It was nice to have and useful at the time, but unfortunately the method
used to gather the profiling data doesn't play nicely with 'async'. PR
#3228 will turn 'get_page_at_lsn' function async, which will break the
profiling support. Let's remove it, and re-introduce some kind of
profiling later, using some different method, if we feel like we need it
again.
The synchronous 'tar' crate has required us to use block_in_place and
SyncIoBridge to work together with the async I/O in the client
connection. Switch to 'tokio-tar' crate that uses async I/O natively.
As part of this, move the CopyDataWriter implementation to
postgres_backend_async.rs. Even though it's only used in one place
currently, it's in principle generally applicable whenever you want to
use COPY out.
Unfortunately we cannot use the 'tokio-tar' as it is: the Builder
implementation requires the writer to have 'static lifetime. So we
have to use a modified version without that requirement. The 'static
lifetime was required just for the Drop implementation that writes
the end-of-archive sections if the Builder is dropped without calling
`finish`. But we don't actually want that behavior anyway; in fact
we had to jump through some hoops with the AbortableWrite hack to skip
those. With the modified version of 'tokio-tar' without that Drop
implementation, we don't need AbortableWrite either.
Co-authored-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@neon.tech>
I looked at "cargo tree" output and noticed that through various
dependencies, we are depending on both native-tls and rustls. We have
tried to standardize on rustls for everything, but dependencies on
native-tls have crept in recently. One such dependency came from
'reqwest' with default features in pageserver, used for
consumption_metrics. Another dependency was from 'sentry'. Both
'reqwest' and 'sentry' use native-tls by default, but can use 'rustls'
if compiled with the right feature flags.
Add new background job to collect billing metrics for each tenant and
send them to the HTTP endpoint.
Metrics are cached, so we don't send non-changed metrics.
Add metric collection config parameters:
metric_collection_endpoint (default None, i.e. disabled)
metric_collection_interval (default 60s)
Add test_metric_collection.py to test metric collection
and sending to the mocked HTTP endpoint.
Use port distributor in metric_collection test
review fixes: only update cache after metrics were send successfully, simplify code
disable metric collection if metric_collection_endpoint is not provided in config
This fixes all kinds of problems related to missing params,
like broken timestamps (due to `integer_datetimes`).
This solution is not ideal, but it will help. Meanwhile,
I'm going to dedicate some time to improving connection machinery.
Note that this **does not** fix problems with passing certain parameters
in a reverse direction, i.e. **from client to compute**. This is a
separate matter and will be dealt with in an upcoming PR.
The code in this change was extracted from PR #2595, i.e., Heikki’s draft
PR for on-demand download.
High-Level Changes
- storage_sync module rewrite
- Changes to Tenant Loading
- Changes to Timeline States
- Crash-safe & Resumable Tenant Attach
There are several follow-up work items planned.
Refer to the Epic issue on GitHub:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2029
Metadata:
closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2785
unsquashed history of this patch: archive/pr-2785-storage-sync2/pre-squash
Co-authored-by: Dmitry Rodionov <dmitry@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
===============================================================================
storage_sync module rewrite
===========================
The storage_sync code is rewritten. New module name is storage_sync2, mostly to
make a more reasonable git diff.
The updated block comment in storage_sync2.rs describes the changes quite well,
so, we will not reproduce that comment here. TL;DR:
- Global sync queue and RemoteIndex are replaced with per-timeline
`RemoteTimelineClient` structure that contains a queue for UploadOperations
to ensure proper ordering and necessary metadata.
- Before deleting local layer files, wait for ongoing UploadOps to finish
(wait_completion()).
- Download operations are not queued and executed immediately.
Changes to Tenant Loading
=========================
Initial sync part was rewritten as well and represents the other major change
that serves as a foundation for on-demand downloads. Routines for attaching and
loading shifted directly to Tenant struct and now are asynchronous and spawned
into the background.
Since this patch doesn’t introduce on-demand download of layers we fully
synchronize with the remote during pageserver startup. See details in
`Timeline::reconcile_with_remote` and `Timeline::download_missing`.
Changes to Tenant States
========================
The “Active” state has lost its “background_jobs_running: bool” member. That
variable indicated whether the GC & Compaction background loops are spawned or
not. With this patch, they are now always spawned. Unit tests (#[test]) use the
TenantConf::{gc_period,compaction_period} to disable their effect (15db566).
This patch introduces a new tenant state, “Attaching”. A tenant that is being
attached starts in this state and transitions to “Active” once it finishes
download.
The `GET /tenant` endpoints returns `TenantInfo::has_in_progress_downloads`. We
derive the value for that field from the tenant state now, to remain
backwards-compatible with cloud.git. We will remove that field when we switch
to on-demand downloads.
Changes to Timeline States
==========================
The TimelineInfo::awaits_download field is now equivalent to the tenant being
in Attaching state. Previously, download progress was tracked per timeline.
With this change, it’s only tracked per tenant. When on-demand downloads
arrive, the field will be completely obsolete. Deprecation is tracked in
isuse #2930.
Crash-safe & Resumable Tenant Attach
====================================
Previously, the attach operation was not persistent. I.e., when tenant attach
was interrupted by a crash, the pageserver would not continue attaching after
pageserver restart. In fact, the half-finished tenant directory on disk would
simply be skipped by tenant_mgr because it lacked the metadata file (it’s
written last). This patch introduces an “attaching” marker file inside that is
present inside the tenant directory while the tenant is attaching. During
pageserver startup, tenant_mgr will resume attach if that file is present. If
not, it assumes that the local tenant state is consistent and tries to load the
tenant. If that fails, the tenant transitions into Broken state.
Tenant size information is gathered by using existing parts of
`Tenant::gc_iteration` which are now separated as
`Tenant::refresh_gc_info`. `Tenant::refresh_gc_info` collects branch
points, and invokes `Timeline::update_gc_info`; nothing was supposed to
be changed there. The gathered branch points (through Timeline's
`GcInfo::retain_lsns`), `GcInfo::horizon_cutoff`, and
`GcInfo::pitr_cutoff` are used to build up a Vec of updates fed into the
`libs/tenant_size_model` to calculate the history size.
The gathered information is now exposed using `GET
/v1/tenant/{tenant_id}/size`, which which will respond with the actual
calculated size. Initially the idea was to have this delivered as tenant
background task and exported via metric, but it might be too
computationally expensive to run it periodically as we don't yet know if
the returned values are any good.
Adds one new metric:
- pageserver_storage_operations_seconds with label `logical_size`
- separating from original `init_logical_size`
Adds a pageserver wide configuration variable:
- `concurrent_tenant_size_logical_size_queries` with default 1
This leaves a lot of TODO's, tracked on issue #2748.
Speeds up layer_map::search somewhat. I also opened a PR in the upstream
rust-amplify repository with these changes,
see https://github.com/rust-amplify/rust-amplify/pull/148. We can switch
back to upstream version when that's merged.
* etcd-client is not updated, since we plan to replace it with another client and the new version errors with some missing prost library error
* clap had released another major update that requires changing every CLI declaration again, deserves a separate PR
Creates new `pageserver_api` and `safekeeper_api` crates to serve as the
shared dependencies. Should reduce both recompile times and cold compile
times.
Decreases the size of the optimized `neon_local` binary: 380M -> 179M.
No significant changes for anything else (mostly as expected).
Replace the layer array and linear search with R-tree
So far, the in-memory layer map that holds information about layer
files that exist, has used a simple Vec, in no particular order, to
hold information about all the layers. That obviously doesn't scale
very well; with thousands of layer files the linear search was
consuming a lot of CPU. Replace it with a two-dimensional R-tree, with
Key and LSN ranges as the dimensions.
For the R-tree, use the 'rstar' crate. To be able to use that, we
convert the Keys and LSNs into 256-bit integers. 64 bits would be
enough to represent LSNs, and 128 bits would be enough to represent
Keys. However, we use 256 bits, because rstar internally performs
multiplication to calculate the area of rectangles, and the result of
multiplying two 128 bit integers doesn't necessarily fit in 128 bits,
causing integer overflow and, if overflow-checks are enabled,
panic. To avoid that, we use 256 bit integers.
Add a performance test that creates a lot of layer files, to
demonstrate the benefit.
Instead of spawning helper threads, we now use Tokio tasks. There
are multiple Tokio runtimes, for different kinds of tasks. One for
serving libpq client connections, another for background operations
like GC and compaction, and so on. That's not strictly required, we
could use just one runtime, but with this you can still get an
overview of what's happening with "top -H".
There's one subtle behavior in how TenantState is updated. Before this
patch, if you deleted all timelines from a tenant, its GC and
compaction loops were stopped, and the tenant went back to Idle
state. We no longer do that. The empty tenant stays Active. The
changes to test_tenant_tasks.py are related to that.
There's still plenty of synchronous code and blocking. For example, we
still use blocking std::io functions for all file I/O, and the
communication with WAL redo processes is still uses low-level unix
poll(). We might want to rewrite those later, but this will do for
now. The model is that local file I/O is considered to be fast enough
that blocking - and preventing other tasks running in the same thread -
is acceptable.
This depends on a hacked version of the 'pprof-rs' crate. Because of
that, it's under an optional 'profiling' feature. It is disabled by
default, but enabled for release builds in CircleCI config. It doesn't
currently work on macOS.
The flamegraph is written to 'flamegraph.svg' in the pageserver
workdir when the 'pageserver' process exits.
Add a performance test that runs the perf_pgbench test, with profiling
enabled.
We now use a page cache for those, instead of slurping the whole index into
memory.
Fixes https://github.com/zenithdb/zenith/issues/1356
This is a backwards-incompatible change to the storage format, so
bump STORAGE_FORMAT_VERSION.
This introduces two new abstraction layers for I/O:
- Block I/O, and
- Blob I/O.
The BlockReader trait abstracts a file or something else that can be read
in 8kB pages. It is implemented by EphemeralFiles, and by a new
FileBlockReader struct that allows reading arbitrary VirtualFiles in that
manner, utilizing the page cache.
There is also a new BlockCursor struct that works as a cursor over a
BlockReader. When you create a BlockCursor and read the first page using
it, it keeps the reference to the page. If you access the same page again,
it avoids going to page cache and quickly returns the same page again.
That can save a lot of lookups in the page cache if you perform multiple
reads.
The Blob-oriented API allows reading and writing "blobs" of arbitrary
length. It is a layer on top of the block-oriented API. When you write
a blob with the write_blob() function, it writes a length field
followed by the actual data to the underlying block storage, and
returns the offset where the blob was stored. The blob can be
retrieved later using the offset.
Finally, this replaces the I/O code in image-, delta-, and in-memory
layers to use the new abstractions. These replace the 'bookfile'
crate.
This is a backwards-incompatible change to the storage format.
