pageserver: reorder upload queue when possible (#10218)

## Problem

The upload queue currently sees significant head-of-line blocking. For
example, index uploads act as upload barriers, and for every layer flush
we schedule a layer and index upload, which effectively serializes layer
uploads.

Resolves #10096.

## Summary of changes

Allow upload queue operations to bypass the queue if they don't conflict
with preceding operations, increasing parallelism.

NB: the upload queue currently schedules an explicit barrier after every
layer flush as well (see #8550). This must be removed to enable
parallelism. This will require a better mechanism for compaction
backpressure, see e.g. #8390 or #5415.

Cargo.lock

@@ -4044,6 +4044,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "postgres_connection",
  "postgres_ffi",
  "postgres_initdb",
+ "pprof",
  "pq_proto",
  "procfs",
  "rand 0.8.5",

pageserver/Cargo.toml

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ postgres_backend.workspace = true
 postgres-protocol.workspace = true
 postgres-types.workspace = true
 postgres_initdb.workspace = true
+pprof.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
 range-set-blaze = { version = "0.1.16", features = ["alloc"] }
 regex.workspace = true
@@ -108,3 +109,7 @@ harness = false
 [[bench]]
 name = "bench_ingest"
 harness = false
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "upload_queue"
+harness = false

pageserver/benches/upload_queue.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+//! Upload queue benchmarks.
+
+use std::str::FromStr as _;
+use std::sync::atomic::AtomicU32;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, Bencher, Criterion};
+use pageserver::tenant::metadata::TimelineMetadata;
+use pageserver::tenant::remote_timeline_client::index::LayerFileMetadata;
+use pageserver::tenant::storage_layer::LayerName;
+use pageserver::tenant::upload_queue::{Delete, UploadOp, UploadQueue, UploadTask};
+use pageserver::tenant::IndexPart;
+use pprof::criterion::{Output, PProfProfiler};
+use utils::generation::Generation;
+use utils::shard::{ShardCount, ShardIndex, ShardNumber};
+
+// Register benchmarks with Criterion.
+criterion_group!(
+    name = benches;
+    config = Criterion::default().with_profiler(PProfProfiler::new(100, Output::Flamegraph(None)));
+    targets = bench_upload_queue_next_ready,
+);
+criterion_main!(benches);
+
+/// Benchmarks the cost of UploadQueue::next_ready() with the given number of in-progress tasks
+/// (which is equivalent to tasks ahead of it in the queue). This has linear cost, and the upload
+/// queue as a whole is thus quadratic.
+///
+/// UploadOp::UploadLayer requires an entire tenant and timeline to construct, so we just test
+/// Delete and UploadMetadata instead. This is incidentally the most expensive case.
+fn bench_upload_queue_next_ready(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let mut g = c.benchmark_group("upload_queue_next_ready");
+    for inprogress in [0, 1, 10, 100, 1_000, 10_000, 100_000, 1_000_000] {
+        g.bench_function(format!("inprogress={inprogress}"), |b| {
+            run_bench(b, inprogress).unwrap()
+        });
+    }
+
+    fn run_bench(b: &mut Bencher, inprogress: usize) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+        // Construct two layers. layer0 is in the indexes, layer1 will be deleted.
+        let layer0 = LayerName::from_str("000000000000000000000000000000000000-100000000000000000000000000000000000__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51").expect("invalid name");
+        let layer1 = LayerName::from_str("100000000000000000000000000000000001-200000000000000000000000000000000000__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51").expect("invalid name");
+
+        let metadata = LayerFileMetadata {
+            shard: ShardIndex::new(ShardNumber(1), ShardCount(2)),
+            generation: Generation::Valid(1),
+            file_size: 0,
+        };
+
+        // Construct the (initial and uploaded) index with layer0.
+        let mut index = IndexPart::empty(TimelineMetadata::example());
+        index.layer_metadata.insert(layer0, metadata.clone());
+
+        // Construct the queue.
+        let mut queue = UploadQueue::Uninitialized;
+        let queue = queue.initialize_with_current_remote_index_part(&index)?;
+
+        // Populate inprogress_tasks with a bunch of layer1 deletions.
+        let delete = UploadOp::Delete(Delete {
+            layers: vec![(layer1, metadata)],
+        });
+
+        for task_id in 0..(inprogress as u64) {
+            queue.inprogress_tasks.insert(
+                task_id,
+                Arc::new(UploadTask {
+                    task_id,
+                    retries: AtomicU32::new(0),
+                    op: delete.clone(),
+                }),
+            );
+        }
+
+        // Benchmark index upload scheduling.
+        let index_upload = UploadOp::UploadMetadata {
+            uploaded: Box::new(index),
+        };
+
+        b.iter(|| {
+            queue.queued_operations.push_front(index_upload.clone());
+            assert!(queue.next_ready().is_some());
+        });
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}

pageserver/src/tenant/metadata.rs

@@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ impl TimelineMetadata {
 
     // Checksums make it awkward to build a valid instance by hand.  This helper
     // provides a TimelineMetadata with a valid checksum in its header.
-    #[cfg(test)]
     pub fn example() -> Self {
         let instance = Self::new(
             "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),

pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs

@@ -63,22 +63,18 @@
 //! The contract between client and its user is that the user is responsible of
 //! scheduling operations in an order that keeps the remote consistent as
 //! described above.
+//!
 //! From the user's perspective, the operations are executed sequentially.
 //! Internally, the client knows which operations can be performed in parallel,
 //! and which operations act like a "barrier" that require preceding operations
 //! to finish. The calling code just needs to call the schedule-functions in the
 //! correct order, and the client will parallelize the operations in a way that
-//! is safe.
-//!
-//! The caller should be careful with deletion, though. They should not delete
-//! local files that have been scheduled for upload but not yet finished uploading.
-//! Otherwise the upload will fail. To wait for an upload to finish, use
-//! the 'wait_completion' function (more on that later.)
+//! is safe. For more details, see `UploadOp::can_bypass`.
 //!
 //! All of this relies on the following invariants:
 //!
 //! - We rely on read-after write consistency in the remote storage.
-//! - Layer files are immutable
+//! - Layer files are immutable.
 //!
 //! NB: Pageserver assumes that it has exclusive write access to the tenant in remote
 //! storage. Different tenants can be attached to different pageservers, but if the
@@ -1855,57 +1851,17 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    ///
     /// Pick next tasks from the queue, and start as many of them as possible without violating
     /// the ordering constraints.
     ///
-    /// The caller needs to already hold the `upload_queue` lock.
+    /// TODO: consider limiting the number of in-progress tasks, beyond what remote_storage does.
+    /// This can launch an unbounded number of queued tasks. `UploadQueue::next_ready()` also has
+    /// worst-case quadratic cost in the number of tasks, and may struggle beyond 10,000 tasks.
     fn launch_queued_tasks(self: &Arc<Self>, upload_queue: &mut UploadQueueInitialized) {
-        while let Some(next_op) = upload_queue.queued_operations.front() {
-            // Can we run this task now?
-            let can_run_now = match next_op {
-                UploadOp::UploadLayer(..) => {
-                    // Can always be scheduled.
-                    true
-                }
-                UploadOp::UploadMetadata { .. } => {
-                    // These can only be performed after all the preceding operations
-                    // have finished.
-                    upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.is_empty()
-                }
-                UploadOp::Delete(..) => {
-                    // Wait for preceding uploads to finish. Concurrent deletions are OK, though.
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_deletions == upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.len()
-                }
+        while let Some(mut next_op) = upload_queue.next_ready() {
+            debug!("starting op: {next_op}");
 
-                UploadOp::Barrier(_) | UploadOp::Shutdown => {
-                    upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.is_empty()
-                }
-            };
-
-            // If we cannot launch this task, don't look any further.
-            //
-            // In some cases, we could let some non-frontmost tasks to "jump the queue" and launch
-            // them now, but we don't try to do that currently.  For example, if the frontmost task
-            // is an index-file upload that cannot proceed until preceding uploads have finished, we
-            // could still start layer uploads that were scheduled later.
-            if !can_run_now {
-                break;
-            }
-
-            if let UploadOp::Shutdown = next_op {
-                // leave the op in the queue but do not start more tasks; it will be dropped when
-                // the stop is called.
-                upload_queue.shutdown_ready.close();
-                break;
-            }
-
-            // We can launch this task. Remove it from the queue first.
-            let mut next_op = upload_queue.queued_operations.pop_front().unwrap();
-
-            debug!("starting op: {}", next_op);
-
-            // Update the counters and prepare
+            // Prepare upload.
             match &mut next_op {
                 UploadOp::UploadLayer(layer, meta, mode) => {
                     if upload_queue
@@ -1916,18 +1872,14 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
                     } else {
                         *mode = Some(OpType::MayReorder)
                     }
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_layer_uploads += 1;
-                }
-                UploadOp::UploadMetadata { .. } => {
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_metadata_uploads += 1;
                 }
+                UploadOp::UploadMetadata { .. } => {}
                 UploadOp::Delete(Delete { layers }) => {
                     for (name, meta) in layers {
                         upload_queue
                             .recently_deleted
                             .insert((name.clone(), meta.generation));
                     }
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_deletions += 1;
                 }
                 UploadOp::Barrier(sender) => {
                     sender.send_replace(());
@@ -2027,6 +1979,8 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
 
             let upload_result: anyhow::Result<()> = match &task.op {
                 UploadOp::UploadLayer(ref layer, ref layer_metadata, mode) => {
+                    // TODO: check if this mechanism can be removed now that can_bypass() performs
+                    // conflict checks during scheduling.
                     if let Some(OpType::FlushDeletion) = mode {
                         if self.config.read().unwrap().block_deletions {
                             // Of course, this is not efficient... but usually the queue should be empty.
@@ -2249,13 +2203,8 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
             upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.remove(&task.task_id);
 
             let lsn_update = match task.op {
-                UploadOp::UploadLayer(_, _, _) => {
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_layer_uploads -= 1;
-                    None
-                }
+                UploadOp::UploadLayer(_, _, _) => None,
                 UploadOp::UploadMetadata { ref uploaded } => {
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_metadata_uploads -= 1;
-
                     // the task id is reused as a monotonicity check for storing the "clean"
                     // IndexPart.
                     let last_updater = upload_queue.clean.1;
@@ -2289,10 +2238,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
                         None
                     }
                 }
-                UploadOp::Delete(_) => {
-                    upload_queue.num_inprogress_deletions -= 1;
-                    None
-                }
+                UploadOp::Delete(_) => None,
                 UploadOp::Barrier(..) | UploadOp::Shutdown => unreachable!(),
             };
 
@@ -2416,9 +2362,6 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
                         visible_remote_consistent_lsn: initialized
                             .visible_remote_consistent_lsn
                             .clone(),
-                        num_inprogress_layer_uploads: 0,
-                        num_inprogress_metadata_uploads: 0,
-                        num_inprogress_deletions: 0,
                         inprogress_tasks: HashMap::default(),
                         queued_operations: VecDeque::default(),
                         #[cfg(feature = "testing")]
@@ -2445,14 +2388,6 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
                     }
                 };
 
-                // consistency check
-                assert_eq!(
-                    qi.num_inprogress_layer_uploads
-                        + qi.num_inprogress_metadata_uploads
-                        + qi.num_inprogress_deletions,
-                    qi.inprogress_tasks.len()
-                );
-
                 // We don't need to do anything here for in-progress tasks. They will finish
                 // on their own, decrement the unfinished-task counter themselves, and observe
                 // that the queue is Stopped.
@@ -2899,8 +2834,8 @@ mod tests {
             let mut guard = client.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
             let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut().unwrap();
             assert!(upload_queue.queued_operations.is_empty());
-            assert!(upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.len() == 2);
-            assert!(upload_queue.num_inprogress_layer_uploads == 2);
+            assert_eq!(upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.len(), 2);
+            assert_eq!(upload_queue.num_inprogress_layer_uploads(), 2);
 
             // also check that `latest_file_changes` was updated
             assert!(upload_queue.latest_files_changes_since_metadata_upload_scheduled == 2);
@@ -2970,8 +2905,8 @@ mod tests {
             // Deletion schedules upload of the index file, and the file deletion itself
             assert_eq!(upload_queue.queued_operations.len(), 2);
             assert_eq!(upload_queue.inprogress_tasks.len(), 1);
-            assert_eq!(upload_queue.num_inprogress_layer_uploads, 1);
-            assert_eq!(upload_queue.num_inprogress_deletions, 0);
+            assert_eq!(upload_queue.num_inprogress_layer_uploads(), 1);
+            assert_eq!(upload_queue.num_inprogress_deletions(), 0);
             assert_eq!(
                 upload_queue.latest_files_changes_since_metadata_upload_scheduled,
                 0

pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ impl IndexPart {
 
     pub const FILE_NAME: &'static str = "index_part.json";
 
-    pub(crate) fn empty(metadata: TimelineMetadata) -> Self {
+    pub fn empty(metadata: TimelineMetadata) -> Self {
         IndexPart {
             version: Self::LATEST_VERSION,
             layer_metadata: Default::default(),

pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs

@@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ enum LayerKind {
 
 /// Guard for forcing a layer be resident while it exists.
 #[derive(Clone)]
-pub(crate) struct ResidentLayer {
+pub struct ResidentLayer {
     owner: Layer,
     downloaded: Arc<DownloadedLayer>,
 }