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Aurelien DARRAGON 75e480d107 MEDIUM: stats: avoid 1 indirection by storing the shared stats directly in counters struct
Between 3.2 and 3.3-dev we noticed a noticeable performance regression
due to stats handling. After bisecting, Willy found out that recent
work to split stats computing accross multiple thread groups (stats
sharding) was responsible for that performance regression. We're looking
at roughly 20% performance loss.

More precisely, it is the added indirections, multiplied by the number
of statistics that are updated for each request, which in the end causes
a significant amount of time being spent resolving pointers.

We noticed that the fe_counters_shared and be_counters_shared structures
which are currently allocated in dedicated memory since a0dcab5c
("MAJOR: counters: add shared counters base infrastructure")
are no longer huge since 16eb0fab31 ("MAJOR: counters: dispatch counters
over thread groups") because they now essentially hold flags plus the
per-thread group id pointer mapping, not the counters themselves.

As such we decided to try merging fe_counters_shared and
be_counters_shared in their parent structures. The cost is slight memory
overhead for the parent structure, but it allows to get rid of one
pointer indirection. This patch alone yields visible performance gains
and almost restores 3.2 stats performance.

counters_fe_shared_get() was renamed to counters_fe_shared_prepare() and
now returns either failure or success instead of a pointer because we
don't need to retrieve a shared pointer anymore, the function takes care
of initializing existing pointer.
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VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev3 2025-07-11 16:45:50 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev3 2025-07-11 16:45:50 +02:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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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:

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.