The "balance uri" options "whole", "len" and "depth" were not properly
inherited from the defaults sections. In addition, "whole" and "len"
were not even reset when parsing "uri", meaning that 2 subsequent
"balance uri" statements would not have the expected effect as the
options from the first one would remain for the second one.
This may be backported to all maintained versions.
In connect_server(), if we're using a new connection, and we have to
initialize the mux right away, only do it so after si_connect() has been
called. si_connect() is responsible for initializing the xprt, and the
mux initialization may depend on the xprt being usable, as it may try to
receive data. Otherwise, the connection will be flagged as having an error,
and we will have to try to connect a second time.
This should be backported to 1.9.
Instead of keeping track of the number of connections we're responsible for,
keep track of the number of connections we're responsible for that we are
currently considering idling (ie that we are not using, they may be in use
by other sessions), that way we can actually reuse connections when we have
more connections than the max configured.
When connecting to a server, and reusing a connection, always attempt to give
the owner of the previous session one of its own connections, so that one
session won't be responsible for too many connections.
This should be backported to 1.9.
When creating a new outgoing connection, if we're using ALPN and waiting
for the handshake completion to choose the mux, and for some reason the
handshake failed, add the SI_FL_ERR flag to the stream_interface, so that
process_streams() knows the connection failed, and can attempt to retry,
instead of just hanging.
This should be backported to 1.9.
When a session adds a connection to its connection list, we used to remove
connections for an another server if there were not enough room for our
server. This can't work, because those lists are now the list of connections
we're responsible for, not just the idle connections.
To fix this, allow for an unlimited number of servers, instead of using
an array, we're now using a linked list.
To access the first element of the list, correctly use LIST_ELEM(), or we
end up getting the head of the list, instead of getting the first connection.
This should be backported to 1.9.
In connect_server(), if we looked for an usable connection and failed to
find one, srv_conn won't be NULL at the end of list_for_each_entry(), but
will point to the head of a list, which is not a pointer to a struct
connection, so explicitely set it to NULL.
This should be backported to 1.9.
If, for some reason we failed to allocate a conn_stream when reusing an
existing connection, set srv_conn to NULL, so that we fail later, instead
of pretending all is right. This ends up giving a stream_interface with
no endpoint, and so the stream will never end.
This should be backported to 1.9.
In connect_server(), don't attempt to reuse the old connection if it's
targetting a different server than the one we're supposed to access, or
we will never be able to connect to a server if the first one we tried failed.
This should be backported to 1.9.
There was a reference to struct stream in conn_free() for the case
where we're freeing a connection that doesn't have a mux attached.
For now we know it's always a stream, and we only need to do it to
put a NULL in s->si[1].end.
Let's do it better by storing the pointer to si[1].end in the context
and specifying that this pointer is always nulled if the mux is null.
This way it allows a connection to detach itself from wherever it's
being used. Maybe we could even get rid of the condition on the mux.
We most often store the mux context there but it can also be something
else while setting up the connection. Better call it "ctx" and know
that it's the owner's context than misleadingly call it mux_ctx and
get caught doing suspicious tricks.
Add the newly created to the idle list as long as http-reuse != never, and
when completing a H2 request, add the connection to the safe list instead of
the idle list, if we have to add it at that point, that means we created
many streams so we know it's safe.
In session, don't keep an infinite number of connection that can idle.
Add a new frontend parameter, "max-session-srv-conns" to set a max number,
with a default value of 5.
Instead of trying to get the session from the connection, which is not
always there, and of course there could be multiple sessions per connection,
provide it with the init() and attach() methods, so that we know the
session for each outgoing stream.
Add a new command, "pool-max-conn" that sets the maximum number of connections
waiting in the orphan idling connections list (as activated with idle-timeout).
Using "-1" means unlimited. Using pools is now dependant on this.
PiBa-NL reported that since this commit f157384 ("MINOR: backend: count
the number of connect and reuse per server and per backend"), reg-test
connection/h00001 fails. Indeed it does, the server is not checked for
existing prior to updating its counter. It should also fail with
transparent mode.
Sadly we didn't have the cumulated number of connections established to
servers till now, so let's now update it per backend and per-server and
report it in the stats. On the stats page it appears in the tooltip
when hovering over the total sessions count field.
Add a new method to mux, "reset", that is used to let the mux know the
connection attempt failed, and we're about to retry, so it just have to
reinit itself. Currently only the H1 mux needs it.
CS_FL_EOS | CS_FL_REOS can be set by the mux if the connection failed, so make
sure we remove them before retrying to connect, or it may lead to a premature
close of the connection.
In connect_server(), don't attempt to reuse the conn_stream associated to
the stream_interface, if we already attempted a connection with it.
Using that conn_stream is only there for the cases where a connection and
a conn_stream was created ahead, mostly by http_proxy or by the LUA code.
If we already attempted to connect, that means we fail, and so we should
create a new connection.
No backport needed.
In connect_server(), if we already have a conn_stream, reuse it
instead of trying to create a new one. http_proxy and LUA both
manually create a conn_stream and a connection, and we want
to use it.
Add a new keyword for servers, "idle-timeout". If set, unused connections are
kept alive until the timeout happens, and will be picked for reuse if no
other connection is available.
http_proxy is special, because it creates its connection and conn_stream
earlier. So in assign_server(), check that the connection associated with
the conn_stream has a destination address set, and in connect_server(),
use the connection and the conn_stream already attached to the
stream_interface, instead of looking for a connection in the session, and
creating a new conn_stream.
Instead of parsing all the available connections owned by the session
each time we choose a server, even if prefer-last-server is not set,
just do it if prefer-last-server is used, and check if the server is usable,
before checking the connections.
Instead of just storing the last connection in the session, store all of
the connections, for at most MAX_SRV_LIST (currently 5) targets.
That way we can do keepalive on more than 1 outgoing connection when the
client uses HTTP/2.
When creating a new outgoing H2 connection, put it in the idle list so that
it's immediately available for others to use, if http-reuse always is used.
When we're deferring the mux choice until the ALPN is negociated, we
attach the connection to the stream_interface until it's done, so that we
can destroy it if something goes wrong and the stream is destroy.
Before calling si_attach_cs() to attach the conn_stream once we have it,
call si_detach_endpoint(), or is_attach_cs() would destroy the connection.
When we defer the mux choice until the ALPN is negociated, don't forget
to wake the stream once it's done, or it will never have the opportunity
to send data.
This switches explicit calls to various trivial registration methods for
keywords, muxes or protocols from constructors to INITCALL1 at stage
STG_REGISTER. All these calls have in common to consume a single pointer
and return void. Doing this removes 26 constructors. The following calls
were addressed :
- acl_register_keywords
- bind_register_keywords
- cfg_register_keywords
- cli_register_kw
- flt_register_keywords
- http_req_keywords_register
- http_res_keywords_register
- protocol_register
- register_mux_proto
- sample_register_convs
- sample_register_fetches
- srv_register_keywords
- tcp_req_conn_keywords_register
- tcp_req_cont_keywords_register
- tcp_req_sess_keywords_register
- tcp_res_cont_keywords_register
- flt_register_keywords
In commit c7566001 ("MINOR: server: Add "alpn" and "npn" keywords") and
commit 201b9f4e ("MAJOR: connections: Defer mux creation for outgoing
connection if alpn is set"), the build was broken on older OpenSSL
releases.
Move the #ifdef's around so that we build again with older OpenSSL
releases (0.9.8 was tested).
When we create a connection, if we have to defer the conn_stream and the
mux creation until we can decide it (ie until the SSL handshake is done, and
the ALPN is decided), store the connection in the stream_interface, so that
we're sure we can destroy it if needed.
The creation of the conn_stream for an outgoing connection has been delayed
a bit, and when using dispatch, a check was made to see if a conn_stream
was attached before the conn_stream was created, so remove the test, as
it's done later anyway, and create and install the conn_stream right away
when we don't have a server, as is done when we don't have an alpn/npn
defined.
If an ALPN (or a NPN) was chosen for a server, defer choosing the mux until
after the SSL handshake is done, and the ALPN/NPN has been negociated, so
that we know which mux to pick.
Do not destroy the connection when we're about to destroy a stream. This
prevents us from doing keepalive on server connections when the client is
using HTTP/2, as a new stream is created for each request.
Instead, the session is now responsible for destroying connections.
When reusing connections, the attach() mux method is now used to create a new
conn_stream.
Instead of trying to receive as soon as the connection is created, and to
eventually have to transfer subscription if we move connections, wait
until the connection is established before attempting to recv.
Commit 85b73e9 ("BUG/MEDIUM: stream: Make sure polling is right on retry.")
introduced a possible null dereference on the error path detected by gcc-7.
Let's simply assign srv_conn after checking the error and not before.
No backport is needed.
While "option prefer-last-server" only applies to non-deterministic load
balancing algorithms, 401/407 responses actually caused haproxy to prefer
the last server unconditionally.
As this breaks deterministic load balancing algorithms like uri, this
patch applies the same condition here.
Should be backported to 1.8 (together with "BUG/MINOR: only mark
connections private if NTLM is detected").
When retrying to connect to a server, because the previous connection failed,
make sure if we subscribed to the previous connection, the polling flags will
be true for the new fd.
No backport is needed.
The return value from conn_install_mux() was not checked, so if an
inconsistency happens in the code, or a memory allocation fails while
initializing the mux, we can crash while using an uninitialized mux.
In practice the code inconsistency does not really happen since we
cannot configure such a situation, except during development, but
the out of memory condition could definitely happen.
This should be backported to 1.8 (the code is a bit different there,
there are two calls to conn_install_mux()).
This adds the sample fetch 'be_conn_free([<backend>])'. This sample fetch
provides the total number of unused connections across available servers in the
specified backend.
To do so, mux choices are split to handle incoming and outgoing connections in a
different way. The protocol specified on the bind/server line is used in
priority. Then, for frontend connections, the ALPN is retrieved and used to
choose the best mux. For backend connection, there is no ALPN. Finaly, if no
protocol is specified and no protocol matches the ALPN, we fall back on a
default mux, choosing in priority the first mux with exactly the same mode.
The comment above the change remains true. We assume there is always 1
conn_stream per outgoing connectionq. Today, it is always true because H2 is not
supported yet for server connections.
It remained some fragments of the old buffers API in debug messages, here and
there.
This was caused by the recent buffer API changes, no backport is needed.
Chunks are only a subset of a buffer (a non-wrapping version with no head
offset). Despite this we still carry a lot of duplicated code between
buffers and chunks. Replacing chunks with buffers would significantly
reduce the maintenance efforts. This first patch renames the chunk's
fields to match the name and types used by struct buffers, with the goal
of isolating the code changes from the declaration changes.
Most of the changes were made with spatch using this coccinelle script :
@rule_d1@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk chunk;
@@
- chunk.str
+ chunk.area
@rule_d2@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk chunk;
@@
- chunk.len
+ chunk.data
@rule_i1@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk *chunk;
@@
- chunk->str
+ chunk->area
@rule_i2@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk *chunk;
@@
- chunk->len
+ chunk->data
Some minor updates to 3 http functions had to be performed to take size_t
ints instead of ints in order to match the unsigned length here.
Now the buffers only contain the header and a pointer to the storage
area which can be anywhere. This will significantly simplify buffer
swapping and will make it possible to map chunks on buffers as well.
The buf_empty variable was removed, as now it's enough to have size==0
and area==NULL to designate the empty buffer (thus a non-allocated head
is the empty buffer by default). buf_wanted for now is indicated by
size==0 and area==(void *)1.
The channels and the checks now embed the buffer's head, and the only
pointer is to the storage area. This slightly increases the unallocated
buffer size (3 extra ints for the empty buffer) but considerably
simplifies dynamic buffer management. It will also later permit to
detach unused checks.
The way the struct buffer is arranged has proven quite efficient on a
number of tests, which makes sense given that size is always accessed
and often first, followed by the othe ones.
These ones manipulate the output data count which will be specific to
the channel soon, so prepare the call points to use the channel only.
The b_* functions are now unused and were removed.
For large farms where servers are regularly added or removed, picking
a random server from the pool can ensure faster load transitions than
when using round-robin and less traffic surges on the newly added
servers than when using leastconn.
This commit introduces "balance random". It internally uses a random as
the key to the consistent hashing mechanism, thus all features available
in consistent hashing such as weights and bounded load via hash-balance-
factor are usable. It is extremely convenient because one common concern
when using random is what happens when a server is hammered a bit too
much. Here that can trivially be avoided, like in the configuration below :
backend bk0
balance random
hash-balance-factor 110
server-template s 1-100 127.0.0.1:8000 check inter 1s
Note that while "balance random" internally relies on a hash algorithm,
it holds the same properties as round-robin and as such is compatible with
reusing an existing server connection with "option prefer-last-server".
Commit 522eea7 ("MINOR: ssl: Handle sending early data to server.") added
a dependency on SRV_SSL_O_EARLY_DATA which only exists when USE_OPENSSL
is defined (which is probably not the best solution) and breaks the build
when ssl is not enabled. Just add an ifdef USE_OPENSSL around the block
for now.
This adds a new keyword on the "server" line, "allow-0rtt", if set, we'll try
to send early data to the server, as long as the client sent early data, as
in case the server rejects the early data, we no longer have them, and can't
resend them, so the only option we have is to send back a 425, and we need
to be sure the client knows how to interpret it correctly.
All the references to connections in the data path from streams and
stream_interfaces were changed to use conn_streams. Most functions named
"something_conn" were renamed to "something_cs" for this. Sometimes the
connection still is what matters (eg during a connection establishment)
and were not always renamed. The change is significant and minimal at the
same time, and was quite thoroughly tested now. As of this patch, all
accesses to the connection from upper layers go through the pass-through
mux.
For HTTP/2 and QUIC, we'll need to deal with multiplexed streams inside
a connection. After quite a long brainstorming, it appears that the
connection interface to the existing streams is appropriate just like
the connection interface to the lower layers. In fact we need to have
the mux layer in the middle of the connection, between the transport
and the data layer.
A mux can exist on two directions/sides. On the inbound direction, it
instanciates new streams from incoming connections, while on the outbound
direction it muxes streams into outgoing connections. The difference is
visible on the mux->init() call : in one case, an upper context is already
known (outgoing connection), and in the other case, the upper context is
not yet known (incoming connection) and will have to be allocated by the
mux. The session doesn't have to create the new streams anymore, as this
is performed by the mux itself.
This patch introduces this and creates a pass-through mux called
"mux_pt" which is used for all new connections and which only
calls the data layer's recv,send,wake() calls. One incoming stream
is immediately created when init() is called on the inbound direction.
There should not be any visible impact.
Note that the connection's mux is purposely not set until the session
is completed so that we don't accidently run with the wrong mux. This
must not cause any issue as the xprt_done_cb function is always called
prior to using mux's recv/send functions.
A lock for LB parameters has been added inside the proxy structure and atomic
operations have been used to update server variables releated to lb.
The only significant change is about lb_map. Because the servers status are
updated in the sync-point, we can call recalc_server_map function synchronously
in map_set_server_status_up/down function.
For now, we have a list of each type per thread. So there is no need to lock
them. This is the easiest solution for now, but not the best one because there
is no sharing between threads. An idle connection on a thread will not be able
be used by a stream on another thread. So it could be a good idea to rework this
patch later.
Now, each proxy contains a lock that must be used when necessary to protect
it. Moreover, all proxy's counters are now updated using atomic operations.
srv_queue([<backend>/]<server>) : integer
Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of connections currently
pending in the designated server's queue. If <backend> is omitted, then the
server is looked up in the current backend. It can sometimes be used together
with the "use-server" directive to force to use a known faster server when it
is not much loaded. See also the "srv_conn", "avg_queue" and "queue" sample
fetch methods.
The server state and weight was reworked to handle
"pending" values updated by checks/CLI/LUA/agent.
These values are commited to be propagated to the
LB stack.
In further dev related to multi-thread, the commit
will be handled into a sync point.
Pending values are named using the prefix 'next_'
Current values used by the LB stack are named 'cur_'
2 places were using an open-coded implementation of this function to count
available servers. Note that the avg_queue_size() fetch didn't check that
the proxy was in STOPPED state so it would possibly return a wrong server
count here but that wouldn't impact the returned value.
Signed-off-by: Nenad Merdanovic <nmerdan@haproxy.com>
This is like the nbsrv() sample fetch function except that it works as
a converter so it can count the number of available servers of a backend
name retrieved using a sample fetch or an environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Nenad Merdanovic <nmerdan@haproxy.com>
Keeping the address and the port in the same field causes a lot of problems,
specifically on the DNS part where we're forced to cheat on the family to be
able to keep the port. This causes some issues such as some families not being
resolvable anymore.
This patch first moves the service port to a new field "svc_port" so that the
port field is never used anymore in the "addr" field (struct sockaddr_storage).
All call places were adapted (there aren't that many).
when using "option prefer-last-server", we may not always stay on
the same backend if option balance told us otherwise.
For example, backend may change in the following cases:
balance hdr()
balance rdp-cookie
balance source
balance uri
balance url_param
[wt: backport this to 1.7 and 1.6]
According to nbsrv() documentation this fetcher should return "an
integer value corresponding to the number of usable servers".
In case backend is disabled none of servers is usable, so I believe
fetcher should return 0.
This patch should be backported to 1.7, 1.6, 1.5.
Now we exclusively use xprt_get(XPRT_RAW) instead of &raw_sock or
xprt_get(XPRT_SSL) for &ssl_sock. This removes a bunch of #ifdef and
include spread over a number of location including backend, cfgparse,
checks, cli, hlua, log, server and session.
These 2 patches add ability to fetch frontend/backend name in your
logic, so they can be used later to make routing decisions (fe_name) or
taking some actions based on backend which responded to request (be_name).
In our case we needed a fetcher to be able to extract information we
needed from frontend name.
When a backend doesn't use any known LB algorithm, backend_lb_algo_str()
returns NULL. It used to cause "nil" to be printed in the stats dump
since version 1.4 but causes 1.7 to try to parse this NULL to encode
it as a CSV string, causing a crash on "show stat" in this case.
The only situation where this can happen is when "transparent" or
"dispatch" are used in a proxy, in which case the LB algorithm is
BE_LB_ALGO_NONE. Thus now we explicitly report "none" when this
situation is detected, and we preventively report "unknown" if any
unknown algorithm is detected, which may happen if such an algo is
added in the future and the function is not updated.
This fix must be backported to 1.7 and may be backported as far as
1.4, though it has less impact there.
We'll have to use srv_set_admin_flag() to propagate some server flags
during the startup, and we don't want the resulting actions to cause
warnings, logs nor e-mail alerts to be generated since we're just applying
the config or a state file. So let's condition these notifications to the
fact that we're starting.
For active servers, this is the sum of the eweights of all active
servers before this one in the backend, and
[srv->cumulative_weight .. srv_cumulative_weight + srv_eweight) is a
space occupied by this server in the range [0 .. lbprm.tot_wact), and
likewise for backup servers with tot_wbck. This allows choosing a
server or a range of servers proportional to their weight, by simple
integer comparison.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rodland <andrewr@vimeo.com>
The "sni" server directive does some bad stuff on many occasions because
it works on a sample of type string and limits len to size-1 by hand. The
problem is that size used to be zero on many occasions before the recent
changes to smp_dup() and that it effectively results in setting len to -1
and writing the zero byte *before* the string (and not terminating the
string).
This patch makes use of the recently introduced smp_make_safe() to address
this issue.
This fix must be backported to 1.6.
Since commit 6879ad3 ("MEDIUM: sample: fill the struct sample with the
session, proxy and stream pointers") merged in 1.6-dev2, the sample
contains the pointer to the stream and sample fetch functions as well
as converters use it heavily.
The problem is that earlier commit 87b0966 ("REORG/MAJOR: session:
rename the "session" entity to "stream"") had split the session and
stream resulting in the possibility for smp->strm to be NULL before
the stream was initialized. This is what happens in tcp-request
connection rulesets, as discovered by Baptiste.
The sample fetch functions must now check that smp->strm is valid
before using it. An alternative could consist in using a dummy stream
with nothing in it to avoid some checks but it would only result in
deferring them to the next step anyway, and making it harder to detect
that a stream is valid or the dummy one.
There is still an issue with variables which requires a complete
independant fix. They use strm->sess to find the session with strm
possibly NULL and passed as an argument. All call places indirectly
use smp->strm to build strm. So the problem is there but the API needs
to be changed to remove this duplicate argument that makes it much
harder to know what pointer to use.
This fix must be backported to 1.6, as well as the next one fixing
variables.
There is a bug in connect_server() : we use si_attach_conn() to offer
the current session's connection to the session we're stealing the
connection from. Unfortunately, si_attach_conn() uses the standard data
connection operations while here we need to use the idle connection
operations.
This results in a situation where when the server's idle timeout strikes,
the read0 is silently ignored, causes the response channel to be shut down
for reads, and the connection remains attached. Next attempt to send a
request when using this connection simply results in nothing being done
because we try to send over an already closed connection. Worse, if the
client aborts, then no timeout remains at all and the session waits
forever and remains assigned to the server.
A more-or-less easy way to reproduce this bug is to have two concurrent
streams each connecting to a different server with "http-reuse aggressive",
typically a cache farm using a URL hash :
stream1: GET /1 HTTP/1.1
stream2: GET /2 HTTP/1.1
stream1: GET /2 HTTP/1.1
wait for the server 1's connection to timeout
stream2: GET /1 HTTP/1.1
The connection hangs here, and "show sess all" shows a closed connection
with a SHUTR on the response channel.
The fix is very simple though not optimal. It consists in calling
si_idle_conn() again after attaching the connection. But in practise
it should not be done like this. The real issue is that there's no way
to cleanly attach a connection to a stream interface without changing
the connection's operations. So the API clearly needs to be revisited
to make such operations easier.
Many thanks to Yves Lafon from W3C for providing lots of useful dumps
and testing patches to help figure the root cause!
This fix must be backported to 1.6.
This was the first transparent proxy technology supported by haproxy
circa 2005 but it was obsoleted in 2007 by Tproxy 4.0 which removed a
lot of the earlier versions' shortcomings and was finally merged into
the kernel. Since nobody has been using cttproxy for many years now
and nobody has even just tried to compile the files, it's time to
remove it. The doc was updated as well.
The union name "data" is a little bit heavy while we read the source
code because we can read "data.data.sint". The rename from "data" to "u"
makes the read easiest like "data.u.sint".
This patch remove the struct information stored both in the struct
sample_data and in the striuct sample. Now, only thestruct sample_data
contains data, and the struct sample use the struct sample_data for storing
his own data.
This strategy is less extreme than "always", it only dispatches first
requests to validated reused connections, and moves a connection from
the idle list to the safe list once it has seen a second request, thus
proving that it could be reused.
The "safe" mode consists in picking existing connections only when
processing a request that's not the first one from a connection. This
ensures that in case where the server finally times out and closes, the
client can decide to replay idempotent requests.
Now instead of closing the existing connection attached to the
stream interface, we first check if the one we pick was attached to
another stream interface, in which case the connections are swapped
if possible (eg: if the current connection is not private). That way
the previous connection remains attached to an existing session and
significantly increases the chances of being reused.
In connect_server(), if we don't have a connection attached to the
stream-int, we first look into the server's idle_conns list and we
pick the first one there, we detach it from its owner if it had one.
If we used to have a connection, we close it.
This mechanism works well but doesn't scale : as servers increase,
the likeliness that the connection attached to the stream interface
doesn't match the server and gets closed increases.
This flag is set on an outgoing connection when this connection gets
some properties that must not be shared with other connections, such
as dynamic transparent source binding, SNI or a proxy protocol header,
or an authentication challenge from the server. This will be needed
later to implement connection reuse.
Since we now always call this function with the reuse parameter cleared,
let's simplify the function's logic as it cannot return the existing
connection anymore. The savings on this inline function are appreciable
(240 bytes) :
$ size haproxy.old haproxy.new
text data bss dec hex filename
1020383 40816 36928 1098127 10c18f haproxy.old
1020143 40816 36928 1097887 10c09f haproxy.new
connect_server() already does most of the check that is done again in
si_alloc_conn(), so let's simply reuse the existing connection instead
of calling the function again. It will also simplify the connection
reuse.
Indeed, for reuse to be set, it also requires srv_conn to be valid. In the
end, the only situation where we have to release the existing connection
and allocate a new one is when reuse == 0.
objt_server() is called multiple times at various places while some
places already make use of srv for this. Let's move the call at the
top of the function and use it all over the place.
This patch removes the 32 bits unsigned integer and the 32 bit signed
integer. It replaces these types by a unique type 64 bit signed.
This makes easy the usage of integer and clarify signed and unsigned use.
With the previous version, signed and unsigned are used ones in place of
others, and sometimes the converter loose the sign. For example, divisions
are processed with "unsigned", if one entry is negative, the result is
wrong.
Note that the integer pattern matching and dotted version pattern matching
are already working with signed 64 bits integer values.
There is one user-visible change : the "uint()" and "sint()" sample fetch
functions which used to return a constant integer have been replaced with
a new more natural, unified "int()" function. These functions were only
introduced in the latest 1.6-dev2 so there's no impact on regular
deployments.
The new "sni" server directive takes a sample fetch expression and
uses its return value as a hostname sent as the TLS SNI extension.
A typical use case consists in forwarding the front connection's SNI
value to the server in a bridged HTTPS forwarder :
sni ssl_fc_sni
This patch removes the structs "session", "stream" and "proxy" from
the sample-fetches and converters function prototypes.
This permits to remove some weight in the prototype call.
The get_server_ph_post() function assumes that the buffer is contiguous.
While this is true for all the header part, it is not necessarily true
for the end of data the fit in the reserve. In this case there's a risk
to read past the end of the buffer for a few hundred bytes, and possibly
to crash the process if what follows is not mapped.
The fix consists in truncating the analyzed length to the length of the
contiguous block that follows the headers.
A config workaround for this bug would be to disable balance url_param.
This fix must be backported to 1.5. It seems 1.4 did have the check.
Many such function need a session, and till now they used to dereference
the stream. Once we remove the stream from the embryonic session, this
will not be possible anymore.
So as of now, sample fetch functions will be called with this :
- sess = NULL, strm = NULL : never
- sess = valid, strm = NULL : tcp-req connection
- sess = valid, strm = valid, strm->txn = NULL : tcp-req content
- sess = valid, strm = valid, strm->txn = valid : http-req / http-res
All of them can now retrieve the HTTP transaction *if it exists* from
the stream and be sure to get NULL there when called with an embryonic
session.
The patch is a bit large because many locations were touched (all fetch
functions had to have their prototype adjusted). The opportunity was
taken to also uniformize the call names (the stream is now always "strm"
instead of "l4") and to fix indent where it was broken. This way when
we later introduce the session here there will be less confusion.
Now this one is dynamically allocated. It means that 280 bytes of memory
are saved per TCP stream, but more importantly that it will become
possible to remove the l7 pointer from fetches and converters since
it will be deduced from the stream and will support being null.
A lot of care was taken because it's easy to forget a test somewhere,
and the previous code used to always trust s->txn for being valid, but
all places seem to have been visited.
All HTTP fetch functions check the txn first so we shouldn't have any
issue there even when called from TCP. When branching from a TCP frontend
to an HTTP backend, the txn is properly allocated at the same time as the
hdr_idx.
When s->si[0].end was dereferenced as a connection or anything in
order to retrieve information about the originating session, we'll
now use sess->origin instead so that when we have to chain multiple
streams in HTTP/2, we'll keep accessing the same origin.
Just like for the listener, the frontend is session-wide so let's move
it to the session. There are a lot of places which were changed but the
changes are minimal in fact.
With HTTP/2, we'll have to support multiplexed streams. A stream is in
fact the largest part of what we currently call a session, it has buffers,
logs, etc.
In order to catch any error, this commit removes any reference to the
struct session and tries to rename most "session" occurrences in function
names to "stream" and "sess" to "strm" when that's related to a session.
The files stream.{c,h} were added and session.{c,h} removed.
The session will be reintroduced later and a few parts of the stream
will progressively be moved overthere. It will more or less contain
only what we need in an embryonic session.
Sample fetch functions and converters will have to change a bit so
that they'll use an L5 (session) instead of what's currently called
"L4" which is in fact L6 for now.
Once all changes are completed, we should see approximately this :
L7 - http_txn
L6 - stream
L5 - session
L4 - connection | applet
There will be at most one http_txn per stream, and a same session will
possibly be referenced by multiple streams. A connection will point to
a session and to a stream. The session will hold all the information
we need to keep even when we don't yet have a stream.
Some more cleanup is needed because some code was already far from
being clean. The server queue management still refers to sessions at
many places while comments talk about connections. This will have to
be cleaned up once we have a server-side connection pool manager.
Stream flags "SN_*" still need to be renamed, it doesn't seem like
any of them will need to move to the session.
These 4 combinations are needlessly complicated since the session already
has direct access to the associated stream interfaces without having to
check an indirect pointer.
The purpose of these two macros will be to pass via the session to
find the relevant stream interfaces so that we don't need to store
the ->cons nor ->prod pointers anymore. Currently they're only defined
so that all references could be removed.
Note that many places need a second pass of clean up so that we don't
have any chn_prod(&s->req) anymore and only &s->si[0] instead, and
conversely for the 3 other cases.
The channels were pointers to outside structs and this is not needed
anymore since the buffers have moved, but this complicates operations.
Move them back into the session so that both channels and stream interfaces
are always allocated for a session. Some places (some early sample fetch
functions) used to validate that a channel was NULL prior to dereferencing
it. Now instead we check if chn->buf is NULL and we force it to remain NULL
until the channel is initialized.
When the destination IP is dynamically set, we can't use the "target"
to define the proto. This patch ensures that we always use the protocol
associated with the address family. The proto field was removed from
the server and check structs.
balance hdr(<name>) provides on option 'use_domain_only' to match only the
domain part in a header (designed for the Host header).
Olivier Fredj reported that the hashes were not the same for
'subdomain.domain.tld' and 'domain.tld'.
This is because the pointer was rewinded one step to far, resulting in a hash
calculated against wrong values :
- '.domai' for 'subdomain.domain.tld'
- ' domai' for 'domain.tld' (beginning with the space in the header line)
Another special case is when no dot can be found in the header : the hash will
be calculated against an empty string.
The patch addresses both cases : 'domain' will be used to compute the hash for
'subdomain.domain.tld', 'domain.tld' and 'domain' (using the whole header value
for the last case).
The fix must be backported to haproxy 1.5 and 1.4.
The path "MAJOR: namespace: add Linux network namespace support" doesn't
permit to use internal data producer like a "peers synchronisation"
system. The result is a segfault when the internal application starts.
This patch fix the commit b3e54fe387
It is introduced in 1.6dev version, it doesn't need to be backported.
This patch makes it possible to create binds and servers in separate
namespaces. This can be used to proxy between multiple completely independent
virtual networks (with possibly overlapping IP addresses) and a
non-namespace-aware proxy implementation that supports the proxy protocol (v2).
The setup is something like this:
net1 on VLAN 1 (namespace 1) -\
net2 on VLAN 2 (namespace 2) -- haproxy ==== proxy (namespace 0)
net3 on VLAN 3 (namespace 3) -/
The proxy is configured to make server connections through haproxy and sending
the expected source/target addresses to haproxy using the proxy protocol.
The network namespace setup on the haproxy node is something like this:
= 8< =
$ cat setup.sh
ip netns add 1
ip link add link eth1 type vlan id 1
ip link set eth1.1 netns 1
ip netns exec 1 ip addr add 192.168.91.2/24 dev eth1.1
ip netns exec 1 ip link set eth1.$id up
...
= 8< =
= 8< =
$ cat haproxy.cfg
frontend clients
bind 127.0.0.1:50022 namespace 1 transparent
default_backend scb
backend server
mode tcp
server server1 192.168.122.4:2222 namespace 2 send-proxy-v2
= 8< =
A bind line creates the listener in the specified namespace, and connections
originating from that listener also have their network namespace set to
that of the listener.
A server line either forces the connection to be made in a specified
namespace or may use the namespace from the client-side connection if that
was set.
For more documentation please read the documentation included in the patch
itself.
Signed-off-by: KOVACS Tamas <ktamas@balabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Sarkozi Laszlo <laszlo.sarkozi@balabit.com>
Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.com>
Commit 98634f0 ("MEDIUM: backend: Enhance hash-type directive with an
algorithm options") cleaned up the hashing code by using a centralized
function. A bug appeared in get_server_uh() which is the URI hashing
function. Prior to the patch, the function would stop hashing on the
question mark, or on the trailing slash of a maximum directory count.
Consecutive to the patch, this last character is included into the
hash computation. This means that :
GET /0
GET /0?
Are not hashed similarly. The following configuration reproduces it :
mode http
balance uri
server s1 0.0.0.0:1234 redir /s1
server s2 0.0.0.0:1234 redir /s2
Many thanks to Vedran Furac for reporting this issue. The fix must
be backported to 1.5.
When we were generating a hash, it was done using an unsigned long. When the hash was used
to select a backend, it was sent as an unsigned int. This made it difficult to predict which
backend would be selected.
This patch updates get_hash, and the hash methods to use an unsigned int, to remain consistent
throughout the codebase.
This fix should be backported to 1.5 and probably in part to 1.4.
Checks.c has become a total mess. A number of proxy or server maintenance
and queue management functions were put there probably because they were
used there, but that makes the code untouchable. And that's without saying
that their names does not always relate to what they really do!
So let's do a first pass by moving these ones :
- set_backend_down() => backend.c
- redistribute_pending() => queue.c:pendconn_redistribute()
- check_for_pending() => queue.c:pendconn_grab_from_px()
- shutdown_sessions => server.c:srv_shutdown_sessions()
- shutdown_backup_sessions => server.c:srv_shutdown_backup_sessions()
All of them were moved at once.
Servers used to have 3 flags to store a state, now they have 4 states
instead. This avoids lots of confusion for the 4 remaining undefined
states.
The encoding from the previous to the new states can be represented
this way :
SRV_STF_RUNNING
| SRV_STF_GOINGDOWN
| | SRV_STF_WARMINGUP
| | |
0 x x SRV_ST_STOPPED
1 0 0 SRV_ST_RUNNING
1 0 1 SRV_ST_STARTING
1 1 x SRV_ST_STOPPING
Note that the case where all bits were set used to exist and was randomly
dealt with. For example, the task was not stopped, the throttle value was
still updated and reported in the stats and in the http_server_state header.
It was the same if the server was stopped by the agent or for maintenance.
It's worth noting that the internal function names are still quite confusing.
Now we introduce srv->admin and srv->prev_admin which are bitfields
containing one bit per source of administrative status (maintenance only
for now). For the sake of backwards compatibility we implement a single
source (ADMF_FMAINT) but the code already checks any source (ADMF_MAINT)
where the STF_MAINTAIN bit was previously checked. This will later allow
us to add ADMF_IMAINT for maintenance mode inherited from tracked servers.
Along doing these changes, it appeared that some places will need to be
revisited when implementing the inherited bit, this concerns all those
modifying the ADMF_FMAINT bit (enable/disable actions on the CLI or stats
page), and the checks to report "via" on the stats page. But currently
the code is harmless.
Till now, the server's state and flags were all saved as a single bit
field. It causes some difficulties because we'd like to have an enum
for the state and separate flags.
This commit starts by splitting them in two distinct fields. The first
one is srv->state (with its counter-part srv->prev_state) which are now
enums, but which still contain bits (SRV_STF_*).
The flags now lie in their own field (srv->flags).
The function srv_is_usable() was updated to use the enum as input, since
it already used to deal only with the state.
Note that currently, the maintenance mode is still in the state for
simplicity, but it must move as well.
We used to call srv_is_usable() with either the current state and weights
or the previous ones. This causes trouble for future changes, so let's first
split it in two variants :
- srv_is_usable(srv) considers the current status
- srv_was_usable(srv) considers the previous status
We used to have is_addr() in place to validate sometimes the existence
of an address, sometimes a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address. Replace them
carefully so that is_inet_addr() is used wherever we can only use an
IPv4/IPv6 address.
The RDP cookie extractor compares the 32-bit address from the request
to the address of each server in the farm without first checking that
the server's address is IPv4. This is a leftover from the IPv4 to IPv6
conversion. It's harmless as it's unlikely that IPv4 and IPv6 servers
will be mixed in an RDP farm, but better fix it.
This patch does not need to be backported.
This commit modifies the PROXY protocol V2 specification to support headers
longer than 255 bytes allowing for optional extensions. It implements the
PROXY protocol V2 which is a binary representation of V1. This will make
parsing more efficient for clients who will know in advance exactly how
many bytes to read. Also, it defines and implements some optional PROXY
protocol V2 extensions to send information about downstream SSL/TLS
connections. Support for PROXY protocol V1 remains unchanged.
Finn Arne Gangstad suggested that we should have the ability to break
keep-alive when the target server has reached its maxconn and that a
number of connections are present in the queue. After some discussion
around his proposed patch, the following solution was suggested : have
a per-proxy setting to fix a limit to the number of queued connections
on a server after which we break keep-alive. This ensures that even in
high latency networks where keep-alive is beneficial, we try to find a
different server.
This patch is partially based on his original proposal and implements
this configurable threshold.
All the code inherited from version 1.1 still holds a lot ot sessions
called "t" because in 1.1 they were tasks. This naming is very annoying
and sometimes even confusing, for example in code involving tables.
Let's get rid of this once for all and before 1.5-final.
Nothing changed beyond just carefully renaming these variables.
Cyril Bonté reported that the "lastsess" field of a stats-only backend
was never updated. In fact the same is true for any applet and anything
not a server. Also, lastsess was not updated for a server reusing its
connection for a new request.
Since the goal of this field is to report recent activity, it's better
to ensure that all accesses are reported. The call has been moved to
the code validating the session establishment instead, since everything
passes there.
http_body_rewind() returns the number of bytes to rewind before buf->p to
find the message's body. It relies on http_hdr_rewind() to find the beginning
and adds msg->eoh + msg->eol which are always safe.
http_data_rewind() does the same to get the beginning of the data, which
differs from above when a chunk is present. It uses the function above and
adds msg->sol.
The purpose is to centralize further ->sov changes aiming at avoiding
to rely on buf->o.
http_uri_rewind() returns the number of bytes to rewind before buf->p to
find the URI. It relies on http_hdr_rewind() to find the beginning and
is just here to simplify operations.
The purpose is to centralize further ->sov changes aiming at avoiding
to rely on buf->o.
http_hdr_rewind() returns the number of bytes to rewind before buf->p to
find the beginning of headers. At the moment it's not exact as it still
relies on buf->o, assuming that no other data from a past message were
pending there, but it's what was done till there.
The purpose is to centralize further ->sov changes aiming at avoiding
to rely on buf->o.
http_body_bytes() returns the number of bytes of the current message body
present in the buffer. It is compatible with being called before and after
the headers are forwarded.
This is done to centralize further ->sov changes.
We used to have msg->sov updated for every chunk that was parsed. The issue
is that we want to be able to rewind after chunks were parsed in case we need
to redispatch a request and perform a new hash on the request or insert a
different server header name.
Currently, msg->sov and msg->next make parallel progress. We reached a point
where they're always equal because msg->next is initialized from msg->sov,
and is subtracted msg->sov's value each time msg->sov bytes are forwarded.
So we can now ensure that msg->sov can always be replaced by msg->next for
every state after HTTP_MSG_BODY where it is used as a position counter.
This allows us to keep msg->sov untouched whatever the number of chunks that
are parsed, as is needed to extract data from POST request (eg: url_param).
However, we still need to know the starting position of the data relative to
the body, which differs by the chunk size length. We use msg->sol for this
since it's now always zero and unused in the body.
So with this patch, we have the following situation :
- msg->sov = msg->eoh + msg->eol = size of the headers including last CRLF
- msg->sol = length of the chunk size if any. So msg->sov + msg->sol = DATA.
- msg->next corresponds to the byte being inspected based on the current
state and is always >= msg->sov before starting to forward anything.
Since sov and next are updated in case of header rewriting, a rewind will
fix them both when needed. Of course, ->sol has no reason for changing in
such conditions, so it's fine to keep it relative to msg->sov.
In theory, even if a redispatch has to be performed, a transformation
occurring on the request would still work because the data moved would
still appear at the same place relative to bug->p.
This is the continuation of previous patch. Now that full buffers are
not rejected anymore, let's wait for at least the advertised chunk or
body length to be present or the buffer to be full. When either
condition is met, the message processing can go forward.
Thus we don't need to use url_param_post_limit anymore, which was passed
in the configuration as an optionnal <max_wait> parameter after the
"check_post" value. This setting was necessary when the feature was
implemented because there was no support for parsing message bodies.
The argument is now silently ignored if set in the configuration.
Finn Arne Gangstad reported that commit 6b726adb35 ("MEDIUM: http: do
not report connection errors for second and further requests") breaks
support for serving static files by abusing the errorfile 503 statement.
Indeed, a second request over a connection sent to any server or backend
returning 503 would silently be dropped.
The proper solution consists in adding a flag on the session indicating
that the server connection was reused, and to only avoid the error code
in this case.
Since 1.5-dev20, we have a working server-side keep-alive and an option
"prefer-last-server" to indicate that we explicitly want to reuse the
same server as the last one. Unfortunately this breaks the redispatch
feature because assign_server() insists on reusing the same server as
the first one attempted even if the connection failed to establish.
A simple solution consists in only considering the last connection if
it was connected. Otherwise there is no reason for being interested in
reusing the same server.
Summary:
Track and report last session time on the stats page for each server
in every backend, as well as the backend.
This attempts to address the requirement in the ROADMAP
- add a last activity date for each server (req/resp) that will be
displayed in the stats. It will be useful with soft stop.
The stats page reports this as time elapsed since last session. This
change does not adequately address the requirement for long running
session (websocket, RDP... etc).
In HTTP keep-alive mode, if we receive a 401, we still have a chance
of being able to send the visitor again to the same server over the
same connection. This is required by some broken protocols such as
NTLM, and anyway whenever there is an opportunity for sending the
challenge to the proper place, it's better to do it (at least it
helps with debugging).
If we reuse a server-side connection, we must not reinitialize its context nor
try to enable send_proxy. At the moment HTTP keep-alive over SSL fails on the
first attempt because the SSL context was cleared, so it only worked after a
retry.
When the load balancing algorithm in use is not deterministic, and a previous
request was sent to a server to which haproxy still holds a connection, it is
sometimes desirable that subsequent requests on a same session go to the same
server as much as possible. Note that this is different from persistence, as
we only indicate a preference which haproxy tries to apply without any form
of warranty. The real use is for keep-alive connections sent to servers. When
this option is used, haproxy will try to reuse the same connection that is
attached to the server instead of rebalancing to another server, causing a
close of the connection. This can make sense for static file servers. It does
not make much sense to use this in combination with hashing algorithms.
This commit allows an existing server-side connection to be reused if
it matches the same target. Basic controls are performed ; right now
we do not allow to reuse a connection when dynamic source binding is
in use or when the destination address or port is dynamic (eg: proxy
mode). Later we'll have to also disable connection sharing when PROXY
protocol is being used or when non-idempotent requests are processed.
When allocating a new connection, only the caller knows whether it's
acceptable to reuse the previous one or not. Let's pass this information
to si_alloc_conn() which will do the cleanup if the connection is not
acceptable.
Having the check state partially stored in the server doesn't help.
Some functions such as srv_getinter() rely on the server being checked
to decide what check frequency to use, instead of relying on the check
being configured. So let's get rid of SRV_CHECKED and SRV_AGENT_CHECKED
and only use the check's states instead.
Till now the send_proxy_ofs field remained in the stream interface,
but since the dynamic allocation of the connection, it makes a lot
of sense to move that into the connection instead of the stream
interface, since it will not be statically allocated for each
session.
Also, it turns out that moving it to the connection fils an alignment
hole on 64 bit architectures so it does not consume more memory, and
removing it from the stream interface was an opportunity to correctly
reorder fields and reduce the stream interface's size from 160 to 144
bytes (-10%). This is 32 bytes saved per session.
The outgoing connection is now allocated dynamically upon the first attempt
to touch the connection's source or destination address. If this allocation
fails, we fail on SN_ERR_RESOURCE.
As we didn't use si->conn anymore, it was removed. The endpoints are released
upon session_free(), on the error path, and upon a new transaction. That way
we are able to carry the existing server's address across retries.
The stream interfaces are not initialized anymore before session_complete(),
so we could even think about allocating them dynamically as well, though
that would not provide much savings.
The session initialization now makes use of conn_new()/conn_free(). This
slightly simplifies the code and makes it more logical. The connection
initialization code is now shorter by about 120 bytes because it's done
at once, allowing the compiler to remove all redundant initializations.
The si_attach_applet() function now takes care of first detaching the
existing endpoint, and it is called from stream_int_register_handler(),
so we can safely remove the calls to si_release_endpoint() in the
application code around this call.
A call to si_detach() was made upon stream_int_unregister_handler() to
ensure we always free the allocated connection if one was allocated in
parallel to setting an applet (eg: detect HTTP proxy while proceeding
with stats maybe).
si_prepare_conn() is not appropriate in our case as it both initializes and
attaches the connection to the stream interface. Due to the asymmetry between
accept() and connect(), it causes some fields such as the control and transport
layers to be reinitialized.
Now that we can separately initialize these fields using conn_prepare(), let's
break this function to only attach the connection to the stream interface.
Also, by analogy, si_prepare_none() was renamed si_detach(), and
si_prepare_applet() was renamed si_attach_applet().
The connection will only remain there as a pre-allocated entity whose
goal is to be placed in ->end when establishing an outgoing connection.
All connection initialization can be made on this connection, but all
information retrieved should be applied to the end point only.
This change is huge because there were many users of si->conn. Now the
only users are those who initialize the new connection. The difficulty
appears in a few places such as backend.c, proto_http.c, peers.c where
si->conn is used to hold the connection's target address before assigning
the connection to the stream interface. This is why we have to keep
si->conn for now. A future improvement might consist in dynamically
allocating the connection when it is needed.
This function makes no sense anymore and will cause trouble to convert
the remains of connection/applet to end points. Let's replace it now
with its contents.
A very old bug resulting from some code refactoring causes
assign_server_address() to refrain from retrieving the destination
address from the client-side connection when transparent mode is
enabled and we're connecting to a server which has address 0.0.0.0.
The impact is low since such configurations are unlikely to ever
be encountered. The fix should be backported to older branches.
This function was designed for haproxy while testing other functions
in the past. Initially it was not planned to be used given the not
very interesting numbers it showed on real URL data : it is not as
smooth as the other ones. But later tests showed that the other ones
are extremely sensible to the server count and the type of input data,
especially DJB2 which must not be used on numeric input. So in fact
this function is still a generally average performer and it can make
sense to merge it in the end, as it can provide an alternative to
sdbm+avalanche or djb2+avalanche for consistent hashing or when hashing
on numeric data such as a source IP address or a visitor identifier in
a URL parameter.
Summary:
Avalanche is supported not as a native hashing choice, but a modifier
on the hashing function. Note that this means that possible configs
written after 1.5-dev4 using "hash-type avalanche" will get an informative
error instead. But as discussed on the mailing list it seems nobody ever
used it anyway, so let's fix it before the final 1.5 release.
The default values were selected for backward compatibility with previous
releases, as discussed on the mailing list, which means that the consistent
hashing will still apply the avalanche hash by default when no explicit
algorithm is specified.
Examples
(default) hash-type map-based
Map based hashing using sdbm without avalanche
(default) hash-type consistent
Consistent hashing using sdbm with avalanche
Additional Examples:
(a) hash-type map-based sdbm
Same as default for map-based above
(b) hash-type map-based sdbm avalanche
Map based hashing using sdbm with avalanche
(c) hash-type map-based djb2
Map based hashing using djb2 without avalanche
(d) hash-type map-based djb2 avalanche
Map based hashing using djb2 with avalanche
(e) hash-type consistent sdbm avalanche
Same as default for consistent above
(f) hash-type consistent sdbm
Consistent hashing using sdbm without avalanche
(g) hash-type consistent djb2
Consistent hashing using djb2 without avalanche
(h) hash-type consistent djb2 avalanche
Consistent hashing using djb2 with avalanche
Summary:
In testing at tumblr, we found that using djb2 hashing instead of the
default sdbm hashing resulted is better workload distribution to our backends.
This commit implements a change, that allows the user to specify the hash
function they want to use. It does not limit itself to consistent hashing
scenarios.
The supported hash functions are sdbm (default), and djb2.
For a discussion of the feature and analysis, see mailing list thread
"Consistent hashing alternative to sdbm" :
http://marc.info/?l=haproxy&m=138213693909219
Note: This change does NOT make changes to new features, for instance,
applying an avalance hashing always being performed before applying
consistent hashing.
This function is also called directly from backend.c, so let's stop
building fake args to call it as a sample fetch, and have a lower
layer more generic function instead.
We're having a lot of duplicate code just because of minor variants between
fetch functions that could be dealt with if the functions had the pointer to
the original keyword, so let's pass it as the last argument. An earlier
version used to pass a pointer to the sample_fetch element, but this is not
the best solution for two reasons :
- fetch functions will solely rely on the keyword string
- some other smp_fetch_* users do not have the pointer to the original
keyword and were forced to pass NULL.
So finally we're passing a pointer to the keyword as a const char *, which
perfectly fits the original purpose.
Benoit Dolez reported a failure to start haproxy 1.5-dev19. The
process would immediately report an internal error with missing
fetches from some crap instead of ACL names.
The cause is that some versions of gcc seem to trim static structs
containing a variable array when moving them to BSS, and only keep
the fixed size, which is just a list head for all ACL and sample
fetch keywords. This was confirmed at least with gcc 3.4.6. And we
can't move these structs to const because they contain a list element
which is needed to link all of them together during the parsing.
The bug indeed appeared with 1.5-dev19 because it's the first one
to have some empty ACL keyword lists.
One solution is to impose -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss to everyone
but this is not really nice. Another solution consists in ensuring
the struct is never empty so that it does not move there. The easy
solution consists in having a non-null list head since it's not yet
initialized.
A new "ILH" list head type was thus created for this purpose : create
an Initialized List Head so that gcc cannot move the struct to BSS.
This fixes the issue for this version of gcc and does not create any
burden for the declarations.
This patch does not change the logic of the code, it only changes the
way OS-specific defines are tested.
At the moment the transparent proxy code heavily depends on Linux-specific
defines. This first patch introduces a new define "CONFIG_HAP_TRANSPARENT"
which is set every time the defines used by transparent proxy are present.
This also means that with an up-to-date libc, it should not be necessary
anymore to force CONFIG_HAP_LINUX_TPROXY during the build, as the flags
will automatically be detected.
The CTTPROXY flags still remain separate because this older API doesn't
work the same way.
A new line has been added in the version output for haproxy -vv to indicate
what transparent proxy support is available.
Now that ACLs solely rely on sample fetch functions, make them use the
same arg mask. All inconsistencies have been fixed separately prior to
this patch, so this patch almost only adds a new pointer indirection
and removes all references to ARG*() in the definitions.
The parsing is still performed by the ACL code though.
ACL fetch functions used to directly reference a fetch function. Now
that all ACL fetches have their sample fetches equivalent, we can make
ACLs reference a sample fetch keyword instead.
In order to simplify the code, a sample keyword name may be NULL if it
is the same as the ACL's, which is the most common case.
A minor change appeared, http_auth always expects one argument though
the ACL allowed it to be missing and reported as such afterwards, so
fix the ACL to match this. This is not really a bug.
The following sample fetch functions were only usable by ACLs but are now
usable by sample fetches too :
avg_queue, be_conn, be_id, be_sess_rate, connslots, nbsrv,
queue, srv_conn, srv_id, srv_is_up, srv_sess_rate
The fetch functions have been renamed "smp_fetch_*".
The file acl.c is a real mess, it both contains functions to parse and
process ACLs, and some sample extraction functions which act on buffers.
Some other payload analysers were arbitrarily dispatched to proto_tcp.c.
So now we're moving all payload-based fetches and ACLs to payload.c
which is capable of extracting data from buffers and rely on everything
that is protocol-independant. That way we can safely inflate this file
and only use the other ones when some fetches are really specific (eg:
HTTP, SSL, ...).
As a result of this cleanup, the following new sample fetches became
available even if they're not really useful :
always_false, always_true, rep_ssl_hello_type, rdp_cookie_cnt,
req_len, req_ssl_hello_type, req_ssl_sni, req_ssl_ver, wait_end
The function 'acl_fetch_nothing' was wrong and never used anywhere so it
was removed.
The "rdp_cookie" sample fetch used to have a mandatory argument while it
was optional in ACLs, which are supposed to iterate over RDP cookies. So
we're making it optional as a fetch too, and it will return the first one.
This is just like previous commit, but for the backend this time. All this
code did not need to remain duplicated. These are 500 more bytes shaved off.
Both servers and proxies share a common set of parameters for outgoing
connections, and since they're not stored in a similar structure, a lot
of code is duplicated in the connection setup, which is one sensible
area.
Let's first define a common struct for these settings and make use of it.
Next patches will de-duplicate code.
This change also fixes a build breakage that happens when USE_LINUX_TPROXY
is not set but USE_CTTPROXY is set, which seem to be very unlikely
considering that the issue was introduced almost 2 years ago an never
reported.
Considering there is no option yet for maxconnrate for servers, I wrote
an ACL to check a backend server session rate which we use to send to an
"overflow" backend to prevent latency responses to our clients (very
sensitive latency requirements).
Instead of storing a couple of (int, ptr) in the struct connection
and the struct session, we use a different method : we only store a
pointer to an integer which is stored inside the target object and
which contains a unique type identifier. That way, the pointer allows
us to retrieve the object type (by dereferencing it) and the object's
address (by computing the displacement in the target structure). The
NULL pointer always corresponds to OBJ_TYPE_NONE.
This reduces the size of the connection and session structs. It also
simplifies target assignment and compare.
In order to improve the generated code, we try to put the obj_type
element at the beginning of all the structs (listener, server, proxy,
si_applet), so that the original and target pointers are always equal.
A lot of code was touched by massive replaces, but the changes are not
that important.
We will need to be able to switch server connections on a session and
to keep idle connections. In order to achieve this, the preliminary
requirement is that the connections can survive the session and be
detached from them.
Right now they're still allocated at exactly the same place, so when
there is a session, there are always 2 connections. We could soon
improve on this by allocating the outgoing connection only during a
connect().
This current patch touches a lot of code and intentionally does not
change any functionnality. Performance tests show no regression (even
a very minor improvement). The doc has not yet been updated.
With this commit, we now separate the channel from the buffer. This will
allow us to replace buffers on the fly without touching the channel. Since
nobody is supposed to keep a reference to a buffer anymore, doing so is not
a problem and will also permit some copy-less data manipulation.
Interestingly, these changes have shown a 2% performance increase on some
workloads, probably due to a better cache placement of data.
While working on the changes required to make the health checks use the
new connections, it started to become obvious that some naming was not
logical at all in the connections. Specifically, it is not logical to
call the "data layer" the layer which is in charge for all the handshake
and which does not yet provide a data layer once established until a
session has allocated all the required buffers.
In fact, it's more a transport layer, which makes much more sense. The
transport layer offers a medium on which data can transit, and it offers
the functions to move these data when the upper layer requests this. And
it is the upper layer which iterates over the transport layer's functions
to move data which should be called the data layer.
The use case where it's obvious is with embryonic sessions : an incoming
SSL connection is accepted. Only the connection is allocated, not the
buffers nor stream interface, etc... The connection handles the SSL
handshake by itself. Once this handshake is complete, we can't use the
data functions because the buffers and stream interface are not there
yet. Hence we have to first call a specific function to complete the
session initialization, after which we'll be able to use the data
functions. This clearly proves that SSL here is only a transport layer
and that the stream interface constitutes the data layer.
A similar change will be performed to rename app_cb => data, but the
two could not be in the same commit for obvious reasons.
Alex Markham reported and diagnosed a bug appearing on 1.5-dev11,
causing a crash on x86_64 when header hashing is used. The cause is
a missing (int) cast causing a negative offset to appear positive
and the resulting pointer to go out of bounds.
The crash is not possible anymore since 1.5-dev12 because a second
bug caused the negative sign to disappear so the pointer is always
within range but always wrong, so balance hdr() never works anymore.
This fix restores the correct behaviour and ensures the sign is
correct.
The last uses of the stream interfaces were in tcp_connect_server() and
could easily and more appropriately be moved to its callers, si_connect()
and connect_server(), making a lot more sense.
Now the function should theorically be usable for health checks.
It also appears more obvious that the file is split into two distinct
parts :
- the protocol layer used at the connection level
- the tcp analysers executing tcp-* rules and their samples/acls.
We need to have the source and destination addresses in the connection.
They were lying in the stream interface so let's move them. The flags
SI_FL_FROM_SET and SI_FL_TO_SET have been moved as well.
It's worth noting that tcp_connect_server() almost does not use the
stream interface anymore except for a few flags.
It has been identified that once we detach the connection from the SI,
it will probably be needed to keep a copy of the server-side addresses
in the SI just for logging purposes. This has not been implemented right
now though.
Some parts of the sock_ops structure were only used by the stream
interface and have been moved into si_ops. Some of them were callbacks
to the stream interface from the connection and have been moved into
app_cp as they're the application seen from the connection (later,
health-checks will need to use them). The rest has moved to data_ops.
Normally at this point the connection could live without knowing about
stream interfaces at all.
The "raw_sock" prefix will be more convenient for naming functions as
it will be prefixed with the data layer and suffixed with the data
direction. So let's rename the files now to avoid any further confusion.
The #include directive was also removed from a number of files which do
not need it anymore.
At the moment, the struct is still embedded into the struct channel, but
all the functions have been updated to use struct buffer only when possible,
otherwise struct channel. Some functions would likely need to be splitted
between a buffer-layer primitive and a channel-layer function.
Later the buffer should become a pointer in the struct buffer, but doing so
requires a few changes to the buffer allocation calls.
This is a massive rename. We'll then split channel and buffer.
This change needs a lot of cleanups. At many locations, the parameter
or variable is still called "buf" which will become ambiguous. Also,
the "struct channel" is still defined in buffers.h.
This patch brings a new "whole" parameter to "balance uri" which makes
the hash work over the whole uri, not just the part before the query
string. Len and depth parameter are still honnored.
The reason for this new feature is explained below.
I have 3 backend servers, each accepting different form of HTTP queries:
http://backend1.server.tld/service1.php?q=...
http://backend1.server.tld/service2.php?q=...
http://backend2.server.tld/index.php?query=...&subquery=...
http://backend3.server.tld/image/49b8c0d9ff
Each backend server returns a different response based on either:
- the URI path (the left part of the URI before the question mark)
- the query string (the right part of the URI after the question mark)
- or the combination of both
I wanted to set up a common caching cluster (using 6 Squid servers, each
configured as reverse proxy for those 3 backends) and have HAProxy balance
the queries among the Squid servers based on URL. I also wanted to achieve
hight cache hit ration on each Squid server and send the same queries to
the same Squid servers. Initially I was considering using the 'balance uri'
algorithm, but that would not work as in case of backend2 all queries would
go to only one Squid server. The 'balance url_param' would not work either
as it would send the backend3 queries to only one Squid server.
So I thought the simplest solution would be to use 'balance uri', but to
calculate the hash based on the whole URI (URI path + query string),
instead of just the URI path.
We start to move everything needed to manage a connection to a special
entity "struct connection". We have the data layer operations and the
control operations there. We'll also have more info in the future such
as file descriptors and applet contexts, so that in the end it becomes
detachable from the stream interface, which will allow connections to
be reused between sessions.
For now on, we start with minimal changes.
Since the recent buffer reorg, msg->som is redundant with buf->p but still
appears at a number of places. This tiny patch allows to confirm that som
follows two states :
- 0 from the moment the message starts to be parsed
- relative offset to ->p for start of chunk when parsing chunks
During this second state, ->sol is never used, so we should probably merge
the two.
This is a left-over from the buffer changes. Msg->sol is always null at the
end of the parsing, so we must not use it anymore to read headers or find
the beginning of a message. As a side effect, the dump of the request in
debug mode is working again because it was relying on msg->sol not being
null.
Maybe it will even be mergeable with another of the message pointers.
The recent split between the buffers and HTTP messages in 1.5-dev9 caused
a major trouble : in the past, we used to keep a pointer to HTTP data in the
buffer struct itself, which was the cause of most of the pain we had to deal
with buffers.
Now the two are split but we lost the information about the beginning of
the HTTP message once it's being forwarded. While it seems normal, it happens
that several parts of the code currently rely on this ability to inspect a
buffer containing old contents :
- balance uri
- balance url_param
- balance url_param check_post
- balance hdr()
- balance rdp-cookie()
- http-send-name-header
All these happen after the data are scheduled for being forwarded, which
also causes a server to be selected. So for a long time we've been relying
on supposedly sent data that we still had a pointer to.
Now that we don't have such a pointer anymore, we only have one possibility :
when we need to inspect such data, we have to rewind the buffer so that ->p
points to where it previously was. We're lucky, no data can leave the buffer
before it's being connecting outside, and since no inspection can begin until
it's empty, we know that the skipped data are exactly ->o. So we rewind the
buffer by ->o to get headers and advance it back by the same amount.
Proceeding this way is particularly important when dealing with chunked-
encoded requests, because the ->som and ->sov fields may be reused by the
chunk parser before the connection attempt is made, so we cannot rely on
them.
Also, we need to be able to come back after retries and redispatches, which
might change the size of the request if http-send-name-header is set. All of
this is accounted for by the output queue so in the end it does not look like
a bad solution.
No backport is needed.
Instead of hard-coding sock_raw in connect_server(), we set this socket
operation at config parsing time. Right now, only servers and peers have
it. Proxies are still hard-coded as sock_raw. This will be needed for
future work on SSL which requires a different socket layer.
Commit e164e7a removed get_src/get_dst setting in the stream interfaces but
forgot to set it in proto_tcp. Get the feature back because we need it for
logging, transparent mode, ACLs etc... We now rely on the stream interface
direction to know what syscall to use.
One benefit of doing it this way is that we don't use getsockopt() anymore
on outgoing stream interfaces nor on UNIX sockets.
We'll soon have an SSL socket layer, and in order to ease the difference
between the two, we use the name "sock_raw" to designate the one which
directly talks to the sockets without any conversion.
Patterns were using a bitmask to indicate if request or response was desired
in fetch functions and keywords. ACLs were using a bitmask in fetch keywords
and a single bit in fetch functions. ACLs were also using an ACL_PARTIAL bit
in fetch functions indicating that a non-final fetch was performed, which was
an abuse of the existing direction flag.
The change now consists in using :
- a capabilities field for fetch keywords => SMP_CAP_REQ/RES to indicate
if a keyword supports requests, responses, both, etc...
- an option field for fetch functions to indicate what the caller expects
(request/response, final/non-final)
The ACL_PARTIAL bit was reversed to get SMP_OPT_FINAL as it's more explicit
to know we're working on a final buffer than on a non-final one.
ACL_DIR_* were removed, as well as PATTERN_FETCH_*. L4 fetches were improved
to support being called on responses too since they're still available.
The <dir> field of all fetch functions was changed to <opt> which is now
unsigned.
The patch is large but mostly made of cosmetic changes to accomodate this, as
almost no logic change happened.
Having the args everywhere will make it easier to share fetch functions
between patterns and ACLs. The only place where we could have needed
the expr was in the http_prefetch function which can do well without.
Previously, both pattern, backend and persist_rdp_cookie would build fake
ACL expressions to fetch an RDP cookie by calling acl_fetch_rdp_cookie().
Now we switch roles. The RDP cookie fetch function is provided as a sample
fetch function that all others rely on, including ACL. The code is exactly
the same, only the args handling moved from expr->args to args. The code
was moved to proto_tcp.c, but probably that a dedicated file would be more
suited to content handling.
These ones were either unused or improperly used. Some integers were marked
read-only, which does not make much sense. Buffers are not read-only, they're
"constant" in that they must be kept intact after any possible change.
This one is not needed anymore as we can return the data and its type in the
sample provided by the caller. ACLs now always return the proper type. BOOL
is already returned when the result is expected to be processed as a boolean.
temp_pattern has been unexported now.
The new sample types are necessary for the acl-pattern convergence.
These types are boolean and signed int. Some types were renamed for
less ambiguity (ip->ipv4, integer->uint).
A large number of ACLs make use of frontend, backend or table names in their
arguments, and fall back to the current proxy when no argument is passed. If
the expected capability is not available, the ACL silently fails at runtime.
Now we make all those names mandatory in the parser and we rely on
acl_find_targets() to replace the missing names with the holding proxy,
then to perform the appropriate tests, and to reject errors at parsing
time.
It is possible that some faulty configurations will get rejected from now
on, while they used to silently fail till now. This is the reason why this
change is marked as MAJOR.
Proxy names are now resolved when the config is parsed and not at runtime.
This means that errors will be caught for real instead of having an ACL
silently never match. Another benefit is that the fetch will be much faster
since the lookup will not have to be performed anymore, eg for all ACLs
based on explicitly named stick-tables.
However some buggy configurations which used to silently fail in the past
will now refuse to load, hence the MAJOR tag.
The types and minimal number of ACL keyword arguments are now stored in
their declaration. This will allow many more fantasies if some ACL use
several arguments or types.
Doing so required to rework all ACL keyword declarations to add two
parameters. So this was a good opportunity for a general cleanup and
to sort all entries in alphabetical order.
We still have two pending issues :
- parse_acl_expr() checks for errors but has no way to report them to
the user ;
- the types of some arguments are still not resolved and kept as strings
(eg: ARGT_FE/BE/TAB) for compatibility reasons, which must be resolved
in acl_find_targets()
The ACL parser now uses the argument parser to build a typed argument list.
Right now arguments are all strings and only one argument is supported since
this is what ACLs currently support.
msg->sol is now a relative pointer just like all other ones. There is no
more absolute references to the buffer outside the struct buffer itself.
Next two cleanups should include removing buffer references to functions
which already have an msg, and removal of wrapping detection in request
and response parsing which cannot wrap by definition.
These offsets were relative to the buffer itself. Now they're relative to
the buffer's origin (buf->p) which normally corresponds to the start of
current message.
This saves a big dependency between the HTTP message struct and the buffers.
It appeared during this change that ->col is not used anymore (it will have
to be removed). Next step is to turn ->eol and ->sol from absolute to relative.
We don't have buf->l anymore. We have buf->i for pending data and
the total length is retrieved by adding buf->o. Some computation
already become simpler.
Despite extreme care, bugs are not excluded.
It's worth noting that msg->err_pos as set by HTTP request/response
analysers becomes relative to pending data and not to the beginning
of the buffer. This has not been completed yet so differences might
occur when outgoing data are left in the buffer.
These callbacks are used to retrieve the source and destination address
of a socket. The address flags are not hold on the stream interface and
not on the session anymore. The addresses are collected when needed.
This still needs to be improved to store the IP and port separately so
that it is not needed to perform a getsockname() when only the IP address
is desired for outgoing traffic.
The hash of IPv6 addresses was not properly aligned and resulted in the
last quarter of the address not being hashed. In practice, this is rarely
detected since MAC addresses are used in the second half. But this becomes
very visible with IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses such as ::FFFF:1.2.3.4 where
the IPv4 part is never hashed.
This bug has been there forever, since introduction of "balance source" in
v1.2.11. The fix must then be backported to all stable versions.
Thanks to Alex Markham for reporting this issue to the list !
%Bi return the backend source IP
%Bp return the backend source port
Add a function pointer in logformat_type to do additional configuration
during the log-format variable parsing.
The principle behind this load balancing algorithm was first imagined
and modeled by Steen Larsen then iteratively refined through several
work sessions until it would totally address its original goal.
The purpose of this algorithm is to always use the smallest number of
servers so that extra servers can be powered off during non-intensive
hours. Additional tools may be used to do that work, possibly by
locally monitoring the servers' activity.
The first server with available connection slots receives the connection.
The servers are choosen from the lowest numeric identifier to the highest
(see server parameter "id"), which defaults to the server's position in
the farm. Once a server reaches its maxconn value, the next server is used.
It does not make sense to use this algorithm without setting maxconn. Note
that it can however make sense to use minconn so that servers are not used
at full load before starting new servers, and so that introduction of new
servers requires a progressively increasing load (the number of servers
would more or less follow the square root of the load until maxconn is
reached). This algorithm ignores the server weight, and is more beneficial
to long sessions such as RDP or IMAP than HTTP, though it can be useful
there too.
The new function does not return IP addresses but header values instead,
so that the caller is free to make what it want of them. The conversion
is not quite clean yet, as the previous test which considered that address
0.0.0.0 meant "no address" is still used. A different IP parsing function
should be used to take this into account.
Now strings and data blocks are stored in the temp_pattern's chunk
and matched against this one.
The rdp_cookie currently makes extensive use of acl_fetch_rdp_cookie()
and will be a good candidate for the initial rework so that ACLs use
the patterns framework and not the other way around.
All ACL fetches which return integer value now store the result into
the temporary pattern struct. All ACL matches which rely on integer
also get their value there.
Note: the pattern data types are not set right now.
This is 1.5-specific. It causes issues with transparent source binding involving
hdr_ip. We must not try to bind() to a foreign address when the family is not set,
and we must set the family when an address is set.
Stream interfaces used to distinguish between client and server addresses
because they were previously of different types (sockaddr_storage for the
client, sockaddr_in for the server). This is not the case anymore, and this
distinction is confusing at best and has caused a number of regressions to
be introduced in the process of converting everything to full-ipv6. We can
now remove this and have a much cleaner code.
Nick Chalk reported that a connection to a server which has no port specified
used twice the port number. The reason is that the port number was taken from
the wrong part of the address, the client's destination address was used as the
base port instead of the server's configured address.
Thanks to Nick for his helpful diagnostic.
A similar issue as the previous one causes port mapping to fail in some
combinations of client and server address families. Using the macros fixes
the issue.
Adding health checks has become a real pain, with cross-references to all
checks everywhere because they're all a single bit. Since they're all
exclusive, let's change this to have a check number only. We reserve 4
bits allowing up to 16 checks (15+tcp), only 7 of which are currently
used. The code has shrunk by almost 1kB and we saved a few option bits.
The "dispatch" option has been moved to px->options, making a few tests
a bit cleaner.
Since we now have the copy of the target in the session, use it instead
of relying on the SI for it. The SI drops the target upon unregister()
so applets such as stats were logged as "NOSRV".
This option enables use of the PROXY protocol with the server, which
allows haproxy to transport original client's address across multiple
architecture layers.
It's very annoying that frontend and backend stats are merged because we
don't know what we're observing. For instance, if a "listen" instance
makes use of a distinct backend, it's impossible to know what the bytes_out
means.
Some points take care of not updating counters twice if the backend points
to the frontend, indicating a "listen" instance. The thing becomes more
complex when we try to add support for server side keep-alive, because we
have to maintain a pointer to the backend used for last request, and to
update its stats. But we can't perform such comparisons anymore because
the counters will not match anymore.
So in order to get rid of this situation, let's have both frontend AND
backend stats in the "struct proxy". We simply update the relevant ones
during activity. Some of them are only accounted for in the backend,
while others are just for frontend. Maybe we can improve a bit on that
later, but the essential part is that those counters now reflect what
they really mean.
This patch turns internal server addresses to sockaddr_storage to
store IPv6 addresses, and makes the connect() function use it. This
code already works but some caveats with getaddrinfo/gethostbyname
still need to be sorted out while the changes had to be merged at
this stage of internal architecture changes. So for now the config
parser will not emit an IPv6 address yet so that user experience
remains unchanged.
This change should have absolutely zero user-visible effect, otherwise
it's a bug introduced during the merge, that should be reported ASAP.
This one has been removed and is now totally superseded by ->target.
To get the server, one must use target_srv(&s->target) instead of
s->srv now.
The function ensures that non-server targets still return NULL.
s->prev_srv is used by assign_server() only, but all code paths leading
to it now take s->prev_srv from the existing s->srv. So assign_server()
can do that copy into its own stack.
If at one point a different srv is needed, we still have a copy of the
last server on which we failed a connection attempt in s->target.
When dealing with HTTP keep-alive, we'll have to know if we can reuse
an existing connection. For that, we'll have to check if the current
connection was made on the exact same target (referenced in the stream
interface).
Thus, we need to first assign the next target to the session, then
copy it to the stream interface upon connect(). Later we'll check for
equivalence between those two operations.
Till now we used the fact that the dispatch address was not null to use
the dispatch mode. This is very unconvenient, so let's have a dedicated
option.
When doing a connect() on a stream interface, some information is needed
from the server and from the backend. In some situations, we don't have
a server and only a backend (eg: peers). In other cases, we know we have
an applet and we don't want to connect to anything, but we'd still like
to have the info about the applet being used.
For this, we now store a pointer to the "target" into the stream interface.
The target describes what's on the other side before trying to connect. It
can be a server, a proxy or an applet for now. Later we'll probably have
descriptors for multiple-stage chains so that the final information may
still be found.
This will help removing many specific cases in the code. It already made
it possible to remove the "srv" and "be" parameters to tcpv4_connect_server().
Bryan Talbot reported that POST requests with a query string were not
correctly processed if the hash parameter was the first one, because
the delimiter that was looked for to trigger the parsing was '&' instead
of '?'.
Also, while checking the code, it became apparent that it was enough for
a query string to be present in the request for POST parameters to be
ignored, even if the url_param was in the body and not in the URL.
The code has then been fixed like this :
1) look for URL param. If found, return it.
2) if no URL param was found and method is POST, then look it up into
the body
The code now seems to pass all request combinations.
This patch must be backported to 1.4 since 1.4 is equally broken right now.
Till now, the forwarding code was making use of the hdr_content_len member
to hold the size of the last chunk parsed. As such, it was reset after being
scheduled for forwarding. The issue is that this entry was reset before the
data could be viewed by backend.c in order to parse a POST body, so the
"balance url_param check_post" did not work anymore.
In order to fix this, we need two things :
- the chunk size (reset upon every forward)
- the total body size (not reset)
hdr_content_len was thus replaced by the former (hence the size of the patch)
as it makes more sense to have it stored that way than the way around.
This patch should be backported to 1.4 with care, considering that it affects
the forwarding code.
When the number of servers is a multiple of the size of the input set,
map-based hash can be inefficient. This typically happens with 64
servers when doing URI hashing. The "avalanche" hash-type applies an
avalanche hash before performing a map lookup in order to smooth the
distribution. The result is slightly less smooth than the map for small
numbers of servers, but still better than the consistent hashing.
