pageserver: revert flush backpressure (#8550) (#10135)

## Problem

In #8550, we made the flush loop wait for uploads after every layer.
This was to avoid unbounded buildup of uploads, and to reduce compaction
debt. However, the approach has several problems:

* It prevents upload parallelism.
* It prevents flush and upload pipelining.
* It slows down ingestion even when there is no need to backpressure.
* It does not directly backpressure WAL ingestion (only via
`disk_consistent_lsn`), and will build up in-memory layers.
* It does not directly backpressure based on compaction debt and read
amplification.

An alternative solution to these problems is proposed in #8390.

In the meanwhile, we revert the change to reduce the impact on ingest
throughput. This does reintroduce some risk of unbounded
upload/compaction buildup. Until
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8390, this can be addressed
in other ways:

* Use `max_replication_apply_lag` (aka `remote_consistent_lsn`), which
will more directly limit upload debt.
* Shard the tenant, which will spread the flush/upload work across more
Pageservers and move the bottleneck to Safekeeper.

Touches #10095.

## Summary of changes

Remove waiting on the upload queue in the flush loop.
This commit is contained in:
Erik Grinaker
2024-12-15 10:45:12 +01:00
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parent cf161e1556
commit f3ecd5d76a
5 changed files with 13 additions and 112 deletions

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@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ PAGESERVER_PER_TENANT_METRICS: tuple[str, ...] = (
"pageserver_evictions_with_low_residence_duration_total",
"pageserver_aux_file_estimated_size",
"pageserver_valid_lsn_lease_count",
"pageserver_flush_wait_upload_seconds",
counter("pageserver_tenant_throttling_count_accounted_start"),
counter("pageserver_tenant_throttling_count_accounted_finish"),
counter("pageserver_tenant_throttling_wait_usecs_sum"),