Upstream: smooth weighted round-robin balancing. For edge case weights like { 5, 1, 1 } we now produce { a, a, b, a, c, a, a } sequence instead of { c, b, a, a, a, a, a } produced previously. Algorithm is as follows: on each peer selection we increase current_weight of each eligible peer by its weight, select peer with greatest current_weight and reduce its current_weight by total number of weight points distributed among peers. In case of { 5, 1, 1 } weights this gives the following sequence of current_weight's: a b c 0 0 0 (initial state) 5 1 1 (a selected) -2 1 1 3 2 2 (a selected) -4 2 2 1 3 3 (b selected) 1 -4 3 6 -3 4 (a selected) -1 -3 4 4 -2 5 (c selected) 4 -2 -2 9 -1 -1 (a selected) 2 -1 -1 7 0 0 (a selected) 0 0 0 To preserve weight reduction in case of failures the effective_weight variable was introduced, which usually matches peer's weight, but is reduced temporarily on peer failures. This change also fixes loop with backup servers and proxy_next_upstream http_404 (ticket #47), and skipping alive upstreams in some cases if there are multiple dead ones (ticket #64).

/*
 * Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
 * Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
 */


#ifndef _NGX_ARRAY_H_INCLUDED_
#define _NGX_ARRAY_H_INCLUDED_


#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>


struct ngx_array_s {
    void        *elts;
    ngx_uint_t   nelts;
    size_t       size;
    ngx_uint_t   nalloc;
    ngx_pool_t  *pool;
};


ngx_array_t *ngx_array_create(ngx_pool_t *p, ngx_uint_t n, size_t size);
void ngx_array_destroy(ngx_array_t *a);
void *ngx_array_push(ngx_array_t *a);
void *ngx_array_push_n(ngx_array_t *a, ngx_uint_t n);


static ngx_inline ngx_int_t
ngx_array_init(ngx_array_t *array, ngx_pool_t *pool, ngx_uint_t n, size_t size)
{
    /*
     * set "array->nelts" before "array->elts", otherwise MSVC thinks
     * that "array->nelts" may be used without having been initialized
     */

    array->nelts = 0;
    array->size = size;
    array->nalloc = n;
    array->pool = pool;

    array->elts = ngx_palloc(pool, n * size);
    if (array->elts == NULL) {
        return NGX_ERROR;
    }

    return NGX_OK;
}


#endif /* _NGX_ARRAY_H_INCLUDED_ */