Thanks much.  We're working on getting it compiled and tested.

Assuming testing goes well, our last major hurdle is the deterministic
portion of the load balancing, which it sounds like you are thinking about
already.

Thanks much again,

;P mn


On 2007/11/22 8:09 AM, "Reyk Floeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> muttered
eloquently:

> ok, forget about this diff - i committed the first part (roundrobin)
> but skipped the loadbalance part because it is wrong to look at the
> client port in this case (because i want to provide session
> persistence).
> 
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:51:10PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote:
>> - please try the attached diff, it will fix the roundrobin mode by
>> saving the last index and traversing to the next available host.
>> 
>> (you can also have a look at my little test program to verify the alg:
>> http://team.vantronix.net/~reyk/q.c)
>> 
>> - i'm also looking into improving the loadbalance mode. the attached
>> diff includes the source port in loadbalance mode and the destination
>> (relay) port in loadbalance and hash mode. make also sure that you
>> feed in other variables if you want to get better results, for example
>> 
>> request hash "Host"
>> 
>> to feed the virtual hostname into the hash/loadbalance hash.
>> 
>> reyk
>> 
>> Index: hoststated.h
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/hoststated/hoststated.h,v
>> retrieving revision 1.81
>> diff -u -p -r1.81 hoststated.h
>> --- hoststated.h 22 Nov 2007 10:09:53 -0000 1.81
>> +++ hoststated.h 22 Nov 2007 11:45:00 -0000
>> @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ struct host {
>> u_long    up_cnt;
>> int    retry_cnt;
>> struct ctl_tcp_event  cte;
>> + int    idx;
>>  };
>>  TAILQ_HEAD(hostlist, host);
>>  
>> Index: relay.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/hoststated/relay.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.65
>> diff -u -p -r1.65 relay.c
>> --- relay.c 22 Nov 2007 10:09:53 -0000 1.65
>> +++ relay.c 22 Nov 2007 11:45:01 -0000
>> @@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ relay_init(void)
>> if (rlay->dstnhosts >= RELAY_MAXHOSTS)
>> fatal("relay_init: "
>>    "too many hosts in table");
>> +    host->idx = rlay->dstnhosts;
>> rlay->dsthost[rlay->dstnhosts++] = host;
>> }
>> log_info("adding %d hosts from table %s%s",
>> @@ -1876,10 +1877,14 @@ relay_hash_addr(struct sockaddr_storage
>> sin4 = (struct sockaddr_in *)ss;
>> p = hash32_buf(&sin4->sin_addr,
>>    sizeof(struct in_addr), p);
>> +  p = hash32_buf(&sin4->sin_port,
>> +      sizeof(struct in_addr), p);
>> } else {
>> sin6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *)ss;
>> p = hash32_buf(&sin6->sin6_addr,
>>    sizeof(struct in6_addr), p);
>> +  p = hash32_buf(&sin6->sin6_port,
>> +      sizeof(struct in6_addr), p);
>> }
>>  
>> return (p);
>> @@ -1903,7 +1908,7 @@ relay_from_table(struct session *con)
>> case RELAY_DSTMODE_ROUNDROBIN:
>> if ((int)rlay->dstkey >= rlay->dstnhosts)
>> rlay->dstkey = 0;
>> -  idx = (int)rlay->dstkey++;
>> +  idx = (int)rlay->dstkey;
>> break;
>> case RELAY_DSTMODE_LOADBALANCE:
>> p = relay_hash_addr(&con->in.ss, p);
>> @@ -1933,6 +1938,8 @@ relay_from_table(struct session *con)
>> fatalx("relay_from_table: no active hosts, desynchronized");
>>  
>>   found:
>> + if (rlay->conf.dstmode == RELAY_DSTMODE_ROUNDROBIN)
>> +  rlay->dstkey = host->idx + 1;
>> con->retry = host->conf.retry;
>> con->out.port = table->conf.port;
>> bcopy(&host->conf.ss, &con->out.ss, sizeof(con->out.ss));
>> 

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