Using `rabbitmq.com` works and redirects to `www.rabbitmq.com`, but it
is preferable to use the canonical domain to have cleaner search
results.
This is important for manpages because we have an HTML copy in the
website.
The default of 0.4 was very conservative even when it was
set years ago. Since then:
- we moved to CQv2, which have much more predictable memory usage than (non-lazy) CQv1 used to
- we removed CQ mirroring which caused large sudden memory spikes in some situations
- we removed the option to store message payload in memory in quorum queues
For the past two years or so, we've been running all our internal tests and benchmarks
using the value of 0.8 with no OOMkills at all (note: we do this on
Kubernetes where the Cluster Operators overrides the available memory
levaing some additional headroom, but effectively we are still using more than
0.6 of memory).
## What
Similar to Native MQTT in #5895, this commits implements Native AMQP 1.0.
By "native", we mean do not proxy via AMQP 0.9.1 anymore.
## Why
Native AMQP 1.0 comes with the following major benefits:
1. Similar to Native MQTT, this commit provides better throughput, latency,
scalability, and resource usage for AMQP 1.0.
See https://blog.rabbitmq.com/posts/2023/03/native-mqtt for native MQTT improvements.
See further below for some benchmarks.
2. Since AMQP 1.0 is not limited anymore by the AMQP 0.9.1 protocol,
this commit allows implementing more AMQP 1.0 features in the future.
Some features are already implemented in this commit (see next section).
3. Simpler, better understandable, and more maintainable code.
Native AMQP 1.0 as implemented in this commit has the
following major benefits compared to AMQP 0.9.1:
4. Memory and disk alarms will only stop accepting incoming TRANSFER frames.
New connections can still be created to consume from RabbitMQ to empty queues.
5. Due to 4. no need anymore for separate connections for publishers and
consumers as we currently recommended for AMQP 0.9.1. which potentially
halves the number of physical TCP connections.
6. When a single connection sends to multiple target queues, a single
slow target queue won't block the entire connection.
Publisher can still send data quickly to all other target queues.
7. A publisher can request whether it wants publisher confirmation on a per-message basis.
In AMQP 0.9.1 publisher confirms are configured per channel only.
8. Consumers can change their "prefetch count" dynamically which isn't
possible in our AMQP 0.9.1 implementation. See #10174
9. AMQP 1.0 is an extensible protocol
This commit also fixes dozens of bugs present in the AMQP 1.0 plugin in
RabbitMQ 3.x - most of which cannot be backported due to the complexity
and limitations of the old 3.x implementation.
This commit contains breaking changes and is therefore targeted for RabbitMQ 4.0.
## Implementation details
1. Breaking change: With Native AMQP, the behaviour of
```
Convert AMQP 0.9.1 message headers to application properties for an AMQP 1.0 consumer
amqp1_0.convert_amqp091_headers_to_app_props = false | true (default false)
Convert AMQP 1.0 Application Properties to AMQP 0.9.1 headers
amqp1_0.convert_app_props_to_amqp091_headers = false | true (default false)
```
will break because we always convert according to the message container conversions.
For example, AMQP 0.9.1 x-headers will go into message-annotations instead of application properties.
Also, `false` won’t be respected since we always convert the headers with message containers.
2. Remove rabbit_queue_collector
rabbit_queue_collector is responsible for synchronously deleting
exclusive queues. Since the AMQP 1.0 plugin never creates exclusive
queues, rabbit_queue_collector doesn't need to be started in the first
place. This will save 1 Erlang process per AMQP 1.0 connection.
3. 7 processes per connection + 1 process per session in this commit instead of
7 processes per connection + 15 processes per session in 3.x
Supervision hierarchy got re-designed.
4. Use 1 writer process per AMQP 1.0 connection
AMQP 0.9.1 uses a separate rabbit_writer Erlang process per AMQP 0.9.1 channel.
Prior to this commit, AMQP 1.0 used a separate rabbit_amqp1_0_writer process per AMQP 1.0 session.
Advantage of single writer proc per session (prior to this commit):
* High parallelism for serialising packets if multiple sessions within
a connection write heavily at the same time.
This commit uses a single writer process per AMQP 1.0 connection that is
shared across all AMQP 1.0 sessions.
Advantages of single writer proc per connection (this commit):
* Lower memory usage with hundreds of thousands of AMQP 1.0 sessions
* Less TCP and IP header overhead given that the single writer process
can accumulate across all sessions bytes before flushing the socket.
In other words, this commit decides that a reader / writer process pair
per AMQP 1.0 connection is good enough for bi-directional TRANSFER flows.
Having a writer per session is too heavy.
We still ensure high throughput by having separate reader, writer, and
session processes.
5. Transform rabbit_amqp1_0_writer into gen_server
Why:
Prior to this commit, when clicking on the AMQP 1.0 writer process in
observer, the process crashed.
Instead of handling all these debug messages of the sys module, it's better
to implement a gen_server.
There is no advantage of using a special OTP process over gen_server
for the AMQP 1.0 writer.
gen_server also provides cleaner format status output.
How:
Message callbacks return a timeout of 0.
After all messages in the inbox are processed, the timeout message is
handled by flushing any pending bytes.
6. Remove stats timer from writer
AMQP 1.0 connections haven't emitted any stats previously.
7. When there are contiguous queue confirmations in the session process
mailbox, batch them. When the confirmations are sent to the publisher, a
single DISPOSITION frame is sent for contiguously confirmed delivery
IDs.
This approach should be good enough. However it's sub optimal in
scenarios where contiguous delivery IDs that need confirmations are rare,
for example:
* There are multiple links in the session with different sender
settlement modes and sender publishes across these links interleaved.
* sender settlement mode is mixed and sender publishes interleaved settled
and unsettled TRANSFERs.
8. Introduce credit API v2
Why:
The AMQP 0.9.1 credit extension which is to be removed in 4.0 was poorly
designed since basic.credit is a synchronous call into the queue process
blocking the entire AMQP 1.0 session process.
How:
Change the interactions between queue clients and queue server
implementations:
* Clients only request a credit reply if the FLOW's `echo` field is set
* Include all link flow control state held by the queue process into a
new credit_reply queue event:
* `available` after the queue sends any deliveries
* `link-credit` after the queue sends any deliveries
* `drain` which allows us to combine the old queue events
send_credit_reply and send_drained into a single new queue event
credit_reply.
* Include the consumer tag into the credit_reply queue event such that
the AMQP 1.0 session process can process any credit replies
asynchronously.
Link flow control state `delivery-count` also moves to the queue processes.
The new interactions are hidden behind feature flag credit_api_v2 to
allow for rolling upgrades from 3.13 to 4.0.
9. Use serial number arithmetic in quorum queues and session process.
10. Completely bypass the rabbit_limiter module for AMQP 1.0
flow control. The goal is to eventually remove the rabbit_limiter module
in 4.0 since AMQP 0.9.1 global QoS will be unsupported in 4.0. This
commit lifts the AMQP 1.0 link flow control logic out of rabbit_limiter
into rabbit_queue_consumers.
11. Fix credit bug for streams:
AMQP 1.0 settlements shouldn't top up link credit,
only FLOW frames should top up link credit.
12. Allow sender settle mode unsettled for streams
since AMQP 1.0 acknowledgements to streams are no-ops (currently).
13. Fix AMQP 1.0 client bugs
Auto renewing credits should not be related to settling TRANSFERs.
Remove field link_credit_unsettled as it was wrong and confusing.
Prior to this commit auto renewal did not work when the sender uses
sender settlement mode settled.
14. Fix AMQP 1.0 client bugs
The wrong outdated Link was passed to function auto_flow/2
15. Use osiris chunk iterator
Only hold messages of uncompressed sub batches in memory if consumer
doesn't have sufficient credits.
Compressed sub batches are skipped for non Stream protocol consumers.
16. Fix incoming link flow control
Always use confirms between AMQP 1.0 queue clients and queue servers.
As already done internally by rabbit_fifo_client and
rabbit_stream_queue, use confirms for classic queues as well.
17. Include link handle into correlation when publishing messages to target queues
such that session process can correlate confirms from target queues to
incoming links.
18. Only grant more credits to publishers if publisher hasn't sufficient credits
anymore and there are not too many unconfirmed messages on the link.
19. Completely ignore `block` and `unblock` queue actions and RabbitMQ credit flow
between classic queue process and session process.
20. Link flow control is independent between links.
A client can refer to a queue or to an exchange with multiple
dynamically added target queues. Multiple incoming links can also fan
in to the same queue. However the link topology looks like, this
commit ensures that each link is only granted more credits if that link
isn't overloaded.
21. A connection or a session can send to many different queues.
In AMQP 0.9.1, a single slow queue will lead to the entire channel, and
then entire connection being blocked.
This commit makes sure that a single slow queue from one link won't slow
down sending on other links.
For example, having link A sending to a local classic queue and
link B sending to 5 replica quorum queue, link B will naturally
grant credits slower than link A. So, despite the quorum queue being
slower in confirming messages, the same AMQP 1.0 connection and session
can still pump data very fast into the classic queue.
22. If cluster wide memory or disk alarm occurs.
Each session sends a FLOW with incoming-window to 0 to sending client.
If sending clients don’t obey, force disconnect the client.
If cluster wide memory alarm clears:
Each session resumes with a FLOW defaulting to initial incoming-window.
23. All operations apart of publishing TRANSFERS to RabbitMQ can continue during cluster wide alarms,
specifically, attaching consumers and consuming, i.e. emptying queues.
There is no need for separate AMQP 1.0 connections for publishers and consumers as recommended in our AMQP 0.9.1 implementation.
24. Flow control summary:
* If queue becomes bottleneck, that’s solved by slowing down individual sending links (AMQP 1.0 link flow control).
* If session becomes bottleneck (more unlikely), that’s solved by AMQP 1.0 session flow control.
* If connection becomes bottleneck, it naturally won’t read fast enough from the socket causing TCP backpressure being applied.
Nowhere will RabbitMQ internal credit based flow control (i.e. module credit_flow) be used on the incoming AMQP 1.0 message path.
25. Register AMQP sessions
Prefer local-only pg over our custom pg_local implementation as
pg is a better process group implementation than pg_local.
pg_local was identified as bottleneck in tests where many MQTT clients were disconnected at once.
26. Start a local-only pg when Rabbit boots:
> A scope can be kept local-only by using a scope name that is unique cluster-wide, e.g. the node name:
> pg:start_link(node()).
Register AMQP 1.0 connections and sessions with pg.
In future we should remove pg_local and instead use the new local-only
pg for all registered processes such as AMQP 0.9.1 connections and channels.
27. Requeue messages if link detached
Although the spec allows to settle delivery IDs on detached links, RabbitMQ does not respect the 'closed'
field of the DETACH frame and therefore handles every DETACH frame as closed. Since the link is closed,
we expect every outstanding delivery to be requeued.
In addition to consumer cancellation, detaching a link therefore causes in flight deliveries to be requeued.
Note that this behaviour is different from merely consumer cancellation in AMQP 0.9.1:
"After a consumer is cancelled there will be no future deliveries dispatched to it. Note that there can
still be "in flight" deliveries dispatched previously. Cancelling a consumer will neither discard nor requeue them."
[https://www.rabbitmq.com/consumers.html#unsubscribing]
An AMQP receiver can first drain, and then detach to prevent "in flight" deliveries
28. Init AMQP session with BEGIN frame
Similar to how there can't be an MQTT processor without a CONNECT
frame, there can't be an AMQP session without a BEGIN frame.
This allows having strict dialyzer types for session flow control
fields (i.e. not allowing 'undefined').
29. Move serial_number to AMQP 1.0 common lib
such that it can be used by both AMQP 1.0 server and client
30. Fix AMQP client to do serial number arithmetic.
31. AMQP client: Differentiate between delivery-id and transfer-id for better
understandability.
32. Fix link flow control in classic queues
This commit fixes
```
java -jar target/perf-test.jar -ad false -f persistent -u cq -c 3000 -C 1000000 -y 0
```
followed by
```
./omq -x 0 amqp -T /queue/cq -D 1000000 --amqp-consumer-credits 2
```
Prior to this commit, (and on RabbitMQ 3.x) the consuming would halt after around
8 - 10,000 messages.
The bug was that in flight messages from classic queue process to
session process were not taken into account when topping up credit to
the classic queue process.
Fixes#2597
The solution to this bug (and a much cleaner design anyway independent of
this bug) is that queues should hold all link flow control state including
the delivery-count.
Hence, when credit API v2 is used the delivery-count will be held by the
classic queue process, quorum queue process, and stream queue client
instead of managing the delivery-count in the session.
33. The double level crediting between (a) session process and
rabbit_fifo_client, and (b) rabbit_fifo_client and rabbit_fifo was
removed. Therefore, instead of managing 3 separate delivery-counts (i. session,
ii. rabbit_fifo_client, iii. rabbit_fifo), only 1 delivery-count is used
in rabbit_fifo. This is a big simplification.
34. This commit fixes quorum queues without bumping the machine version
nor introducing new rabbit_fifo commands.
Whether credit API v2 is used is solely determined at link attachment time
depending on whether feature flag credit_api_v2 is enabled.
Even when that feature flag will be enabled later on, this link will
keep using credit API v1 until detached (or the node is shut down).
Eventually, after feature flag credit_api_v2 has been enabled and a
subsequent rolling upgrade, all links will use credit API v2.
This approach is safe and simple.
The 2 alternatives to move delivery-count from the session process to the
queue processes would have been:
i. Explicit feature flag credit_api_v2 migration function
* Can use a gen_server:call and only finish migration once all delivery-counts were migrated.
Cons:
* Extra new message format just for migration is required.
* Risky as migration will fail if a target queue doesn’t reply.
ii. Session always includes DeliveryCountSnd when crediting to the queue:
Cons:
* 2 delivery counts will be hold simultaneously in session proc and queue proc;
could be solved by deleting the session proc’s delivery-count for credit-reply
* What happens if the receiver doesn’t provide credit for a very long time? Is that a problem?
35. Support stream filtering in AMQP 1.0 (by @acogoluegnes)
Use the x-stream-filter-value message annotation
to carry the filter value in a published message.
Use the rabbitmq:stream-filter and rabbitmq:stream-match-unfiltered
filters when creating a receiver that wants to filter
out messages from a stream.
36. Remove credit extension from AMQP 0.9.1 client
37. Support maintenance mode closing AMQP 1.0 connections.
38. Remove AMQP 0.9.1 client dependency from AMQP 1.0 implementation.
39. Move AMQP 1.0 plugin to the core. AMQP 1.0 is enabled by default.
The old rabbitmq_amqp1_0 plugin will be kept as a no-op plugin to prevent deployment
tools from failing that execute:
```
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_amqp1_0
rabbitmq-plugins disable rabbitmq_amqp1_0
```
40. Breaking change: Remove CLI command `rabbitmqctl list_amqp10_connections`.
Instead, list both AMQP 0.9.1 and AMQP 1.0 connections in `list_connections`:
```
rabbitmqctl list_connections protocol
Listing connections ...
protocol
{1, 0}
{0,9,1}
```
## Benchmarks
### Throughput & Latency
Setup:
* Single node Ubuntu 22.04
* Erlang 26.1.1
Start RabbitMQ:
```
make run-broker PLUGINS="rabbitmq_management rabbitmq_amqp1_0" FULL=1 RABBITMQ_SERVER_ADDITIONAL_ERL_ARGS="+S 3"
```
Predeclare durable classic queue cq1, durable quorum queue qq1, durable stream queue sq1.
Start client:
https://github.com/ssorj/quiverhttps://hub.docker.com/r/ssorj/quiver/tags (digest 453a2aceda64)
```
docker run -it --rm --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway ssorj/quiver:latest
bash-5.1# quiver --version
quiver 0.4.0-SNAPSHOT
```
1. Classic queue
```
quiver //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/cq1 --durable --count 1m --duration 10m --body-size 12 --credit 1000
```
This commit:
```
Count ............................................. 1,000,000 messages
Duration ............................................... 73.8 seconds
Sender rate .......................................... 13,548 messages/s
Receiver rate ........................................ 13,547 messages/s
End-to-end rate ...................................... 13,547 messages/s
Latencies by percentile:
0% ........ 0 ms 90.00% ........ 9 ms
25% ........ 2 ms 99.00% ....... 14 ms
50% ........ 4 ms 99.90% ....... 17 ms
100% ....... 26 ms 99.99% ....... 24 ms
```
RabbitMQ 3.x (main branch as of 30 January 2024):
```
---------------------- Sender ----------------------- --------------------- Receiver ---------------------- --------
Time [s] Count [m] Rate [m/s] CPU [%] RSS [M] Time [s] Count [m] Rate [m/s] CPU [%] RSS [M] Lat [ms]
----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- --------
2.1 130,814 65,342 6 73.6 2.1 3,217 1,607 0 8.0 511
4.1 163,580 16,367 2 74.1 4.1 3,217 0 0 8.0 0
6.1 229,114 32,767 3 74.1 6.1 3,217 0 0 8.0 0
8.1 261,880 16,367 2 74.1 8.1 67,874 32,296 8 8.2 7,662
10.1 294,646 16,367 2 74.1 10.1 67,874 0 0 8.2 0
12.1 360,180 32,734 3 74.1 12.1 67,874 0 0 8.2 0
14.1 392,946 16,367 3 74.1 14.1 68,604 365 0 8.2 12,147
16.1 458,480 32,734 3 74.1 16.1 68,604 0 0 8.2 0
18.1 491,246 16,367 2 74.1 18.1 68,604 0 0 8.2 0
20.1 556,780 32,767 4 74.1 20.1 68,604 0 0 8.2 0
22.1 589,546 16,375 2 74.1 22.1 68,604 0 0 8.2 0
receiver timed out
24.1 622,312 16,367 2 74.1 24.1 68,604 0 0 8.2 0
quiver: error: PlanoProcessError: Command 'quiver-arrow receive //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/cq1 --impl qpid-proton-c --duration 10m --count 1m --rate 0 --body-size 12 --credit 1000 --transaction-size 0 --timeout 10 --durable --output /tmp/quiver-otujr23y' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/quiver/python/quiver/pair.py", line 144, in run
_plano.wait(receiver, check=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/quiver/python/plano/main.py", line 1243, in wait
raise PlanoProcessError(proc)
plano.main.PlanoProcessError: Command 'quiver-arrow receive //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/cq1 --impl qpid-proton-c --duration 10m --count 1m --rate 0 --body-size 12 --credit 1000 --transaction-size 0 --timeout 10 --durable --output /tmp/quiver-otujr23y' returned non-zero exit status 1.
```
2. Quorum queue:
```
quiver //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/qq1 --durable --count 1m --duration 10m --body-size 12 --credit 1000
```
This commit:
```
Count ............................................. 1,000,000 messages
Duration .............................................. 101.4 seconds
Sender rate ........................................... 9,867 messages/s
Receiver rate ......................................... 9,868 messages/s
End-to-end rate ....................................... 9,865 messages/s
Latencies by percentile:
0% ....... 11 ms 90.00% ....... 23 ms
25% ....... 15 ms 99.00% ....... 28 ms
50% ....... 18 ms 99.90% ....... 33 ms
100% ....... 49 ms 99.99% ....... 47 ms
```
RabbitMQ 3.x:
```
---------------------- Sender ----------------------- --------------------- Receiver ---------------------- --------
Time [s] Count [m] Rate [m/s] CPU [%] RSS [M] Time [s] Count [m] Rate [m/s] CPU [%] RSS [M] Lat [ms]
----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- --------
2.1 130,814 65,342 9 69.9 2.1 18,430 9,206 5 7.6 1,221
4.1 163,580 16,375 5 70.2 4.1 18,867 218 0 7.6 2,168
6.1 229,114 32,767 6 70.2 6.1 18,867 0 0 7.6 0
8.1 294,648 32,734 7 70.2 8.1 18,867 0 0 7.6 0
10.1 360,182 32,734 6 70.2 10.1 18,867 0 0 7.6 0
12.1 425,716 32,767 6 70.2 12.1 18,867 0 0 7.6 0
receiver timed out
14.1 458,482 16,367 5 70.2 14.1 18,867 0 0 7.6 0
quiver: error: PlanoProcessError: Command 'quiver-arrow receive //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/qq1 --impl qpid-proton-c --duration 10m --count 1m --rate 0 --body-size 12 --credit 1000 --transaction-size 0 --timeout 10 --durable --output /tmp/quiver-b1gcup43' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/quiver/python/quiver/pair.py", line 144, in run
_plano.wait(receiver, check=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/quiver/python/plano/main.py", line 1243, in wait
raise PlanoProcessError(proc)
plano.main.PlanoProcessError: Command 'quiver-arrow receive //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/qq1 --impl qpid-proton-c --duration 10m --count 1m --rate 0 --body-size 12 --credit 1000 --transaction-size 0 --timeout 10 --durable --output /tmp/quiver-b1gcup43' returned non-zero exit status 1.
```
3. Stream:
```
quiver-arrow send //host.docker.internal//amq/queue/sq1 --durable --count 1m -d 10m --summary --verbose
```
This commit:
```
Count ............................................. 1,000,000 messages
Duration ................................................ 8.7 seconds
Message rate ........................................ 115,154 messages/s
```
RabbitMQ 3.x:
```
Count ............................................. 1,000,000 messages
Duration ............................................... 21.2 seconds
Message rate ......................................... 47,232 messages/s
```
### Memory usage
Start RabbitMQ:
```
ERL_MAX_PORTS=3000000 RABBITMQ_SERVER_ADDITIONAL_ERL_ARGS="+P 3000000 +S 6" make run-broker PLUGINS="rabbitmq_amqp1_0" FULL=1 RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE="rabbitmq.conf"
```
```
/bin/cat rabbitmq.conf
tcp_listen_options.sndbuf = 2048
tcp_listen_options.recbuf = 2048
vm_memory_high_watermark.relative = 0.95
vm_memory_high_watermark_paging_ratio = 0.95
loopback_users = none
```
Create 50k connections with 2 sessions per connection, i.e. 100k session in total:
```go
package main
import (
"context"
"log"
"time"
"github.com/Azure/go-amqp"
)
func main() {
for i := 0; i < 50000; i++ {
conn, err := amqp.Dial(context.TODO(), "amqp://nuc", &amqp.ConnOptions{SASLType: amqp.SASLTypeAnonymous()})
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("dialing AMQP server:", err)
}
_, err = conn.NewSession(context.TODO(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("creating AMQP session:", err)
}
_, err = conn.NewSession(context.TODO(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("creating AMQP session:", err)
}
}
log.Println("opened all connections")
time.Sleep(5 * time.Hour)
}
```
This commit:
```
erlang:memory().
[{total,4586376480},
{processes,4025898504},
{processes_used,4025871040},
{system,560477976},
{atom,1048841},
{atom_used,1042841},
{binary,233228608},
{code,21449982},
{ets,108560464}]
erlang:system_info(process_count).
450289
```
7 procs per connection + 1 proc per session.
(7 + 2*1) * 50,000 = 450,000 procs
RabbitMQ 3.x:
```
erlang:memory().
[{total,15168232704},
{processes,14044779256},
{processes_used,14044755120},
{system,1123453448},
{atom,1057033},
{atom_used,1052587},
{binary,236381264},
{code,21790238},
{ets,391423744}]
erlang:system_info(process_count).
1850309
```
7 procs per connection + 15 per session
(7 + 2*15) * 50,000 = 1,850,000 procs
50k connections + 100k session require
with this commit: 4.5 GB
in RabbitMQ 3.x: 15 GB
## Future work
1. More efficient parser and serializer
2. TODO in mc_amqp: Do not store the parsed message on disk.
3. Implement both AMQP HTTP extension and AMQP management extension to allow AMQP
clients to create RabbitMQ objects (queues, exchanges, ...).
Starting with RabbitMQ 3.13 mqtt.max_session_expiry_interval_seconds
(set in seconds) will replace the previous setting
mqtt.subscription_ttl.
MQTT 5.0 introduces the Session Expiry Interval
feature which does not only apply to subscribers, but also to
publishers.
The new config name mqtt.max_session_expiry_interval_seconds makes it clear
that it also applies to publishers.
Prior to this commit, when mqtt.subscription_ttl was set, a warning got
logged and the value was ignored. This is dangerous if an operator does
not see the warning but relies for example on `mqtt.subscription =
infinity` to not expire non clean session.
It's safer to make the boot fail if that unsupported config name is
still set. A clear error message will be logged:
```
[error] <0.142.0> Error preparing configuration in phase apply_translations:
[error] <0.142.0> - Translation for 'rabbitmq_mqtt.subscription_ttl' found invalid configuration:
Since 3.13 mqtt.subscription_ttl (in milliseconds) is unsupported.
Use mqtt.max_session_expiry_interval_seconds (in seconds) instead.
```
Alternatively, RabbitMQ could translate mqtt.subscription_ttl to
mqtt.max_session_expiry_interval_seconds.
However, forcing the new config option sounds the better way to go.
Once we write MQTT 5.0 docs, this change must go into the 3.13 release notes.
This commit also renames max_session_expiry_interval_secs to max_session_expiry_interval_seconds.
The latter is clearer to users.
Allow Session Expiry Interval to be changed when client DISCONNECTs.
Deprecate config subscription_ttl in favour of max_session_expiry_interval_secs
because the Session Expiry Interval will also apply to publishers that
connect with a will message and will delay interval.
"The additional session state of an MQTT v5 server includes:
* The Will Message and the Will Delay Interval
* If the Session is currently not connected, the time at which the Session
will end and Session State will be discarded."
The Session Expiry Interval picked by the server and sent to the client
in the CONNACK is the minimum of max_session_expiry_interval_secs and
the requested Session Expiry Interval by the client in CONNECT.
This commit favours dynamically changing the queue argument x-expires
over creating millions of different policies since that many policies
will come with new scalability issues.
Dynamically changing queue arguments is not allowed by AMQP 0.9.1
clients. However, it should be perfectly okay for the MQTT plugin to do
so for the queues it manages. MQTT clients are not aware that these
queues exist.
This introduces a way to declare deprecated features in the code, not
only in our communication. The new module allows to disallow the use of
a deprecated feature and/or warn the user when he relies on such a
feature.
[Why]
Currently, we only tell people about deprecated features through blog
posts and the mailing-list. This might be insufficiant for our users
that a feature they use will be removed in a future version:
* They may not read our blog or mailing-list
* They may not understand that they use such a deprecated feature
* They might wait for the big removal before they plan testing
* They might not take it seriously enough
The idea behind this patch is to increase the chance that users notice
that they are using something which is about to be dropped from
RabbitMQ. Anopther benefit is that they should be able to test how
RabbitMQ will behave in the future before the actual removal. This
should allow them to test and plan changes.
[How]
When a feature is deprecated in other large projects (such as FreeBSD
where I took the idea from), it goes through a lifecycle:
1. The feature is still available, but users get a warning somehow when
they use it. They can disable it to test.
2. The feature is still available, but disabled out-of-the-box. Users
can re-enable it (and get a warning).
3. The feature is disconnected from the build. Therefore, the code
behind it is still there, but users have to recompile the thing to be
able to use it.
4. The feature is removed from the source code. Users have to adapt or
they can't upgrade anymore.
The solution in this patch offers the same lifecycle. A deprecated
feature will be in one of these deprecation phases:
1. `permitted_by_default`: The feature is available. Users get a warning
if they use it. They can disable it from the configuration.
2. `denied_by_default`: The feature is available but disabled by
default. Users get an error if they use it and RabbitMQ behaves like
the feature is removed. They can re-enable is from the configuration
and get a warning.
3. `disconnected`: The feature is present in the source code, but is
disabled and can't be re-enabled without recompiling RabbitMQ. Users
get the same behavior as if the code was removed.
4. `removed`: The feature's code is gone.
The whole thing is based on the feature flags subsystem, but it has the
following differences with other feature flags:
* The semantic is reversed: the feature flag behind a deprecated feature
is disabled when the deprecated feature is permitted, or enabled when
the deprecated feature is denied.
* The feature flag behind a deprecated feature is enabled out-of-the-box
(meaning the deprecated feature is denied):
* if the deprecation phase is `permitted_by_default` and the
configuration denies the deprecated feature
* if the deprecation phase is `denied_by_default` and the
configuration doesn't permit the deprecated feature
* if the deprecation phase is `disconnected` or `removed`
* Feature flags behind deprecated feature don't appear in feature flags
listings.
Otherwise, deprecated features' feature flags are managed like other
feature flags, in particular inside clusters.
To declare a deprecated feature:
-rabbit_deprecated_feature(
{my_deprecated_feature,
#{deprecation_phase => permitted_by_default,
msgs => #{when_permitted => "This feature will be removed in RabbitMQ X.0"},
}}).
Then, to check the state of a deprecated feature in the code:
case rabbit_deprecated_features:is_permitted(my_deprecated_feature) of
true ->
%% The deprecated feature is still permitted.
ok;
false ->
%% The deprecated feature is gone or should be considered
%% unavailable.
error
end.
Warnings and errors are logged automatically. A message is generated
automatically, but it is possible to define a message in the deprecated
feature flag declaration like in the example above.
Here is an example of a logged warning that was generated automatically:
Feature `my_deprecated_feature` is deprecated.
By default, this feature can still be used for now.
Its use will not be permitted by default in a future minor RabbitMQ version and the feature will be removed from a future major RabbitMQ version; actual versions to be determined.
To continue using this feature when it is not permitted by default, set the following parameter in your configuration:
"deprecated_features.permit.my_deprecated_feature = true"
To test RabbitMQ as if the feature was removed, set this in your configuration:
"deprecated_features.permit.my_deprecated_feature = false"
To override the default state of `permitted_by_default` and
`denied_by_default` deprecation phases, users can set the following
configuration:
# In rabbitmq.conf:
deprecated_features.permit.my_deprecated_feature = true # or false
The actual behavior protected by a deprecated feature check is out of
scope for this subsystem. It is the repsonsibility of each deprecated
feature code to determine what to do when the deprecated feature is
denied.
V1: Deprecated feature states are initially computed during the
initialization of the registry, based on their deprecation phase and
possibly the configuration. They don't go through the `enable/1`
code at all.
V2: Manage deprecated feature states as any other non-required
feature flags. This allows to execute an `is_feature_used()`
callback to determine if a deprecated feature can be denied. This
also allows to prevent the RabbitMQ node from starting if it
continues to use a deprecated feature.
V3: Manage deprecated feature states from the registry initialization
again. This is required because we need to know very early if some
of them are denied, so that an upgrade to a version of RabbitMQ
where a deprecated feature is disconnected or removed can be
performed.
To still prevent the start of a RabbitMQ node when a denied
deprecated feature is actively used, we run the `is_feature_used()`
callback of all denied deprecated features as part of the
`sync_cluster()` task. This task is executed as part of a feature
flag refresh executed when RabbitMQ starts or when plugins are
enabled. So even though a deprecated feature is marked as denied in
the registry early in the boot process, we will still abort the
start of a RabbitMQ node if the feature is used.
V4: Support context-dependent warnings. It is now possible to set a
specific message when deprecated feature is permitted, when it is
denied and when it is removed. Generic per-context messages are
still generated.
V5: Improve default warning messages, thanks to @pstack2021.
V6: Rename the configuration variable from `permit_deprecated_features.*`
to `deprecated_features.permit.*`. As @michaelklishin said, we tend
to use shorter top-level names.
Rather than relying on queue name conventions, allow applying policies
based on the queue type. For example, this allows multiple policies that
apply to all queue names (".*") that specify different parameters for
different queue types.
Traditionally, queue types implement flow control by keeping state in
both sending and receiving Erlang processes (for example credit based flow
control keeps the number of credits within the process dictionary).
The rabbit_mqtt_qos0_queue cannot keep such state in sending or receiving
Erlang process because such state would consume a large amount of memory
in case of large fan-ins or large fan-outs.
The whole idea of the rabbit_mqtt_qos_queue type is to not keep any
state in the rabbit_queue_type client. This makes this new queue
type scale so well.
Therefore the new queue type cannot (easily) implement flow control
throttling individual senders.
In this commit, we take a different approach:
Instead of implementing flow control throttling individual senders,
the receiving MQTT connection process drops QoS 0 messages from the
rabbit_mqtt_qos_queue if it is overflowed with messages AND its MQTT
client is not capable of receiving messages fast enough.
This is a simple and sufficient solution because it's better to drop QoS
0 (at most once) messages instead of causing cluster-wide memory alarms.
The user can opt out of dropping messages by setting the new env setting
mailbox_soft_limit to 0.
Additionally, we reduce the send_timeout from 30 seconds default in
Ranch to 15 seconds default in MQTT. This will detect hanging MQTT
clients faster causing the MQTT connection to be closed.
Now it's only visible in the management UI.
One can craft a series of calls to `rabbitmqctl list_queues` and
`rabbitmqctl list_policies` to achieve similiar result. But it's more
difficult, and also doesn't take operator policy (if any) into account.
Michael Klishin
Michael Klishin
David Ansari
Jean-Sébastien Pédron
Michal Kuratczyk
Michal Kuratczyk
Michael Klishin
Charlton Liv
Luke Bakken
Michael Klishin
Karl Nilsson
Arnaud Cogoluègnes
Josh Soref
cui fliter
Aitor Perez Cedres
aubbiali
Alexey Lebedeff
Alex Valiushko