global.tune.maxaccept was used for all listeners. This becomes really not
convenient when some listeners are bound to a single process and other ones
are bound to many processes.
Now we change the principle : we count the number of processes a listener
is bound to, and apply the maxaccept either entirely if there is a single
process, or divided by twice the number of processes in order to maintain
fairness.
The default limit has also been increased from 32 to 64 as it appeared that
on small machines, 32 was too low to achieve high connection rates.
The new "cpu-map" directive allows one to assign the CPU sets that
a process is allowed to bind to. This is useful in combination with
the "nbproc" and "bind-process" directives.
The support is implicit on Linux 2.6.28 and above.
Having nbproc preinitialized to zero is really annoying as it prevents
some checks from being correctly performed. Also the check to prevent
nbproc from being redefined is totally useless, so let's preset it to
1 and remove the test.
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.
Now that all pollers make use of speculative I/O, there is no point
having two epoll implementations, so replace epoll with the sepoll code
and remove sepoll which has just become the standard epoll method.
This patch adds input and output rate calcutation on the HTTP compresion
feature.
Compression can be limited with a maximum rate value in kilobytes per
second. The rate is set with the global 'maxcomprate' option. You can
change this value dynamicaly with 'set rate-limit http-compression
global' on the UNIX socket.
With the global maxzlibmem option, you are able ton control the maximum
amount of RAM usable for HTTP compression.
A test is done before each zlib allocation, if the there isn't available
memory, the test fail and so the zlib initialization, so data won't be
compressed.
The window size and the memlevel of the zlib are now configurable using
global options tune.zlib.memlevel and tune.zlib.windowsize.
It affects the memory consumption of the zlib.
The trash is used everywhere to store the results of temporary strings
built out of s(n)printf, or as a storage for a chunk when chunks are
needed.
Using global.tune.bufsize is not the most convenient thing either.
So let's replace trash with a chunk and directly use it as such. We can
then use trash.size as the natural way to get its size, and get rid of
many intermediary chunks that were previously used.
The patch is huge because it touches many areas but it makes the code
a lot more clear and even outlines places where trash was used without
being that obvious.
This commit introduces HTTP compression using the zlib library.
http_response_forward_body has been modified to call the compression
functions.
This feature includes 3 algorithms: identity, gzip and deflate:
* identity: this is mostly for debugging, and it was useful for
developping the compression feature. With Content-Length in input, it
is making each chunk with the data available in the current buffer.
With chunks in input, it is rechunking, the output chunks will be
bigger or smaller depending of the size of the input chunk and the
size of the buffer. Identity does not apply any change on data.
* gzip: same as identity, but applying a gzip compression. The data
are deflated using the Z_NO_FLUSH flag in zlib. When there is no more
data in the input buffer, it flushes the data in the output buffer
(Z_SYNC_FLUSH). At the end of data, when it receives the last chunk in
input, or when there is no more data to read, it writes the end of
data with Z_FINISH and the ending chunk.
* deflate: same as gzip, but with deflate algorithm and zlib format.
Note that this algorithm has ambiguous support on many browsers and
no support at all from recent ones. It is strongly recommended not
to use it for anything else than experimentation.
You can't choose the compression ratio at the moment, it will be set to
Z_BEST_SPEED (1), as tests have shown very little benefit in terms of
compression ration when going above for HTML contents, at the cost of
a massive CPU impact.
Compression will be activated depending of the Accept-Encoding request
header. With identity, it does not take care of that header.
To build HAProxy with zlib support, use USE_ZLIB=1 in the make
parameters.
This work was initially started by David Du Colombier at Exceliance.
Using "stats bind-process", it becomes possible to indicate to haproxy which
process will get the incoming connections to the stats socket. It will also
shut down the warning when nbproc > 1.
All SSL-specific "server" keywords are now processed in ssl_sock.c. At
the moment, there is no more "not implemented" hint when SSL is disabled,
but keywords could be added in server.c if needed.
Baptiste Assmann reported a bug causing a crash on recent versions when
sticking rules were set on layer 7 in a TCP proxy. The bug is easier to
reproduce with the "defer-accept" option on the "bind" line in order to
have some contents to parse when the connection is accepted. The issue
is that the acl_prefetch_http() function called from HTTP fetches relies
on hdr_idx to be preinitialized, which is not the case if there is no L7
ACL.
The solution consists in adding a new SMP_CAP_L7 flag to fetches to indicate
that they are expected to work on L7 data, so that the proxy knows that the
hdr_idx has to be initialized. This is already how ACL and HTTP mode are
handled.
The bug was present since 1.5-dev9.
These ones are used to set the default ciphers suite on "bind" lines and
"server" lines respectively, instead of using OpenSSL's defaults. These
are probably mainly useful for distro packagers.
When health checks are configured on a server which has the send-proxy
directive and no "port" nor "addr" settings, the health check connections
will automatically use the PROXY protocol. If "port" or "addr" are set,
the "check-send-proxy" directive may be used to force the protocol.
With this change, we now use the connection's transport layer to receive
and send data during health checks. It even becomes possible to send data
in multiple times, which was not possible before.
The transport layer used is the same as the one used for the traffic, unless
a specific address and/or port is specified for the checks using "port" or
"addr", in which case the transport layer defaults to raw_sock. An option
will be provided to force SSL checks on different IP/ports later.
Connection errors and timeouts are still reported.
Some situations where strerror() was able to report a precise error after
a failed connect() in the past might not be reported with as much precision
anymore, but the error message was already meaningless. During the tests,
no situation was found where a message became less precise.
Since it's possible for the checks to use a different protocol or transport layer
than the prod traffic, we need to have them referenced in the server. The
SSL checks are not enabled yet, but the transport layers are completely used.
Till now the request was made in the trash and sent to the network at
once, and the response was read into a preallocated char[]. Now we
allocate a full buffer for both the request and the response, and make
use of it.
Some of the operations will probably be replaced later with buffer macros
but the point was to ensure we could migrate to use the data layers soon.
One nice improvement caused by this change is that requests are now formed
at the beginning of the check and may safely be sent in multiple chunks if
needed.
The health checks in the servers are becoming a real mess, move them
into their own subsection. We'll soon need to have a struct buffer to
replace the char * as well as check-specific protocol and transport
layers.
This is a first step, we now use the connection layer without the data
layers (send/recv are still used by hand). The connection is established
using tcp_connect_server() and raw_sock is assumed and forced for now.
fdtab is not manipulated anymore and polling is managed via the connection
layer.
It becomes quite clear that the server needs a second ->ctrl and ->xprt
dedicated to the checks.
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.
Since recent changes on the global frontend, it was not possible anymore
to soft-reload a process which had a stats socket because the socket would
not be disabled upon reload. The only solution to this endless madness is
to have the global frontend part of normal proxies.
Since we don't want to get an ID that shifts all other proxies and causes
trouble in deployed environments, we assign it ID #0 which other proxies
can't grab, and we don't report it in the stats pages.
Each proxy contains a reference to the original config file and line
number where it was declared. The pointer used is just a reference to
the one passed to the function instead of being duplicated. The effect
is that it is not valid anymore at the end of the parsing and that all
proxies will be enumerated as coming from the same file on some late
configuration errors. This may happen for exmaple when reporting SSL
certificate issues.
By copying using strdup(), we avoid this issue.
1.4 has the same issue, though no report of the proxy file name is done
out of the config section. Anyway a backport is recommended to ease
post-mortem analysis.
This allows to easily add/remove "bind" entries to a frontend without
being forced to remove it when the last entry is temporarily removed.
While "disabled" may sometimes work in a frontend, it becomes trickier
on "listen" sections which can also hold servers and be referenced by
other frontends.
Note that a "listen" section with no "bind" is equivalent to a "backend"
section.
Configs without any listeners are still reported as invalid and refuse
to load.
This is because "notlsv1" used to disable TLSv1.0 only and had no effect
on v1.1/v1.2. so better have an option for each version. This applies both
to "bind" and "server" statements.
We don't needa to lock the memory when there is a single process. This can
make a difference on small systems where locking is much more expensive than
just a test.
Add keyword 'verify' on bind:
'verify none': authentication disabled (default)
'verify optional': accept connection without certificate
and process a verify if the client sent a certificate
'verify required': reject connection without certificate
and process a verify if the client send a certificate
Add keyword 'cafile' on bind:
'cafile <path>' path to a client CA file used to verify.
'crlfile <path>' path to a client CRL file used to verify.
