ZeroMQ

ZeroMQ (also known as ØMQ, 0MQ, or zmq) looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry atomic messages across various transports like in-process, inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fan-out, pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. It’s fast enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems. ZeroMQ is from iMatix and is LGPLv3 open source.

ZeroMQ提供了多种socket类型,有不同的通讯处理方式(a reusable messaging layer)。用户可以根据对于系统的应用场景,组合合适的socket类型构建系统通讯架构。(为什么需要OMQ

理解Request-Reply Combinations

  • REQ to REP: 实现同步的请求(client REQ)和同步的回复(server REP)。
  • DEALER to REP: 将client的REQ替换成DEALER,实现client异步请求,DEALER实现负载均衡,选择多个server中的一个进行回复(Round-Robin)。
  • REQ to ROUTER: 实现了单个异步的server,参考mtserver实现
  • DEALER to ROUTER: 实现异步的client与异步的server通讯。
  • DEALER to DEALER: fully asynchronous,需要自己处理reply envelope
  • ROUTER to ROUTER: 实现N-to-N connection。

实践 ROUTER to ROUTER connection

Inter-Broker Routing

peering的架构实现中,在broker之间路由任务时,cloudbe(ROUTER)避免不了与其他broker的cloudfe(ROUTER)主动发起通讯,各种socket处理Reply Envelope的方式有所不同:

  • REQ socket会在发送的消息前面加空frame。接收消息时,会丢弃第一个空帧后再传递给调用者。
  • ROUTER会给来自REQ socket的message增加标识构成envelope,标识REQ的身份,方便ROUTER回传Reply

    ROUTER uses the reply envelope to decide which client REQ socket to route a reply back to.

  • REP socket,会保存和摘除所有identity frames直到并包括分隔符,只传递后续的帧给调用者
  • DEALER socket 无视envelope,只讲当前收到的message当作multi-frame message来处理。

下图是消息在broker间传递时,client的消息发生路由不发生路由两种方式下,帧格式的变化: client的消息在broker间路由

Titanic Pattern

在ZeroMQ的Guide文档中实现可靠Request-Reply的Titanic Pattern,由于没有C++版本的代码,所以自己实现了一份并提交了pr,提升对于ROUTER socket的使用机制理解。

下图是client发送的请求,经过mdbroker后,先在titanic节点持久化,再发送给mdbroker,mdbroker回复给client确认的消息传递过程,以及该过程中详细的帧格式。 client请求持久化