Email alerts relies on checks to send emails. The link between a mailers section
and a proxy was resolved during the configuration parsing, But initialization was
done when the first alert is triggered. This implied memory allocations and
tasks creations. With this patch, everything is now initialized during the
configuration parsing. So when an alert is triggered, only the memory required
by this alert is dynamically allocated.
Moreover, alerts processing had a flaw. The task handler used to process alerts
to be sent to the same mailer, process_email_alert, was designed to give back
the control to the scheduler when an alert was sent. So there was a delay
between the sending of 2 consecutives alerts (the min of
"proxy->timeout.connect" and "mailer->timeout.mail"). To fix this problem, now,
we try to process as much queued alerts as possible when the task is woken up.
This patch is a major upgrade of the internal run-time DNS resolver in
HAProxy and it brings the following 2 main changes:
1. DNS resolution task
Up to now, DNS resolution was triggered by the health check task.
From now, DNS resolution task is autonomous. It is started by HAProxy
right after the scheduler is available and it is woken either when a
network IO occurs for one of its nameserver or when a timeout is
matched.
From now, this means we can enable DNS resolution for a server without
enabling health checking.
2. Introduction of a dns_requester structure
Up to now, DNS resolution was purposely made for resolving server
hostnames.
The idea, is to ensure that any HAProxy internal object should be able
to trigger a DNS resolution. For this purpose, 2 things has to be done:
- clean up the DNS code from the server structure (this was already
quite clean actually) and clean up the server's callbacks from
manipulating too much DNS resolution
- create an agnostic structure which allows linking a DNS resolution
and a requester of any type (using obj_type enum)
3. Manage requesters through queues
Up to now, there was an uniq relationship between a resolution and it's
owner (aka the requester now). It's a shame, because in some cases,
multiple objects may share the same hostname and may benefit from a
resolution being performed by a third party.
This patch introduces the notion of queues, which are basically lists of
either currently running resolution or waiting ones.
The resolutions are now available as a pool, which belongs to the resolvers.
The pool has has a default size of 64 resolutions per resolvers and is
allocated at configuration parsing.
Instead of calling the checks directly from the init code, we now
register the start_checks() function to be run at this point. This
also allows to unexport the check init function and to remove one
include from haproxy.c.
A new "option spop-check" statement has been added to enable server health
checks based on SPOP HELLO handshake. SPOP is the protocol used by SPOE filters
to talk to servers.
HAProxy used to deduce port used for health checks when parsing configuration
at startup time.
Because of this way of working, it makes it complicated to change the port at
run time.
The current patch changes this behavior and makes HAProxy to choose the
port used for health checking when preparing the check task itself.
A new type of error is introduced and reported when no port can be found.
There won't be any impact on performance, since the process to find out the
port value is made of a few 'if' statements.
This patch also introduces a new check state CHK_ST_PORT_MISS: this flag is
used to report an error in the case when HAProxy needs to establish a TCP
connection to a server, to perform a health check but no TCP ports can be
found for it.
And last, it also introduces a new stream termination condition:
SF_ERR_CHK_PORT. Purpose of this flag is to report an error in the event when
HAProxy has to run a health check but no port can be found to perform it.
This patch adds a new option which allows configuration of the maximum
log level of messages for which email alerts will be sent.
The default is alert which is more restrictive than
the current code which sends email alerts for all priorities.
That behaviour may be configured using the new configuration
option to set the maximum level to notice or greater.
email-alert level notice
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Refactor init_check so that an error string is returned
rather than alerts being printed by it. Also
init_check to checks.c and provide a prototype to allow
it to be used from multiple C files.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
We don't have to handle the maintenance transition here anymore so we
can simplify the functions and conditions. This also means that we don't
need the disable/enable functions but only a function to switch to each
new state.
It's worth mentionning that at this stage there are still confusions
between the server state and the checks states. For example, the health
check's state is adjusted from tracked servers changing state, while it
should not be.
This function is called twice per request, and does almost always nothing.
Better use an inline version to avoid entering it when we can.
About 0.5% additional performance was gained this way.
Paramatise the following functions over the check of a server
* set_server_down
* set_server_up
* srv_getinter
* server_status_printf
* set_server_check_status
* set_server_disabled
* set_server_enabled
Generally the server parameter of these functions has been removed.
Where it is still needed it is obtained using check->server.
This is in preparation for associating a agent check
with a server which runs as well as the server's existing check.
By paramatising these functions they may act on each of the checks
without further significant modification.
Explanation of the SSP_O_HCHK portion of this change:
* Prior to this patch SSP_O_HCHK serves a single purpose which
is to tell server_status_printf() weather it should print
the details of the check of a server or not.
With the paramatisation that this patch adds there are two cases.
1) Printing the details of the check in which case a
valid check parameter is needed.
2) Not printing the details of the check in which case
the contents check parameter are unused.
In case 1) we could pass SSP_O_HCHK and a valid check and;
In case 2) we could pass !SSP_O_HCHK and any value for check
including NULL.
If NULL is used for case 2) then SSP_O_HCHK becomes supurfulous
and as NULL is used for case 2) SSP_O_HCHK has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
This is a first attempt to add a maintenance mode on servers, using
the stat socket (in admin level).
It can be done with the following command :
- disable server <backend>/<server>
- enable server <backend>/<server>
In this mode, no more checks will be performed on the server and it
will be marked as a special DOWN state (MAINT).
If some servers were tracking it, they'll go DOWN until the server
leaves the maintenance mode. The stats page and the CSV export also
display this special state.
This can be used to disable the server in haproxy before doing some
operations on this server itself. This is a good complement to the
"http-check disable-on-404" keyword and works in TCP mode.
Implement decreasing health based on observing communication between
HAProxy and servers.
Changes in this version 2:
- documentation
- close race between a started check and health analysis event
- don't force fastinter if it is not set
- better names for options
- layer4 support
Changes in this version 3:
- add stats
- port to the current 1.4 tree
Collect information about last health check result,
including L7 code if possible (for example http or smtp
return code) and time took to finish last check.
Health check info is provided on both stats pages (html & csv)
and logged when a server is marked UP or DOWN. Currently active
check are marked with an asterisk, but only in html mode.
Currently there are 14 status codes:
UNK -> unknown
INI -> initializing
SOCKERR -> socket error
L4OK -> check passed on layer 4, no upper layers testing enabled
L4TOUT -> layer 1-4 timeout
L4CON -> layer 1-4 connection problem, for example "Connection refused"
(tcp rst) or "No route to host" (icmp)
L6OK -> check passed on layer 6
L6TOUT -> layer 6 (SSL) timeout
L6RSP -> layer 6 invalid response - protocol error
L7OK -> check passed on layer 7
L7OKC -> check conditionally passed on layer 7, for example
404 with disable-on-404
L7TOUT -> layer 7 (HTTP/SMTP) timeout
L7RSP -> layer 7 invalid response - protocol error
L7STS -> layer 7 response error, for example HTTP 5xx
All the tasks callbacks had to requeue the task themselves, and update
a global timeout. This was not convenient at all. Now the API has been
simplified. The tasks callbacks only have to update their expire timer,
and return either a pointer to the task or NULL if the task has been
deleted. The scheduler will take care of requeuing the task at the
proper place in the wait queue.
When one server appears at the same position in multiple backends, it
receives all the checks from all the backends exactly at the same time
because the health-checks are only spread within a backend but not
globally.
Attached patch implements per-server start delay in a different way.
Checks are now spread globally - not locally to one backend. It also makes
them start faster - IMHO there is no need to add a 'server->inter' when
calculating first execution. Calculation were moved from cfgparse.c to
checks.c. There is a new function start_checks() and now it is not called
when haproxy is started in MODE_CHECK.
With this patch it is also possible to set a global 'spread-checks'
parameter. It takes a percentage value (1..50, probably something near
5..10 is a good idea) so haproxy adds or removes that many percent to the
original interval after each check. My test shows that with 18 backends,
54 servers total and 10000ms/5% it takes about 45m to mix them completely.
I decided to use rand/srand pseudo-random number generator. I am aware it
is not recommend for a good randomness but a) we do not need a good random
generator here b) it is probably the most portable one.
The timeout functions were difficult to manipulate because they were
rounding results to the millisecond. Thus, it was difficult to compare
and to check what expired and what did not. Also, the comparison
functions were heavy with multiplies and divides by 1000. Now, all
timeouts are stored in timevals, reducing the number of operations
for updates and leading to cleaner and more efficient code.
The files are now stored under :
- include/haproxy for the generic includes
- include/types.h for the structures needed within prototypes
- include/proto.h for function prototypes and inline functions
- src/*.c for the C files
Most include files are now covered by LGPL. A last move still needs
to be done to put inline functions under GPL and not LGPL.
Version has been set to 1.3.0 in the code but some control still
needs to be done before releasing.
