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Willy Tarreau 758cb450a2 OPTIM: sink: drop the sink lock used to count drops
The sink lock was made to prevent event producers from passing while
there were other threads trying to print a "dropped" message, in order
to guarantee the absence of reordering. It has a serious impact however,
which is that all threads need to take the read lock when producing a
regular trace even when there's no reader.

This patch takes a different approach. The drop counter is shifted left
by one so that the lowest bit is used to indicate that one thread is
already taking care of trying to dump the counter. Threads only read
this value normally, and will only try to change it if it's non-null,
in which case they'll first check if they are the first ones trying to
dump it, otherwise will simply count another drop and leave. This has
a large benefit. First, it will avoid the locking that causes stalls
as soon as a slow reader is present. Second, it avoids any write on the
fast path as long as there's no drop. And it remains very lightweight
since we just need to add +2 or subtract 2*dropped in operations, while
offering the guarantee that the sink_write() has succeeded before
unlocking the counter.

While a reader was previously limiting the traffic to 11k RPS under
4C/8T, now we reach 36k RPS vs 14k with no reader, so readers will no
longer slow the traffic down and will instead even speed it up due to
avoiding the contention down the chain in the ring. The locking cost
dropped from ~75% to ~60% now (it's in ring_write now).
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.github CI: skip scheduled builds on forks 2024-03-05 11:50:34 +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
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doc DOC: design: write first notes about ring-v2 2024-03-09 11:23:52 +01:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
include OPTIM: sink: drop the sink lock used to count drops 2024-03-09 11:23:52 +01:00
reg-tests BUG/MAJOR: ssl/ocsp: crash with ocsp when old process exit or using ocsp CLI 2024-02-26 18:04:25 +01:00
scripts CI: ssl: add yet another OpenSSL download fallback 2024-02-07 11:05:45 +01:00
src OPTIM: sink: drop the sink lock used to count drops 2024-03-09 11:23:52 +01:00
tests Revert "MAJOR: import: update mt_list to support exponential back-off" 2023-09-15 17:13:43 +02:00
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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-dev4 2024-02-23 20:01:45 +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 CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2022-11-30 14:02:36 +01:00
Makefile DOC: install: recommend pcre2 2024-02-08 08:55:57 +01:00
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-dev4 2024-02-23 20:01:45 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.0-dev4 2024-02-23 20:01:45 +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)