Since our locks are based on progressive locks, we support the upgradable
seek lock that is compatible with readers and upgradable to a write lock.
The main purpose is to take it while seeking down a tree for modification
while other threads may seek the same tree for an input (e.g. compute the
next event date).
The newly supported operations are:
HA_RWLOCK_SKLOCK(lbl,l) pl_take_s(l) /* N --> S */
HA_RWLOCK_SKTOWR(lbl,l) pl_stow(l) /* S --> W */
HA_RWLOCK_WRTOSK(lbl,l) pl_wtos(l) /* W --> S */
HA_RWLOCK_SKTORD(lbl,l) pl_stor(l) /* S --> R */
HA_RWLOCK_WRTORD(lbl,l) pl_wtor(l) /* W --> R */
HA_RWLOCK_SKUNLOCK(lbl,l) pl_drop_s(l) /* S --> N */
HA_RWLOCK_TRYSKLOCK(lbl,l) (!pl_try_s(l)) /* N -?> S */
HA_RWLOCK_TRYRDTOSK(lbl,l) (!pl_try_rtos(l)) /* R -?> S */
Existing code paths are left unaffected so this patch doesn't affect
any running code.
We currently use only read and write lock operations with rwlocks, but
ours also support upgradable seek locks for which we do not report any
stats. Let's add them now when DEBUG_THREAD is enabled.
We don't need to specify the handler anymore since it's set in the
receiver. Let's remove this argument from the function and clean up
the remains of code that were still setting it.
Now we define a new sock_accept_iocb() for socket-based stream protocols
and use it as a wrapper for listener_accept() which now takes a listener
and not an FD anymore. This will allow the receiver's I/O cb to be
redefined during registration, and more specifically to get rid of the
hard-coded hacks in protocol_bind_all() made for syslog.
The previous ->accept() callback in the protocol was removed since it
doesn't have anything to do with accept() anymore but is more generic.
A few places where listener_accept() was compared against the FD's IO
callback for debugging purposes on the CLI were updated.
For now we're still using the protocol's default accept() function as
the I/O callback registered by the receiver into the poller. While
this is usable for most TCP connections where a listener is needed,
this is not suitable for UDP where a different handler is needed.
Let's make this configurable in the receiver just like the upper layer
is configurable for listeners. In order to ease stream protocols
handling, the protocols will now provide a default I/O callback
which will be preset into the receivers upon allocation so that
almost none of them has to deal with it.
The socket-specific accept() code in listener_accept() has nothing to
do there. Let's move it to sock.c where it can be significantly cleaned
up. It will now directly return an accepted connection and provide a
status code instead of letting listener_accept() deal with various errno
values. Note that this doesn't support the sockpair specific code.
The function is now responsible for dealing with its own receiver's
polling state and calling fd_cant_recv() when facing EAGAIN.
One tiny change from the previous implementation is that the connection's
sockaddr is now allocated before trying accept(), which saves a memcpy()
of the resulting address for each accept at the expense of a cheap
pool_alloc/pool_free on the final accept returning EAGAIN. This still
apparently slightly improves accept performance in microbencharks.
This per-protocol function will be used to accept an incoming
connection and return it as a struct connection*. As such the protocol
stack's internal representation of a connection will not need to be
handled by the listener code.
This call was introduced by commit 5ced3e887 ("MINOR: sock: add
sock_accept_conn() to test a listening socket") but is actually quite
confusing because it makes one think the socket will accept a connection
(which is what we want to have in a new function) while it only tells
whether it's configured to accept connections. Let's call it
sock_accepting_conn() instead.
The same change was applied to sockpair which had the same issue.
accept_conn() will be used to accept an incoming connection and return it.
It will have to deal with various error codes. The currently identified
ones were created as CO_AC_*.
Till now we would keep a per-thread queue of pending incoming connections
for which we would store:
- the listener
- the accepted FD
- the source address
- the source address' length
And these elements were first used in session_accept_fd() running on the
target thread to allocate a connection and duplicate them again. Doing
this induces various problems. The first one is that session_accept_fd()
may only run on file descriptors and cannot be reused for QUIC. The second
issue is that it induces lots of memory copies and that the listerner
queue thrashes a lot of cache, consuming 64 bytes per entry.
This patch changes this by allocating the connection before queueing it,
and by only placing the connection's pointer into the queue. Indeed, the
first two calls used to initialize the connection already store all the
information above, which can be retrieved from the connection pointer
alone. So we just have to pop one pointer from the target thread, and
pass it to session_accept_fd() which only needs the FD for the final
settings.
This starts to make the accept path a bit more transport-agnostic, and
saves memory and CPU cycles at the same time (1% connection rate increase
was noticed with 4 threads). Thanks to dividing the accept-queue entry
size from 64 to 8 bytes, its size could be increased from 256 to 1024
connections while still dividing the overall size by two. No single
queue full condition was met.
One minor drawback is that connection may be allocated from one thread's
pool to be used into another one. But this already happens a lot with
connection reuse so there is really nothing new here.
Roughly half of the calls to sockadr_alloc() are made to copy an already
known address. Let's optionally pass it in argument so that the function
can handle the copy at the same time, this slightly simplifies its usage.
fd_done_recv() used to be useful with the FD cache because it used to
allow to keep a file descriptor active in the poller without being
marked as ready in the cache, saving it from ringing immediately,
without incurring any system call. It was a way to make it yield
to wait for new events leaving a bit of time for others. The only
user left was the connection accepter (listen_accept()). We used
to suspect that with the FD cache removal it had become totally
useless since changing its readiness or not wouldn't change its
status regarding the poller itself, which would be the only one
deciding to report it again.
Careful tests showed that it indeed has exactly zero effect nowadays,
the syscall numbers are exactly the same with and without, including
when enabling edge-triggered polling.
Given that there's no more API available to manipulate it and that it
was directly called as an optimization from listener_accept(), it's
about time to remove it.
No protocol defines it anymore. The last user used to be the monitor-net
stuff that got partially broken already when the tcp_drain() function
moved to conn_sock_drain() with commit e215bba95 ("MINOR: connection:
make conn_sock_drain() work for all socket families") in 1.9-dev2.
A part of this will surely move back later when non-socket connections
arrive with QUIC but better keep the API clean and implement what's
needed in time instead.
As discussed here during 2.1-dev, "monitor-net" is totally obsolete:
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg35204.html
It's fundamentally incompatible with usage of SSL, and imposes the
presence of file descriptors with hard-coded syscalls directly in the
generic accept path.
It's very unlikely that anyone has used it in the last 10 years for
anything beyond testing. In the worst case if anyone would depend
on it, replacing it with "http-request return status 200 if ..." and
"mode http" would certainly do the trick.
The keyword is still detected as special by the config parser to help
users update their configurations appropriately.
As discussed here during 2.1-dev, "mode health" is totally obsolete:
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg35204.html
It's fundamentally incompatible with usage of SSL, doesn't support
source filtering, and imposes the presence of file descriptors with
hard-coded syscalls directly in the generic accept path.
It's very unlikely that anyone has used it in the last 10 years for
anything beyond testing. In the worst case if anyone would depend
on it, replacing it with "http-request return status 200" and "mode
http" would certainly do the trick.
The keyword is still detected as special by the config parser to help
users update their configurations appropriately.
Do not check CO_FL_PRIVATE flag to check if the connection is in session
list on conn_free. This is necessary due to the future patches which add
server connections in the session list even if not private, if the mux
protocol is the subject of HOL blocking.
On server connection migration from one thread to another, the wrong
idle thread-specific counter is decremented. This bug was introduced
since commit 3d52f0f1f8 due to the
factorization with srv_use_idle_conn. However, this statement is only
executed from conn_backend_get. Extract the decrement from
srv_use_idle_conn in conn_backend_get and use the correct
thread-specific counter.
Rename the function to srv_use_conn to better reflect its purpose as it
is also used with a newly initialized connection not in the idle list.
As a side change, the connection insertion to available list has also
been extracted to conn_backend_get. This will be useful to be able to
specify an alternative list for protocol subject to HOL risk that should
not be shared between several clients.
This bug is only present in this release and thus do not need a backport.
Now we introdce a new .rx_listening() function to report if a receiver is
actually a listening socket. The reason for this is to help detect shared
sockets that might have been broken by sibling processes.
At several places we need to check if a socket is still valid and still
willing to accept connections. Instead of open-coding this, each time,
let's add a new function for this.
This patch adds "coll" new counter and the heartbeat timer values to "show peers"
command. It also adds the elapsed time since the last handshake to new "last_hdshk"
new peer dump field.
Now we have ->suspend() and ->resume() for listeners at the protocol
level. This means that it now becomes possible for a protocol to redefine
its own way to suspend and resume. The default functions are provided for
TCP, UDP and unix, and they are pass-through to the receiver equivalent
as it used to be till now. Nothing was defined for sockpair since it does
not need to suspend/resume during reloads, hence it will succeed.
The inner part now goes into the protocol and is used to decide how to
unbind a given protocol's listener. The existing code which is able to
also unbind the receiver was provided as a default function that we
currently use everywhere. Some complex listeners like QUIC will use this
to decide how to unbind without impacting existing connections, possibly
by setting up other incoming paths for the traffic.
This is used as a generic way to unbind a receiver at the end of
do_unbind_listener(). This allows to considerably simplify that function
since we can now let the protocol perform the cleanup. The generic code
was moved to sock.c, along with the conditional rx_disable() call. Now
the code also supports that the ->disable() function of the protocol
which acts on the listener performs the close itself and adjusts the
RX_F_BUOND flag accordingly.
This listener flag indicates whether the receiver part of the listener
is specific to the master or to the workers. In practice it's only used
by the master's CLI right now. It's used to know whether or not the FD
must be closed before forking the workers. For this reason it's way more
of a receiver's property than a listener's property, so let's move it
there under the name RX_F_MWORKER. The rest of the code remains
unchanged.
And also remove it from its callers. This subtle distinction was added as
sort of a hack for the seamless reload feature but is not needed anymore
since the do_close turned unused since commit previous commit ("MEDIUM:
listener: let do_unbind_listener() decide whether to close or not").
This also removes the unbind_listener_no_close() function.
This will instantly stop all listeners except those which belong to
a proxy configured with a grace time. This means that UDP listeners,
and peers will also be stopped when called this way.
There are multiple ways a proxy may switch to the disabled state,
but now it's essentially once it loses its last listener. Instead
of keeping duplicate code around and reporting the state change
before actually seeing it, we now report it at the moment it's
performed (from the last listener leaving) which allows to remove
the message from all other places.
For now we cannot easily distinguish a peers frontend from another one,
which will be problematic to avoid reporting them when stopping their
listeners. Let's add PR_MODE_PEERS for this. It's not supposed to cause
any issue since all non-HTTP proxies are handled similarly now.
This function will be used to definitely stop a listener (e.g. during a
soft_stop). This is actually tricky because it may be called for a proxy
or for a protocol, both of which require locks and already hold some. The
function takes booleans indicating which ones are already held, hoping
this will be enough. It's not well defined wether proto->disable() and
proto->rx_disable() are supposed to be called with any lock held, and
they are used from do_unbind_listener() with all these locks. Some back
annotations ought to be added on this point.
The proxy's listeners count is updated, and the proxy is marked as
disabled and woken up after the last one is gone. Note that a
listener in listen state is already not attached anymore since it
was disabled.
We'll need an already locked variant of this function so let's make
__delete_listener() which will be called with the protocol lock held
and the listener's lock held.
These methods will be used to enable/disable accepting new connections
so that listeners do not play with FD directly anymore. Since all the
currently supported protocols work on socket for now, these are identical
to the rx_enable/rx_disable functions. However they were not defined in
sock.c since it's likely that some will quickly start to differ. At the
moment they're not used.
We have to take care of fd_updt before calling fd_{want,stop}_recv()
because it's allocated fairly late in the boot process and some such
functions may be called very early (e.g. to stop a disabled frontend's
listeners).
These methods will be used to enable/disable rx at the receiver level so
that callers don't play with FDs directly anymore. All our protocols use
the generic ones from sock.c at the moment. For now they're not used.
These will be used on receivers, to enable or disable receiving on a
listener, which most of the time just consists in enabling/disabling
the file descriptor.
We have to take care of the existence of fd_updt to know if we may
or not call fd_{want,stop}_recv() since it's not permitted in very
early boot.
This one undoes ->rx_suspend(), it tries to restore an operational socket.
It was only implemented for TCP since it's the only one we support right
now.
The ->pause method is inappropriate since it doesn't exactly "pause" a
listener but rather temporarily disables it so that it's not visible at
all to let another process take its place. The term "suspend" is more
suitable, since the "pause" is actually what we'll need to apply to the
FULL and LIMITED states which really need to make a pause in the accept
process. And it goes well with the use of the "resume" function that
will also need to be made per-protocol.
Let's rename the function and make it act on the receiver since it's
already what it essentially does, hence the prefix "_rx" to make it
more explicit.
The protocol struct was a bit reordered because it was becoming a real
mess between the parts related to the listeners and those for the
receivers.
Since the listeners were split into receiver+listener, this field ought
to have been renamed because it's confusing. It really links receivers
and not listeners, as most of the time it's used via rx.proto_list!
The nb_listeners field was updated accordingly.
These ones have never been called, they were referenced by the protocol's
disable_all for some protocols but there are no traces of their use, so
in addition to not being sure the code works, it has never been tested.
Let's remove a bit of complexity starting from there.
These two functions are used to pause and resume all listeners of
all protocols. They use the standard listener functions for this
so they're supposed to handle the situation gracefully regardless
of the upper proxies' states, and they will report completion on
proxies once the switch is performed.
It might be nice to define a particular "failed" state for listeners
that cannot resume and to count them on proxies in order to mention
that they're definitely stuck. On the other hand, the current
situation is retryable which is quite appreciable as well.
The two functions don't need to be distinguished anymore since they have
all the necessary info to act as needed on their listeners. Let's just
pass via stop_proxy() and make it check for each listener which one to
close or not.
Its sole remaining purpose was to display "proxy foo started", which
has little benefit and pollutes output for those with plenty of proxies.
Let's remove it now.
The VTCs were updated to reflect this, because many of them had explicit
counts of dropped lines to match this message.
This is tagged as MEDIUM because some users may be surprized by the
loss of this quite old message.
The remaining proxy states were only used to distinguish an enabled
proxy from a disabled one. Due to the initialization order, both
PR_STNEW and PR_STREADY were equivalent after startup, and they
would only differ from PR_STSTOPPED when the proxy is disabled or
shutdown (which is effectively another way to disable it).
Now we just have a "disabled" field which allows to distinguish them.
It's becoming obvious that start_proxies() is only used to print a
greeting message now, that we'd rather get rid of. Probably that
zombify_proxy() and stop_proxy() should be merged once their
differences move to the right place.
The enabled/disabled config options were stored into a "state" field
that is an integer but contained only PR_STNEW or PR_STSTOPPED, which
is a bit confusing, and causes a dependency with proxies. This was
renamed to "disabled" and is used as a boolean. The field was also
moved to the end of the struct to stop creating a hole and fill another
one.
This state was used to mention that a proxy was in PAUSED state, as opposed
to the READY state. This was causing some trouble because if a listener
failed to resume (e.g. because its port was temporarily in use during the
resume), it was not possible to retry the operation later. Now by checking
the number of READY or PAUSED listeners instead, we can accurately know if
something went bad and try to fix it again later. The case of the temporary
port conflict during resume now works well:
$ socat readline /tmp/sock1
prompt
> disable frontend testme3
> disable frontend testme3
All sockets are already disabled.
> enable frontend testme3
Failed to resume frontend, check logs for precise cause (port conflict?).
> enable frontend testme3
> enable frontend testme3
All sockets are already enabled.
