The windowed filters are used only the BBR implementation for QUIC to filter
the maximum bandwidth samples for its estimation over a virtual time interval
tracked by counting the cyclical progression through ProbeBW cycles. ngtcp2
and quiche use such windowed filters in their BBR implementation. But in a
slightly different way. When updating the 2nd or 3rd filter samples, this
is done based on their values in place of the time they have been sampled.
It seems more logical to rely on the sample timestamps even if this has no
implication because when a sample is updated using another sample because it
has the same value, they have both the same timestamps!
This patch modifies two statements which compare two consecutive filter samples
based on their values (smp[]->v) by statements which compare them based on the
virtual time they have been sampled (smp[]->t). This fully complies which the
code used by the Linux kernel in lib/win_minmax.c.
Alo take the opportunity of this patch to shorten some statements using <smp>
local variable value to update smp[2] sample in place of initializing its two
members with the <smp> member values.
This patch SHOULD be easily backported to 3.1 where BBR was first implemented.
Previous patch introduced stress mode to be able to easily test
alternative code paths.
The first point would be to force interruption of stats dump on every
line and check reentrant patchs, in particular while adding and removing
servers instances.
The purpose of this patch is to be able to use applet_putchk_stress()
during stats dump while not impacting other applets. To support this,
extract applet_putchk() into an internal _applet_putchk() which have a
new argument stress. Define two helpers applet_putchk() and
applet_putchk_stress(), the latter to set the stress argument to true.
For the moment, applet_putchk_stress() is not used. This will be the
subject of the next patch.
Define a new build mode DEBUG_STRESS. This will be used to stress some
code parts which cannot be reproduce easily with an alternative
suboptimal code.
First, a global <mode_stress> is set either to 1 or 0 depending on
DEBUG_STRESS compilation. A new global keyword "stress-level" is also
defined. It allows to specify a level from 0 to 9, to increase the
stress incurred on the code.
Helper macro STRESS_RUN* are defined for each stress level. This allows
to easily specify an instruction in default execution and a stress
counterpart if running on the corresponding stress level.
Since 9c91b30 ("MINOR: server: remove prev_deleted server list"), hlua
server pair iterator may use and return invalid (stale) server pointer
if multiple servers were deleted between two iterations.
Indeed, the server refcount mechanism (using srv_take()) is no longer
sufficient as the prev_deleted mitigation was removed.
To ensure server pointer consistency between two yields, the new watcher
mechanism must be used (as it already the case for stats dumping).
Thus in this patch we slightly change the server iteration logic:
hlua_server_list_iterator_context struct now stores the next valid server
pointer, and a watcher is added to ensure this pointer is never stale.
Then in hlua_listable_servers_pairs_iterator(), this next pointer is used
to create the Lua server object, and the next valid pointer is obtained by
leveraging watcher_next().
No backport needed unless 9c91b30 ("MINOR: server: remove prev_deleted
server list") is. Please note that dynamic servers were not supported in
Lua prior to 2.8, so it doesn't make sense to backport this patch further
than 2.8.
This patch is a direct follow-up to the previous one. Thanks to watcher
type, it is not safe to assume that servers manipulated via stats dump
were not targetted by a "delete server" CLI command. As such,
prev_deleted list server member is now unneeded. This patch thus removes
any reference to it.
If a server A is deleted while a stats dump is currently on it, deletion
is delayed thanks to reference counting. Server A is nonetheless removed
from the proxy list. However, this list is a single linked list. If the
next server B is deleted and freed immediately, server A would still
point to it. This problem has been solved by the prev_deleted list in
servers.
This model seems correct, but it is difficult to ensure completely its
validity. In particular, it implies when stats dump is resumed, server A
elements will be accessed despite the server being in a half-deleted
state.
Thus, it has been decided to completely ditch the refcount mechanism for
stats dump. Instead, use the watcher element to register every stats
dump currently tracking a server instance. Each time a server is deleted
on the CLI, each stats dump element which may points to it are updated
to access the next server instance, or NULL if this is the last server.
This ensures that a server which was deleted via CLI but not completely
freed is never accessed on stats dump resumption.
Currently, no race condition related to dynamic servers and stats dump
is known. However, as described above, the previous model is deemed too
fragile, as such this patch is labelled as bug-fix. It should be
backported up to 2.6, after a reasonable period of observation. It
relies on the following patch :
MINOR: list: define a watcher type
Define a new watcher type into list module. This type is similar to bref
and can be used to register an element which is currently tracking a
dynamic target. Contrary to bref, if the target is freed, every watcher
element are updated to point to a next valid entry or NULL.
This type will simplify handling of dynamic servers deletion, in
particular while stats dump are performed.
This patch is not a bug-fix. However, it is mandatory to fix a race
condition in dynamic servers. Thus, it should be backported along the
next commit up to 2.6.
Some master process' initialization steps are conditioned by receiving the
READY message from worker (pidfile creation, forwarding READY message to the
launching parent). So, master process can not do these initialization routines
before.
If the master process fails, while creating pid or forwarding the READY to the
parent in daemon mode, he exits with a proper alert message. In daemon mode we
no longer see such message, as process is already detached from the tty.
To fix this, as these alerts could be very useful, let's detach the master
process from the tty after his last initialization steps in _send_status.
Due to master-worker rework, daemonization fork happens now before parsing
and applying the configuration. This makes impossible to report correctly all
warnings and alerts to shell's stdout. Daemonzied process fails, while being
already in background, exit code reported by shell via '$?' equals to 0, as
it's the exit code of his parent.
To fix this, let's create a pipe between parent and daemonized child. The
child will send into this pipe a "READY" message, when it finishes his
initialization. The parent will wait on the "read" end of the pipe until
receiving something. If read() fails, parent obtains the status of the
exited child with waitpid(). So, the parent can correctly report the error to
the stdout and he can exit with child's exitcode.
This fix should be backported only in 3.1.
fddebug() is sometimes quite helpful, but annoying to use when following
a call path because it's a pain to always repeat the function name and
call place. Let's have it automatically prepend the function name, the
file name and the line number, and make its arguments optional, replacing
them by a simple LF when all absent. This way, simply placing:
fddebug();
is sufficient to emit a location follocing "[%s@%s:%d]\n". This function
must not be used in production (and even call places with it shouldn't be
committed) and it should only be used by developers, so the simplest the
better.
Commit 7f64bb79fd ("BUG/MINOR: debug: COUNT_IF() should return true/false")
allowed the COUNT_IF() macro to return the evaluated value. This is handy
to place it in "if ()" conditions and count them at the same time. When
glitches are disabled, the condition is just returned as-is, but most call
places do not use the result, making some compilers complain. In addition,
while reviewing this, it was noticed that when DEBUG_STRICT=0, the macro
would still be replaced by a "do { } while (0)" statement, which not only
does not evaluate the expression, but also cannot return anything. Ditto
for COUNT_IF_HOT().
Let's make sure both are always properly evaluated now.
The COUNT_IF() macro was initially meant to return true/false to be used
in if() conditions but had an extra do { } while(0) that prevents it from
doing so. Let's get rid of the do { } while(0) before the code generalizes
to too many places. There's no impact on existing code, but may have to be
backported if future fixes rely on it.
If master process can't open a pidfile, there is no sense to send SIGTTIN to
oldpids, as it will exit. So, old workers will terminate as well. It's better
to send the last alert to the log about unrecoverable error, because master is
already in its polling loop.
For the standalone mode we should keep the previous logic in this case: send
SIGTTIN to old process and unbind listeners for the new one. So, it's better
to put this error path in main(), as it's done when other configuration settings
can't be applied.
This patch should be backported only in 3.1.
Better late than never, commit 1f73d35 ("MINOR: stktable: implement
"recv-only" table option") implemented stktable flags and initial
definitions, but it lacks some comments plus the flag is stored as
16bits but the SKT_FL_ definition width allows for only 8bits so
it is a bit confusing, let's fix that
Thanks to previous commit stktable struct now have a "flags" struct member
Let's take this opportunity to remove the isolated "nopurge" attribute in
stktable struct and rely on a flag named STK_FL_NOPURGE instead.
This helps to better organize stktable struct members.
When "recv-only" keyword is added on a stick table declaration (in peers
or proxy section), haproxy considers that the table is only used for
data retrieval from a remote location and not used to perform local
updates. As such, it enables the retrieval of local-only values such
as conn_cur that are ignored by default. This can be useful in some
contexts where we want to know about local-values such are conn_cur
from a remote peer.
To do this, add stktable struct flags which default to NONE and enable
the RECV_ONLY flag on the table then "recv-only" keyword is found in the
table declaration. Then, when in peer_treat_updatemsg(), when handling
table updates, don't ignore data updates for local-only values if the flag
is set.
Now when tasklets are woken up via tasklet_wakeup(), tasklet_wakeup_on()
or tasklet_wakeup_after(), either the optional wakeup flags will be used,
or TASK_WOKEN_OTHER will be used.
This allows tasklet handlers waking up for any given cause to notice
whether or not they were also woken for another reason. For example, a
mux handler could skip heavy parts when seeing that TASK_WOKEN_OTHER is
absent, proving that no standard tasklet_wakeup() was done, for example
in response to a subscribe().
The benefit of the TASK_WOKEN_* flags is that they're purged during the
wakeup, and that they're easy to check for using TASK_WOKEN_ANY.
TASK_F_UEVT1 and TASK_F_UEVT2 are also usable for private use (e.g. wakeup
from a stream to a connection inside a mux).
Probably that in the future, code dealing with subscribe events should
start to place TASK_WOKEN_IO like is done for upper layers.
After master-worker mode refactoring, global.pidfile is only used in
handle_pidfile(), which opens the provided file and writes the PID into it. So,
it's more appropriate to perform the close(pidfd) and ha_free(&global.pidfile)
also in this function.
This commit prepares the fix of the pidfile creation, as it's created now very
early, when we are not sure, that process has successfully started. In
master-worker mode handle_pidfile() can be called in the master process context.
So, let's make it accessible from other compilation units via global.h.
This should be backported only in 3.1.
commit() method may be used to commit pending updates on the local patref
object:
hlua_patref flags were added:
HLUA_PATREF_FL_GEN means the patref object has been updated
and it is associated to a new revision (curr_gen) in order to prepare
and commit the pending updates.
upon commit, the pattern API is leveraged with curr_gen as revision to
commit new object items. Once commit is performed, previous (pending)
revisions that are older than the committed one are cleaned up (similar
to what's done with commit on the cli). Also, Patref function APIs now
take into account curr_gen to perform lookups.
pat_ref_may_commit() may be used to know if a given generation ID id still
valid, which means it may still be committed at some point. Else it means
that another pending generation ID older than the tested one was already
committed and thus other generations ID below this one are stale and must
be regenerated.
In order to extend the patref class features, let's wrap the pat_ref struct
into hlua_patref struct. This way we may add additional data alongside the
pat_ref pointer to store additional context required for pat_ref data
manipulation from lua.
Since the wrapper (hlua_patref) is an allocated object, we declare the _gc
metamethod for patref class in order to properly cleanup resources when
they are out of scope.
patref object may now leverage index and pair methamethods to list and
access patref elements at a specific index (=key)
Also, patref:is_map() method may be used to know if the patref stores acl
(key only) or map-style (key:value) patterns.
Implement patref class to expose pat_ref struct internal pattern struct
in lua. This is some prerequisite work needed to be able to manipulate
exisiting generic pattern object lists (acl/map) from Lua, because the Map
class can only be used to perform matching ops on Map files.
Now that PAT_REF events were defined in previous commit, let's actually
publish them from pattern API where relevant. Unlike server events,
pattern reference events are only published in the pat_ref subscriber's
list on purpose, because in some setups patref updates (updates performed
on a map for instance from action or cli) are very frequent, and we don't
want to impact pattern API performance just for that.
Moreover, as the main use case is to be able to subscribe to maps updates
from Lua, allowing a per-pattern reference registration is already enough.
No additional data is provided for such events (also for performance reason)
Care was taken not to publish events when the update doesn't affect the
live subset (the one targeted by curr_gen).
This is some prerequisite work for implementing PAT_REF events.
In this commit we define the PAT_REF event_hdl family (which gets family
slot id #2), with the following supported events:
- EVENT_HDL_SUB_PAT_REF_ADD: element was added to the current version of
the pattern ref
- EVENT_HDL_SUB_PAT_REF_DEL: element was deleted from the current
version of the pattern ref
- EVENT_HDL_SUB_PAT_REF_SET: element was modified in the current version
of the pattern ref
- EVENT_HDL_SUB_PAT_REF_COMMIT: pending element(s) was/were commited in
the current version of the pattern ref
- EVENT_HDL_SUB_PAT_REF_CLEAR: all elements were cleared from the
current version of the pattern ref
The goal is to be able to track a pat_ref struct in order to be notified
when it is updated. For performance reasons, events from this family won't
provide any additional info, and will only be published in the pat_ref
subscription list. Indeed, pat_ref may be updated at a relatively high
frequency (or worse, batch work), so we cannot afford doing expensive
treatment for each update.
This patch fixes the loss of information when computing the delivery rate
(quic_cc_drs.c) on links with very low latency due to usage of 32bits
variables with the millisecond as precision.
Initialize the quic_conn task with TASK_F_WANTS_TIME flag ask it to ask
the scheduler to update the call date of this task. This allows this task to get
a nanosecond resolution on the call date calling task_mono_time(). This is enabled
only for congestion control algorithms with delivery rate estimation support
(BBR only at this time).
Store the send date with nanosecond precision of each TX packet into
->time_sent_ns new quic_tx_packet struct member to store the date a packet was
sent in nanoseconds thanks to task_mono_time().
Make use of this new timestamp by the delivery rate estimation algorithm (quic_cc_drs.c).
Rename current ->time_sent member from quic_tx_packet struct to ->time_sent_ms to
distinguish the unit used by this variable (millisecond) and update the code which
uses this variable. The logic found in quic_loss.c is not modified at all.
Must be backported to 3.1.
The "421" status can now be specified on retry-on directives. PR_RE_* flags
were updated to remains sorted.
This patch should fix the issue #2794. It is quite simple so it may safely
be backported to 3.1 if necessary.
pat_ref_gen_delete(ref, gen_id, key) tries to delete all samples belonging
to <gen_id> and matching <key> under <ref>
The goal is to be able to target a single subset from <ref>
pat_ref_gen_find_elt(ref, gen_id, key) tries to find <elt> element
belonging to <gen_id> and matching <key> in <ref> reference.
The goal is to be able to target a single subset from <ref>
pat_ref_gen_set(ref, gen_id, value, err) modifies to <value> the sample
of all patterns matching <key> and belonging to <gen_id> (generation id)
under <ref>
The goal is to be able to target a single subset from <ref>
split pat_ref_set() function in 2 distinct functions. Indeed, since
0844bed7d3 ("MEDIUM: map/acl: Improve pat_ref_set() efficiency (for
"set-map", "add-acl" action perfs)"), pat_ref_set() prototype was updated
to include an extra <elt> argument. But the logic behind is not explicit
because the function will not only try to set <elt>, but also its
duplicate (unlike pat_ref_set_elt() which only tries to update <elt>).
Thus, to make it clearer and better distinguish between the key-based
lookup version and the elt-based one, restotre pat_ref_set() previous
prototype and add a dedicated pat_ref_set_elt_duplicate() that takes
<elt> as argument and tries to update <elt> and all duplicates.
A UDP datagram cannot be greater than 65535 bytes, as UDP length header
field is encoded on 2 bytes. As such, sendmsg() will reject a bigger
input with error EMSGSIZE. By default, this does not cause any issue as
QUIC datagrams are limited to 1.252 bytes and sent individually.
However, with GSO support, value bigger than 1.252 bytes are specified
on sendmsg(). If using a bufsize equal to or greater than 65535, syscall
could reject the input buffer with EMSGSIZE. As this value is not
expected, the connection is immediately closed by haproxy and the
transfer is interrupted.
This bug can easily reproduced by requesting a large object on loopback
interface and using a bufsize of 65535 bytes. In fact, the limit is
slightly less than 65535, as extra room is also needed for IP + UDP
headers.
Fix this by reducing the count of datagrams encoded in a single GSO
invokation via qc_prep_pkts(). Previously, it was set to 64 as specified
by man 7 udp. However, with 1252 datagrams, this is still too many.
Reduce it to a value of 52. Input to sendmsg will thus be restricted to
at most 65.104 bytes if last datagram is full.
If there is still data available for encoding in qc_prep_pkts(), they
will be written in a separate batch of datagrams. qc_send_ppkts() will
then loop over the whole QUIC Tx buffer and call sendmsg() for each
series of at most 52 datagrams.
This does not need to be backported.
Let's move mworker_reexec() and mworker_reload() in mworker.c. mworker_reload()
is called only within the functions, which are already in mworker.c. So, this
reorganization allows to declare mworker_reload() as a static.
mworker_run_master() is called only in master mode. mworker_loop() is static
and called only in mworker_run_master(). So let's move these both functions in
mworker.c.
We also need here to make run_thread_poll_loop() accessible from other units,
as it's used in mworker_loop().
mworker_prepare_master() performs some preparation routines for the new worker
process, which will be forked during the startup. It's called only in
master-worker mode, so let's move it in mworker.c.
mworker_on_new_child_failure() performs some routines for the worker process,
if it has failed the reload. As it's called only in mworker_catch_sigchld()
from mworker.c, let's move mworker_on_new_child_failure() in mworker.c as well.
Like this it could also be declared as a static.
This patch prepares the moving of on_new_child_failure definition into
mworker.c. So, let's rename it accordingly and let's also update its
description.
QUIC pacing was recently implemented to limit burst and improve overall
bandwidth. This is used only for MUX STREAM emission. Pacing requires
nanosecond resolution. As such, it used now_cpu_time() which relies on
clock_gettime() syscall.
The usage of clock_gettime() has several drawbacks :
* it is a syscall and thus requires a context-switch which may hurt
performance
* it is not be available on all systems
* timestamp is retrieved multiple times during a single task execution,
thus yielding different values which may tamper pacing calculation
Improve this by using task_mono_time() instead. This returns task call
time from the scheduler thread context. It requires the flag
TASK_F_WANTS_TIME on QUIC MUX tasklet to force the scheduler to update
call time with now_mono_time(). This solves every limitations listed
above :
* syscall invokation is only performed once before tasklet execution,
thus reducing context-switch impact
* on non compatible system, a millisecond timer is used as a fallback
which should ensure that pacing works decently for them
* timer value is now guaranteed to be fixed duing task execution
In the memprofile summary per DSO, we currently have to pay a high price
by calling dladdr() on each symbol when doing the summary per DSO at the
end, while we're not interested in these details, we just want the DSO
name which can be made cheaper to obtain, and easier to manipulate. So
let's create resolve_dso_name() to only extract minimal information from
an address. At the moment it still uses dladdr() though it avoids all the
extra expensive work, and will further be able to leverage the same
mechanism as "show libs" to instantly spot DSO from address ranges.
Some dependencies might very well rely on posix_memalign(), strndup()
or other less portable callsn making us miss them when chasing memory
leaks, resulting in negative global allocation counters. Let's provide
the handlers for the following functions:
strndup() // _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L || glibc >= 2.10
valloc() // _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE>=500 || glibc >= 2.12
aligned_alloc() // _ISOC11_SOURCE
posix_memalign() // _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
memalign() // obsolete
pvalloc() // obsolete
This time we don't fail if they're not found, we just silently forward
the calls.
Some memory profiling outputs have showed negative counters, very likely
due to some libs calling strdup(). Let's add it to the list of monitored
activities.
Actually even haproxy itself uses some. Having "profiling.memory on" in
the config reveals 35 call places.
In "show profiling memory", we need to distinguish methods which really
free memory from those which do not so that we don't account for the
free value twice. However for now it's done using multiple tests, which
are going to complicate the addition of new methods. Let's switch to a
bit field defined as a mask in a single place instead, as we don't
intend to use more than 32/64 methods!
There's actually a problem with memprofiles: the pool pointer is stored
in ->info but some pools are replaced during startup, such as the trash
pool, leaving a dangling pointer there.
Let's complete the API with a new function memprof_remove_stale_info()
that will remove all stale references to this info pointer. It's also
present when USE_MEMORY_PROFILING is not set so as to ease the job on
callers.
Let's store progname in the global variable, as it is handy to use it in
different parts of code to format messages sent to stdout.
This reduces the number of arguments, which we should pass to some functions.
