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Willy Tarreau cddeea58cd BUG/MINOR: cpu-topo: count cores not cpus to distinguish core types
The per-cpu capacity of a cluster was taken into account since 3.2 with
commit 6c88e27cf4 ("MEDIUM: cpu-topo: change "performance" to consider
per-core capacity").

In cpu_policy_performance() and cpu_policy_efficiency(), we're trying
to figure which cores have more capacity than others by comparing their
cluster's average capacity. However, contrary to what the comment says,
we're not averaging per core but per cpu, which makes a difference for
CPUs mixing SMT with non-SMT cores on the same SoC, such as intel's 14th
gen CPUs. Indeed, on a machine where cpufreq is not enabled, all CPUs
can be reported with a capacity of 1024, resulting in a big cluster of
16*1024, and 4 small clusters of 4*1024 each, giving an average of 1024
per CPU, making it impossible to distinguish one from the other. In this
situation, both "cpu-policy performance" and "cpu-policy efficiency"
enable all cores.

But this is wrong, what needs to be taken into account in the divide is
the number of *cores*, not *cpus*, that allows to distinguish big from
little clusters. This was not noticeable on the ARM machines the commit
above aimed at fixing because there, the number of CPUs equals the number
of cores. And on an x86 machine with cpu_freq enabled, the frequencies
continue to help spotting which ones are big/little.

By using nb_cores instead of nb_cpus in the comparison and in the avg_capa
compare function, it properly works again on x86 without affecting other
machines with 1 CPU per core.

This can be backported to 3.2.
2026-02-04 08:49:18 +01:00
.github CI: github: fix vtest.yml with "not quictls" 2026-01-19 13:22:10 +01:00
addons BUG/MINOR: promex: Detach promex from the server on error dump its metrics dump 2026-01-23 11:40:54 +01:00
admin MEDIUM: systemd: implement directory loading 2026-01-16 09:55:33 +01:00
dev CLEANUP: use the automatic alignment feature 2025-12-09 17:14:58 +01:00
doc MEDIUM: tcpcheck: add post-80 option for mysql-check to support MySQL 8.x 2026-02-03 07:36:53 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MINOR: quic: Fix build with USE_QUIC_OPENSSL_COMPAT 2026-02-03 04:05:34 +01:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: make reg-tests compatible with OpenSSL 4.0 2026-01-29 17:08:45 +01:00
scripts SCRIPTS: build: enable symbols in AWS-LC builds 2026-01-22 15:25:24 +01:00
src BUG/MINOR: cpu-topo: count cores not cpus to distinguish core types 2026-02-04 08:49:18 +01:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev3 2026-01-22 19:02:54 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile REORG: cfgparse: move peers parsing to cfgparse-peers.c 2026-01-20 17:17:37 +01:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev3 2026-01-22 19:02:54 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev3 2026-01-22 19:02:54 +01:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.