package server_manager import ( "log" "math/rand" "sync" "sync/atomic" "time" "github.com/hashicorp/consul/consul/server_details" "github.com/hashicorp/consul/lib" ) type consulServerEventTypes int const ( // clientRPCJitterFraction determines the amount of jitter added to // clientRPCMinReuseDuration before a connection is expired and a new // connection is established in order to rebalance load across consul // servers. The cluster-wide number of connections per second from // rebalancing is applied after this jitter to ensure the CPU impact // is always finite. See newRebalanceConnsPerSecPerServer's comment // for additional commentary. // // For example, in a 10K consul cluster with 5x servers, this default // averages out to ~13 new connections from rebalancing per server // per second (each connection is reused for 120s to 180s). clientRPCJitterFraction = 2 // clientRPCMinReuseDuration controls the minimum amount of time RPC // queries are sent over an established connection to a single server clientRPCMinReuseDuration = 120 * time.Second // initialRebalanceTimeout is the initial value for the // rebalanceTimer. This value is discarded immediately after the // client becomes aware of the first server. initialRebalanceTimeout = 24 * time.Hour // Limit the number of new connections a server receives per second // for connection rebalancing. This limit caps the load caused by // continual rebalancing efforts when a cluster is in equilibrium. A // lower value comes at the cost of increased recovery time after a // partition. This parameter begins to take effect when there are // more than ~48K clients querying 5x servers or at lower server // values when there is a partition. // // For example, in a 100K consul cluster with 5x servers, it will // take ~5min for all servers to rebalance their connections. If // 99,995 agents are in the minority talking to only one server, it // will take ~26min for all servers to rebalance. A 10K cluster in // the same scenario will take ~2.6min to rebalance. newRebalanceConnsPerSecPerServer = 64 ) type ConsulClusterInfo interface { NumNodes() int } // serverCfg is the thread-safe configuration struct used to maintain the // list of Consul servers in ServerManager. // // NOTE(sean@): We are explicitly relying on the fact that serverConfig will // be copied onto the stack. Please keep this structure light. type serverConfig struct { // servers tracks the locally known servers. List membership is // maintained by Serf. servers []*server_details.ServerDetails } type ServerManager struct { // serverConfig provides the necessary load/store semantics for the // server list. serverConfigValue atomic.Value serverConfigLock sync.Mutex // shutdownCh is a copy of the channel in consul.Client shutdownCh chan struct{} logger *log.Logger // clusterInfo is used to estimate the approximate number of nodes in // a cluster and limit the rate at which it rebalances server // connections. ConsulClusterInfo is an interface that wraps serf. clusterInfo ConsulClusterInfo // notifyFailedServersBarrier is acts as a barrier to prevent // queueing behind serverConfigLog and acts as a TryLock(). notifyFailedBarrier int32 } // AddServer takes out an internal write lock and adds a new server. If the // server is not known, appends the server to the list. The new server will // begin seeing use after the rebalance timer fires or enough servers fail // organically. If the server is already known, merge the new server // details. func (sm *ServerManager) AddServer(server *server_details.ServerDetails) { sm.serverConfigLock.Lock() defer sm.serverConfigLock.Unlock() serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() // Check if this server is known found := false for idx, existing := range serverCfg.servers { if existing.Name == server.Name { newServers := make([]*server_details.ServerDetails, len(serverCfg.servers)) copy(newServers, serverCfg.servers) // Overwrite the existing server details in order to // possibly update metadata (e.g. server version) newServers[idx] = server serverCfg.servers = newServers found = true break } } // Add to the list if not known if !found { newServers := make([]*server_details.ServerDetails, len(serverCfg.servers), len(serverCfg.servers)+1) copy(newServers, serverCfg.servers) newServers = append(newServers, server) serverCfg.servers = newServers } sm.saveServerConfig(serverCfg) } // cycleServers returns a new list of servers that has dequeued the first // server and enqueued it at the end of the list. cycleServers assumes the // caller is holding the serverConfigLock. func (sc *serverConfig) cycleServer() (servers []*server_details.ServerDetails) { numServers := len(sc.servers) if numServers < 2 { return servers // No action required } newServers := make([]*server_details.ServerDetails, 0, numServers) newServers = append(newServers, sc.servers[1:]...) newServers = append(newServers, sc.servers[0]) return newServers } // FindServer takes out an internal "read lock" and searches through the list // of servers to find a "healthy" server. If the server is actually // unhealthy, we rely on Serf to detect this and remove the node from the // server list. If the server at the front of the list has failed or fails // during an RPC call, it is rotated to the end of the list. If there are no // servers available, return nil. func (sm *ServerManager) FindServer() *server_details.ServerDetails { serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() numServers := len(serverCfg.servers) if numServers == 0 { sm.logger.Printf("[WARN] consul: No servers found in the server config") return nil } else { // Return whatever is at the front of the list because it is // assumed to be the oldest in the server list (unless - // hypothetically - the server list was rotated right after a // server was added). return serverCfg.servers[0] } } // getServerConfig is a convenience method which hides the locking semantics // of atomic.Value from the caller. func (sm *ServerManager) getServerConfig() serverConfig { return sm.serverConfigValue.Load().(serverConfig) } // saveServerConfig is a convenience method which hides the locking semantics // of atomic.Value from the caller. func (sm *ServerManager) saveServerConfig(sc serverConfig) { sm.serverConfigValue.Store(sc) } // New is the only way to safely create a new ServerManager struct. func New(logger *log.Logger, shutdownCh chan struct{}, clusterInfo ConsulClusterInfo) (sm *ServerManager) { // NOTE(sean@): Can't pass *consul.Client due to an import cycle sm = new(ServerManager) sm.logger = logger sm.clusterInfo = clusterInfo sm.shutdownCh = shutdownCh sc := serverConfig{} sc.servers = make([]*server_details.ServerDetails, 0) sm.saveServerConfig(sc) return sm } // NotifyFailedServer marks the passed in server as "failed" by rotating it // to the end of the server list. func (sm *ServerManager) NotifyFailedServer(server *server_details.ServerDetails) { serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() // If the server being failed is not the first server on the list, // this is a noop. If, however, the server is failed and first on // the list, acquire the lock, retest, and take the penalty of moving // the server to the end of the list. // Only rotate the server list when there is more than one server if len(serverCfg.servers) > 1 && serverCfg.servers[0] == server && // Use atomic.CAS to emulate a TryLock(). atomic.CompareAndSwapInt32(&sm.notifyFailedBarrier, 0, 1) { defer atomic.StoreInt32(&sm.notifyFailedBarrier, 0) // Grab a lock, retest, and take the hit of cycling the first // server to the end. sm.serverConfigLock.Lock() defer sm.serverConfigLock.Unlock() serverCfg = sm.getServerConfig() if len(serverCfg.servers) > 1 && serverCfg.servers[0] == server { serverCfg.servers = serverCfg.cycleServer() sm.saveServerConfig(serverCfg) } } } // NumServers takes out an internal "read lock" and returns the number of // servers. numServers includes both healthy and unhealthy servers. func (sm *ServerManager) NumServers() (numServers int) { serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() numServers = len(serverCfg.servers) return numServers } // RebalanceServers takes out an internal write lock and shuffles the list of // servers on this agent. This allows for a redistribution of work across // consul servers and provides a guarantee that the order of the server list // isn't related to the age at which the node was added to the cluster. // Elsewhere we rely on the position in the server list as a hint regarding // the stability of a server relative to its position in the server list. // Servers at or near the front of the list are more stable than servers near // the end of the list. Unhealthy servers are removed when serf notices the // server has been deregistered. func (sm *ServerManager) RebalanceServers() { sm.serverConfigLock.Lock() defer sm.serverConfigLock.Unlock() serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() newServers := make([]*server_details.ServerDetails, len(serverCfg.servers)) copy(newServers, serverCfg.servers) // Shuffle the server list for i := len(serverCfg.servers) - 1; i > 0; i-- { j := rand.Int31n(int32(i + 1)) newServers[i], newServers[j] = newServers[j], newServers[i] } serverCfg.servers = newServers sm.saveServerConfig(serverCfg) } // RemoveServer takes out an internal write lock and removes a server from // the server list. func (sm *ServerManager) RemoveServer(server *server_details.ServerDetails) { sm.serverConfigLock.Lock() defer sm.serverConfigLock.Unlock() serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() // Remove the server if known for i, _ := range serverCfg.servers { if serverCfg.servers[i].Name == server.Name { newServers := make([]*server_details.ServerDetails, 0, len(serverCfg.servers)-1) newServers = append(newServers, serverCfg.servers[:i]...) newServers = append(newServers, serverCfg.servers[i+1:]...) serverCfg.servers = newServers sm.saveServerConfig(serverCfg) return } } } // refreshServerRebalanceTimer is only called once the rebalanceTimer // expires. Historically this was an expensive routine and is intended to be // run in isolation in a dedicated, non-concurrent task. func (sm *ServerManager) refreshServerRebalanceTimer(timer *time.Timer) time.Duration { serverCfg := sm.getServerConfig() numConsulServers := len(serverCfg.servers) // Limit this connection's life based on the size (and health) of the // cluster. Never rebalance a connection more frequently than // connReuseLowWatermarkDuration, and make sure we never exceed // clusterWideRebalanceConnsPerSec operations/s across numLANMembers. clusterWideRebalanceConnsPerSec := float64(numConsulServers * newRebalanceConnsPerSecPerServer) connReuseLowWatermarkDuration := clientRPCMinReuseDuration + lib.RandomStagger(clientRPCMinReuseDuration/clientRPCJitterFraction) numLANMembers := sm.clusterInfo.NumNodes() connRebalanceTimeout := lib.RateScaledInterval(clusterWideRebalanceConnsPerSec, connReuseLowWatermarkDuration, numLANMembers) timer.Reset(connRebalanceTimeout) return connRebalanceTimeout } // Start is used to start and manage the task of automatically shuffling and // rebalancing the list of consul servers. This maintenance only happens // periodically based on the expiration of the timer. Failed servers are // automatically cycled to the end of the list. New servers are appended to // the list. The order of the server list must be shuffled periodically to // distribute load across all known and available consul servers. func (sm *ServerManager) Start() { var rebalanceTimer *time.Timer = time.NewTimer(initialRebalanceTimeout) var rebalanceTaskDispatched int32 func() { sm.serverConfigLock.Lock() defer sm.serverConfigLock.Unlock() serverCfgPtr := sm.serverConfigValue.Load() if serverCfgPtr == nil { panic("server config has not been initialized") } var serverCfg serverConfig serverCfg = serverCfgPtr.(serverConfig) sm.saveServerConfig(serverCfg) }() for { select { case <-rebalanceTimer.C: sm.logger.Printf("[INFO] server manager: server rebalance timeout") sm.RebalanceServers() // Only run one rebalance task at a time, but do // allow for the channel to be drained if atomic.CompareAndSwapInt32(&rebalanceTaskDispatched, 0, 1) { sm.logger.Printf("[INFO] server manager: Launching rebalance duration task") go func() { defer atomic.StoreInt32(&rebalanceTaskDispatched, 0) sm.refreshServerRebalanceTimer(rebalanceTimer) }() } case <-sm.shutdownCh: sm.logger.Printf("[INFO] server manager: shutting down") return } } }