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Willy Tarreau fe456c581f MINOR: time: add report_idle() to report process-wide idle time
Before threads were introduced in 1.8, idle_pct used to be a global
variable indicating the overall process idle time. Threads made it
thread-local, meaning that its reporting in the stats made little
sense, though this was not easy to spot. In 2.0, the idle_pct variable
moved to the struct thread_info via commit 81036f273 ("MINOR: time:
move the cpu, mono, and idle time to thread_info"). It made it more
obvious that the idle_pct was per thread, and also allowed to more
accurately measure it. But no more effort was made in that direction.

This patch introduces a new report_idle() function that accurately
averages the per-thread idle time over all running threads (i.e. it
should remain valid even if some threads are paused or stopped), and
makes use of it in the stats / "show info" reports.

Sending traffic over only two connections of an 8-thread process
would previously show this erratic CPU usage pattern:

  $ while :; do socat /tmp/sock1 - <<< "show info"|grep ^Idle;sleep 0.1;done
  Idle_pct: 30
  Idle_pct: 35
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 35
  Idle_pct: 33
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100
  Idle_pct: 100

Now it shows this more accurate measurement:

  $ while :; do socat /tmp/sock1 - <<< "show info"|grep ^Idle;sleep 0.1;done
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83
  Idle_pct: 83

This is not technically a bug but this lack of precision definitely affects
some users who rely on the idle_pct measurement. This should at least be
backported to 2.4, and might be to some older releases depending on users
demand.
2021-08-28 11:18:10 +02:00
.github MEDIUM: config: Deprecate tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size 2021-08-26 19:52:04 +02:00
addons BUILD: opentracing: fixed build when using pkg-config utility 2021-08-01 18:18:29 +02:00
admin MINOR: systemd: remove the ExecStartPre line in the unit file 2021-08-20 23:36:45 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: dev/flags: remove useless test in the stdin number parser 2021-04-03 15:29:10 +02:00
doc MEDIUM: config: Deprecate tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size 2021-08-26 19:52:04 +02:00
examples MEDIUM: proxy: remove long-broken 'option http_proxy' 2021-07-18 19:35:32 +02:00
include MINOR: time: add report_idle() to report process-wide idle time 2021-08-28 11:18:10 +02:00
reg-tests MEDIUM: config: Deprecate tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size 2021-08-26 19:52:04 +02:00
scripts BUILD: adopt script/build-ssl.sh for OpenSSL-3.0.0beta2 2021-08-25 05:16:00 +02:00
src MINOR: time: add report_idle() to report process-wide idle time 2021-08-28 11:18:10 +02:00
tests CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: introduce scripts/build-vtest.sh for installing VTest 2021-05-18 10:48:30 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore DOC: lua-api: Add documentation about lua filters 2021-08-15 20:56:44 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: temporarily disable arm64 builds 2021-08-07 07:28:15 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.5-dev4 2021-08-17 14:08:55 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS CONTRIB: move spoa_example out of the tree 2021-04-21 09:39:06 +02:00
Makefile MINOR: proc: setting the process to produce a core dump on FreeBSD. 2021-08-25 05:14:27 +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 2.5-dev4 2021-08-17 14:08:55 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.5-dev4 2021-08-17 14:08:55 +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)