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Willy Tarreau 3e853ea74d MINOR: pools: release the pool's lock during the malloc/free calls
The malloc and free calls and especially the underlying mmap/munmap()
can occasionally take a huge amount of time and even cause the thread
to sleep. This is visible when haproxy is compiled with DEBUG_UAF which
causes every single pool allocation/free to allocate and release pages.
In this case, when using the locked pools, the watchdog can occasionally
fire under high contention (typically requesting 40000 1M objects in
parallel over 8 threads). Then, "perf top" shows that 50% of the CPU
time is spent in mmap() and munmap(). The reason the watchdog fires is
because some threads spin on the pool lock which is held by other threads
waiting on mmap() or munmap().

This patch modifies this so that the pool lock is released during these
syscalls. Not only this allows other threads to request try to allocate
their data in parallel, but it also considerably reduces the lock
contention.

Note that the locked pools are only used on small architectures where
high thread counts would not make sense, so this will not provide any
benefit in the general case. However it makes the debugging versions
way more stable, which is always appreciated.
2019-07-09 10:40:33 +02:00
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE DOC: add github issue templates 2019-01-17 22:53:55 +01:00
contrib DOC: contrib: spoa_server Add some hints for building spoa_server 2019-07-05 16:31:50 +02:00
doc DOC: Fix typo in intro.txt 2019-07-06 11:41:37 +02:00
ebtree CLEANUP: fix typos in comments in ebtree 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
examples CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
include MINOR: pools: release the pool's lock during the malloc/free calls 2019-07-09 10:40:33 +02:00
reg-tests BUG/MEDIUM: compression: Set Vary: Accept-Encoding for compressed responses 2019-06-17 18:51:43 +02:00
scripts CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
src MINOR: pools: release the pool's lock during the malloc/free calls 2019-07-09 10:40:33 +02:00
tests CLEANUP: fix a misspell in tests/filltab25.c 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
.cirrus.yml BUILD: enable freebsd builds on cirrus-ci 2019-05-16 09:27:51 +02:00
.gitignore DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
.travis.yml BUILD: travis-ci: TFO and GETADDRINFO are now enabled by default 2019-06-15 23:24:47 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev0 2019-06-16 21:49:47 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING DOC: Fix typos in CONTRIBUTING 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
INSTALL DOC: this is a development branch again. 2019-06-17 13:35:23 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS DOC: wurfl: added point of contact in MAINTAINERS file 2019-04-23 11:00:23 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: makefile: do not rely on shell substitutions to determine git version 2019-06-22 08:28:32 +02:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
ROADMAP DOC: update the outdated ROADMAP file 2019-06-15 21:59:54 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.0.0 2019-06-16 20:00:26 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev0 2019-06-16 21:49:47 +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)