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Christopher Faulet d7884d3449 MAJOR: htx: Rework how free rooms are tracked in an HTX message
In an HTX message, it may have 2 available rooms to store a new block. The first
one is between the blocks and their payload. Blocks are added starting from the
end of the buffer and their payloads are added starting from the begining. So
the first free room is between these 2 edges. The second one is at the begining
of the buffer, when we start to wrap to add new payloads. Once we start to use
this one, the other one is ignored until the next defragmentation of the HTX
message.

In theory, there is no problem. But in practice, some lacks in the HTX structure
force us to defragment too often HTX messages to always be in a known state. The
second free room is not tracked as it should do and the first one may be easily
corrupted when rewrites happen.

So to fix the problem and avoid unecessary defragmentation, the HTX structure
has been refactored. The front (the block's position of the first payload before
the blocks) is no more stored. Instead we keep the relative addresses of 3 edges:

 * tail_addr : The start address of the free space in front of the the blocks
               table
 * head_addr : The start address of the free space at the beginning
 * end_addr  : The end address of the free space at the beginning

Here is the general view of the HTX message now:

           head_addr     end_addr    tail_addr
               |            |            |
               V            V            V
  +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------------+
  |            |            |            |            |                  |
  |  PAYLOAD   | Free space |  PAYLOAD   | Free space |    Blocks area   |
  |    ==>     |     1      |    ==>     |     2      |        <==       |
  +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------------+

<head_addr> is always lower or equal to <end_addr> and <tail_addr>. <end_addr>
is always lower or equal to <tail_addr>.

In addition;, to simplify everything, the blocks area are now contiguous. It
doesn't wrap anymore. So the head is always the block with the lowest position,
and the tail is always the one with the highest position.
2019-06-11 14:05:25 +02:00
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contrib MINOR: htx: Don't use end-of-data blocks anymore 2019-06-05 10:12:11 +02:00
doc DOC: peers: Update for dictionary cache entries for peers protocol. 2019-06-07 15:47:54 +02:00
ebtree CLEANUP: fix typos in comments in ebtree 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
examples [RELEASE] Released version 2.0-dev6 2019-06-07 06:12:59 +02:00
include MAJOR: htx: Rework how free rooms are tracked in an HTX message 2019-06-11 14:05:25 +02:00
reg-tests REGTEST: Add a basic server by name stickiness reg test. 2019-06-05 08:42:36 +02:00
scripts BUILD: travis-ci improvements 2019-06-05 10:02:42 +02:00
src MAJOR: htx: Rework how free rooms are tracked in an HTX message 2019-06-11 14:05:25 +02:00
tests CLEANUP: fix a misspell in tests/filltab25.c 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
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VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.0-dev6 2019-06-07 06:12:59 +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
  - 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)