Add KORE_PYTHON_LIB and KORE_PYTHON_INC which can be set
by a caller in case the libraries exist somewhere else.
Add KORE_CRYPTO to be able to override the name of the default
crypto library Kore would link with.
This means you can now do things like:
resp = await koresock.recv(1024)
await koresock.send(resp)
directly from page handlers if they are defined as async.
Adds lots more to the python goo such as fatalx(), bind_unix(),
task_create() and socket_wrap().
A filemap is a way of telling Kore to serve files from a directory
much like a traditional webserver can do.
Kore filemaps only handles files. Kore does not generate directory
indexes or deal with non-regular files.
The way files are sent to a client differs a bit per platform and
build options:
default:
- mmap() backed file transfer due to TLS.
NOTLS=1
- sendfile() under FreeBSD, macOS and Linux.
- mmap() backed file for OpenBSD.
The opened file descriptors/mmap'd regions are cached and reused when
appropriate. If a file is no longer in use it will be closed and evicted
from the cache after 30 seconds.
New API's are available allowing developers to use these facilities via:
void net_send_fileref(struct connection *, struct kore_fileref *);
void http_response_fileref(struct http_request *, struct kore_fileref *);
Kore will attempt to match media types based on file extensions. A few
default types are built-in. Others can be added via the new "http_media_type"
configuration directive.
Mimics how the header files are installed on a system
as PREFIX/include/kore.
This is required for getting kodev to use the headers from the
kore_source option instead of requiring the kore headers to be
installed on the system even when building as a single_binary.
The HTTP layer used to make a copy of each incoming header and its
value for a request. Stop doing that and make HTTP headers zero-copy
all across the board.
This change comes with some api function changes, notably the
http_request_header() function which now takes a const char ** rather
than a char ** out pointer.
This commit also constifies several members of http_request, beware.
Additional rework how the worker processes deal with the accept lock.
Before:
if a worker held the accept lock and it accepted a new connection
it would release the lock for others and back off for 500ms before
attempting to grab the lock again.
This approach worked but under high load this starts becoming obvious.
Now:
- workers not holding the accept lock and not having any connections
will wait less long before returning from kore_platform_event_wait().
- workers not holding the accept lock will no longer blindly wait
an arbitrary amount in kore_platform_event_wait() but will look
at how long until the next lock grab is and base their timeout
on that.
- if a worker its next_lock timeout is up and failed to grab the
lock it will try again in half the time again.
- the worker process holding the lock will when releasing the lock
double check if it still has space for newer connections, if it does
it will keep the lock until it is full. This prevents the lock from
bouncing between several non busy worker processes all the time.
Additional fixes:
- Reduce the number of times we check the timeout list, only do it twice
per second rather then every event tick.
- Fix solo worker count for TLS (we actually hold two processes, not one).
- Make sure we don't accidentally miscalculate the idle time causing new
connections under heavy load to instantly drop.
- Swap from gettimeofday() to clock_gettime() now that MacOS caught up.
Having the create, build, run tools baked into the kore binary
made things harder then they had to be for multiple projects with
each different build flavors.
So move away this functionality into a new "kodev" (name may change)
binary that is installed next to kore.
The new build tools will automatically pick up the correct flavors
the kore binary it points to is installed with. Or for single builds
what flavors where enabled.
The new tool also will honor looking into PREFIX for the kore binary
when doing a `kodev run`.
Additionally add a new command "info" that shows some basic info
about your project and how it will be built. For example it will
show you the flavors of the kore binary installed on the system
or the flavors you configured for a single binary build.
Obligitory, hacking on a plane comment.
The API surface is very limited. Jsonrpc support reads request from HTTP
body and such can't be activated if NOHTTP=1. At the moment there is no
websocket support either (which is a shame). It depends upon the
third-party Yajl library.
Errors can be emitted using jsonrpc_error() and results using
jsonrpc_result(), for the later you'll have to provide a callback which
will write the inner of the result object.
If errors happen during the response write process, no further error
output will be attempted and an HTTP error 500 will be returned.
Read the provided example for getting a better idea of the API.
Producing single binaries can now be done with building with
"kore build". To get started edit your build.conf and add the
following directives:
single_binary = yes
kore_source = /path/to/kore
optionally you can add kore_flavor to instruct how kore should
be built:
kore_flavor = NOTLS=1
When doing this your build.conf must also include the correct
linking options as the linking is now done fully by kore build.
The binary produced will include your configuration and takes
over a few of kore its command line flags (such as -f, -n or -r).
Kore will now isolate RSA private keys to a separate process (keymgr).
Worker processes that require RSA signing for TLS connections will
communicate with this keymgr process in order to do so.
This behaviour cannot be disabled and is always turned on.
- Build with -O2 unless NOOPT is set to 1.
- Hide -g behind DEBUG instead of always building with it.
- Explicitely set the standard used to c99, use pedantic.
This basically turns off the HTTP layer for Kore. It does not
compile in anything for HTTP.
This allows Kore to be used as a network application platform as well.
Added an example for this called nohttp.
Other changes that sneaked in while hacking on this:
* Use calloc(), kill pendantic malloc option.
* Killed off SPDY/3.1 support completely, will be superseded by http2
Note that comes with massive changes to a lot of the core API
functions provided by Kore, these might break your application.
With this framework apps can now send messages between worker processes.
A new API function exists:
int kore_msg_register(u_int8_t id, void (*cb)(const void *, u_int32_t);
This API call allows your app to register a new message callback for a given ID.
You can then send messages on this ID to other workers using:
void kore_msg_send(u_int8_t id, void *data, u_int32_t length);
This framework will interally be used for a few things such as allowing
websocket data to broadcasted between all workers, adding unified caching
and hopefully eventually moving the access log to this as well.
Some internals have changed with this commit:
* worker_clients has been called connections.
* the parent now initializes the net, and event subsystems.
* kore_worker_websocket_broadcast() is dead.
Add a top level Dockerfile, not really useful for anything besides
hacking on kore. See `make contain`;
Add docker top level directory, it contains an `app` container,
with a `kore run` ENTRYPOINT, an example of using that image is
FROM kore/app
COPY . myapp
CMD ["myapp"]
There is also a `build` image, which is the base for both aforementioned
containers.
Introduces a few new api functions:
- kore_websocket_handshake(struct http_request *):
Performs the handshake on an HTTP request (coming from page handler)
- kore_websocket_send(struct connection *, u_int8_t, void *, size_t):
Sends data to a websocket connection.
- kore_websocket_broadcast(struct connection *, u_int8_t, void *, size_t, int):
Broadcast the given websocket op and data to all connected
websocket clients on the worker. Note that as of right now
the WEBSOCKET_BROADCAST_GLOBAL scope option does not work
yet and messages broadcasted will be restricted to workers
only.
- kore_worker_websocket_broadcast(struct connection *, void *, void *):
Backend function used by kore_websocket_broadcast().
Could prove useful for developers to have access to.
A simple example is given under examples/websocket.
Known issues:
Kore does not support PING or CONT frames just yet.
Makes more sense and reads easier:
kore create myapp
kore build myapp
kore run myapp
Note that kore retains its cli options (if no command was given),
meaning you can still start kore in the traditional way as well.
The command options are simply to make development easier.
Personally use this for testing Kore its performance without
letting the OpenSSL stack get in the way too much.
Note that it leaves data structures as is, and just removes
any calls to OpenSSL (and removes the linking vs OpenSSL).
Has support for full async pgsql queries. Most of the logic
is hidden behind a KORE_PGSQL() macro allowing you to insert
these pgsql calls in your page handlers without blocking the
kore worker while the query is going off.
There is place for improvement here, and perhaps KORE_PGSQL won't
stay as I feel this might overcomplicate things instead of making
them simpler as I thought it would.
Using authentication blocks one can define "authentication" mechanisms
in Kore for page handlers.
This can be used to require a session cookie (validated by your own validator)
for certain page handlers, and hopefully in the future provide a framework
for adding more authentication things (like HTTP Auth).
Right now only cookie checking is available.
Example:
validator v_id function v_id_function
validator v_url regex ^/url/path/[a-z]*$
You can then call these using kore_validator_run(char *, char *), example:
if (!kore_validator_run("v_url", req->path))
[req->path is bad];
- Introduce own memory management system on top of malloc to keep track
of all our allocations and free's. Later we should introduce a pooling
mechanism for fixed size allocations (http_request comes to mind).
- Introduce ssl_cipher in configuration.
Memory usage is kind of high right now, but it seems its OpenSSL
doing it rather then Kore.
new connections and which ones will not be notified for it.
Fixes the thundering herd problem, and nicely spreads out load between
all the workers equally. A configuration option (workers_max_connections)
is available to tweak how many connections a worker will have before
giving up the accept lock.
Two ways are added to this commit for access locking:
- Locking via semaphores.
- Locking via GCC's builtin atomic methods.
The default is running with semaphores disabled (OpenBSD cannot do
sem_init() with pshared set to 1, which is required).
If you want to use semaphores add KORE_USE_SEMAPHORES to CFLAGS,
and -lpthread to LDFLAGS in the Makefile.
Other fixes:
- BSD: add a timeout to kevent().
- Merge kore_worker_wait together, linux knows waitpid() as well.
- Send the correct SIGQUIT signal to workers instead of SIGINT.
- Fix kore_time_ms().
- Log fatal worker messages in syslog.
- Refactor code even more.
- Do not free our own kore_worker structure.
Joris Vink
Raphaël Monrouzeau
Nandor Kracser
Geenz
Thordur Bjornsson
Andreas Pfohl