This adopts the task pool functionality to let us spawn new worker
threads when worker threads are blocked. The underlying reason for
this is the same as the reason for the previous worker-pool-growing
strategy; while our design persistently has at least one thing which
can proceed, it can be the case that there are N things blocked,
where N is the size of our worker pool. Blocked workers shouldn't
count against our desired number of workers.
Originally, the intent was to thread this into RBF, and provide
backpressure from RBF on the pool when blocking on writes. Unfortunately,
that's not good enough, because while a write is blocked, the Qcx
calling it is *also* holding the Qcx's mutex, which means that any other
NewTx on that Qcx will *also* block. So we need to block for the
entire time of the NewTx.
Removing the existing worker spawning code resulted in a subtle
and maybe-harmless change; prior to this, each invocation of `mapperLocal`
would hold a lock, which meant that all the tasks for a given local mapper
would be put in the queue *sequentially*, ensuring that they'd all be
picked up by workers before things from later workers.
With the new pushback, that's not, strictly, necessary. Also, if you
disable it, you can end up with 300,000 goroutines at once, most of them
blocked.
A smallish run does, in fact, eventually complete anyway -- it will
indeed keep making workers until everything gets one. However, while
it's *correct*, it's also noticably *slower*. The same test workload
goes from around 33 seconds to a bit over 40 seconds when that lock
isn't present. (But that's with an extremely small WAL write cap
introduced to make the previous deadlock possible.)
With large numbers of shards, the practical impact is that you can
have quite a lot of things in process, with hundreds of goroutines
each, all blocked waiting for one writer. If we force them to all be
processed at the same time, all the reads that are connected to
each other are much more likely to get all processed at once, before
something new comes along.
In short, that lock isn't strictly necessary but it seems to help
noticably with performance and reduce simultaneous goroutines
significantly.
- Add auth-token for featurebase import, backup and restore
- Add auth-token to http request
- Create a cluster tests with auth enabled
- Add test for import with auth enabled
it was somewhat difficult to avoid ripping this out without also
touching some of the stuff that supports roaring backend. That's going
soon too, so no worries :)
i used this script, a little clunky but it got the job done
```bash
for file in `find . -type f -print | grep '\.go'`; do
sed '1,/^\/\/ limitations under the License.$/d' $file > $file.tmp;
result=`cat $file.tmp`
if [[ result != "" ]]; then
gofmt $file.tmp &> /dev/null;
if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
mv $file.tmp $file && gofmt -w $file;
else
rm $file.tmp;
fi
else
rm $file.tmp;
fi
done
```
These commits are hard to disentagle, and doing them separately means
re-modifying the same chunks of code several times before removing it,
and similar things.
Basically:
(1) Drop the bolt backend storage.
(2) Drop the blue-green wrapper that compares two backends.
(3) Drop unused or barely-used Tx API components from all the
remaining backends.
(4) Minor related cleanup to simplify things related to these.
The boltdb backend existed only to verify RBF. The blue-green wrapper
was mostly used to verify RBF, but in practice we had to do a lot
of working around that, and it introduced a lot of special cases.
Types removed:
IteratorFinder: Used only to implement the roaring iterator
on top of boltdb, and to complicate the way it worked in roaring.
Reverted the complications. Also unexport NewSliceContainers
which is used only for that outside of roaring's internals.
PortMapper from cluster_internal_test.go: Used only for a test
we removed early this year. Never used for anything else.
RawRoaringData: Totally unused.
TxStore: Totally unused.
Functions removed from Tx API, and sometimes corresponding
members were removed from structs:
* Dump: debugging code, I don't think I found any actually reachable
paths to it.
* Group: only used for debugging TxGroup stuff
* IncrementOpN: only used by fragment, fragment can increment its
own opN.
* Options: unused?
* Pointer: debugging only
* Readonly: used only to decide how to handle Tx in a TxGrp,
but we never add a non-readonly Tx to a TxGrp. Removed also all
the corresponding write-aware stuff.
* RoaringBitmapReader: Used exactly once, can just be a bm.WriteTo.
* Sn (and OpenSnList): Unused
* UnionInPlace: unused and conceptually-invalid; it didn't write
to storage and shouldn't have, and was just "create a bitmap
then call union-in-place", which we can do directly.
* UseRowCache: just checked storage.UseRowCache.
Other things removed:
The SetRequiredForAtomicWriteTx and ClearRequiredForAtomicWriteTx
functions go away, since nothing now seems to be using them? Same
for holder_internal_test's `testHasBit` and `testMustNotHaveBit`,
which were unused.
The DBPerShard "DeleteDBPath" and "HasData" functions and related
parts were mostly unused; took out the parts that were never
actually being reached.
Changed the API of one function to simplify special cases and
remove things:
* ImportRoaringBits had a special "data" argument which gave it
subtly different semantics for RBF and roaring (for roaring, it
could produce a roaring bitmap *with ops log*), didn't seem to
be adding much. Removed corresponding "readStorageFromArchive"
which is not otherwise used.
Also took out various debugging/dumping functions that were unused
and may have bitrotted.
Dropped a test from txfactory_internal_test, and the "pjobs"
code, because those two were the only things that needed Barrier
and thus idem, which lets us drop two more dependencies. We already
have errgroup for grouping things which want to terminate as
soon as one of them errors, approximately. To do better we'd have
to have context-threading, really.
Unbroke the WriteFragment test for non-roaring tests and made it
not roaring-only.
Performance of tests on MacOS has been atrocious for a while, and
a lot of that is fsync, so we're trying to make that optional.
To test all of this, I modified RBF to panic if anything tried to
open an RBF database without disabling fsync, and ran the tests that
way, and tracked down the various places this could still happen.
There's a lot of places in our tree where we were creating
test holders which were not getting created with fsync disabled, which
results in a surprisingly large number of points at which we end
up calling fsync in tests, which makes tests much slower than they
need to be. There's also a bunch of places where the flags don't get
propagated correctly; for instance, storage.fsync didn't propagate
to the RBFConfig.
We add an "fsync enabled" flag to OpenTranslateStoreFunc, so we can
tell translation stores that we don't need syncing, so the server's
config can be passed on appropriately.
More of the test code that sets things up is correctly configuring
that flag by default.
We also change the barely-used bolt storage backend to support this as
well.
With this done, the only calls to fsync left in a run of `go test -short`
in the top-level directory are from the zap logger in etcd, and consumed
around 0.03 seconds. The overall impact is that `go test -short`
went from "takes enough more than 10 minutes that i don't know how long
it takes" to about 2.5 minutes.
Attributes are unmaintained and unused.
They have become more of a liability than a benefit.
This change eliminates them from the codebase.
The only user-visible change (assuming that attrs are not used) is that the attrs field will no longer appear in row JSON.
We check mmap limits, and try to set/increase our open file limits,
and we check the mmap limit when we start the server, and try to set
the open file limit every time we open a holder.
It's useless to do these things more than once, though. We migrate
these things to be run through a sync.Once, which runs all of them
the first time a server starts up, and then thereafter just returns
the error code from that first run. This should make test startup
ever so slightly cheaper, saving us potentially several microseconds,
but also reducing the spamminess of the message.
I've taken out the `sudo ulimit` advice since it's wrong, and the
documentation link is updated to point to our (now private!)
customer documentation.
Prior to using etcd for node membership, the data director was created
during the cluster topology setup. Since that no longer exists, we
weren't actually creating the data directory before getting to
logStartup(). So this change ensure that the data directory exists.
There's no need to have two different translation readers, a single
reader can handle both partitions and fields at the same time, so we
can combine them. This may not actually change things much but was
a useful step in diagnosing a different problem with translate readers,
and I think it is a minor improvement so I'm preserving the patch
just in case.
If we are using replication, we can be a replica translate store for a
partition, which means we start a translate store reader to replicate
data for it. The translation logic does not admit *stopping* the
translate reader, only "resetting" it (stopping and immediately
restarting), so the translate reader just runs until it hits an error
and terminates, which it does even if perhaps it shouldn't. Oops.
Anyway, one potential failure mode is that if you hit timing just
right, you can end up trying to process translation *while* the
index is being closed, and the index can close its translation stores,
and make them all nil, right before we request a store and try to use
it. Another is a similar error, but during the initial startup of the
translate store readers. Either way, we want to error out of the
process cleanly if this happens.
This could also happen during initial creation, perhaps.
We're aborting translation sync on these errors, because otherwise
we'd continue accepting new keys, and then end up with our highest
known key being higher than some keys we missed; this way the next
restart will restart from the last key we have.
