This is the process-wide monotonic time that is used to update each
thread's own time. It may be required at a few places where a strictly
monotonic clock is required such as freq_ctr. It will be have to be
backported as a dependency of a forthcoming fix.
Some are not always easy to spot with "chk" vs "check" or hyphens at
some places and not at others. Now entering "option http-close" properly
suggests "httpclose" and "option tcp-chk" suggests "tcp-check". There's
no need to consider the proxy's capabilities, what matters is to figure
what related word the user tried to spell, and there are not that many
options anyway.
The distance between two words can be high due to a sub-word being missing
and in this case it happens that other totally unrealted words are proposed
because their average score looks lower thanks to being shorter. Here we're
introducing the notion of presence of each character so that word sequences
that contain existing sub-words are favored against the shorter ones having
nothing in common. In addition we do not distinguish being/end from a
regular delimitor anymore. That made it harder to spot inverted words.
When tasklets were derived from tasks, there was no immediate need for
the scheduler to know their status after execution, and in a spirit of
simplicity they just started to always return NULL. The problem is that
it simply prevents the scheduler from 1) accounting their execution time,
and 2) keeping track of their current execution status. Indeed, a remote
wake-up could very well end up manipulating a tasklet that's currently
being executed. And this is the reason why those handlers have to take
the idle lock before checking their context.
In 2.5 we'll take care of making tasklets and tasks work more similarly,
but trouble is to be expected if we continue to propagate the trend of
returning NULL everywhere, especially if some fixes relying on a stricter
model later need to be backported. For this reason this patch updates all
known tasklet handlers to make them return NULL only when the tasklet was
freed. It has no effect for now and isn't even guaranteed to always be
100% safe but it puts the code into the right direction for this.
There were still a very small list of functions, variables and fields
called "stats_" while they were really purely CLI-centric. There's the
frontend called "stats_fe" in the global section, which instantiates a
"cli_applet" called "<CLI>" so it was renamed "cli_fe".
The "alloc_stats_fe" function cas renamed to "cli_alloc_fe" which also
better matches the naming convention of all cli-specific functions.
Finally the "stats_permission_denied_msg" used to return an error on
the CLI was renamed "cli_permission_denied_msg".
Now there's no more "stats_something" that designates the CLI.
This is the number of args accepted on a command received on the CLI,
is has long been totally independent of stats and should not carry
this misleading "stats" name anymore.
Instead of making a new one from scratch, let's support not wiping the
existing fingerprint and updating it, and to do the same char by char.
The word-by-word one will still result in multiple beginnings and ends,
but that will accurately translate word boundaries. The char-based one
has more flexibility and requires that the caller maintains the previous
char to indicate the transition, which also allows to insert delimiters
for example.
Entering "show tls" would still emit 35 entries. By measuring the distance
between all unknown words and the candidates, we can sort them and pick the
10 most likely candidates. This works reasonably well, as now "show tls"
only proposes "show tls-keys", "show threads", "show pools" and "show tasks".
If the distance is still too high or if a word is missing, the whole
prefix list continues to be dumped, thus "show" alone will still report
the entire list of commands beginning with "show".
It's still impossible to skip a word, for example "show conn" will not
propose "show servers conn" because the distance is calculated for each
word individually. Some changes to the distance calculation to support
updating an existing map could easily address this. But this is already
a great improvement.
It was mentioned that ACCESS_MASTER_ONLY as for workers only instead of
master-only. And it wasn't clear that all ACCESS_* would belong to the
same thing.
The last time when an item was seen in a resolver responses is now stored in
milliseconds instead of seconds. This avoid some corner-cases at the
edges. This also simplifies time comparisons.
Another way to say it: "Safely unlink requester from a requester callbacks".
Requester callbacks must never try to unlink a requester from a resolution, for
the current requester or another one. First, these callback functions are called
in a loop on a request list, not necessarily safe. Thus unlink resolution at
this place, may be unsafe. And it is useless to try to make these loops safe
because, all this stuff is placed in a loop on a resolution list. Unlink a
requester may lead to release a resolution if it is the last requester.
However, the unkink is necessary because we cannot reset the server state
(hostname and IP) with some pending DNS resolution on it. So, to workaround
this issue, we introduce the "safe" unlink. It is only performed from a
requester callback. In this case, the unlink function never releases the
resolution, it only reset it if necessary. And when a resolution is found
with an empty requester list, it is released.
This patch depends on the following commits :
* MINOR: resolvers: Purge answer items when a SRV resolution triggers an error
* MINOR: resolvers: Use a function to remove answers attached to a resolution
* MINOR: resolvers: Directly call srvrq_update_srv_state() when possible
* MINOR: resolvers: Add function to change the srv status based on SRV resolution
All the series must be backported as far as 2.2. It fixes a regression
introduced by the commit b4badf720 ("BUG/MINOR: resolvers: new callback to
properly handle SRV record errors").
don't release resolution from requester cb
srvrq_update_srv_status() update the server status based on result of SRV
resolution. For now, it is only used from snr_update_srv_status() when
appropriate.
resolv_purge_resolution_answer_records() must be used to removed all answers
attached to a resolution. For now, it is only used when a resolution is
released.
This function search for a SRV answer item associated to a requester
whose type is server.
This is mainly useful to "link" a server to its SRV record when no
additional record were found to configure the IP address.
This patch is required by a bug fix.
action_suggest() will return a pointer to an action whose keyword more or
less ressembles the passed argument. It also accepts to be more tolerant
against prefixes (since actions taking arguments are handled as prefixes).
This will be used to suggest approaching words.
Just like with the server keywords, now's the turn of "bind" keywords.
The difference is that 100% of the bind keywords are registered, thus
we do not need the list of extra keywords.
There are multiple bind line parsers today, all were updated:
- peers
- log
- dgram-bind
- cli
$ printf "listen f\nbind :8000 tcut\n" | ./haproxy -c -f /dev/stdin
[NOTICE] 070/101358 (25146) : haproxy version is 2.4-dev11-7b8787-26
[NOTICE] 070/101358 (25146) : path to executable is ./haproxy
[ALERT] 070/101358 (25146) : parsing [/dev/stdin:2] : 'bind :8000' unknown keyword 'tcut'; did you mean 'tcp-ut' maybe ?
[ALERT] 070/101358 (25146) : Error(s) found in configuration file : /dev/stdin
[ALERT] 070/101358 (25146) : Fatal errors found in configuration.
Instead of just reporting "unknown keyword", let's provide a function which
will look through a list of registered keywords for a similar-looking word
to the one that wasn't matched. This will help callers suggest correct
spelling. Also, given that a large part of the config parser still relies
on a long chain of strcmp(), we'll need to be able to pass extra candidates.
Thus the function supports an optional extra list for this purpose.
This introduces two functions, one which creates a fingerprint of a word,
and one which computes a distance between two words fingerprints. The
fingerprint is made by counting the transitions between one character and
another one. Here we consider the 26 alphabetic letters regardless of
their case, then any digit as a digit, and anything else as "other". We
also consider the first and last locations as transitions from begin to
first char, and last char to end. The distance is simply the sum of the
squares of the differences between two fingerprints. This way, doubling/
missing a letter has the same cost, however some repeated transitions
such as "e"->"r" like in "server" are very unlikely to match against
situations where they do not exist. This is a naive approach but it seems
to work sufficiently well for now. It may be refined in the future if
needed.
It is possible to have a session without a listener. It happens for applets
on the client side. Thus all accesses to the listener info from the session
must be guarded. It was the purpose of the commit 36119de18 ("BUG/MEDIUM:
session: NULL dereference possible when accessing the listener"). However,
some tests on the session's listener existence are missing in proxy_inc_*
functions.
This patch should fix the issues #1171, #1172, #1173, #1174 and #1175. It
must be backported with the above commit as far as 1.8.
Since commit f8fb4f75f ("MINOR: atomic: implement a more efficient arm64
__ha_cas_dw() using pairs"), on some modern arm64 (armv8.1+) compiled
with -march=armv8.1-a under gcc-7.5.0, a build error may appear on ev_poll.o :
/tmp/ccHD2lN8.s:1771: Error: reg pair must start from even reg at operand 1 -- `casp x27,x28,x22,x23,[x12]'
Makefile:927: recipe for target 'src/ev_poll.o' failed
It appears that the compiler cannot always assign register pairs there
for a structure made of two u64. It was possibly later addressed since
gcc-9.3 never caused this, but there's no trivially available info on
the subject in the changelogs. Unsuprizingly, using a u128 instead does
fix this, but it significantly inflates the code (+4kB for just 6 places,
very likely that it loaded some extra stubs) and the comparison is ugly,
involving two slower conditional jumps instead of a single one and a
conditional comparison. For example, ha_random64() grew from 144 bytes
to 232.
However, simply forcing the base register does work pretty well, and
makes the code even cleaner and more efficient by further reducing it
by about 4.5kB, possibly because it helps the compiler to pick suitable
registers for the pair there. And the perf on 64-cores looks steadily
0.5% above the previous one, so let's do this.
Note that the commit above was backported to 2.3 to fix scalability
issues on AWS Graviton2 platform, so this one will need to be as well.
The QUIC connection struct connection member was not initialized. This may
make randomly haproxy handle TLS connections as QUIC ones only when QUIC support
is enabled leading to such OpenSSL errors (captured from a reg test output, TLS
Client-Hello callback failed):
OpenSSL error[0x10000085] OPENSSL_internal: CONNECTION_REJECTED
OpenSSL error[0x10000410] OPENSSL_internal: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE
OpenSSL error[0x1000009a] OPENSSL_internal: HANDSHAKE_FAILURE_ON_CLIENT_HELLO
This patch should fix#1168 github issue.
The recent default runqueue size reduction appeared to have significantly
lowered performance on low-thread count configs. Testing various values
runqueue values on different workloads under thread counts ranging from
1 to 64, it appeared that lower values are more optimal for high thread
counts and conversely. It could even be drawn that the optimal value for
various workloads sits around 280/sqrt(nbthread), and probably has to do
with both the L3 cache usage and how to optimally interlace the threads'
activity to minimize contention. This is much easier to optimally
configure, so let's do this by default now.
The recently introduced Financial Information eXchange (FIX)
converters have some hard coded tags based on the specification that
were misspelled. Specifically, SenderComID and TargetComID should
be SenderCompID and TargetCompID according to the specification [1][2].
This patch updates all references, which includes the converters
themselves, the regression test, and the documentation.
[1] https://fiximate.fixtrading.org/en/FIX.5.0SP2_EP264/tag49.html
[2] https://fiximate.fixtrading.org/en/FIX.5.0SP2_EP264/tag56.html
Parameter "accepted_payload_size" is currently considered regardless
the used nameserver is using TCP or UDP. It remains mandatory to annouce
such capability to support e-dns, so a value have to be announced also
in TCP. Maximum DNS message size in TCP is limited by protocol to 65535
and so for UDP (65507) if system supports such UDP messages. But
the maximum value for this option was arbitrary forced to 8192.
This patch change this maximum to 65535 to allow user to set bigger value
for UDP if its system supports. It also sets accepted_payload_size
in TCP allowing to retrieve huge responses if the configuration uses
TCP nameservers.
The request announcing the accepted_payload_size capability is currently
built at resolvers level and is common to all used nameservers of the
section regardess transport protocol used. A further patch should be
made to at least specify a different payload size depending of the
transport, and perhaps could be forced to 65535 in case of TCP and
maximum would be forced back to 65507 matching UDP max.
This patch is appliable since 2.4 version
These are some leftovers from the ancient code where they were still
called sessions, but these areas in the code remain confusing due to
this naming. They were now called "strm" which will not even affect
indenting nor alignment.
It was brought by commit c44b8de99 ("CLEANUP: connection: Use `VAR_ARRAY`
in `struct tlv` definition") but breaks the build with clang. Actually it
had already been done 6 months ago by commit 4987a4744 ("CLEANUP: tree-wide:
use VAR_ARRAY instead of [0] in various definitions") then reverted by
commit 441b6c31e ("BUILD: connection: fix build on clang after the VAR_ARRAY
cleanup") which explained the same thing but didn't place a comment in the
code to justify this (in short it's just an end of struct marker).
The default proxy was passed as a variable to all parsers instead of a
const, which is not without risk, especially when some timeout parsers used
to make some int pointers point to the default values for comparisons. We
want to be certain that none of these parsers will modify the defaults
sections by accident, so it's important to mark this proxy as const.
This patch touches all occurrences found (89).
TCC happens to define __OPTIMIZE__ at -O2 but doesn't proceed with dead
code elimination, resulting in ha_free() to always reference the link
error symbol. Let's condition this test on __GCC__ which others like
Clang also define.
ha_free() uses code that attempts to set a non-existant variable to provoke
a link-time error, with the expectation that the compiler will not omit that
if the code is unreachable. However, clang will emit it when compiling with
no optimization, so only do that if __OPTIMIZE__ is defined.
There's currently quite some thread contention in the server struct
because frequently fields accessed fields are mixed with those being
often written to by any thread. Let's split this a little bit to
separate a few areas:
- pure config / admin / operating status (almost never changes)
- idle and queuing (fast changes, done almost together)
- LB (fast changes, not necessarily dependent on the above)
- counters (fast changes, at a different instant again)
The actconns list creates massive contention on low server counts because
it's in fact a list of streams using a server, all threads compete on the
list's head and it's still possible to see some watchdog panics on 48
threads under extreme contention with 47 threads trying to add and one
thread trying to delete.
Moving this list per thread is trivial because it's only used by
srv_shutdown_streams(), which simply required to iterate over the list.
The field was renamed to "streams" as it's really a list of streams
rather than a list of connections.
There are multiple per-thread lists in the listeners, which isn't the
most efficient in terms of cache, and doesn't easily allow to store all
the per-thread stuff.
Now we introduce an srv_per_thread structure which the servers will have an
array of, and place the idle/safe/avail conns tree heads into. Overall this
was a fairly mechanical change, and the array is now always initialized for
all servers since we'll put more stuff there. It's worth noting that the Lua
code still has to deal with its own deinit by itself despite being in a
global list, because its server is not dynamically allocated.
It's a real pain not to have access to the list of all registered servers,
because whenever there is a need to late adjust their configuration, only
those attached to regular proxies are seen, but not the peers, lua, logs
nor DNS.
What this patch does is that new_server() will automatically add the newly
created server to a global list, and it does so as well for the 1 or 2
statically allocated servers created for Lua. This way it will be possible
to iterate over all of them.
Some entries are atomically updated by various threads, such as the
global counters, and they're mixed with others which are read all the
time like the mode. This explains why "perf" was seeing a huge access
cost on global.mode in process_stream()! Let's reorder them so that
the static config stuff is at the beginning and the live stuff is at
the end.
These functions are used on the mux layer to indicate that the connection
is becoming idle and that the xprt ought to be careful before checking the
context or that it's not idle anymore and that the context is safe. The
purpose is to allow a mux which is going to release a connection to tell
the xprt to be careful when touching it. At the moment, the xprt are
always careful and that's costly so we want to have the ability to relax
this a bit.
No xprt layer uses this yet.
This flag will be usable by any application. It will be preserved across
wakeups so the application can use it to do various stuff. Some I/O
handlers will soon benefit from this.
It's been too short for quite a while now and is now full. It's still
time to extend it to 32-bits since we have room for this without
wasting any space, so we now gained 16 new bits for future flags.
The values were not reassigned just in case there would be a few
hidden u16 or short somewhere in which these flags are placed (as
it used to be the case with stream->pending_events).
The patch is tagged MEDIUM because this required to update the task's
process() prototype to use an int instead of a short, that's quite a
bunch of places.
The nice field isn't needed anymore for the tasklet so we can move it
from the TASK_COMMON area into the struct task which already has a
hole around the expire entry.
It's cleaner to use a flag from the task's state to detect a tasklet
and it's even cheaper. One of the best benefits is that this will
allow to get the nice field out of the common part since the tasklet
doesn't need it anymore. This commit uses the last task bit available
but that's temporary as the purpose of the change is to extend this.
We frequently need to access a simple and fast PRNG for statistical
purposes. The debug_prng() function did exactly this using a xorshift
generator but its use was limited to debug only. Let's move this to
tools.h and tools.c to make it accessible everywhere. Since it needs to
be fast, its state is thread-local. An initialization function starts a
different initial value for each thread for better distribution.
In stream_add_srv_conn() MT_LIST_ADD() is used instead of MT_LIST_ADDQ(),
resulting in the stream being queued at the end of the server list. This
has no particular effect since we cannot dump the streams on a server,
and this is only used by "shutdown sessions" on a server. But it also
turns out to be significantly faster due to the shorter recovery from
the conflict with an adjacent MT_LIST_DEL(), thus it remains desirable
to use it, but at least it deserves a comment.
In addition to this, it's worth mentioning that this list should creates
extreme contention with threads while almost never used. It should be
made per-thread just like the global streams list.
The reason is that H2 can already require 32 16kB buffers for the mux
output at once, which will deplete the local cache. Thus it makes sense
to go further to leave some time to other connection to release theirs.
In addition, the L2 cache on modern CPUs is already 1 MB, so this change
is welcome in any case.
