MEDIUM: mworker: Add systemd `Type=notify` support
This patch adds support for `Type=notify` to the systemd unit.
Supporting `Type=notify` improves both starting as well as reloading
of the unit, because systemd will be let known when the action completed.
See this quote from `systemd.service(5)`:
> Note however that reloading a daemon by sending a signal (as with the
> example line above) is usually not a good choice, because this is an
> asynchronous operation and hence not suitable to order reloads of
> multiple services against each other. It is strongly recommended to
> set ExecReload= to a command that not only triggers a configuration
> reload of the daemon, but also synchronously waits for it to complete.
By making systemd aware of a reload in progress it is able to wait until
the reload actually succeeded.
This patch introduces both a new `USE_SYSTEMD` build option which controls
including the sd-daemon library as well as a `-Ws` runtime option which
runs haproxy in master-worker mode with systemd support.
When haproxy is running in master-worker mode with systemd support it will
send status messages to systemd using `sd_notify(3)` in the following cases:
- The master process forked off the worker processes (READY=1)
- The master process entered the `mworker_reload()` function (RELOADING=1)
- The master process received the SIGUSR1 or SIGTERM signal (STOPPING=1)
Change the unit file to specify `Type=notify` and replace master-worker
mode (`-W`) with master-worker mode with systemd support (`-Ws`).
Future evolutions of this feature could include making use of the `STATUS`
feature of `sd_notify()` to send information about the number of active
connections to systemd. This would require bidirectional communication
between the master and the workers and thus is left for future work.
diff --git a/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in b/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in
index 81b4951..edbd4c2 100644
--- a/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in
+++ b/contrib/systemd/haproxy.service.in
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
# socket if you want seamless reloads.
Environment="CONFIG=/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg" "PIDFILE=/run/haproxy.pid"
ExecStartPre=@SBINDIR@/haproxy -f $CONFIG -c -q
-ExecStart=@SBINDIR@/haproxy -W -f $CONFIG -p $PIDFILE
+ExecStart=@SBINDIR@/haproxy -Ws -f $CONFIG -p $PIDFILE
ExecReload=@SBINDIR@/haproxy -f $CONFIG -c -q
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID
KillMode=mixed
Restart=always
-Type=forking
+Type=notify
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target