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Willy Tarreau 4431e3bd26 OPTIM: sink: reduce contention on sink_announce_dropped()
perf top shows that sink_announce_dropped() consumes most of the CPU
on a 128-thread x86 system. Digging further reveals that the atomic
fetch_or() on the dropped field used to detect the presence of another
thread is entirely responsible for this. Indeed, the compiler implements
it using a CAS that loops without relaxing and makes all threads wait
until they can synchronize on this one, only to discover later that
another thread is there and they need to give up.

Let's just replace this with a hand-crafted CAS loop that will detect
*before* attempting the CAS if another thread is there. Doing so
achieves the same goal without forcing threads to agree. With this
simple change, the sustained request rate on h1 with all traces on
bumped from 110k/s to 244k/s!

This should be backported to stable releases where it's often needed
to help debugging.
2025-09-18 08:38:34 +02:00
.github CI: github: add an OpenSSL + ECH job 2025-09-16 15:05:44 +02:00
addons MINOR: applet: Add a flag to know an applet is using HTX buffers 2025-08-25 11:11:05 +02:00
admin BUG/MINOR: halog: Add OOM checks for calloc() in filter_count_srv_status() and filter_count_url() 2025-09-02 07:29:54 +02:00
dev DEV: gdb: add a memprofile decoder to the debug tools 2025-07-16 15:33:33 +02:00
doc MINOR: server: add the "cc" keyword to set the TCP congestion controller 2025-09-17 17:19:33 +02:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MINOR: trace: don't call strlen() on the function's name 2025-09-18 08:31:57 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: Fix the script about automatic SNI selection 2025-09-08 15:55:56 +02:00
scripts CI: scripts: mkdir BUILDSSL_TMPDIR 2025-09-16 15:35:35 +02:00
src OPTIM: sink: reduce contention on sink_announce_dropped() 2025-09-18 08:38:34 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-2 2025-02-12 13:18:55 +01:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev8 2025-09-05 09:54:34 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL BUILD: makefile: bump the default minimum linux version to 4.17 2025-09-05 09:44:56 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile IMPORT: cebtree: import version 0.5.0 to support duplicates 2025-09-16 09:23:46 +02:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev8 2025-09-05 09:54:34 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev8 2025-09-05 09:54:34 +02:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

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:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.