Up until now, a tasklet couldn't be free'd while it was in the list, it is
no longer the case, so make sure we remove it from the list before freeing it.
To do so, we have to make sure we correctly initialize it, so use LIST_INIT,
instead of setting the pointers to NULL.
To make sure we don't inadvertently insert task in the global runqueue,
while only the local runqueue is used without threads, make its definition
and usage conditional on USE_THREAD.
When building without threads enabled, instead of just using the global
runqueue, just use the local runqueue associated with the only thread, as
that's what is now expected for a single thread in prcoess_runnable_tasks().
This should fix haproxy when built without threads.
When an applet is created, let's assign it the same nice value as the task
of the stream which owns it. It ensures that fairness is properly propagated
to applets, and that the CLI can regain a low latency behaviour again. Huge
differences have been seen under extreme loads, with the CLI being called
every 200 microseconds instead of 11 milliseconds.
This function returns true is some notifications are registered.
This function is usefull for the following patch
BUG/MEDIUM: lua/socket: Sheduling error on write: may dead-lock
It should be backported in 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8
Don't forget to increase tasks_run_queue when we're adding a task to the
tasklet list, and to decrease it when we remove a task from a runqueue,
or its value won't be accurate, and could lead to tasks not being executed
when put in the global run queue.
1.9-dev only, no backport is needed.
There's no real reason to have a specific scheduler for applets anymore, so
nuke it and just use tasks. This comes with some benefits, the first one
being that applets cannot induce high latencies anymore since they share
nice values with other tasks. Later it will be possible to configure the
applets' nice value. The second benefit is that the applet scheduler was
not very thread-friendly, having a big lock around it in prevision of this
change. Thus applet-intensive workloads should now scale much better with
threads.
Some more improvement is possible now : some applets also use a task to
handle timers and timeouts. These ones could now be simplified to use only
one task.
Introduce tasklets, lightweight tasks. They have no notion of priority,
they are just run as soon as possible, and will probably be used for I/O
later.
For the moment they're used to replace the temporary thread-local list
that was used in the scheduler. The first part of the struct is common
with tasks so that tasks can be cast to tasklets and queued in this list.
Once a task is in the tasklet list, it has its leaf_p set to 0x1 so that
it cannot accidently be confused as not in the queue.
Pure tasklets are identifiable by their nice value of -32768 (which is
normally not possible).
A lot of tasks are run on one thread only, so instead of having them all
in the global runqueue, create a per-thread runqueue which doesn't require
any locking, and add all tasks belonging to only one thread to the
corresponding runqueue.
The global runqueue is still used for non-local tasks, and is visited
by each thread when checking its own runqueue. The nice parameter is
thus used both in the global runqueue and in the local ones. The rare
tasks that are bound to multiple threads will have their nice value
used twice (once for the global queue, once for the thread-local one).
In preparation for thread-specific runqueues, change the task API so that
the callback takes 3 arguments, the task itself, the context, and the state,
those were retrieved from the task before. This will allow these elements to
change atomically in the scheduler while the application uses the copied
value, and even to have NULL tasks later.
The polled_mask is only used in the pollers, and removing it from the
struct fdtab makes it fit in one 64B cacheline again, on a 64bits machine,
so make it a separate array.
With the old model, any fd shared by multiple threads, such as listeners
or dns sockets, would only be updated on one threads, so that could lead
to missed event, or spurious wakeups.
To avoid this, add a global list for fd that are shared, using the same
implementation as the fd cache, and only remove entries from this list
when every thread as updated its poller.
[wt: this will need to be backported to 1.8 but differently so this patch
must not be backported as-is]
Modify fd_add_to_fd_list() and fd_rm_from_fd_list() so that they take an
offset in the fdtab to the list entry, instead of hardcoding the fd cache,
so we can use them with other lists.
While running a task, we may try to delete and free a task that is about to
be run, because it's part of the local tasks list, or because rq_next points
to it.
So flag any task that is in the local tasks list to be deleted, instead of
run, by setting t->process to NULL, and re-make rq_next a global,
thread-local variable, that is modified if we attempt to delete that task.
Many thanks to PiBa-NL for reporting this and analysing the problem.
This should be backported to 1.8.
In order to use arbitrary data in the CLI (multiple lines or group of words
that must be considered as a whole, for example), it is now possible to add a
payload to the commands. To do so, the first line needs to end with a special
pattern: <<\n. Everything that follows will be left untouched by the CLI parser
and will be passed to the commands parsers.
Per-command support will need to be added to take advantage of this
feature.
Signed-off-by: Aurlien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@corp.ovh.com>
In some cases, we call cs_destroy() very early, so early the connection
doesn't yet have a mux, so we can't call mux->detach(). In this case,
just destroy the associated connection.
This should be backported to 1.8.
Now, the function parse_logsrv should be used to parse a "log" line. This
function will update the list of loggers passed in argument. It can release all
log servers when "no log" line was parsed (by the caller) or it can parse "log
global" or "log <address> ... " lines. It takes care of checking the caller
context (global or not) to prohibit "log global" usage in the global section.
Clearing the update_mask bit in fd_insert may lead to duplicate insertion
of fd in fd_updt, that could lead to a write past the end of the array.
Instead, make sure the update_mask bit is cleared by the pollers no matter
what.
This should be backported to 1.8.
[wt: warning: 1.8 doesn't have the lockless fdcache changes and will
require some careful changes in the pollers]
Commit 4815c8c ("MAJOR: fd/threads: Make the fdcache mostly lockless.")
made the fd cache lockless, but after a few iterations, a subtle part was
lost, consisting in setting the bit on the fd_cache_mask immediately when
adding an event. Now it was done only when the cache started to process
events, but the problem it causes is that fd_cache_mask isn't reliable
anymore as an indicator of presence of events to be processed with no
delay outside of fd_process_cached_events(). This results in some spurious
delays when processing inter-thread wakeups between tasks. Just restoring
the flag when the event is added is enough to fix the problem.
Kudos to Christopher for spotting this one!
No backport is needed as this is only in the development version.
The management of the servers and the proxies queues was not thread-safe at
all. First, the accesses to <strm>->pend_pos were not protected. So it was
possible to release it on a thread (for instance because the stream is released)
and to use it in same time on another one (because we redispatch pending
connections for a server). Then, the accesses to stream's information (flags and
target) from anywhere is forbidden. To be safe, The stream's state must always
be updated in the context of process_stream.
So to fix these issues, the queue module has been refactored. A lock has been
added in the pendconn structure. And now, when we try to dequeue a pending
connection, we start by unlinking it from the server/proxy queue and we wake up
the stream. Then, it is the stream reponsibility to really dequeue it (or
release it). This way, we are sure that only the stream can create and release
its <pend_pos> field.
However, be careful. This new implementation should be thread-safe
(hopefully...). But it is not optimal and in some situations, it could be really
slower in multi-threaded mode than in single-threaded one. The problem is that,
when we try to dequeue pending connections, we process it from the older one to
the newer one independently to the thread's affinity. So we need to wait the
other threads' wakeup to really process them. If threads are blocked in the
poller, this will add a significant latency. This problem happens when maxconn
values are very low.
This patch must be backported in 1.8.
When a listener is temporarily disabled, we start by locking it and then we call
.pause callback of the underlying protocol (tcp/unix). For TCP listeners, this
is not a problem. But listeners bound on an unix socket are in fact closed
instead. So .pause callback relies on unbind_listener function to do its job.
Unfortunatly, unbind_listener hold the listener's lock and then call an internal
function to unbind it. So, there is a deadlock here. This happens during a
reload. To fix the problemn, the function do_unbind_listener, which is lockless,
is now exported and is called when a listener bound on an unix socket is
temporarily disabled.
This patch must be backported in 1.8.
ssl_sock_get_pkey_algo can be used to report pkey algorithm to log
and ppv2 (RSA2048, EC256,...).
Extract pkey information is not free in ssl api (lock/alloc/free):
haproxy can use the pkey information computed in load_certificate.
Store and use this information in a SSL ex_data when available,
compute it if not (SSL multicert bundled and generated cert).
A TLS ticket keys file can be updated on the CLI and used in same time. So we
need to protect it to be sure all accesses are thread-safe. Because updates are
infrequent, a R/W lock has been used.
This patch must be backported in 1.8
Each fd_{may|cant|stop|want}_{recv|send} function sets or resets a
single bit at once, then recomputes the need for updates, and then
the new cache state. Later, pollers will compute the new polling
state based on the resulting operations here. In fact the conditions
are so simple that they can be performed by a single "if", or sometimes
even optimized away.
This means that in practice a simple compare-and-swap operation if often
enough to set the new value inluding the new polling state, and that only
the cache and fdupdt have to be performed under the lock. Better, for the
most common operations (fd_may_{recv,send}, used by the pollers), a simple
atomic OR is needed.
This patch does this for the fd_* functions above and it doesn't yet
remove the now useless fd_compute_new_polling_status() because it's still
used by other pollers. A pure connection rate test shows a 1% performance
increase.
An fd cache entry might be removed and added at the end of the list, while
another thread is parsing it, if that happens, we may miss fd cache entries,
to avoid that, add a new field in the struct fdtab, "added_mask", which
contains a mask for potentially affected threads, if it is set, the
corresponding thread will set its bit in fd_cache_mask, to avoid waiting in
poll while it may have more work to do.
Create a local, per-thread, fdcache, for file descriptors that only belongs
to one thread, and make the global fd cache mostly lockless, as we can get
a lot of contention on the fd cache lock.
fd_insert() is currently called just after setting the owner and iocb,
but proceeding like this prevents the operation from being atomic and
requires a lock to protect the maxfd computation in another thread from
meeting an incompletely initialized FD and computing a wrong maxfd.
Fortunately for now all fdtab[].owner are set before calling fd_insert(),
and the first lock in fd_insert() enforces a memory barrier so the code
is safe.
This patch moves the initialization of the owner and iocb to fd_insert()
so that the function will be able to properly arrange its operations and
remain safe even when modified to become lockless. There's no other change
beyond the internal API.
These functions were created for poll() in 1.5-dev18 (commit 80da05a4) to
replace the previous FD_{CLR,SET,ISSET} that were shared with select()
because some libcs enforce a limit on FD_SET. But FD_SET doesn't seem
to be universally MT-safe, requiring locks in the select() code that
are not needed in the poll code. So let's move back to the initial
situation where we used to only use bit fields, since that has been in
use since day one without a problem, and let's use these hap_fd_*
functions instead of FD_*.
This patch only moves the functions to fd.h and revives hap_fd_isset()
that was recently removed to kill an "unused" warning.
Since only select() and poll() still make use of maxfd, let's move
its computation right there in the pollers themselves, and only
during each fd update pass. The computation doesn't need a lock
anymore, only a few atomic ops. It will be accurate, be done much
less often and will not be required anymore in the FD's fast patch.
This provides a small performance increase of about 1% in connection
rate when using epoll since we get rid of this computation which was
performed under a lock.
Some pollers like epoll() need to know if the fd is already known or
not in order to compute the operation to perform (add, mod, del). For
now this is performed based on the difference between the previous FD
state and the new state but this will not be usable anymore once threads
become responsible for their own polling.
Here we come with a different approach : a bitmask is stored with the
fd to indicate which pollers already know it, and the pollers will be
able to simply perform the add/mod/del operations based on this bit
combined with the new state.
This patch only adds the bitmask declaration and initialization, it
is it not yet used. It will be needed by the next two fixes and will
need to be backported to 1.8.
Since the fd update tables are per-thread, we need to have a bit per
thread to indicate whether an update exists, otherwise this can lead
to lost update events every time multiple threads want to update the
same FD. In practice *for now*, it only happens at start time when
listeners are enabled and ask for polling after facing their first
EAGAIN. But since the pollers are still shared, a lost event is still
recovered by a neighbor thread. This will not reliably work anymore
with per-thread pollers, where it has been observed a few times on
startup that a single-threaded listener would not always accept
incoming connections upon startup.
It's worth noting that during this code review it appeared that the
"new" flag in the fdtab isn't used anymore.
This fix should be backported to 1.8.
A bitfield has been added to know if there are some FDs processable by a
specific thread in the FD cache. When a FD is inserted in the FD cache, the bits
corresponding to its thread_mask are set. On each thread, the bitfield is
updated when the FD cache is processed. If there is no FD processed, the thread
is removed from the bitfield by unsetting its tid_bit.
Note that this bitfield is updated but not checked in
fd_process_cached_events. So, when this function is called, the FDs cache is
always processed.
[wt: should be backported to 1.8 as it will help fix a design limitation]
Since commit f9ce57e ("MEDIUM: connection: make conn_sock_shutw() aware
of lingering"), we refrain from performing the shutw() on the socket if
there is no lingering risk. But there is a problem with this in tunnel
and in TCP modes where a client is explicitly allowed to send a shutw
to the server, eventhough it it risky.
Not doing it creates this situation reported by Ricardo Fraile and
diagnosed by Christopher : a typical HTTP client (eg: curl) connecting
via the config below to an HTTP server would receive its response,
immediately close while the server remains in keep-alive mode. The
shutr() received by haproxy from the client is "propagated" to the
server side but not acted upon because fdtab[fd].linger_risk is set,
so we expect that the next close will immediately complete this
operation.
listen proxy-tcp
bind 127.0.0.1:8888
mode tcp
timeout connect 5s
timeout server 10s
timeout client 10s
server server1 127.0.0.1:8000
But since the whole stream will not end until the server closes in
turn, the server doesn't close and haproxy expires on server timeout.
This problem has already struck by waking up an older bug and was
partially fixed with commit 8059351 ("BUG/MEDIUM: http: don't disable
lingering on requests with tunnelled responses") though it was not
enough.
The problem is that linger_risk is not suited here. In fact we need to
know whether or not it is desired to close normally or silently, and
whether or not a shutr() has already been received on this connection.
This is the approach this patch takes, and it solves the problem for
the various difficult modes (tcp, http-server-close, pretend-keepalive).
This fix needs to be backported to 1.8. Many thanks to Ricardo for
providing very detailed traces and configurations.
The new function check_request_for_cacheability() is used to check if
a request may be served from the cache, and/or allows the response to
be stored into the cache. For this it checks the cache-control and
pragma header fields, and adjusts the existing TX_CACHEABLE and a new
TX_CACHE_IGNORE flags.
For now, just like its response side counterpart, it only checks the
first value of the header field. These functions should be reworked to
improve their parsers and validate all elements.
The thread patches adds refcount for notifications. The notifications are
used with the Lua cosocket. These refcount free the notifications when
the session is cleared. In the Lua task case, it not have sessions, so
the nofications are never cleraed.
This patch adds a garbage collector for signals. The garbage collector
just clean the notifications for which the end point is disconnected.
This patch should be backported in 1.8
This BUG was introduced with:
'MEDIUM: threads/stick-tables: handle multithreads on stick tables'
The API was reviewed to handle stick table entry updates
asynchronously and the caller must now call a 'stkable_touch_*'
function each time the content of an entry is modified to
register the entry to be synced.
There was missing call to stktable_touch_* resulting in
not propagated entries to remote peers (or local one during reload)
pendconn_get_next_strm() is called from process_srv_queue() under the
server lock, and calls stream_add_srv_conn() with this lock held, while
the latter tries to take it again. This results in a deadlock when
a server's maxconn is reached and haproxy is built with thread support.
Commit 9dcf9b6 ("MINOR: threads: Use __decl_hathreads to declare locks")
accidently lost a few "extern" in certain lock declarations, possibly
causing certain entries to be declared at multiple places. Apparently
it hasn't caused any harm though.
The offending ones were :
- fdtab_lock
- fdcache_lock
- poll_lock
- buffer_wq_lock
During the migration to the second version of the pools, the new
functions and pool pointers were all called "pool_something2()" and
"pool2_something". Now there's no more pool v1 code and it's a real
pain to still have to deal with this. Let's clean this up now by
removing the "2" everywhere, and by renaming the pool heads
"pool_head_something".
