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Willy Tarreau 44982715ba MEDIUM: time: make the clock offset global and no per-thread
Since 1.8 for simplicity the time offset used to compensate for time
drift and jumps had been stored per thread. But with a global time,
the complexit has significantly increased.

What this patch does in order to address this is to get back to the
origins of the pre-thread time drift correction, and keep a single
offset between the system's date and the current global date.

The thread first verifies from the before_poll date if the time jumped
backwards or forward, then either fixes it by computing the new most
likely date, or applies the current offset to this latest system date.
In the first case, if the date is out of range, the old one is reused
with the max_wait offset or not depending on the interrupted flag.
Then it compares its date to the global date and updates both so that
both remain monotonic and that the local date always reflects the
latest known global date.

In order to support atomic updates to the offset, it's saved as a
ullong which contains both the tv_sec and tv_usec parts in its high
and low words. Note that a part of the patch comes from the inlining
of the equivalent of tv_add applied to the offset to make sure that
signed ints are permitted (otherwise it depends on how timeval is
defined).

This is significantly more reliable than the previous model as the
global time should move in a much smoother way, and not according
to what thread last updated it, and the thread-local time should
always be very close to the global one.

Note that (at least for debugging) a cheap way to measure processing
lag would consist in measuring the difference between global_now_ms
and now_ms, as long as other threads keep it up-to-date.
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.github CONTRIB: move src/wurfl.c and contrib/wurfl to addons/wurfl 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00
addons MINOR: pool: move pool declarations to read_mostly 2021-04-10 19:27:41 +02:00
admin MINOR: freq_ctr: unify freq_ctr and freq_ctr_period into freq_ctr 2021-04-11 11:11:27 +02:00
contrib CONTRIB: move contrib/opentracing to addons/ot 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: dev/flags: remove useless test in the stdin number parser 2021-04-03 15:29:10 +02:00
doc [RELEASE] Released version 2.4-dev16 2021-04-09 17:10:39 +02:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2020-06-26 11:27:28 +02:00
include MINOR: time: move the time initialization out of tv_update_date() 2021-04-11 23:45:48 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: mark set_ssl_cert_bundle.vtc as broken 2021-04-02 17:13:55 +02:00
scripts BUILD: Makefile: move REGTESTST_TYPE default setting 2021-02-05 11:41:16 +01:00
src MEDIUM: time: make the clock offset global and no per-thread 2021-04-11 23:59:37 +02:00
tests TESTS: move tests/*.cfg to tests/config 2021-04-02 10:59:29 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus: update FreeBSD image to 12.2 2021-02-12 16:04:52 +01:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore CONTRIB: move halog to admin/ 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis: Drastically clean up .travis.yml 2021-04-10 13:38:00 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.4-dev16 2021-04-09 17:10:39 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
INSTALL DOC: add a few words about USE_* and the addons directory 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS CONTRIB: move src/wurfl.c and contrib/wurfl to addons/wurfl 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00
Makefile CONTRIB: move contrib/opentracing to addons/ot 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +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 2.4-dev16 2021-04-09 17:10:39 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.4-dev16 2021-04-09 17:10:39 +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)