## Problem
It is unreliable for the control plane to infer the AZ for computes from
where the tenant is currently attached, because if a tenant happens to
be in a degraded state or a release is ongoing while a compute starts,
then the tenant's attached AZ can be a different one to where it will
run long-term, and the control plane doesn't check back later to restart
the compute.
This can land in parallel with
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9947
## Summary of changes
- Thread through the preferred AZ into the compute hook code via the
reconciler
- Include the preferred AZ in the body of compute hook notifications
## Problem
Reqwest errors don't include details about the inner source error. This
means that we get opaque errors like:
```
receive body: error sending request for url (http://localhost:9898/v1/location_config)
```
Instead of the more helpful:
```
receive body: error sending request for url (http://localhost:9898/v1/location_config): operation timed out
```
Touches #9801.
## Summary of changes
Include the source error for `reqwest::Error` wherever it's displayed.
## Problem
If we migrate A->B, then B->A, and the notification of A->B fails, then
we might have retained state that makes us think "A" is the last state
we sent to the compute hook, whereas when we migrate B->A we should
really be sending a fresh notification in case our earlier failed
notification has actually mutated the remote compute config.
Closes: #9417
## Summary of changes
- Add a reproducer for the bug
(`test_storage_controller_compute_hook_revert`)
- Refactor compute hook code to represent remote state with
`ComputeRemoteState` which stores a boolean for whether the compute has
fully applied the change as well as the request that the compute
accepted.
- The actual bug fix: after sending a compute notification, if we got a
423 response then update our ComputeRemoteState to reflect that we have
mutated the remote state. This way, when we later try and notify for our
historic location, we will properly see that as a change and send the
notification.
Co-authored-by: Vlad Lazar <vlad@neon.tech>
## Problem
Previously, the storage controller may send compute notifications
containing stale pageservers (i.e. pageserver serving the shard was
detached). This happened because detaches did not update the compute
hook state.
## Summary of Changes
Update compute hook state on shard detach.
Fixes#8928
- Add --safekeepers option to neon_local reconfigure
- Add it to python Endpoint reconfigure
- Implement config reload in walproposer by restarting the whole bgw when
safekeeper list changes.
ref https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6341
## Problem
For testing, the storage controller has a built-in hack that loads
neon_local endpoint config from disk, and uses it to reconfigure
endpoints when the attached pageserver changes.
Some tests that stop an endpoint while the storage controller is running
could occasionally fail on log errors from the controller trying to use
its special test-mode calls into neon local Endpoint.
Example:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8117/9592392425/index.html#/testresult/9d2bb8623d0d53f8
## Summary of changes
- Give NotifyError an explicit NeonLocal variant, to avoid munging these
into generic 500s (I don't want to ignore 500s in general)
- Allow-list errors related to the local notification hook.
The expectation is that tests using endpoints/workloads should be
independently checking that those endpoints work: if neon_local
generates an error inside the storage controller, that's ignorable.
Before this PR, storage controller and broker would run in the
PWD of neon_local, i.e., most likely the checkout of neon.git.
With this PR, the shared infrastructure for background processes
sets the PWD.
Benefits:
* easy listing of processes in a repo dir using `lsof`, see added
comment in the code
* coredumps go in the right directory (next to the process)
* generally matching common expectations, I think
Changes:
* set the working directory in `background_process` module
* drive-by: fix reliance of storage_controller on NEON_REPO_DIR being
set by neon_local for the local compute hook to work correctly
## Problem
Previously, we try to send compute notifications in startup_reconcile
before completing that function, with a time limit. Any notifications
that don't happen within the time limit result in tenants having their
`pending_compute_notification` flag set, which causes them to spawn a
Reconciler next time the background reconciler loop runs.
This causes two problems:
- Spawning a lot of reconcilers after startup caused a spike in memory
(this is addressed in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7493)
- After https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7493, spawning lots of
reconcilers will block some other operations, e.g. a tenant creation
might fail due to lack of reconciler semaphore units while the
controller is busy running all the Reconcilers for its startup compute
notifications.
When the code was first written, ComputeHook didn't have internal
ordering logic to ensure that notifications for a shard were sent in the
right order. Since that was added in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7088, we can use it to avoid
waiting for notifications to complete in startup_reconcile.
Related to: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7460
## Summary of changes
- Add a `notify_background` method to ComputeHook.
- Call this from startup_reconcile instead of doing notifications inline
- Process completions from `notify_background` in `process_results`, and
if a notification failed then set the `pending_compute_notification`
flag on the shard.
The result is that we will only spawn lots of Reconcilers if the compute
notifications _fail_, not just because they take some significant amount
of time.
Test coverage for this case is in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7475
## Problem
We are seeing some mysterious long waits when sending requests.
## Summary of changes
- To eliminate risk that we are incurring some unreasonable overheads
from setup, e.g. DNS, use a single Client (internally a pool) instead of
repeatedly constructing a fresh one.
- To make it clearer where a timeout is occurring, apply a 10 second
timeout to requests as we send them.
## Problem
- Previously, an async mutex was held for the duration of
`ComputeHook::notify`. This served multiple purposes:
- Ensure updates to a given tenant are sent in the proper order
- Prevent concurrent calls into neon_local endpoint updates in test
environments (neon_local is not safe to call concurrently)
- Protect the inner ComputeHook::state hashmap that is used to calculate
when to send notifications.
This worked, but had the major downside that while we're waiting for a
compute hook request to the control plane to succeed, we can't notify
about any other tenants. Notifications block progress of live
migrations, so this is a problem.
## Summary of changes
- Protect `ComputeHook::state` with a sync lock instead of an async lock
- Use a separate async lock ( `ComputeHook::neon_local_lock` ) for
preventing concurrent calls into neon_local, and only take this in the
neon_local code path.
- Add per-tenant async locks in ShardedComputeHookTenant, and use these
to ensure that only one remote notification can be sent at once per
tenant. If several shards update concurrently, their updates will be
coalesced.
- Add an explicit semaphore that limits concurrency of calls into the
cloud control plane.
The binary etc were renamed some time ago, but the path in the source
tree remained "attachment_service" to avoid disruption to ongoing PRs.
There aren't any big PRs out right now, so it's a good time to cut over.
- Rename `attachment_service` to `storage_controller`
- Move it to the top level for symmetry with `storage_broker` & to avoid
mixing the non-prod neon_local stuff (`control_plane/`) with the storage
controller which is a production component.
