When using hash-based load balancing, requests are always assigned to
the server corresponding to the hash bucket for the balancing key,
without taking maxconn or maxqueue into account, unlike in other load
balancing methods like 'first'. This adds a new backend directive that
can be used to take maxconn and possibly maxqueue in that context. This
can be used when hashing is desired to achieve cache locality, but
sending requests to a different server is preferable to queuing for a
long time or failing requests when the initial server is saturated.
By default, affinity is preserved as was the case previously. When
'hash-preserve-affinity' is set to 'maxqueue', servers are considered
successively in the order of the hash ring until a server that does not
have a full queue is found.
When 'maxconn' is set on a server, queueing cannot be disabled, as
'maxqueue=0' means unlimited. To support picking a different server
when a server is at 'maxconn' irrespective of the queue,
'hash-preserve-affinity' can be set to 'maxconn'.
Amaury Denoyelle [Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:19:35 +0000 (17:19 +0100)]
MINOR: mux-quic: define config for max-data
Define a new global configuration tune.quic.frontend.max-data. This
allows users to explicitely set the value for the corresponding QUIC TP
initial-max-data, with direct impact on haproxy memory consumption.
Amaury Denoyelle [Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:18:13 +0000 (16:18 +0100)]
MINOR: quic: ignore uni-stream for initial max data TP
Initial TP value for max-data is automatically calculated to be adjusted
to the maximum number of opened streams over a QUIC connection. This
took into account both max-streams-bidi-remote and uni-streams. By
default, this is equivalent to 100 + 3 = 103 max opened streams.
This patch simplifies the calculation by only using bidirectional
streams. Uni streams are ignored because they are only used for HTTP/3
control exchanges, which should only represents a few bytes. For now,
users can only configure the max number of remote bidi streams, so the
simplified calculation should make more sense to them.
Note that this relies on the assumption that HTTP/3 is used as
application protocol. To support other protocols, it may be necessary to
review this and take into account both local bidi and uni streams.
Adjust initialization of flow-control transport parameters via
quic_transport_params_init().
This is purely cosmetic, with some comments added. It is also a
preparatory step for future patches with addition of new configuration
keywords related to flow-control TP values.
Amaury Denoyelle [Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:15:55 +0000 (15:15 +0100)]
MINOR: quic: move global tune options into quic_tune
A new structure quic_tune has recently been defined. Its purpose is to
store global options related to QUIC. Previously, only the tunable to
toggle pacing was stored in it.
This commit moves several QUIC related tunable from global to quic_tune
structure. This better centralizes QUIC configuration option and gives
room for future generic options.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:33:36 +0000 (17:33 +0100)]
[RELEASE] Released version 3.2-dev8
Released version 3.2-dev8 with the following main changes :
- MINOR: jws: implement JWS signing
- TESTS: jws: implement a test for JWS signing
- CI: github: add "jose" to apt dependencies
- CLEANUP: log-forward: remove useless options2 init
- CLEANUP: log: add syslog_process_message() helper
- MINOR: proxy: add proxy->options3
- MINOR: log: migrate log-forward options from proxy->options2 to options3
- MINOR: log: provide source address information in syslog_process_message()
- MINOR: tools: only print address in sa2str() when port == -1
- MINOR: log: add "option host" log-forward option
- MINOR: log: handle log-forward "option host"
- MEDIUM: log: change default "host" strategy for log-forward section
- BUG/MEDIUM: thread: use pthread_self() not ha_pthread[tid] in set_affinity
- MINOR: compiler: add a simple macro to concatenate resolved strings
- MINOR: compiler: add a new __decl_thread_var() macro to declare local variables
- BUILD: tools: silence a build warning when USE_THREAD=0
- BUILD: backend: silence a build warning when threads are disabled
- DOC: management: rename some last occurences from domain "dns" to "resolvers"
- BUG/MINOR: stats: fix capabilities and hide settings for some generic metrics
- MINOR: cli: export cli_io_handler() to ease symbol resolution
- MINOR: tools: improve symbol resolution without dl_addr
- MINOR: tools: ease the declaration of known symbols in resolve_sym_name()
- MINOR: tools: teach resolve_sym_name() a few more common symbols
- BUILD: tools: avoid a build warning on gcc-4.8 in resolve_sym_name()
- DEV: ncpu: also emulate sysconf() for _SC_NPROCESSORS_*
- DOC: design-thoughts: commit numa-auto.txt
- MINOR: cpuset: make the API support negative CPU IDs
- MINOR: thread: rely on the cpuset functions to count bound CPUs
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add ha_cpu_topo definition
- MINOR: cpu-topo: allocate and initialize the ha_cpu_topo array.
- MINOR: cpu-topo: rely on _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF to trim maxcpus
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a function to dump CPU topology
- MINOR: cpu-topo: update CPU topology from excluded CPUs at boot
- REORG: cpu-topo: move bound cpu detection from cpuset to cpu-topo
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add detection of online CPUs on Linux
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add detection of online CPUs on FreeBSD
- MINOR: cpu-topo: try to detect offline cpus at boot
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add CPU topology detection for linux
- MINOR: cpu-topo: also store the sibling ID with SMT
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add NUMA node identification to CPUs on Linux
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add NUMA node identification to CPUs on FreeBSD
- MINOR: thread: turn thread_cpu_mask_forced() into an init-time variable
- MINOR: cfgparse: move the binding detection into numa_detect_topology()
- MINOR: cfgparse: use already known offline CPU information
- MINOR: global: add a command-line option to enable CPU binding debugging
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "cpu-set" global directive to choose cpus
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add "drop-cpu" and "only-cpu" to cpu-set
- MEDIUM: thread: start to detect thread groups and threads min/max
- MEDIUM: cpu-topo: make sure to properly assign CPUs to threads as a fallback
- MEDIUM: thread: reimplement first numa node detection
- MEDIUM: cfgparse: remove now unused numa & thread-count detection
- MINOR: cpu-topo: refine cpu dump output to better show kept/dropped CPUs
- MINOR: cpu-topo: fall back to nominal_perf and scaling_max_freq for the capacity
- MINOR: cpu-topo: use cpufreq before acpi cppc
- MINOR: cpu-topo: boost the capacity of performance cores with cpufreq
- MINOR: cpu-topo: skip CPU detection when /sys/.../cpu does not exist
- MINOR: cpu-topo: skip identification of non-existing CPUs
- MINOR: cpu-topo: skip CPU properties that we've verified do not exist
- MINOR: cpu-topo: implement a sorting mechanism for CPU index
- MINOR: cpu-topo: implement a sorting mechanism by CPU locality
- MINOR: cpu-topo: implement a CPU sorting mechanism by cluster ID
- MINOR: cpu-topo: ignore single-core clusters
- MINOR: cpu-topo: assign clusters to cores without and renumber them
- MINOR: cpu-topo: make sure we don't leave unassigned IDs in the cpu_topo
- MINOR: cpu-topo: assign an L3 cache if more than 2 L2 instances
- MINOR: cpu-topo: renumber cores to avoid holes and make them contiguous
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a function to sort by cluster+capacity
- MINOR: cpu-topo: consider capacity when forming clusters
- MINOR: cpu-topo: create an array of the clusters
- MINOR: cpu-topo: ignore excess of too small clusters
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-node" and "drop-node" to cpu-set
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-thread" and "drop-thread" to cpu-set
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-core" and "drop-core" to cpu-set
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-cluster" and "drop-cluster" to cpu-set
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a CPU policy setting to the global section
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a 'first-usable-node' cpu policy
- MEDIUM: cpu-topo: use the "first-usable-node" cpu-policy by default
- CLEANUP: thread: now remove the temporary CPU node binding code
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add cpu-policy "group-by-cluster"
- MEDIUM: cpu-topo: let the "group-by-cluster" split groups
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "performance" cpu-policy
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "efficiency" cpu-policy
- MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "resource" cpu-policy
- MINOR: jws: add new functions in jws.h
- MINOR: cpu-topo: fix unused stack var 'cpu2' reported by coverity
- MINOR: hlua: add an optional timeout to AppletTCP:receive()
- MINOR: jws: use jwt_alg type instead of a char
- BUG/MINOR: log: prevent saddr NULL deref in syslog_io_handler()
- MINOR: stream: decrement srv->served after detaching from the list
- BUG/MINOR: hlua: fix optional timeout argument index for AppletTCP:receive()
- MINOR: server: simplify srv_has_streams()
- CLEANUP: server: make it clear that srv_check_for_deletion() is thread-safe
- MINOR: cli/server: don't take thread isolation to check for srv-removable
- BUG/MINOR: limits: compute_ideal_maxconn: don't cap remain if fd_hard_limit=0
- MINOR: limits: fix check_if_maxsock_permitted description
- BUG/MEDIUM: hlua/cli: fix cli applet UAF in hlua_applet_wakeup()
- MINOR: tools: path_base() concatenates a path with a base path
- MEDIUM: ssl/ckch: make the ckch_conf more generic
- BUG/MINOR: mux-h2: Reset streams with NO_ERROR code if full response was already sent
- MINOR: stats: add .generic explicit field in stat_col struct
- MINOR: stats: STATS_PX_CAP___B_ macro
- MINOR: stats: add .cap for some static metrics
- MINOR: stats: use stat_col storage stat_cols_info
- MEDIUM: promex: switch to using stat_cols_info for global metrics
- MINOR: promex: expose ST_I_INF_WARNINGS (AKA total_warnings) metric
- MEDIUM: promex: switch to using stat_cols_px for front/back/server metrics
- MINOR: stats: explicitly add frontend cap for ST_I_PX_REQ_TOT
- CLEANUP: promex: remove unused PROMEX_FL_{INFO,FRONT,BACK,LI,SRV} flags
- BUG/MEDIUM: mux-quic: fix crash on RS/SS emission if already close local
- BUG/MINOR: mux-quic: remove extra BUG_ON() in _qcc_send_stream()
- MEDIUM: mt_list: Reduce the max number of loops with exponential backoff
- MINOR: stats: add alt_name field to stat_col struct
- MINOR: stats: add alt name info to stat_cols_info where relevant
- MINOR: promex: get rid of promex_global_metric array
- MINOR: stats-proxy: add alt_name field for ME_NEW_{FE,BE,PX} helpers
- MINOR: stats-proxy: add alt name info to stat_cols_px where relevant
- MINOR: promex: get rid of promex_st_metrics array
- MINOR: pools: rename the "by_what" field of the show pools context to "how"
- MINOR: cli/pools: record the list of pool registrations even when merging them
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:33:36 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
MINOR: cli/pools: record the list of pool registrations even when merging them
By default, create_pool() tries to merge similar pools into one. But when
dealing with certain bugs, it's hard to say which ones were merged together.
We do have the information at registration time, so let's just create a
list of registrations ("pool_registration") attached to each pool, that
will store that information. It can then be consulted on the CLI using
"show pools detailed", where the names, sizes, alignment and flags are
reported.
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:16:58 +0000 (11:16 +0100)]
MINOR: pools: rename the "by_what" field of the show pools context to "how"
The goal will be to support other dump options. We don't need 32 bits to
express sorting criteria, let's reserve only 4 bits for them and leave
the remaining ones unused.
In this patch we pursue the work started in a5aadbd ("MEDIUM: promex:
switch to using stat_cols_px for front/back/server metrics"):
Indeed, while having ".promex_name" info in stat_cols_info generic array
was confusing, Willy suggested that we have ".alt_name" which stays
generic and may be considered by alternative exporters for metric naming.
For now, only promex exporter will make use of it.
Thanks to this, it allows us to completely get rid of the
stat_cols_px array. The other main benefit is that it will be much harder
to overlook promex metric definition now because .alt_name has more
visibility in the main metric array rather than in an addon file.
MINOR: stats-proxy: add alt_name field for ME_NEW_{FE,BE,PX} helpers
For now alt_name is systematically set to NULL. Thanks to this change we
may easily add an altname to existing metrics. Also by requiring explicit
value it offers more visibility for this field.
MINOR: promex: get rid of promex_global_metric array
In this patch we pursue the work started in 1adc796 ("MEDIUM: promex:
switch to using stat_cols_info for global metrics"):
Indeed, while having ".promex_name" info in stat_cols_info generic array
was confusing, Willy suggested that we have ".alt_name" which stays
generic and may be considered by alternative exporters for metric naming.
For now, only promex exporter will make use of it.
Thanks to this, it allows us to completely get rid of the
promex_global_metric array. The other main benefit is that it will be
much harder to overlook promex metric definition now because .alt_name
has more visibility in the main metric array rather than in an addon file.
MINOR: stats: add alt_name field to stat_col struct
alt_name will be used by metric exporters to know how the metric should be
presented to the user. If the alt_name is NULL, the metric should be
ignored. For now only promex exporter will make use of this.
Olivier Houchard [Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:56:40 +0000 (09:56 +0000)]
MEDIUM: mt_list: Reduce the max number of loops with exponential backoff
Reduce the max number of loops in the mt_list code while waiting for
a lock to be available with exponential backoff. It's been observed that
the current value led to severe performances degradation at least on
some hardware, hopefully this value will be acceptable everywhere.
Amaury Denoyelle [Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:10:56 +0000 (18:10 +0100)]
BUG/MINOR: mux-quic: remove extra BUG_ON() in _qcc_send_stream()
The following patch fixed a BUG_ON() which could be triggered if RS/SS
emission was scheduled after stream local closure. 7ee1279f4b8416435faba5cb93a9be713f52e4df
BUG/MEDIUM: mux-quic: fix crash on RS/SS emission if already close local
qcc_send_stream() was rewritten as a wrapper around an internal
_qcc_send_stream() used to bypass the faulty BUG_ON(). However, an extra
unnecessary BUG_ON() was added by mistake in _qcc_send_stream().
This should not cause any issue, as the BUG_ON() is only active if <urg>
argument is false, which is not the case for RS/SS emission. However,
this patch is labelled as a bug as this BUG_ON() is unnecessary and may
cause issues in the future.
This should be backported up to 2.8, after the above mentionned patch.
Amaury Denoyelle [Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:01:16 +0000 (16:01 +0100)]
BUG/MEDIUM: mux-quic: fix crash on RS/SS emission if already close local
A BUG_ON() is present in qcc_send_stream() to ensure that emission is
never performed with a stream already closed locally. However, this
function is also used for RESET_STREAM/STOP_SENDING emission. No
protection exists to ensure that RS/SS is not scheduled after stream
local closure, which would result in this BUG_ON() crash.
This crash can be triggered with the following QUIC client sequence :
1. SS is emitted to open a new stream. QUIC-MUX schedules a RS emission
by and the stream is locally closed.
2. An invalid HTTP/3 request is sent on the same stream, for example
with duplicated pseudo-headers. The objective is to ensure
qcc_abort_stream_read() is called after stream closure, which results
in the following backtrace.
0x000055555566a620 in qcc_send_stream (qcs=0x7ffff0061420, urg=1, count=0) at src/mux_quic.c:1633
1633 BUG_ON(qcs_is_close_local(qcs));
[ ## gdb ## ] bt
#0 0x000055555566a620 in qcc_send_stream (qcs=0x7ffff0061420, urg=1, count=0) at src/mux_quic.c:1633
#1 0x000055555566a921 in qcc_abort_stream_read (qcs=0x7ffff0061420) at src/mux_quic.c:1658
#2 0x0000555555685426 in h3_rcv_buf (qcs=0x7ffff0061420, b=0x7ffff748d3f0, fin=0) at src/h3.c:1454
#3 0x0000555555668a67 in qcc_decode_qcs (qcc=0x7ffff0049eb0, qcs=0x7ffff0061420) at src/mux_quic.c:1315
#4 0x000055555566c76e in qcc_recv (qcc=0x7ffff0049eb0, id=12, len=0, offset=23, fin=0 '\000',
data=0x7fffe0049c1c "\366\r,\230\205\354\234\301;\2563\335\037k\306\334\037\260", <incomplete sequence \323>) at src/mux_quic.c:1901
#5 0x0000555555692551 in qc_handle_strm_frm (pkt=0x7fffe00484b0, strm_frm=0x7ffff00539e0, qc=0x7fffe0049220, fin=0 '\000') at src/quic_rx.c:635
#6 0x0000555555694530 in qc_parse_pkt_frms (qc=0x7fffe0049220, pkt=0x7fffe00484b0, qel=0x7fffe0075fc0) at src/quic_rx.c:980
#7 0x0000555555696c7a in qc_treat_rx_pkts (qc=0x7fffe0049220) at src/quic_rx.c:1324
#8 0x00005555556b781b in quic_conn_app_io_cb (t=0x7fffe0037f20, context=0x7fffe0049220, state=49232) at src/quic_conn.c:601
#9 0x0000555555d53788 in run_tasks_from_lists (budgets=0x7ffff748e2b0) at src/task.c:603
#10 0x0000555555d541ae in process_runnable_tasks () at src/task.c:886
#11 0x00005555559c39e9 in run_poll_loop () at src/haproxy.c:2858
#12 0x00005555559c41ea in run_thread_poll_loop (data=0x55555629fb40 <ha_thread_info+64>) at src/haproxy.c:3075
The proper solution is to not execute this BUG_ON() for RS/SS emission.
Indeed, it is valid and can be useful to emit these frames, even after
stream local closure.
To implement this, qcc_send_stream() has been rewritten as a mere
wrapper function around the new internal _qcc_send_stream(). The latter
is used only by QMUX for STREAM, RS and SS emission. Application layer
continue to use the original function for STREAM emission, with the
BUG_ON() still in place there.
MINOR: stats: explicitly add frontend cap for ST_I_PX_REQ_TOT
While being a generic metric, ST_I_PX_REQ_TOT is handled specifically for
the frontend case. But the frontend capability isn't set for that metric
It is actually quite misleading, because the capability may be checked
to see whether the metric is relevant for a given scope, yet it is
relevant for frontend scope.
In this patch we also add the frontend capability for the metric.
MEDIUM: promex: switch to using stat_cols_px for front/back/server metrics
Now the stat_cols_px array contains all info that-prometheus requires
stop using the promex_st_metrics array that contains redundant infos.
As for ("MEDIUM: promex: switch to using stat_cols_info for global
metrics"), initial goal was to completely get rid of promex_st_metrics
array, but it turns out it is still required but only for the name
mapping part now. So in this commit we change it from complex structure
array (with redundant info) to a simple ist array with the
metric id:promex name mapping. If a metric name is not defined there, then
promex ignores it.
It has been requested to have the ST_I_INF_WARNINGS metric available from
prometheus, let's define it in promex_global_metrics ist array so that
prometheus starts advertising it.
MEDIUM: promex: switch to using stat_cols_info for global metrics
Now the stat_cols_info array contains all info that prometheus requires,
stop using the promex_global_metrics array that contains redundant infos.
Initial goal was to completely drop the promex_global_metrics array.
However it was deemed no longer relevant as prometheus stats rely on a
custom name that cannot be derived from stat_cols_info[], unless we add
a specific ".promex_name" field or similar to name the stats for
prometheus. This is what was carried over on a first attempt but it proved
to burden stat_cols_info[] array (not only memory wise, it is quite
confusing to see promex in the main codebase, given that prometheus is
shipped as an optional add-on).
The new strategy consists in revamping the promex_global_metrics array
from promex_metric (with all redundant fields for metrics) to a simple
ID<==>IST mapping. If the metric is mapped, then it means promex addon
should advertise it (using the name provided in the mapping). Now for
all the metric retrieval, no longer rely on built-in hardcoded values
but instead leverage the new stat cols API.
The tricky part is the .type association because the general rule doesn't
apply for all metrics as it seems that we stated that some non-counters
oriented metrics (at least from haproxy point of view) had to be presented
as counter metrics. So in this patch we add some special treatment for
those metrics to emulate the old behavior. If that's not relevant in the
future, it may be removed. But this requires to ensure that promex users
will properly cope with that change. At least for now, no change of
behavior should be expected.
Use stat_col storage for stat_cols_info[] array instead of name_desc.
As documented in 65624876f ("MINOR: stats: introduce a more expressive
stat definition method"), stat_col supersedes name_desc storage but
it remains backward compatible. Here we migrate to the new API to be
able to further extend stat_cols_info[] in following patches.
Goal is to merge promex metrics definition into the main one.
Promex metrics will use the metric capability to know available scopes,
thus only metrics relevant for prometheus were updated.
MINOR: stats: add .generic explicit field in stat_col struct
Further extend logic implemented in 65624876 ("MINOR: stats: introduce a
more expressive stat definition method") and 4e9e8418 ("MINOR: stats:
prepare stats-file support for values other than FN_COUNTER"): we don't
rely anymore on the presence of the capability to know if the metric is
generic or not. This is because it prevents us from setting a capability
on static statistics. Yet it could be useful to set the capability even
on static metrics, thus we add a dedicated .generic bit to tell haproxy
that the metric is generic and can be handled automatically by the API.
Also, ME_NEW_* helpers are not explicitly associated to generic metric
definition (as it was already the case before) to avoid ambiguities.
It may change in the future as we may need to use the new definition
method to define static metrics (without the generic bit set). But for
now it isn't the case as this need definition was implemented for generic
metrics support in the first place. If we want to define static metrics
using the API, we could add a new set of helpers for instance.
BUG/MINOR: mux-h2: Reset streams with NO_ERROR code if full response was already sent
On frontend side, when a stream is shut while the response was already fully
sent, it was cancelled by sending a RST_STREAM(CANCEL) frame. However, it is
not accurrate. CANCEL error code must only be used if the response headers
were sent, but not the full response. As stated in the RFC 9113, when the
response was fully sent, to stop the request sending, a RST_STREAM with an
error code of NO_ERROR must be sent.
This patch should solve the issue #1219. It must be backported to all stable
versions.
The ckch_store_load_files() function makes specific processing for
PARSE_TYPE_STR as if it was a type only used for paths.
This patch changes a little bit the way it's done,
PARSE_TYPE_STR is only meant to strdup() a string and stores the
resulting pointer in the ckch_conf structure.
Any processing regarding the path is now done in the callback.
Since the callbacks were basically doing the same thing, they were
transformed into the DECLARE_CKCH_CONF_LOAD() macros which allows to
do some templating of these functions.
The resulting ckch_conf_load_* functions will do the same as before,
except they will also do the path processing instead of letting
ckch_store_load_files() do it, which means we don't need the "base"
member anymore in the struct ckch_conf_kws.
MINOR: tools: path_base() concatenates a path with a base path
With the SSL configuration, crt-base, key-base are often used, these
keywords concatenates the base path with the path when the path does not
start by '/'.
This is done at several places in the code, so a function to do this
would be better to standardize the code.
BUG/MEDIUM: hlua/cli: fix cli applet UAF in hlua_applet_wakeup()
Recent commit e5e36ce09 ("BUG/MEDIUM: hlua/cli: Fix lua CLI commands
to work with applet's buffers") revealed a bug in hlua cli applet handling
Indeed, playing with Willy's lua tetris script on the cli, a segfault
would be encountered when forcefully closing the session by sending a
CTRL+C on the terminal.
In fact the crash was caused by a UAF: while the cli applet was already
freed, the lua task responsible for waking it up would still point to it.
Thus hlua_applet_wakeup() could be called even if the applet didn't exist
anymore.
To fix the issue, in hlua_cli_io_release_fct() we must also free the hlua
task linked to the applet, like we already do for
hlua_applet_tcp_release() and hlua_applet_http_release().
While this bug exists on stable versions (where it should be backported
too for precaution), it only seems to be triggered starting with 3.0.
BUG/MINOR: limits: compute_ideal_maxconn: don't cap remain if fd_hard_limit=0
'global.fd_hard_limit' stays uninitialized, if haproxy is started with -m
(global.rlimit_memmax). 'remain' is the MAX between soft and hard process fd
limits. It will be always bigger than 'global.fd_hard_limit' (0) in this case.
So, if we reassign 'remain' to the 'global.fd_hard_limit' unconditionally,
calculated then 'maxconn' will be even negative and the DEFAULT_MAXCONN (100)
will be set as the 'ideal_maxconn'.
During the 'global.maxconn' calculations in set_global_maxconn(), if the
provided 'global.rlimit_memmax' is quite big, system will refuse to calculate
based on its 'global.maxconn' and we will do a fallback to the 'ideal_maxconn',
which is 100.
Same problem for the configs with SSL frontends and backends.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:41:51 +0000 (11:41 +0100)]
MINOR: cli/server: don't take thread isolation to check for srv-removable
Thanks to the previous commits, we now know that "wait srv-removable"
does not require thread isolation, as long as 3372a2ea00 ("BUG/MEDIUM:
queues: Stricly respect maxconn for outgoing connections") and c880c32b16
("MINOR: stream: decrement srv->served after detaching from the list")
are present. Let's just get rid of thread_isolate() here, which can
consume a lot of CPU on highly threaded machines when removing many
servers at once.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:38:56 +0000 (11:38 +0100)]
CLEANUP: server: make it clear that srv_check_for_deletion() is thread-safe
This function was marked as requiring thread isolation because its code
was extracted from cli_parse_delete_server() and was running under
isolation. But upon closer inspection, and using atomic loads to check
a few counters, it is actually safe to run without isolation, so let's
reflect that in its description.
However, it remains true that cli_parse_delete_server() continues to call
it under isolation.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:30:37 +0000 (11:30 +0100)]
MINOR: server: simplify srv_has_streams()
Now that thanks to commit c880c32b16 ("MINOR: stream: decrement
srv->served after detaching from the list") we can trust srv->served,
let's use it and no longer loop on threads when checking if a server
still has streams attached to it. This will be much cheaper and will
result in keeping isolation for a shorter time in the "wait" command.
BUG/MINOR: hlua: fix optional timeout argument index for AppletTCP:receive()
Baptiste reported that using the new optional timeout argument introduced
in 19e48f2 ("MINOR: hlua: add an optional timeout to AppletTCP:receive()")
the following error would occur at some point:
runtime error: file.lua:lineno: bad argument #-2 to 'receive' (number
expected, got light userdata) from [C]: in method 'receive...
In fact this is caused by exp_date being retrieved using relative index -1
instead of absolute index 3. Indeed, while using relative index is fine
most of the time when we trust the stack, when combined with yielding the
top of the stack when resuming from yielding is not necessarily the same
as when the function was first called (ie: if some data was pushed to the
stack in the yieldable function itself). As such, it is safer to use
explicit index to access exp_date variable at position 3 on the stack.
It was confirmed that doing so addresses the issue.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:24:56 +0000 (11:24 +0100)]
MINOR: stream: decrement srv->served after detaching from the list
In commit 3372a2ea00 ("BUG/MEDIUM: queues: Stricly respect maxconn for
outgoing connections"), it has been ensured that srv->served is held
as long as possible around the periods where a stream is attached to a
server. However, it's decremented early when entering sess_change_server,
and actually just before detaching from that server's list. While there
is theoretically nothing wrong with this, it prevents us from looking at
this counter to know if streams are still using a server or not.
We could imagine decrementing it much later but that wouldn't work with
leastconn, since that algo needs ->served to be final before calling
lbprm.server_drop_conn(). Thus what we're doing here is to detach from
the server, then decrement ->served, and only then call the LB callback
to update the server's position in the tree. At this moment the stream
doesn't know the server anymore anyway (except via this function's
local variable) so it's safe to consider that no stream knows the server
once the variable reaches zero.
BUG/MINOR: log: prevent saddr NULL deref in syslog_io_handler()
In ad0133cc ("MINOR: log: handle log-forward "option host""), we
de-reference saddr without first checking if saddr is NULL. In practise
saddr shouldn't be null, but it may be the case if memory error happens
for tcp syslog handler so we must assume that it can be NULL at some
point.
To fix the bug, we simply check for NULL before de-referencing it
under syslog_io_handler(), as the function comment suggests.
Willy Tarreau [Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:19:34 +0000 (16:19 +0100)]
MINOR: hlua: add an optional timeout to AppletTCP:receive()
TCP services might want to be interactive, and without a timeout on
receive(), the possibilities are a bit limited. Let's add an optional
timeout in the 3rd argument to possibly limit the wait time. In this
case if the timeout strikes before the requested size is complete,
a possibly incomplete block will be returned.
MINOR: cpu-topo: fix unused stack var 'cpu2' reported by coverity
Coverity has reported that cpu2 seems sometimes unused in
cpu_fixup_topology():
*** CID 1593776: Code maintainability issues (UNUSED_VALUE)
/src/cpu_topo.c: 690 in cpu_fixup_topology()
684 continue;
685
686 if (ha_cpu_topo[cpu].cl_gid != curr_id) {
687 if (curr_id >= 0 && cl_cpu <= 2)
688 small_cl++;
689 cl_cpu = 0;
>>> CID 1593776: Code maintainability issues (UNUSED_VALUE)
>>> Assigning value from "cpu" to "cpu2" here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used.
690 cpu2 = cpu;
691 curr_id = ha_cpu_topo[cpu].cl_gid;
692 }
693 cl_cpu++;
694 }
695
That's it. 'cpu2' automatic/stack variable is used only in for() loop scopes to
save cpus ID in which we are interested in. In the loop pointed by coverity
this variable is not used for further processing within the loop's scope.
Then it is always reinitialized to 0 in the another following loops.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:16:52 +0000 (18:16 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "resource" cpu-policy
This cpu policy keeps the smallest CPU cluster. This can
be used to limit the resource usage to the strict minimum
that still delivers decent performance, for example to
try to further reduce power consumption or minimize the
number of cores needed on some rented systems for a
sidecar setup, in order to scale the system down more
easily. Note that if a single cluster is present, it
will still be fully used.
When started on a 64-core EPYC gen3, it uses only one CCX
with 8 cores and 16 threads, all in the same group.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:58:27 +0000 (17:58 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "efficiency" cpu-policy
This cpu policy tries to evict performant core clusters and only
focuses on efficiency-oriented ones. On an intel i9-14900k, we can
get 525k rps using 8 performance cores, versus 405k when using all
24 efficiency cores. In some cases the power savings might be more
desirable (e.g. scalability tests on a developer's laptop), or the
performance cores might be better suited for another component
(application or security component).
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:09:07 +0000 (15:09 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "performance" cpu-policy
This cpu policy tries to evict efficient core clusters and only
focuses on performance-oriented ones. On an intel i9-14900k, we can
get 525k rps using only 8 cores this way, versus 594k when using all
24 cores. The gains from using all these codes are not significant
enough to waste them on this. Also these cores can be much slower
at doing SSL handshakes so it can make sense to evict them. Better
keep the efficiency cores for network interrupts for example.
Also, on a developer's machine it can be convenient to keep all these
cores for the local tasks and extra tools (load generators etc).
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:41:00 +0000 (15:41 +0100)]
MEDIUM: cpu-topo: let the "group-by-cluster" split groups
When a cluster is too large to fit into a single group, let's split it
into two equal groups, which will still be allowed to use all the CPUs
of the cluster. This allows haproxy to start all the threads with a
minimum number of groups (e.g. 2x40 for 80 cores).
This policy forms thread groups from the CPU clusters, and bind all the
threads in them to all the CPUs of the cluster. This is recommended on
system with bad inter-CCX latencies. It was shown to simply triple the
performance with queuing on a 64-core EPYC without having to manually
assign the cores with cpu-map.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:14:03 +0000 (17:14 +0100)]
CLEANUP: thread: now remove the temporary CPU node binding code
This is now superseded by the default "safe" cpu-policy, and every time
it's used, that code was bypassed anyway since global.nbthread was set.
We can now safely remove it. Note that for other policies which do not
set a thread count nor further restrict CPUs (such as "none", or even
"safe" when finding a single node), we continue to go through the fallback
code that automatically assigns CPUs to threads and counts them.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:12:25 +0000 (17:12 +0100)]
MEDIUM: cpu-topo: use the "first-usable-node" cpu-policy by default
This now turns the cpu-policy to "first-usable-node" by default, so that
we preserve the current default behavior consisting in binding to the
first node if nothing was forced. If a second node is found,
global.nbthread is set and the previous code will be skipped.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 6 Mar 2025 07:40:21 +0000 (08:40 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a 'first-usable-node' cpu policy
This is a reimplemlentation of the current default policy. It binds to
the first node having usable CPUs if found, and drops CPUs from the
second and next nodes.
Willy Tarreau [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 12:44:11 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a CPU policy setting to the global section
We'll need to let the user decide what's best for their workload, and in
order to do this we'll have to provide tunable options. For that, we're
introducing struct ha_cpu_policy which contains a name, a description
and a function pointer. The purpose will be to use that function pointer
to choose the best CPUs to use and now to set the number of threads and
thread-groups, that will be called during the thread setup phase. The
only supported policy for now is "none" which doesn't set/touch anything
(i.e. all available CPUs are used).
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:54:06 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-cluster" and "drop-cluster" to cpu-set
These are processed after the topology is detected, and they allow to
restrict binding to or evict CPUs matching the indicated hardware
cluster number(s). It can be used to bind to only some clusters, such
as CCX or different energy efficiency cores. For this reason, here we
use the cluster's local ID (local to the node).
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:49:51 +0000 (11:49 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-core" and "drop-core" to cpu-set
These are processed after the topology is detected, and they allow to
restrict binding to or evict CPUs matching the indicated hardware
core number(s). It can be used to bind to only some clusters as well
as to evict efficient cores whose number is known.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:59:10 +0000 (10:59 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add "only-thread" and "drop-thread" to cpu-set
These are processed after the topology is detected, and they allow to
restrict binding to or evict CPUs matching the indicated hardware
thread number(s). It can be used to reserve even threads for HW IRQs
and odd threads for haproxy for example, or to evict efficient cores
that do only have thread #0.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:18:58 +0000 (15:18 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: ignore excess of too small clusters
On some Arm systems (typically A76/N1) where CPUs can be associated in
pairs, clusters are reported while they have no incidence on I/O etc.
Yet it's possible to have tens of clusters of 2 CPUs each, which is
counter productive since it does not even allow to start enough threads.
Let's detect this situation as soon as there are at least 4 clusters
having each 2 CPUs or less, which is already very suspcious. In this
case, all these clusters will be reset as meaningless. In the worst
case if needed they'll be re-assigned based on L2/L3.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:08:04 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: create an array of the clusters
The goal here is to keep an array of the known CPU clusters, because
we'll use that often to decide of the performance of a cluster and
its relevance compared to other ones. We'll store the number of CPUs
in it, the total capacity etc. For the capacity, we count one unit
per core, and 1/3 of it per extra SMT thread, since this is roughly
what has been measured on modern CPUs.
In order to ease debugging, they're also dumped with -dc.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:50:09 +0000 (19:50 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: consider capacity when forming clusters
By using the cluster+capacity sorting function we can detect
heterogneous clusters which are not properly reported. Thanks to this,
the following misnumbered machine featuring 4 big cores, 4 medium ones
an 4 small ones is properly detected with its clusters correctly
assigned:
Also this has the benefit of always assigning highest performance
clusters with the smallest IDs so that simple configs can decide to
simply bind to cluster 0 or clusters 0,1 and benefit from optimal
performance.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:44:37 +0000 (19:44 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a function to sort by cluster+capacity
The purpose here is to detect heterogenous clusters which are not
properly reported, based on the exposed information about the cores
capacity. The algorithm here consists in sorting CPUs by capacity
within a cluster, and considering as equal all those which have 5%
or less difference in capacity with the previous one. This allows
large clusters of more than 5% total between extremities, while
keeping apart those where the limit is more pronounced. This is
quite common in embedded environments with big.little systems, as
well as on some laptops.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:11:08 +0000 (11:11 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: renumber cores to avoid holes and make them contiguous
Due to the way core numbers are assigned and the presence of SMT on
some of them, some holes may remain in the array. Let's renumber them
to plug holes once they're known, following pkg/node/die/llc etc, so
that they're local to a (pkg,node) set. Now an i7-14700 shows cores
0 to 19, not 0 to 27.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:22:34 +0000 (19:22 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: assign an L3 cache if more than 2 L2 instances
On some machines, L3 is not always reported (e.g. on some lx2 or some
armada8040). But some also don't have L3 (core 2 quad). However, no L3
when there are more than 2 L2 is quite unheard of, and while we don't
really care about firing 2 thread groups for 2 L2, we'd rather avoid
doing this if there are 8! In this case we'll declare an L3 instance
to fix the situation. This allows small machines to continue to start
with two groups while not derivating on large ones.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:54:59 +0000 (08:54 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: make sure we don't leave unassigned IDs in the cpu_topo
It's important that we don't leave unassigned IDs in the topology,
because the selection mechanism is based on index-based masks, so an
unassigned ID will never be kept. This is particularly visible on
systems where we cannot access the CPU topology, the package id, node id
and even thread id are set to -1, and all CPUs are evicted due to -1 not
being set in the "only-cpu" sets.
Here in new function "cpu_fixup_topology()", we assign them with the
smallest unassigned value. This function will be used to assign IDs
where missing in general.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:20:53 +0000 (18:20 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: assign clusters to cores without and renumber them
Due to the previous commit we can end up with cores not assigned
any cluster ID. For this, at the end we sort the CPUs by topology
and assign cluster IDs to remaining CPUs based on pkg/node/llc.
For example an 14900 now shows 5 clusters, one for the 8 p-cores,
and 4 of 4 e-cores each.
The local cluster numbers are per (node,pkg) ID so that any rule could
easily be applied on them, but we also keep the global numbers that
will help with thread group assignment.
We still need to force to assign distinct cluster IDs to cores
running on a different L3. For example the EPYC 74F3 is reported
as having 8 different L3s (which is true) and only one cluster.
Here we introduce a new function "cpu_compose_clusters()" that is called
from the main init code just after cpu_detect_topology() so that it's
not OS-dependent. It deals with this renumbering of all clusters in
topology order, taking care of considering any distinct LLC as being
on a distinct cluster.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:25:38 +0000 (17:25 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: ignore single-core clusters
Some platforms (several armv7, intel 14900 etc) report one distinct
cluster per core. This is problematic as it cannot let clusters be
used to distinguish real groups of cores, and cannot be used to build
thread groups.
Let's just compare the cluster cpus to the siblings, and ignore it if
they exactly match. We must also take care of not falling back to
core_cpus_list, which can enumerate cores that already have their
cluster assigned (e.g. intel 14900 has 4 4-Ecore clusters in addition
to the 8 Pcores).
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:32:02 +0000 (19:32 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: implement a CPU sorting mechanism by cluster ID
This will be used to detect and fix incorrect setups which report
the same cluster ID for multiple L3 instances.
The arrangement of functions in this file is becoming a real problem.
Maybe we should move all this to cpu_topo for example, and better
distinguish OS-specific and generic code.
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:56:44 +0000 (18:56 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: implement a sorting mechanism by CPU locality
Once we've kept only the CPUs we want, the next step will be to form
groups and these ones are based on locality. Thus we'll have to sort by
locality. For now the locality is only inferred by the index. No grouping
is made at this point. For this we add the "cpu_reorder_by_locality"
function with a locality-based comparison function.
MINOR: cpu-topo: implement a sorting mechanism for CPU index
CPU selection will be performed by sorting CPUs according to
various criteria. For dumps however, that's really not convenient
and we'll need to reorder the CPUs according to their index only.
This is what the new function cpu_reorder_by_index() does. It's
called in thread_detect_count() before dumping the CPU topology.
Willy Tarreau [Mon, 6 Jan 2025 19:01:52 +0000 (20:01 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: skip CPU properties that we've verified do not exist
A number of entries under /cpu/cpu%d only exist on certain kernel
versions, certain archs and/or with certain modules loaded. It's
pointless to insist on trying to read them all for all CPUs when
we've already verified they do not exist. Thus let's use stat()
the first time prior to checking some of them, and only try to
access them when they really exist. This almost completely
eliminates the large number of ENOENT that was visible in strace
during startup.
Willy Tarreau [Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:06:00 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: boost the capacity of performance cores with cpufreq
Cpufreq alone isn't a good metric on heterogenous CPUs because efficient
cores can reach almost as high frequencies as performant ones. Tests have
shown that majoring performance cores by 50% gives a pretty accurate
estimate of the performance to expect on modern CPUs, and that counting
+33% per extra SMT thread is reasonable as well. We don't have the info
about the core's quality, but using the presence of SMT is a reasonable
approach in this case, given that efficiency cores will not use it.
As an example, using one thread of each of the 8 P-cores of an intel
i9-14900k gives 395k rps for a corrected total capacity of 69.3k, using
the 16 E-cores gives 40.5k for a total capacity of 70.4k, and using both
threads of 6 P-cores gives 41.1k for a total capacity of 69.6k. Thus the
3 same scores deliver the same performance in various combinations.
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:28:24 +0000 (13:28 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: use cpufreq before acpi cppc
The acpi_cppc method was found to take about 5ms per CPU on a 64-core
EPYC system, which is plain unacceptable as it delays the boot by half
a second. Let's use the less accurate cpufreq first, which should be
sufficient anyway since many systems do not have acpi_cppc. We'll only
fall back to acpi_cppc for systems without cpufreq. If it were to be
an issue over time, we could also automatically consider that all
threads of the same core or even of the same cluster run at the same
speed (when a cluster is known to be accurate).
Willy Tarreau [Mon, 6 Jan 2025 17:55:48 +0000 (18:55 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: fall back to nominal_perf and scaling_max_freq for the capacity
When cpu_capacity is not present, let's try to check acpi_cppc's
nominal_perf which is similar and commonly found on servers, then
scaling_max_freq (though that last one may vary a bit between CPUs
depending on die quality). That variation is not a problem since
we can absorb a ~5% variation without issue.
It was verified on an i9-14900 featuring 5.7-P, 6.0-P and 4.4-E GHz
that P-cores were not reordered and that E cores were placed last.
It was also OK on a W3-2345 with 4.3 to 4.5GHz.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:22:58 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: refine cpu dump output to better show kept/dropped CPUs
It's becoming difficult to see which CPUs are going to be kept/dropped.
Let's just skip all offline CPUs, and indicate "keep" in front of those
that are going to be used, and "----" in front of the excluded ones. It
is way more readable this way.
Also let's just drop the array entry number, since it's always the same
as the CPU number and is only an internal representation anyway.
MEDIUM: thread: reimplement first numa node detection
Let's reimplement automatic binding to the first NUMA node when thread
count is not forced. It's the same thing as is already done in
check_config_validity() except that this time it's based on the
collected CPU information. The threads are automatically counted
and CPUs from non-first node(s) are evicted.
Willy Tarreau [Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:04:54 +0000 (14:04 +0100)]
MEDIUM: cpu-topo: make sure to properly assign CPUs to threads as a fallback
If no cpu-map is done and no cpu-policy could be enforced, we still need
to count the number of usable CPUs, assign them to all threads and set
the nbthread value accordingly.
This already handles the part that was done in check_config_validity()
via thread_cpus_enabled_at_boot.
MEDIUM: thread: start to detect thread groups and threads min/max
By mutually refining the thread count and group count, we can try
to detect the most suitable setup for the current machine. Taskset
is implicitly handled correctly. tgroups automatically adapt to the
configured number of threads. cpu-map manages to limit tgroups to
the smallest supported value.
The thread-limit is enforced. Just like in cfgparse, if the thread
count was forced to a higher value, it's reduced and a warning is
emitted. But if it was not set, the thr_max value is bound to this
limit so that further calculations respect it.
We continue to default to the max number of available threads and 1
tgroup by default, with the limit. This normally allows to get rid
of that test in check_config_validity().
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:17:41 +0000 (15:17 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a new "cpu-set" global directive to choose cpus
For now it's limited, it only supports "reset" to ask that any previous
"taskset" be ignored. The goal will be to later add more actions that
allow to symbolically define sets of cpus to bind to or to drop. This
also clears the cpu_mask_forced variable that is used to detect
that a taskset had been used.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:02:41 +0000 (09:02 +0100)]
MINOR: global: add a command-line option to enable CPU binding debugging
During development, everything related to CPU binding and the CPU topology
is debugged using state dumps at various places, but it does make sense to
have a real command line option so that this remains usable in production
to help users figure why some CPUs are not used by default. Let's add
"-dc" for this. Since the list of global.tune.options values is almost
full and does not 100% match this option, let's add a new "tune.debug"
field for this.
MINOR: cfgparse: move the binding detection into numa_detect_topology()
For now the function refrains from detecting the CPU topology when a
restrictive taskset or cpu-map was already performed on the process,
and it's documented as such, the reason being that until we're able
to automatically create groups, better not change user settings. But
we'll need to be able to detect bound CPUs and to process them as
desired by the user, so we now need to move that detection into the
function itself. It changes nothing to the logic, just gives more
freedom to the function.
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:40:49 +0000 (10:40 +0100)]
MINOR: thread: turn thread_cpu_mask_forced() into an init-time variable
The function is not convenient because it doesn't allow us to undo the
startup changes, and depending on where it's being used, we don't know
whether the values read have already been altered (this is not the case
right now but it's going to evolve).
Let's just compute the status during cpu_detect_usable() and set a
variable accordingly. This way we'll always read the init value, and
if needed we can even afford to reset it. Also, placing it in cpu_topo.c
limits cross-file dependencies (e.g. threads without affinity etc).
MINOR: cpu-topo: add NUMA node identification to CPUs on FreeBSD
With this patch we're also NUMA node IDs to each CPU when the info is
found. The code is highly inspired from the one in commit f5d48f8b3
("MEDIUM: cfgparse: numa detect topology on FreeBSD."), the difference
being that we're just setting the value in ha_cpu_topo[].
MINOR: cpu-topo: add NUMA node identification to CPUs on Linux
With this patch we're also assigning NUMA node IDs to each CPU when one
is found. The code is highly inspired from the one in commit b56a7c89a
("MEDIUM: cfgparse: detect numa and set affinity if needed") that already
did the job, except that it could be simplified since we're just collecting
info to fill the ha_cpu_topo[] array.
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 8 Jan 2025 16:55:10 +0000 (17:55 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: also store the sibling ID with SMT
The sibling ID was not reported because it's not directly accessible
but we don't care, what matters is that we assign numbers to all the
threads we find using the same CPU so that some strategies permit to
allocate one thread at a time if we want to use few threads with max
performance.
MINOR: cpu-topo: add CPU topology detection for linux
This uses the publicly available information from /sys to figure the cache
and package arrangements between logical CPUs and fill ha_cpu_topo[], as
well as their SMT capabilities and relative capacity for those which expose
this. The functions clearly have to be OS-specific.
MINOR: cpu-topo: try to detect offline cpus at boot
When possible, the offline CPUs are detected at boot and their OFFLINE
flag is set in the ha_cpu_topo[] array. When the detection is not
possible (e.g. not linux, /sys not mounted etc), we just mark none of
them as being offline, as we don't want to infer wrong info that could
hinder automatic CPU placement detection. When valid, we take this
opportunity for refining cpu_topo_lastcpu so that we don't need to
manipulate CPUs beyond this value.
MINOR: cpu-topo: add detection of online CPUs on FreeBSD
On FreeBSD we can detect online CPUs at least by doing the bitwise-OR of
the CPUs of all domains, so we're using this and adding this detection
to ha_cpuset_detect_online(). If we find simpler later, we can always
rework it, but it's reasonably inexpensive since we only check existing
domains.
MINOR: cpu-topo: add detection of online CPUs on Linux
This adds a generic function ha_cpuset_detect_online() which for now
only supports linux via /sys. It fills a cpuset with the list of online
CPUs that were detected (or returns a failure).
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:17:59 +0000 (17:17 +0100)]
REORG: cpu-topo: move bound cpu detection from cpuset to cpu-topo
The cpuset files are normally used only for cpu manipulations. It happens
that the initial CPU binding detection was initially placed there since
there was no better place, but in practice, being OS-specific, it should
really be in cpu-topo. This simplifies cpuset which doesn't need to know
about the OS anymore.
MINOR: cpu-topo: update CPU topology from excluded CPUs at boot
Now before trying to resolve the thread assignment to groups, we detect
which CPUs are not bound at boot so that we can mark them with
HA_CPU_F_EXCLUDED. This will be useful to better know on which CPUs we
can count later. Note that we purposely ignore cpu-map here as we
don't know how threads and groups will map to cpu-map entries, hence
which CPUs will really be used.
It's important to proceed this way so that when we have no info we
assume they're all available.
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:00:51 +0000 (18:00 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: add a function to dump CPU topology
The new function cpu_dump_topology() will centralize most debugging
calls, and it can make efforts of not dumping some possibly irrelevant
fields (e.g. non-existing cache levels).
Willy Tarreau [Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:27:22 +0000 (10:27 +0100)]
MINOR: cpu-topo: rely on _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF to trim maxcpus
We don't want to constantly deal with as many CPUs as a cpuset can hold,
so let's first try to trim the value to what the system claims to support
via _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF. It is obviously still subject to the limit of
the cpuset size though. The value is stored globally so that we can
reuse it elsewhere after initialization.
This structure will be used to store information about each CPU's
topology (package ID, L3 cache ID, NUMA node ID etc). This will be used
in conjunction with CPU affinity setting to try to perform a mostly
optimal binding between threads and CPU numbers by default. Since it
was noticed during tests that absolutely none of the many machines
tested reports different die numbers, the die_id is not stored.
Also, it was found along experiments that the cluster ID will be used
a lot, half of the time as a node-local identifier, and half of the
time as a global identifier. So let's store the two versions at once
(cl_gid, cl_lid).
Some flags are added to indicate causes of exclusion (offline, excluded
at boot, excluded by rules, ignored by policy).
MINOR: thread: rely on the cpuset functions to count bound CPUs
let's just clean up the thread_cpus_enabled() code a little bit
by removing the OS-specific code and rely on ha_cpuset_detect_bound()
instead. On macos we continue to use sysconf() for now.
Willy Tarreau [Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:46:25 +0000 (18:46 +0100)]
MINOR: cpuset: make the API support negative CPU IDs
Negative IDs are very convenient to mean "not set", so let's just make
the cpuset API robust against this, especially with ha_cpuset_isset()
so that we don't have to manually add this check everywhere when a
value is not known.