This patch replaces all advanced data type aliases on
stktable_data_cast calls by standard types.
This way we could call the same stktable_data_cast
regardless of the used advanced data type as long they
are using the same std type.
It also removes all the advanced data type aliases.
It is now possible to set the "nice" factor of the current stream from a
"tcp-request content" or "tcp-response content" ruleset. To do so, the
action parsing is moved in stream.c and the action evaluation is handled in
a dedicated function.
This patch may be backported as far as 2.2 if necessary.
It is now possible to set the stream log level from a "tcp-request content"
or "tcp-response content" ruleset. To do so, the action parsing is moved in
stream.c and the action evaluation is handled in a dedicated function.
This patch should fix issue #1306. It may be backported as far as 2.2 if
necessary.
This basically undoes the API changes that were performed by commit
0274286dd ("BUG/MAJOR: server: fix deadlock when changing maxconn via
agent-check") to address the deadlock issue: since process_srv_queue()
doesn't use the server lock anymore, it doesn't need the "server_locked"
argument, so let's get rid of it before it gets used again.
This reverts commit c83e45e9b0.
The recent changes since 5304669e1 MEDIUM: queue: make
pendconn_process_next_strm() only return the pendconn opened a tiny race
condition between stream_free() and process_srv_queue(), as the pendconn
is accessed outside of the lock, possibly while it's being freed. A
different approach is required.
This basically undoes the API changes that were performed by commit
0274286dd ("BUG/MAJOR: server: fix deadlock when changing maxconn via
agent-check") to address the deadlock issue: since process_srv_queue()
doesn't use the server lock anymore, it doesn't need the "server_locked"
argument, so let's get rid of it before it gets used again.
This essentially reverts commit 2b4370078 ("MINOR: lb/api: let callers
of take_conn/drop_conn tell if they have the lock") that was merged
during 2.4 before the various locks could be eliminated at the lower
layers. Passing that information complicates the cleanup of the queuing
code and it's become useless.
The server_parse_maxconn_change_request locks the server lock. However,
this function can be called via agent-checks or lua code which already
lock it. This bug has been introduced by the following commit :
commit 79a88ba3d0
BUG/MAJOR: server: prevent deadlock when using 'set maxconn server'
This commit tried to fix another deadlock with can occur because
previoulsy server_parse_maxconn_change_request requires the server lock
to be held. However, it may call internally process_srv_queue which also
locks the server lock. The locking policy has thus been updated. The fix
is functional for the CLI 'set maxconn' but fails to address the
agent-check / lua counterparts.
This new issue is fixed in two steps :
- changes from the above commit have been reverted. This means that
server_parse_maxconn_change_request must again be called with the
server lock.
- to counter the deadlock fixed by the above commit, process_srv_queue
now takes an argument to render the server locking optional if the
caller already held it. This is only used by
server_parse_maxconn_change_request.
The above commit was subject to backport up to 1.8. Thus this commit
must be backported in every release where it is already present.
This reverts commit 5b82cc5b5c. The purpose of
this commit was to fully handle L7 retries in HTTP analysers and stop to
deal with the L7 buffer in si_cs_send()/si_cs_recv(). It is of course
cleaner this way. But there is a huge drawback. The L7 buffer is reserved
from the time the request analysis is finished until the moment the response
is received. For a small request, the analysis is finished before the
connection to the server. Thus for the L7 buffer will be kept for queued
sessions while it is not mandatory.
So, for now, the commit is reverted to go back to the less expensive
solution. This patch must be backported to 2.4.
There were 102 CLI commands whose help were zig-zagging all along the dump
making them unreadable. This patch realigns all these messages so that the
command now uses up to 40 characters before the delimiting colon. About a
third of the commands did not correctly list their arguments which were
added after the first version, so they were all updated. Some abuses of
the term "id" were fixed to use a more explanatory term. The
"set ssl ocsp-response" command was not listed because it lacked a help
message, this was fixed as well. The deprecated enable/disable commands
for agent/health/server were prominently written as deprecated. Whenever
possible, clearer explanations were provided.
The current "ADD" vs "ADDQ" is confusing because when thinking in terms
of appending at the end of a list, "ADD" naturally comes to mind, but
here it does the opposite, it inserts. Several times already it's been
incorrectly used where ADDQ was expected, the latest of which was a
fortunate accident explained in 6fa922562 ("CLEANUP: stream: explain
why we queue the stream at the head of the server list").
Let's use more explicit (but slightly longer) names now:
LIST_ADD -> LIST_INSERT
LIST_ADDQ -> LIST_APPEND
LIST_ADDED -> LIST_INLIST
LIST_DEL -> LIST_DELETE
The same is true for MT_LISTs, including their "TRY" variant.
LIST_DEL_INIT keeps its short name to encourage to use it instead of the
lazier LIST_DELETE which is often less safe.
The change is large (~674 non-comment entries) but is mechanical enough
to remain safe. No permutation was performed, so any out-of-tree code
can easily map older names to new ones.
The list doc was updated.
Both structures are identical except the name of the field starting
the period and its description. Let's call them all freq_ctr and the
period's start "curr_tick" which is generic.
This is only a temporary change and fields are expected to remain
the same with no code change (verified).
This patch replaces roughly all occurrences of an HA_ATOMIC_ADD(&foo, 1)
or HA_ATOMIC_SUB(&foo, 1) with the equivalent HA_ATOMIC_INC(&foo) and
HA_ATOMIC_DEC(&foo) respectively. These are 507 changes over 45 files.
The fetch_and_xxx variant is often missing for add/sub/and/or. In fact
it was only provided for ADD under the name XADD which corresponds to
the x86 instruction name. But for destructive operations like AND and
OR it's missing even more as it's not possible to know the value before
modifying it.
This patch explicitly adds HA_ATOMIC_FETCH_{OR,AND,ADD,SUB} which
cover these standard operations, and renames XADD to FETCH_ADD (there
were only 6 call places).
In the future, backport of fixes involving such operations could simply
remap FETCH_ADD(x) to XADD(x), FETCH_SUB(x) to XADD(-x), and for the
OR/AND if needed, these could possibly be done using BTS/BTR.
It's worth noting that xchg could have been renamed to fetch_and_store()
but xchg already has well understood semantics and it wasn't needed to
go further.
It is now possible to perform HTTP upgrades on a TCP stream from the
frontend side. To do so, a tcp-request content rule must be defined with the
switch-mode action, specifying the mode (for now, only http is supported)
and optionnaly the proto (h1 or h2).
This way it could be possible to set HTTP directives on a TCP frontend which
will only be evaluated if an upgrade is performed. This new way to perform
HTTP upgrades should replace progressively the old way, consisting to route
the request to an HTTP backend. And it should be also a good start to remove
all HTTP processing from tcp-request content rules.
This action is terminal, it stops the ruleset evaluation. It is only
available on proxy with the frontend capability.
The configuration manual has been updated accordingly.
The code responsible to perform an HTTP upgrade from a TCP stream is moved
in a dedicated function, stream_set_http_mode().
The stream_set_backend() function is slightly updated, especially to
correctly set the request analysers.
Now allocation and initialization of HTTP transactions are performed in a
unique function. Historically, there were two functions because the same TXN
was reset for K/A connections in the legacy HTTP mode. Now, in HTX, K/A
connections are handled at the mux level. A new stream, and thus a new TXN,
is created for each request. In addition, the function responsible to end
the TXN is now also reponsible to release it.
So, now, http_create_txn() and http_destroy_txn() must be used to create and
destroy an HTTP transaction.
It is just a small cleanup. AN_REQ_FLT_HTTP_HDRS and AN_RES_FLT_HTTP_HDRS
analysers are now set in HTTP analysers at the same place
AN_REQ_HTTP_XFER_BODY and AN_RES_HTTP_XFER_BODY are set.
We now use the stream instead of the proxy to know if we are processing HTTP
data or not. If the stream is an HTX stream, it means we are dealing with
HTTP data. It is more accurate than the proxy mode because when an HTTP
upgrade is performed, the proxy is not changed and only the stream may be
used.
Note that it was not a problem to rely on the proxy because HTTP upgrades
may only happen when an HTTP backend was set. But, we will add the support
of HTTP upgrades on the frontend side, after te tcp-request rules
evaluation. In this context, we cannot rely on the proxy mode.
Always set frontend HTTP analysers when an HTX stream is created. It is only
useful in case a destructive HTTP upgrades (TCP>H2) because the frontend is
a TCP proxy.
In fact, to be strict, we must only set these analysers when the upgrade is
performed before setting the backend (it is not supported yet, but this
patch is required to do so), in the frontend part. If the upgrade happens
when the backend is set, it means the HTTP processing is just the backend
buisness. But there is no way to make the difference when a stream is
created, at least for now.
When a TCP stream is upgraded to H2 stream, a destructive upgrade is
performed. It means the TCP stream is silently released while a new one is
created. It is of course more complicated but it is what we observe from the
stream point of view.
That was performed by returning an error when the backend was set. It is
neither really elegant nor accurate. So now, instead of returning an error
from stream_set_backend() in case of destructive HTTP upgrades, the TCP
stream processing is aborted and no error is reported. However, the result
is more or less the same.
The function's purpose used to be to fail a buffer allocation if that
allocation wouldn't result in leaving some buffers available. Thus,
some allocations could succeed and others fail for the sole purpose of
trying to provide 2 buffers at once to process_stream(). But things
have changed a lot with 1.7 breaking the promise that process_stream()
would always succeed with only two buffers, and later the thread-local
pool caches that keep certain buffers available that are not accounted
for in the global pool so that local allocators cannot guess anything
from the number of currently available pools.
Let's just replace all last uses of b_alloc_margin() with b_alloc() once
for all.
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
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'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.
Using abort() occasionally results in unexploitable core due to issues
rewinding the stack. Let's use ABORT_NOW() which in addition to crashing
much closer to the call point also has the benefit of showing the call
trace.
This makes the code more readable and less prone to copy-paste errors.
In addition, it allows to place some __builtin_constant_p() predicates
to trigger a link-time error in case the compiler knows that the freed
area is constant. It will also produce compile-time error if trying to
free something that is not a regular pointer (e.g. a function).
The DEBUG_MEM_STATS macro now also defines an instance for ha_free()
so that all these calls can be checked.
178 occurrences were converted. The vast majority of them were handled
by the following Coccinelle script, some slightly refined to better deal
with "&*x" or with long lines:
@ rule @
expression E;
@@
- free(E);
- E = NULL;
+ ha_free(&E);
It was verified that the resulting code is the same, more or less a
handful of cases where the compiler optimized slightly differently
the temporary variable that holds the copy of the pointer.
A non-negligible amount of {free(str);str=NULL;str_len=0;} are still
present in the config part (mostly header names in proxies). These
ones should also be cleaned for the same reasons, and probably be
turned into ist strings.
The lock was still used exclusively to deal with the concurrency between
the "show sess" release handler and a stream_new() or stream_free() on
another thread. All other accesses made by "show sess" are already done
under thread isolation. The release handler only requires to unlink its
node when stopping in the middle of a dump (error, timeout etc). Let's
just isolate the thread to deal with this case so that it's compatible
with the dump conditions, and remove all remaining locking on the streams.
This effectively kills the streams lock. The measured gain here is around
1.6% with 4 threads (374krps -> 380k).
The global streams list is exclusively used for "show sess", to look up
a stream to shut down, and for the hard-stop. Having all of them in a
single list is extremely expensive in terms of locking when using threads,
with performance losses as high as 7% having been observed just due to
this.
This patch makes the list per-thread, since there's no need to have a
global one in this situation. All call places just iterate over all
threads. The most "invasive" changes was in "show sess" where the end
of list needs to go back to the beginning of next thread's list until
the last thread is seen. For now the lock was maintained to keep the
code auditable but a next commit should get rid of it.
The observed performance gain here with only 4 threads is already 7%
(350krps -> 374krps).
Instead of placing the current stream at the end of the stream list when
issuing a "show sess" on the CLI as was done in 2.2 with commit c6e7a1b8e
("MINOR: cli: make "show sess" stop at the last known session"), now we
compare the listed stream's epoch with the dumping stream's and stop on
more recent ones.
This way we're certain to always only dump known streams at the moment we
issue the dump command without having to modify the list. In theory we
could miss some streams if more than 2^31 "show sess" requests are issued
while an old stream remains present, but that's 68 years at 1 "show sess"
per second and it's unlikely we'll keep a process, let alone a stream, that
long.
It could be verified that the count of dumped streams still matches the
one before this change.
The "show sess" CLI command currently lists all streams and needs to
stop at a given position to avoid dumping forever. Since 2.2 with
commit c6e7a1b8e ("MINOR: cli: make "show sess" stop at the last known
session"), a hack consists in unlinking the stream running the applet
and linking it again at the current end of the list, in order to serve
as a delimiter. But this forces the stream list to be global, which
affects scalability.
This patch introduces an epoch, which is a global 32-bit counter that
is incremented by the "show sess" command, and which is copied by newly
created streams. This way any stream can know whether any other one is
newer or older than itself.
For now it's only stored and not exploited.
There's no locking around the lookup of a stream nor its shutdown
when issuing "shutdown sessions" over the CLI so the risk of crashing
the process is particularly high.
Let's use a thread_isolate() there which is suitable for this task, and
there are not that many alternatives.
This must be backported to 1.8.
Historically this function would try to wake the most accurate number of
process_stream() waiters. But since the introduction of filters which could
also require buffers (e.g. for compression), things started not to be as
accurate anymore. Nowadays muxes and transport layers also use buffers, so
the runqueue size has nothing to do anymore with the number of supposed
users to come.
In addition to this, the threshold was compared to the number of free buffer
calculated as allocated minus used, but this didn't work anymore with local
pools since these counts are not updated upon alloc/free!
Let's clean this up and pass the number of released buffers instead, and
consider that each waiter successfully called counts as one buffer. This
is not rocket science and will not suddenly fix everything, but at least
it cannot be as wrong as it is today.
This could have been marked as a bug given that the current situation is
totally broken regarding this, but this probably doesn't completely fix
it, it only goes in a better direction. It is possible however that it
makes sense in the future to backport this as part of a larger series if
the situation significantly improves.
The buffer wait queue used to be global historically but this doest not
make any sense anymore given that the most common use case is to have
thread-local pools. Thus there's no point waking up waiters of other
threads after releasing an entry, as they won't benefit from it.
Let's move the queue head to the thread_info structure and use
ti->buffer_wq from now on.
The two algos defining these functions (first and leastconn) do not need the
server's lock. However it's already present in pendconn_process_next_strm()
so the API must be updated so that the functions may take it if needed and
that the callers indicate whether they already own it.
As such, the call places (backend.c and stream.c) now do not take it
anymore, queue.c was unchanged since it's already held, and both "first"
and "leastconn" were updated to take it if not already held.
A quick test on the "first" algo showed a jump from 432 to 565k rps by
just dropping the lock in stream.c!
The remaining contention on the server lock solely comes from
sess_change_server() which takes the lock to add and remove a
stream from the server's actconn list. This is both expensive
and pointless since we have mt-lists, and this list is only
used by the CLI's "shutdown server sessions" command!
Let's migrate to an mt-list and remove the need for this costly
lock. By doing so, the request rate increased by ~1.8%.
This patch splits current dns.c into two files:
The first dns.c contains code related to DNS message exchange over UDP
and in future other TCP. We try to remove depencies to resolving
to make it usable by other stuff as DNS load balancing.
The new resolvers.c inherit of the code specific to the actual
resolvers.
Note:
It was really difficult to obtain a clean diff dur to the amount
of moved code.
Note2:
Counters and stuff related to stats is not cleany separated because
currently counters for both layers are merged and hard to separate
for now.
The code dealing with the copy of requests in the L7-buffer and the
retransmits during L7 retries has been moved in the HTTP analysers. The copy
is now performed in the REQ_HTTP_XFER_BODY analyser and the L7 retries is
performed in the RES_WAIT_HTTP analyser. This way, si_cs_recv() and
si_cs_send() don't care of it anymore. It is much more natural to deal with
L7 retry in HTTP analysers.
TCP to H1 upgrades are buggy for now. When such upgrade is performed, a
crash is experienced. The bug is the result of the recent H1 mux
refactoring, and more specifically because of the commit c4bfa59f1 ("MAJOR:
mux-h1: Create the client stream as later as possible"). Indeed, now the H1
mux is responsible to create the frontend conn-stream once the request
headers are fully received. Thus the TCP to H1 upgrade is a problem because
the frontend conn-stream already exists.
To fix the bug, we must keep this conn-stream and the associate stream and
use it in the H1 mux. To do so, the upgrade will be performed in two
steps. First, the mux is upgraded from mux-pt to mux-h1. Then, the mux-h1
performs the stream upgrade, once the request headers are fully received and
parsed. To do so, stream_upgrade_from_cs() must be used. This function set
the SF_HTX flags to switch the stream to HTX mode, it removes the SF_IGNORE
flags and eventually it fills the request channel with some input data.
This patch is required to fix the TCP to H1 upgrades and is intimately
linked with the next commits.
When a TCP to H2 upgrade is performed, the SF_IGNORE flag is set on the
stream before killing it. This happens when a TCP/SSL client connection is
routed to a HTTP backend and the h2 alpn detected. The SF_IGNORE flag was
added for this purpose, to skip some processing when the stream is aborted
before a mux upgrade. Some counters updates were skipped this way. But some
others are still updated.
Now, all counters update at the end of process_stream(), before releasing
the stream, are ignored if SF_IGNORE flag is set. Note this stream is
aborted because we switch from a mono-stream to a multi-stream
multiplexer. It works differently for TCP to H1 upgrades.
This patch should be backported as far as 2.0 after some observation period.
I was looking at writing a simple first test for prometheus but I
realised there is no proper way to exclude it if haproxy was not built
with prometheus plugin.
Today we have `REQUIRE_OPTIONS` in reg-tests which is based on `Feature
list` from `haproxy -vv`. Those options are coming from the Makefile
itself.
A plugin is build this way:
EXTRA_OBJS="contrib/prometheus-exporter/service-prometheus.o"
It does register service actions through `service_keywords_register`.
Those are listed through `list_services` in `haproxy -vv`.
To facilitate parsing, I slightly changed the output to a single line
and integrate it in regtests shell script so that we can now specify a
dependency while writing a reg-test for prometheus, e.g:
#REQUIRE_SERVICE=prometheus-exporter
#REQUIRE_SERVICES=prometheus-exporter,foo
There might be other ways to handle this, but that's the cleanest I
found; I understand people might be concerned by this output change in
`haproxy -vv` which goes from:
Available services :
foo
bar
to:
Available services : foo bar
Signed-off-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
This allows using the address of the server rather than the name of the
server for keeping track of servers in a backend for stickiness.
The peers code was also extended to support feeding the dictionary using
this key instead of the name.
Fixes#814
Add cur_server_timeout and cur_tunnel_timeout.
These sample fetches return the current timeout value for a stream. This
is useful to retrieve the value of a timeout which was changed via a
set-timeout rule.
