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Christopher Faulet 640dea2ffe MAJOR: peers: Remove the update lock by using a mt-list to deal with updates
In this patch, the update tree is replaced by a mt-list. It is a huge patch
with several changes. Main ones are in the function sending updates.

By using a list instead of a tree, we loose the order between updates and
the ability to restart for a given update using its id (the key to index
updates in the tree). However, to use the tree, it had to be locked and it
was a cause of contention between threads, leading the watchdog to kill the
process in worst cases. Because the idea it to split the updates by buckets
to divide the contention on updated, the order between updates will be lost
anyway. So, the tree can be replaced by a list. By using a mt-list, we can
also remove the update lock.

To be able to use a list instead of a tree, each peer must save its position
in the list, to be able to process new entries only at each loop. These
marker are "special" sticky session of type STKSESS_UPDT_MARKER. Of course,
these marker are not in any stick-tables but only in updates lists. And only
the ownr of a marker can move it in the list. Each peer owns two markers for
each list (so two markers per shared table). The first one used a start
point for a loop, and the other one used as stop point. The way these marker
are moved in the list is not obvious, especially for the first one.

Updates sent during a full resync are now handled exactly a the same way
than other updates. Only the moment the stop marker is set is different.
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.github CI: github: build halog on the vtest job 2025-09-26 16:29:29 +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 ADMIN: reload: introduce -vv mode 2025-09-29 19:29:10 +02:00
dev DEV: patchbot: use git reset+checkout instead of pull 2025-10-08 04:38:35 +02:00
doc [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev10 2025-10-18 11:24:05 +02:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MAJOR: peers: Remove the update lock by using a mt-list to deal with updates 2025-10-21 15:11:14 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: remove experimental from quic/retry.vtc 2025-10-17 20:55:43 +02:00
scripts CI: scripts: build curl with ECH support 2025-09-25 17:05:46 +02:00
src MAJOR: peers: Remove the update lock by using a mt-list to deal with updates 2025-10-21 15:11:14 +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 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.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: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev10 2025-10-18 11:24:05 +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 BUILD: makefile: disable tail calls optimizations with memory profiling 2025-10-10 13:45:19 +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-dev10 2025-10-18 11:24:05 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev10 2025-10-18 11:24:05 +02:00

HAProxy

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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.