The runtime configuration of a MaxScale can now be exported to a single
file. This allows modifications made via runtime configuration commands to
be "committed" for later use.
The log manager is the only one that uses the mlist_t versioned list. The
counter that keeps track of the version number was not modified using
atomic operations meaning that the compiler is free to optimize away parts
of the lock-free versioning mechanism that uses it.
To prevent this optimization, the variable is declared volatile. A rewrite
is direly needed but it cannot be done in 2.2.
Due to the skewed accept distribution without SO_REUSEPORT, we use
round-robin assignment of workers for new client connections. This
provides better performance as work is more likely to be evenly
distributed across all threads.
Using a least-busy-worker algorithm would provide a more stable result but
this is not trivially simple to implement. For this reason, the
round-robin based approach was chosen for 2.2.
Fixed string truncation warnings by reducing max parameter lengths by one
where applicable. The binlogrouter filename lengths are slightly different
so using memcpy to work around the warnings is an adequate "solution"
until the root of the problem is solved.
Removed unnecessary CMake policy settings from qc_sqlite. Adding a
self-dependency on the source file of an external project has no effect
and only caused warnings to be logged.
Pre-loading users for all threads at startup significantly reduces the
chance for failures caused by the lazy initialization of the user database
done by the authenticators.
If users are not loaded at startup and the connection limit for all
servers is reached, authentication in MaxScale will fail not due to too
many connections but due to the lack of authentication data. This causes
repeated reloading of users, which floods the log with messages, and
unnecessary stress on the cluster itself.
The internal header directory conflicted with in-source builds causing a
build failure. This is fixed by renaming the internal header directory to
something other than maxscale.
The renaming pointed out a few problems in a couple of source files that
appeared to include internal headers when the headers were in fact public
headers.
Fixed maxctrl in-source builds by making the copying of the sources
optional.