- Clean up redundant metric removal in TimelineMetrics::drop.
RemoteTimelineClientMetrics is responsible for cleaning up
REMOTE_OPERATION_TIME andREMOTE_UPLOAD_QUEUE_UNFINISHED_TASKS.
- Rename `pageserver_remote_upload_queue_unfinished_tasks` to
`pageserver_remote_timeline_client_calls_unfinished`. The new name
reflects that the metric is with respect to the entire call to remote
timeline client. This includes wait time in the upload queue and hence
it's a longer span than what `pageserver_remote_OPERATION_seconds`
measures.
- Add the `pageserver_remote_timeline_client_calls_started` histogram.
See the metric description for why we need it.
- Add helper functions `call_begin` etc to `RemoteTimelineClientMetrics`
to centralize the logic for updating the metrics above (they relate to
each other, see comments in code).
- Use these constructs to track ongoing downloads in
`pageserver_remote_timeline_client_calls_unfinished`
refs https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2029
fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3249
closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3250
The code in this change was extracted from #2595 (Heikki’s on-demand
download draft PR).
High-Level Changes
- New RemoteLayer Type
- On-Demand Download As An Effect Of Page Reconstruction
- Breaking Semantics For Physical Size Metrics
There are several follow-up work items planned.
Refer to the Epic issue on GitHub: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2029
closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3013
Co-authored-by: Kirill Bulatov <kirill@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
New RemoteLayer Type
====================
Instead of downloading all layers during tenant attach, we create
RemoteLayer instances for each of them and add them to the layer map.
On-Demand Download As An Effect Of Page Reconstruction
======================================================
At the heart of pageserver is Timeline::get_reconstruct_data(). It
traverses the layer map until it has collected all the data it needs to
produce the page image. Most code in the code base uses it, though many
layers of indirection.
Before this patch, the function would use synchronous filesystem IO to
load data from disk-resident layer files if the data was not cached.
That is not possible with RemoteLayer, because the layer file has not
been downloaded yet. So, we do the download when get_reconstruct_data
gets there, i.e., “on demand”.
The mechanics of how the download is done are rather involved, because
of the infamous async-sync-async sandwich problem that plagues the async
Rust world. We use the new PageReconstructResult type to work around
this. Its introduction is the cause for a good amount of code churn in
this patch. Refer to the block comment on `with_ondemand_download()`
for details.
Breaking Semantics For Physical Size Metrics
============================================
We rename prometheus metric pageserver_{current,resident}_physical_size to
reflect what this metric actually represents with on-demand download.
This intentionally BREAKS existing grafana dashboard and the cost model data
pipeline. Breaking is desirable because the meaning of this metrics has changed
with on-demand download. See
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AFpvKY-7FZdR5a4CaD6Ir_rI3QokdCLSPJ6upHxJBo/edit#
for how we will handle this breakage.
Likewise, we rename the new billing_metrics’s PhysicalSize => ResidentSize.
This is not yet used anywhere, so, this is not a breaking change.
There is still a field called TimelineInfo::current_physical_size. It
is now the sum of the layer sizes in layer map, regardless of whether
local or remote. To compute that sum, we added a new trait method
PersistentLayer::file_size().
When updating the Python tests, we got rid of
current_physical_size_non_incremental. An earlier commit removed it from
the OpenAPI spec already, so this is not a breaking change.
test_timeline_size.py has grown additional assertions on the
resident_physical_size metric.
Remote operations fail sometimes due to network failures or other
external reasons. Add retry logic to all the remote downloads, so that
a transient failure at pageserver startup or tenant attach doesn't
cause the whole tenant to be marked as Broken.
Like in the uploads retry logic, we print the failure to the log as a
WARNing after three retries, but keep retrying. We will retry up to 10
times now, before returning the error to the caller.
To test the retries, I created a new RemoteStorage wrapper that simulates
failures, by returning an error for the first N times that a remote
operation is performed. It can be enabled by setting a new
"test_remote_failures" option in the pageserver config file.
Fixes#3112
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/3052
From what I could understand from the PR, we did not wait enough before
the attach failed.
Extended the wait period a bit and put a check for a status instead of
plain `sleep` to fail if we don't get the expected status.
It used to be a separate piece of state, but after 9a6c0be823 it's just
an alias for the Tenant being in Attaching state. It was only used in
one assertion in a test, but that check doesn't make sense anymore, so
just remove it.
Fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2930
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2537
Follow-up of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2950
With the new model that prevents attaching without the remote storage,
it has started to be even more odd to add attach-with-files
functionality (in addition to the issues raised previously).
Adds two separate commands:
* `POST {tenant_id}/ignore` that places a mark file to skip such tenant
on every start and removes it from memory
* `POST {tenant_id}/schedule_load` that tries to load a tenant from
local FS similar to what pageserver does now on startup, but without
directory removals
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.
If there are any unexpected ERRORs or WARNs in pageserver.log after test
finishes, fail the test. This requires whitelisting the errors that *are*
expected in each test, and there's also a few common errors that are
printed by most tests, which are whitelisted in the fixture itself.
With this, we don't need the special abort() call in testing mode, when
compaction or GC fails. Those failures will print ERRORs to the logs,
which will be picked up by this new mechanisms.
A bunch of errors are currently whitelisted that we probably shouldn't
be emitting in the first place, but fixing those is out of scope for this
commit, so I just left FIXME comments on them.
The 'local' part was always filled in, so that was easy to merge into
into the TimelineInfo itself. 'remote' only contained two fields,
'remote_consistent_lsn' and 'awaits_download'. I made
'remote_consistent_lsn' an optional field, and 'awaits_download' is now
false if the timeline is not present remotely.
However, I kept stub versions of the 'local' and 'remote' structs for
backwards-compatibility, with a few fields that are actively used by
the control plane. They just duplicate the fields from TimelineInfo
now. They can be removed later, once the control plane has been
updated to use the new fields.
It was only None when you queried the status of a timeline with
'timeline_detail' mgmt API call, and it was still being downloaded. You
can check for that status with the 'tenant_status' API call instead,
checking for has_in_progress_downloads field.
Anothere case was if an error happened while trying to get the current
logical size, in a 'timeline_detail' request. It might make sense to
tolerate such errors, and leave the fields we cannot fill in as empty,
None, 0 or similar, but it doesn't make sense to me to leave the whole
'local' struct empty in tht case.
For better ergonomics. I always found it weird that we used UUID to
actually mean a tenant or timeline ID. It worked because it happened
to have the same length, 16 bytes, but it was hacky.
Merge batch_others and batch_pg_regress. The original idea was to
split all the python tests into multiple "batches" and run each batch
in parallel as a separate CI job. However, the batch_pg_regress batch
was pretty short compared to all the tests in batch_others. We could
split batch_others into multiple batches, but it actually seems better
to just treat them as one big pool of tests and use pytest's handle
the parallelism on its own. If we need to split them across multiple
nodes in the future, we could use pytest-shard or something else,
instead of managing the batches ourselves.
Merge test_neon_regress.py, test_pg_regress.py and test_isolation.py
into one file, test_pg_regress.py. Seems more clear to group all
pg_regress-based tests into one file, now that they would all be in
the same directory.