All the references to connections in the data path from streams and
stream_interfaces were changed to use conn_streams. Most functions named
"something_conn" were renamed to "something_cs" for this. Sometimes the
connection still is what matters (eg during a connection establishment)
and were not always renamed. The change is significant and minimal at the
same time, and was quite thoroughly tested now. As of this patch, all
accesses to the connection from upper layers go through the pass-through
mux.
The stick table API was slightly reworked:
A global spin lock on stick table was added to perform lookup and
insert in a thread safe way. The handling of refcount on entries
is now handled directly by stick tables functions under protection
of this lock and was removed from the code of callers.
The "stktable_store" function is no more externalized and users should
now use "stktable_set_entry" in any case of insertion. This last one performs
a lookup followed by a store if not found. So the code using "stktable_store"
was re-worked.
Lookup, and set_entry functions automatically increase the refcount
of the returned/stored entry.
The function "sticktable_touch" was renamed "sticktable_touch_local"
and is now able to decrease the refcount if last arg is set to true. It
is allowing to release the entry without taking the lock twice.
A new function "sticktable_touch_remote" is now used to insert
entries coming from remote peers at the right place in the update tree.
The code of peer update was re-worked to use this new function.
This function is also able to decrease the refcount if wanted.
The function "stksess_kill" also handle a parameter to decrease
the refcount on the entry.
A read/write lock is added on each entry to protect the data content
updates of the entry.
Currently a task is allocated in session_new() and serves two purposes :
- either the handshake is complete and it is offered to the stream via
the second arg of stream_new()
- or the handshake is not complete and it's diverted to be used as a
timeout handler for the embryonic session and repurposed once we land
into conn_complete_session()
Furthermore, the task's process() function was taken from the listener's
handler in conn_complete_session() prior to being replaced by a call to
stream_new(). This will become a serious mess with the mux.
Since it's impossible to have a stream without a task, this patch removes
the second arg from stream_new() and make this function allocate its own
task. In session_accept_fd(), we now only allocate the task if needed for
the embryonic session and delete it later.
Under certain circumstances, if a stream's task is first woken up
(eg: I/O event) then notified of the availability of a buffer it
was waiting for via stream_res_wakeup(), this second event is lost
because the flags are only merged after seeing that the task is
running. At the moment it seems that the TASK_WOKEN_RES event is
not explicitly checked for, but better fix this before getting
reports of lost events.
This fix removes this "task running" test which is properly
performed in task_wakeup(), while the flags are properly merged.
It must be backported to 1.7 and 1.6.
When an entity tries to get a buffer, if it cannot be allocted, for example
because the number of buffers which may be allocated per process is limited,
this entity is added in a list (called <buffer_wq>) and wait for an available
buffer.
Historically, the <buffer_wq> list was logically attached to streams because it
were the only entities likely to be added in it. Now, applets can also be
waiting for a free buffer. And with filters, we could imagine to have more other
entities waiting for a buffer. So it make sense to have a generic list.
Anyway, with the current design there is a bug. When an applet failed to get a
buffer, it will wait. But we add the stream attached to the applet in
<buffer_wq>, instead of the applet itself. So when a buffer is available, we
wake up the stream and not the waiting applet. So, it is possible to have
waiting applets and never awakened.
So, now, <buffer_wq> is independant from streams. And we really add the waiting
entity in <buffer_wq>. To be generic, the entity is responsible to define the
callback used to awaken it.
In addition, applets will still request an input buffer when they become
active. But they will not be sleeped anymore if no buffer are available. So this
is the responsibility to the applet I/O handler to check if this buffer is
allocated or not. This way, an applet can decide if this buffer is required or
not and can do additional processing if not.
[wt: backport to 1.7 and 1.6]
<run_queue> is used to track the number of task in the run queue and
<run_queue_cur> is a copy used for the reporting purpose. These counters has
been renamed, respectively, <tasks_run_queue> and <tasks_run_queue_cur>. So the
naming is consistent between tasks and applets.
[wt: needed for next fixes, backport to 1.7 and 1.6]
Historically we used to have the stick counters processing put into
session.c which became stream.c. But a big part of it is now in
stick-table.c (eg: converters) but despite this we still have all
the sample fetch functions in stream.c
These parts do not depend on the stream anymore, so let's move the
remaining chunks to stick-table.c and have cleaner files.
What remains in stream.c is everything needed to attach/detach
trackers to the stream and to update the counters while the stream
is being processed.
This new target can be called from the frontend or the backend. It
is evaluated just before the backend choice and just before the server
choice. So, the input stream or HTTP request can be forwarded to a
server or to an internal service.
Mailing list participant "mlist" reported negative conn_cur values in
stick tables as the result of "tcp-request connection track-sc". The
reason is that after the stick entry it copied from the session to the
stream, both the session and the stream grab a reference to the entry
and when the stream ends, it decrements one reference and one connection,
then the same is done for the session.
In fact this problem was already encountered slightly differently in the
past and addressed by Thierry using the patch below as it was believed by
then to be only a refcount issue since it was the observable symptom :
827752e "BUG/MEDIUM: stick-tables: refcount error after copying SC..."
In reality the problem is that the stream must touch neither the refcount
nor the connection count for entries it inherits from the session. While
we have no way to tell whether a track entry was inherited from the session
(since they're simply memcpy'd), it is possible to prevent the stream from
touching an entry that already exists in the session because that's a
guarantee that it was inherited from it.
Note that it may be a temporary fix. Maybe in the future when a session
gives birth to multiple streams we'll face a situation where a session may
be updated to add more tracked entries after instanciating some streams.
The correct long-term fix is to mark some tracked entries as shared or
private (or RO/RW). That will allow the session to track more entries
even after the same trackers are being used by early streams.
No backport is needed, this is only caused by the session/stream split in 1.6.
We don't pass sess->origin anymore but the pointer to the previous step. Now
it should be much easier to chain elements together once applets are moved out
of streams. Indeed, the session is only used for configuration and not for the
dynamic chaining anymore.
The function was called stream_accept_session(), let's rename it
stream_new() and make it return the newly allocated pointer. It's
more convenient for some callers who need it.
This concerns everythins related to accepting a new session and
expiring the embryonic session. There's still a hard-coded call
to stream_accept_session() which could be set somewhere in the
frontend, but for now it's not a problem.
In order to support sessions tracking counters, we first ensure that there
is no overlap between streams' stkctr and sessions', and we allow an
automatic lookup into the session's counters when the stream doesn't
have a counter or when the stream doesn't exist during an access via
a sample fetch. The functions used to update the stream counters only
update them and not the session counters however.
Many such function need a session, and till now they used to dereference
the stream. Once we remove the stream from the embryonic session, this
will not be possible anymore.
So as of now, sample fetch functions will be called with this :
- sess = NULL, strm = NULL : never
- sess = valid, strm = NULL : tcp-req connection
- sess = valid, strm = valid, strm->txn = NULL : tcp-req content
- sess = valid, strm = valid, strm->txn = valid : http-req / http-res
There is now a pointer to the session in the stream, which is NULL
for now. The session pool is created as well. Some parts will move
from the stream to the session now.
With HTTP/2, we'll have to support multiplexed streams. A stream is in
fact the largest part of what we currently call a session, it has buffers,
logs, etc.
In order to catch any error, this commit removes any reference to the
struct session and tries to rename most "session" occurrences in function
names to "stream" and "sess" to "strm" when that's related to a session.
The files stream.{c,h} were added and session.{c,h} removed.
The session will be reintroduced later and a few parts of the stream
will progressively be moved overthere. It will more or less contain
only what we need in an embryonic session.
Sample fetch functions and converters will have to change a bit so
that they'll use an L5 (session) instead of what's currently called
"L4" which is in fact L6 for now.
Once all changes are completed, we should see approximately this :
L7 - http_txn
L6 - stream
L5 - session
L4 - connection | applet
There will be at most one http_txn per stream, and a same session will
possibly be referenced by multiple streams. A connection will point to
a session and to a stream. The session will hold all the information
we need to keep even when we don't yet have a stream.
Some more cleanup is needed because some code was already far from
being clean. The server queue management still refers to sessions at
many places while comments talk about connections. This will have to
be cleaned up once we have a server-side connection pool manager.
Stream flags "SN_*" still need to be renamed, it doesn't seem like
any of them will need to move to the session.
