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Aurelien DARRAGON 231d3d32be MEDIUM: hlua: take nbthread into account in hlua_get_nb_instruction()
Based on Willy's idea (from 3.0-dev6 announcement message): in this patch
we try to reduce the max latency that can be caused by running lua scripts
with default settings.

Indeed, by default, hlua engine is allowed to process up to 10k
instructions per batch. While this value was found to be the optimal one
for a single thread, it turns out that keeping a thread busy for 10k lua
instructions could increase thread contention. This is especially true
when the script is loaded with 'lua-load', because in that case the
current thread owns the main lua lock and prevent other threads from
making any progress if they're also waiting on the main lock.

Thanks to Thierry Fournier's work, we know that performance-wise we can
reach optimal performance by sticking between 500 and 10k instructions
per batch. Given that, when the script is loaded using 'lua-load', if no
"tune.lua.forced-yield" was set by the user, we automatically divide the
default value (10K) by the number of threads haproxy can use to reduce
thread contention (given that all threads could compete for the main lua
lock), however we make sure not to return a value below 500, because
Thierry's work showed that this would come with a significant performance
loss.

The historical behavior may still be enforced by setting
"tune.lua.forced-yield" to 10000 in the global config section.
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.github CI: drop asan.log umbrella completely 2024-05-13 11:36:36 +02:00
addons MINOR: stats: define stats-file output format support 2024-04-26 10:20:57 +02:00
admin BUILD: address a few remaining calloc(size, n) cases 2024-02-10 11:37:27 +01:00
dev DEV: flags/peers: Decode PEER and PEERS flags 2024-04-25 18:29:58 +02:00
doc MEDIUM: hlua: take nbthread into account in hlua_get_nb_instruction() 2024-05-15 11:59:44 +02:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
include MEDIUM: dynbuf: use emergency buffers upon failed memory allocations 2024-05-10 17:18:13 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: be more verbose with ocsp_compat_check.vtc 2024-05-15 10:36:02 +02:00
scripts REGTESTS: use -dI for insecure fork by default in the regtest scripts 2024-04-22 16:15:57 +02:00
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VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev11 2024-05-10 17:39:19 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev11 2024-05-10 17:39:19 +02:00

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for
ease of use.

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)