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Since 2.9-dev3 with commit 7bf829ace ("MAJOR: pools: move the shared
pool's free_list over multiple buckets"), the global pool supports
multiple heads to reduce inter-thread contention. However, when
grabbing a freelist head fails because another thread is already
picking from it, we just skip to the next one and try again.
Unfortunately, it still maintains a bit of contention between thread
pairs when for some reasons only a few threads are used. This may
happen for example when running on a 4- or 8- thread system and
the two most active ones end up on adjacent buckets.
A better and much simpler solution consists in visiting a random bucket
instead of the current one. Tests show that the CPU usage spent in
pool_refill_local_from_shared() reduces at low number of connections
(hence threads).
No backport is needed, as the issue is only in 2.9.
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)