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Willy Tarreau 63261aae39 MINOR: vecpair: add new vector pair based data manipulation mechanisms
The buffers API defines both a storage layout and how to handle the
data. The storage is shared with the chunks API which only deals with
non-wrapping messages while buffers support wrapping both of the data
and of the free space. As such, most of the buffers code already makes
special cases of two parts in a buffer, the first one before wrapping
and the optional second one after the wrapping occurred.

The thing is, there are plenty of other places (e.g. rings) where the
code dealing with wrapping is desirable but with a different storage
layout. Let's export the existing buffer handling code related to
reading/writing wrapping data and make it work with arbitrary vector
pairs instead. This will handle wrapping and holes in messages if
desired, and it will be up to the caller to decide how its messages
are arranged and to pass the relevant ptr,len elements.

The code is limited to two vectors because this is sufficient to deal
with wrapping without making the code needlessly complex. I.e. this will
not reassemble an iovec. For vectors, since we already had the ist type,
there's no point inventing a new type, and it's even possible that over
time some callers will find benefits in using this unified API (i.e. no
NOP translation layer). It also allows to pass inputs as direct arguments
and outputs as pointers. Not only this is more efficient code-wise, but
it also avoids the accidental use of a wrong function. It was indeed
found that naming functions is even harder than with the buffer as the
notion of from/to is even fuzzier here.

The API will likely continue to evolve and some functions might get
renamed to more explicit ones over time to limit confusion. For now
the code provides anything needed to reset/create/fill/erase/read/peek
or measure vector pairs and to manipulate chars/blocks/varints to/from
there.
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.github CI: temporarily adjust kernel entropy to work with ASAN/clang 2024-03-18 19:54:33 +01:00
addons CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2024-03-05 11:50:34 +01:00
admin BUILD: address a few remaining calloc(size, n) cases 2024-02-10 11:37:27 +01:00
dev DEV: haring: automatically use the advertised ring header size 2024-03-09 11:23:52 +01:00
doc MINOR: ssl: Change level of ocsp-update logs 2024-03-20 16:12:11 +01:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
include MINOR: vecpair: add new vector pair based data manipulation mechanisms 2024-03-25 17:34:19 +00:00
reg-tests OPTIM: http_ext: avoid useless copy in http_7239_extract_{ipv4,ipv6} 2024-03-25 16:24:15 +01:00
scripts CI: ssl: add yet another OpenSSL download fallback 2024-02-07 11:05:45 +01:00
src MINOR: ring: reserve one special value for the readers count 2024-03-25 17:34:19 +00:00
tests Revert "MAJOR: import: update mt_list to support exponential back-off" 2023-09-15 17:13:43 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: display gdb bt if any 2023-09-22 08:28:30 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore CONTRIB: Add vi file extensions to .gitignore 2023-06-02 18:14:34 +02:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +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
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev5 2024-03-09 16:50:15 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL DOC: install: recommend pcre2 2024-02-08 08:55:57 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Deprecate the SPOE filter 2024-03-15 11:29:39 +01:00
Makefile REORG: dns/ring: split the ring between the generic one and the DNS one 2024-03-25 17:34:19 +00:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev5 2024-03-09 16:50:15 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev5 2024-03-09 16:50:15 +01:00

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)