Hi list,
ok, this has been long awaited I guess: graceful restarting of Kannel
bearerbox.
At the moment we can shutdown a specific SMSC and restart it again. But
we can't effectively move SMSC config parts in and out while keeping the
bearerbox running for those SMSC connections that should be unchanged
and supposed to keep running.
This patchset allows this, by making use of a "checksum" for each 'group
= smsc' context. So we can "detect" if there are groups that haven't
changed, and hence will be kept running. Other groups are
counter-compared based on their 'smsc-id' value.
I.e. if the "newly" read-in config has a smsc-id = A and this smsc-id =
A also exists in the "running" config, AND they do not match, hence the
checksum doesn't match, then we assume there is a "change" for smsc-id =
A. This results in the running smsc group to be shutdown and destroyed
and the new smsc group to be started.
Similar if there is a smsc-id = B in the running configuration, but is
not present anymore in the new one, then we shutdown and destroy it. For
the opposite side, smsc-id = C is in the new config, but not in the
running config, we add it to the running config.
I have tested this fairly, and it works pretty nice. BTW, it fixes even
a couple of memory leaks that we haven't "detected" yet, due that we are
not re-init'ing the corresponding data structure. There is STILL a
memory leak in the cfg_read() when a config is broken and tried to be
gracefully restarted. I need to work on this.
Please test, I would love to see this going into SVN trunk ASAP. You can
find the patchset at URL:
http://www.kannel.org/~tolj/patchsets/graceful/gateway-graceful-restart.diff
After finalizing the current open patches, I would like to endorse
Kannel 1.5.1 devel, giving it a 2-3 month time to settle for bug fixes
and then push the release button for Kannel 1.6.0 stable.
Comments always welcome.
Stipe
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