It's now possible to specify in the config parameter declaration
that the smallest allowed unit is seconds. For parameters whose
granularity is seconds, allowing to specify a duration in
milliseconds would open up a possibility for hard to detect errors.
Now the desired type must be specified when getting a duration.
The type also dictates how durations without suffixes should be
interpreted.
That removes the need for remembering that to convert a returned
millisecond duration to a second duration.
The code that selects which worker to assign the DCB to is now completely
in the Listener class. This removes the need to change the ownership of a
DCB after it has been allocated.
The DCB is now fully allocated on the thread that owns it. This guarantees
that the owner is always correct when it is used.
The code in poll_add_dcb still manipulates which worker the DCB is
allocated. This needs to be removed and the detection of special needs
(maxadmin, maxinfo) must be moved into the listener.
If normal authentication fails and a PAM service is defined, PAM authentication
is attempted. Separate services can be set for read-only users and admin-level
users.
The configuration mechanism consists of the following concepts:
Specification
Specifies the available configuration parameters of a module,
their names and their types.
Param
Specifies a parameter, its name and its type.
Type
Specifies the type of a configuration parameters; Bool, Size,
Count, etc.
Configuration
Specifies the configuration values of a particular instance of
the module. Configuration walks hand in hand with Specification,
the latter specifies what the former should contain.
A Specification is capable of configuring a Configuration from a
MXS_CONFIG_PARAMETER, checking in the process that all parameters
are of the correct type and that the required parameters are present.
A Specification is capable of persisting itself so that it later
can be read back.
The mechanism is closed for modification but open for extension in
the sense that if a module requires a custom parameter, all it needs
to do is to derive one class from Param and another from Type.
The canonical way for using this mechanism is as follows. Consider
a module xyx that has three parameters; a parameter called
"enabled" that is of boolean type, a parameter called "period"
that is of duration type, and a parameter "cache" that is of
size type. That would be declared as follows:
// xyz.hh
class XYZSession;
class XYZ : public maxscale::Filter<XYZ, XYZSession>
{
public:
static XYZ* create(const char* zName, MXS_CONFIG_PARAMETER* pParams);
private:
XYZ();
static config::Specification s_specification;
static config::ParamBool s_enabled;
static config::ParamDuration<std::chrono::seconds> s_period;
static config::ParamSize s_cache;
config::Configuration m_configuration;
config::Bool m_enabled;
config::Duration<std::chrono::seconds> m_period;
config::Size m_cache;
};
// xyz.cc
config::Specification XYZ::s_specification(MXS_MODULE_NAME);
config::ParamBool XYZ::s_enabled(
&s_specification,
"enabled",
"Specifies whether ... should be enabled or not."
);
config::ParamDuration<std::chrono::seconds> XYZ::s_period(
&s_specification,
"period",
"Specifies the period. Rounded to the nearest second."
);
config::ParamSize XYZ::s_cache(
&s_specification,
"cache",
"Specifies the size of the internal cache."
);
XYZ::XYZ()
: m_configuration(&s_specification)
, m_enabled(&m_configuration, &s_enabled)
, m_period(&m_configuration, &s_period)
, m_cache(&m_configuration, &s_cache)
{
}
XYZ* XYZ::create(const char* zName, MXS_CONFIG_PARAMETER* pParams)
{
XYZ* pXyz = new XYZ;
if (!s_specification.configure(pXyz->m_configuration, pParams))
{
delete pXyz;
pXyz = nullptr;
}
return pXyz;
}
The largest part of the code deals with the start of a response. Moving
this into a subfunction makes the function clearer as the switch statement
inside a switch statement is removed.
By processing the packets one at a time, the reply state is updated
correctly regardless of how many packets are received. This removes the
need for the clunky code that used modutil_count_signal_packets to detect
the end of the result set.
The new `force=yes` option closes all connections to the server that is
being put into maintenance mode. This will immediately close all open
connections to the server without allowing results to return.
Given the assumption that queries are rarely 16MB long and that
realistically the only time that happens is during a large dump of data,
we can limit the size of a single read to at most one MariaDB/MySQL packet
at a time. This change allows the network throttling to engage a lot
sooner and reduces the maximum overshoot of throtting to 16MB.
By passing the raw password deeper into the authentication code, it can be
used to verify the user can access some systems. Right now, this is not
required by the simple salted password comparison done in MaxScale.
The load_persisted_configs parameter now controls whether persisted
runtime changes are loaded on startup. The changes are still generated as
it persists the current state of MaxScale making problem analysis easier.
The new `force=yes` option closes all connections to the server that is
being put into maintenance mode. This will immediately close all open
connections to the server without allowing results to return.
That URL will now return information about the statements in
the query classifier cache. The information is collected using
the same map in a serial manner from all routing workers (that
each have their own cache). Since all caches will contains the
same statements, collecting the information in a serial manner
means that the overall memory consumption will be lower than
what it would be if the information was collected in parallel.
With the addition of SO_REUSEPORT support, it is no longer possible to
rely on the network stack to prevent multiple listeners from listening on
the same port. Without explicitly checking for the ports it would be
possible for two listeners from two different services to listen on the
same port in which case the service would be almost randomly chosen.
If SO_REUSEPORT is available and the kernel supports it, listeners will
now listen on separate file descriptors. This removes the need for
cross-worker communication when in normal operation which should make
MaxScale scale better.
By storing the file descriptor inside a worker-local variable, it is
possible to handle both unique file descriptors (created with
SO_REUSEPORT) and shared file descriptors with the same code. The way in
which the file descriptor is stored in the rworker_local object determines
the way the listener behaves.
