
is being backported, then this commit should be backported with it.
Use event_hdl_async_equeue_size() in advanced async task handler to
get the near real-time event queue size.
By near real-time, you should understand that the queue size is not
updated during element insertion/removal, but shortly before insertion
and shortly after removal, so the size should reflect the approximate
queue size at a given time but should definitely not be used as a
unique source of truth.
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is being backported, then this commit should be backported with it.
Add event_hdl_async_equeue_isempty() to check is the event queue is
empty from an advanced async task handler.
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is being backported, then this commit should be backported with it.
advanced async mode (EVENT_HDL_ASYNC_TASK) provided full support for
custom tasklets registration.
Due to the similarities between tasks and tasklets, it may be useful
to use the advanced mode with an existing task (not a tasklet).
While the API did not explicitly disallow this usage, things would
get bad if we try to wakeup a task using tasklet_wakeup() for notifying
the task about new events.
To make the API support both custom tasks and tasklets, we use the
TASK_IS_TASKLET() macro to call the proper waking function depending
on the task's type:
- For tasklets: we use tasklet_wakeup()
- For tasks: we use task_wakeup()
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event_hdl_sub_list_init() and event_hdl_sub_list_destroy() don't expect
to be called with a NULL argument (to use global subscription list
implicitly), simply because the global subscription list init and
destroy is internally managed.
Adding BUG_ON() to detect such invalid usages, and updating some comments
to prevent confusion around these functions.
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is being backported, then this commit should be backported with it.
List insertion in event_hdl_subscribe() was not thread-safe when dealing
with unique identifiers. Indeed, in this case the list insertion is
conditional (we check for a duplicate, then we insert). And while we're
using mt lists for this, the whole operation is not atomic: there is a
race between the check and the insertion.
This could lead to the same ID being registered multiple times with
concurrent calls to event_hdl_subscribe() on the same ID.
To fix this, we add 'insert_lock' dedicated lock in the subscription
list struct. The lock's cost is nearly 0 since it is only used when
registering identified subscriptions and the lock window is very short:
we only guard the duplicate check and the list insertion to make the
conditional insertion "atomic" within a given subscription list.
This is the only place where we need the lock: as soon as the item is
properly inserted we're out of trouble because all other operations on
the list are already thread-safe thanks to mt lists.
A new lock hint is introduced: LOCK_EHDL which is dedicated to event_hdl
The patch may seem quite large since we had to rework the logic around
the subscribe function and switch from simple mt_list to a dedicated
struct wrapping both the mt_list and the insert_lock for the
event_hdl_sub_list type.
(sizeof(event_hdl_sub_list) is now 24 instead of 16)
However, all the changes are internal: we don't break the API.
If 68e692da0 ("MINOR: event_hdl: add event handler base api")
is being backported, then this commit should be backported with it.
Adding base code to provide subscribe/publish API for internal
events processing.
event_hdl provides two complementary APIs, both are implemented
in src/event_hdl.c and include/haproxy/event_hdl{-t.h,.h}:
One API targeting developers that want to register event handlers
that will be notified on specific events.
(SUBSCRIBE)
One API targeting developers that want to notify registered handlers
about an event.
(PUBLISH)
This feature is being considered to address the following scenarios:
- mailers code refactoring (getting rid of deprecated
tcp-check ruleset implementation)
- server events from lua code (registering user defined
lua function that is executed with relevant data when a
server is dynamically added/removed or on server state change)
- providing a stable and easy to use API for upcoming
developments that rely on specific events to perform actions.
(e.g: ressource cleanup when a server is deleted from haproxy)
At this time though, we don't have much use cases in mind in addition to
server events handling, but the API is aimed at being multipurpose
so that new event families, with their own particularities, can be
easily implemented afterwards (and hopefully) without requiring breaking
changes to the API.
Moreover, you should know that the API was not designed to cope well
with high rate event publishing.
Mostly because publishing means iterating over unsorted subscriber list.
So it won't scale well as subscriber list increases, but it is intended in
order to keep the code simple and versatile.
Instead, it is assumed that events implemented using this API
should be periodic events, and that events related to critical
io/networking processing should be handled using
dedicated facilities anyway.
(After all, this is meant to be a general purpose event API)
Apart from being easily extensible, one of the main goals of this API is
to make subscriber code as simple and safe as possible.
This is done by offering multiple event handling modes:
- SYNC mode:
publishing code directly
leverages handler code (callback function)
and handler code has a direct access to "live" event data
(pointers mostly, alongside with lock hints/context
so that accessing data pointers can be done properly)
- normal ASYNC mode:
handler is executed in a backward compatible way with sync mode,
so that it is easy to switch from and to SYNC/ASYNC mode.
Only here the handler has access to "offline" event data, and
not "live" data (ptrs) so that data consistency is guaranteed.
By offline, you should understand "snapshot" of relevant data
at the time of the event, so that the handler can consume it
later (even if associated ressource is not valid anymore)
- advanced ASYNC mode
same as normal ASYNC mode, but here handler is not a function
that is executed with event data passed as argument: handler is a
user defined tasklet that is notified when event occurs.
The tasklet may consume pending events and associated data
through its own message queue.
ASYNC mode should be considered first if you don't rely on live event
data and you wan't to make sure that your code has the lowest impact
possible on publisher code. (ie: you don't want to break stuff)
Internal API documentation will follow:
You will find more details about the notions we roughly approached here.
