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Since commit 864ac3117 ("OPTIM: stick-tables: check the stksess without
taking the read lock"), when entries for a local table are learned from
another peer upon resynchro, and this is the only peer haproxy speaks to,
local updates on such entries are not advertised to the peer anymore,
until they eventually expire and can be recreated upon local updates.
This is due to the fact that ts->seen is always set to 0 when creating
new entry, and also when touch_remote is performed on the entry.
Indeed, while 864ac3117 attempts to avoid useless updates, it didn't
consider entries learned from a remote peer. Such entries are exclusively
learned in peer_treat_updatemsg(): once the entry is created (or updated)
with new data, touch_remote is used to commit the change. However, unlike
touch_local, entries committed using touch_remote will not be advertised
to the peer from which the entry was just learned (otherwise we would
enter a looping situation). Due to the above patch, once an entry is
learned from the (unique) remote peer, 'seen' will be stuck to 0 so it
will never be advertised for its whole lifetime.
Instead, when entries are learned from a peer, we should consider that
the peer that taught us the entry has seen it.
To do this, let's set seen=1 in peer_treat_updatemsg() after calling
touch_remote(). This way, if we happen to perform updates on this entry,
it will be properly advertized to relevant peers. This patch should not
affect the performance gain documented in 864ac3117 given that the test
scenario didn't involved entries learned by remote peers, but solely
locally created entries advertised to remote peers upon updates.
This should be backported in 3.0 with 864ac3117.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.