## Problem
We are missing the step-down primitive required to implement rolling
restarts of the storage controller.
## Summary of changes
Add `/control/v1/step_down` endpoint which puts the storage controller
into a state where it rejects
all API requests apart from `/control/v1/step_down`, `/status` and
`/metrics`. When receiving the request,
storage controller cancels all pending reconciles and waits for them to
exit gracefully. The response contains
a snapshot of the in-memory observed state.
Related:
* https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/14701
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7797
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8310
## Problem
Storcon shutdown did not produce a clean observed state. This is not a
problem at the moment, but we will need to stop all reconciles with
clean observed state for rolling restarts.
I tried to test this by collecting the observed state during shutdown
and comparing it with the in-memory observed
state, but it doesn't work because a lot of tests use the cursed attach
hook to create tenants directly through the ps.
## Summary of Changes
Rework storcon shutdown as follows:
* Reconcilers get a separate cancellation token which is a child token
of the global `Service::cancel`.
* Reconcilers get a separate gate
* Add a mechanism to drain the reconciler result queue before
* Put all of this together into a clean shutdown sequence
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/14701
## Problem
new clippy warnings on nightly.
## Summary of changes
broken up each commit by warning type.
1. Remove some unnecessary refs.
2. In edition 2024, inference will default to `!` and not `()`.
3. Clippy complains about doc comment indentation
4. Fix `Trait + ?Sized` where `Trait: Sized`.
5. diesel_derives triggering `non_local_defintions`
## Problem
In anticipation of later adding a really nice drain+delete API, I
initially only added an intentionally basic `/drop` API that is just
about usable for deleting nodes in a pinch, but requires some ugly
storage controller restarts to persuade it to restart secondaries.
## Summary of changes
I started making a few tiny fixes, and ended up writing the delete
API...
- Quality of life nit: ordering of node + tenant listings in storcon_cli
- Papercut: Fix the attach_hook using the wrong operation type for
reporting slow locks
- Make Service::spawn tolerate `generation_pageserver` columns that
point to nonexistent node IDs. I started out thinking of this as a
general resilience thing, but when implementing the delete API I
realized it was actually a legitimate end state after the delete API is
called (as that API doesn't wait for all reconciles to succeed).
- Add a `DELETE` API for nodes, which does not gracefully drain, but
does reschedule everything. This becomes safe to use when the system is
in any state, but will incur availability gaps for any tenants that
weren't already live-migrated away. If tenants have already been
drained, this becomes a totally clean + safe way to decom a node.
- Add a test and a storcon_cli wrapper for it
This is meant to be a robust initial API that lets us remove nodes
without doing ugly things like restarting the storage controller -- it's
not quite a totally graceful node-draining routine yet. There's more
work in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8333 to get to our
end-end state.
## Problem
SeqWait::would_wait_for returns Ok in the case when we would not wait
for the sequence number and Err otherwise.
ReconcilerWaiter::get_status uses it the wrong way around. This can
cause the storage controller to go into a busy loop
and make it look unavailable to the k8s controller.
## Summary of changes
Use `SeqWait::would_wait_for` correctly.
## Problem
At the start of do_tenant_shard_split, we drop any secondary location
for the parent shards. The reconciler uses presence of secondary
locations as a condition for enabling heatmaps.
On the pageserver, child shards inherit their configuration from
parents, but the storage controller assumes the child's ObservedState is
the same as the parent's config from the prepare phase. The result is
that some child shards end up with inaccurate ObservedState, and until
something next migrates or restarts, those tenant shards aren't
uploading heatmaps, so their secondary locations are downloading
everything that was resident at the moment of the split (including
ancestor layers which are often cleaned up shortly after the split).
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8189
## Summary of changes
- Use PlacementPolicy to control enablement of heatmap upload, rather
than the literal presence of secondaries in IntentState: this way we
avoid switching them off during shard split
- test: during tenant split test, assert that the child shards have
heatmap uploads enabled.
## Problem
While adapting the storage controller scale test to do graceful rolling
restarts via
drain and fill, I noticed that secondaries are also being rescheduled,
which, in turn,
caused the storage controller to optimise attachments.
## Summary of changes
* Introduce a transactional looking rescheduling primitive (i.e. "try to
schedule to this
secondary, but leave everything as is if you can't")
* Use it for the drain and fill stages to avoid calling into
`Scheduler::schedule` and having
secondaries move around.
## Problem
When creating a new shard the storage controller schedules via
Scheduler::schedule_shard. This does not take into account the number of
attached shards. What it does take into account is the node affinity:
when a shard is scheduled, all its nodes (primaries and secondaries) get
their affinity incremented.
For two node clusters and shards with one secondary we have a
pathological case where all primaries are scheduled on the same node.
Now that we track the count of attached shards per node, this is trivial
to fix. Still, the "proper" fix is to use the pageserver's utilization
score.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8041
## Summary of changes
Use attached shard count when deciding which node to schedule a fresh
shard on.
## Problem
Pageserver restarts cause read availablity downtime for tenants. See
`Motivation` section in the
[RFC](https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7704).
## Summary of changes
* Introduce a new `NodeSchedulingPolicy`: `PauseForRestart`
* Implement the first take of drain and fill algorithms
* Add a node status endpoint which can be polled to figure out when an
operation is done
The implementation follows the RFC, so it might be useful to peek at it
as you're reviewing.
Since the PR is rather chunky, I've made sure all commits build (with
warnings), so you can
review by commit if you prefer that.
RFC: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7704
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7387
## Problem
The storage controller does not track the number of shards attached to a
given pageserver. This is a requirement for various scheduling
operations (e.g. draining and filling will use this to figure out if the
cluster is balanced)
## Summary of Changes
Track the number of shards attached to each node.
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7387
## Problem
The logic in Service::optimize_all would sometimes choose to migrate a
tenant to a secondary location that was only recently created, resulting
in Reconciler::live_migrate hitting its 5 minute timeout warming up the
location, and proceeding to attach a tenant to a location that doesn't
have a warm enough local set of layer files for good performance.
Closes: #7532
## Summary of changes
- Add a pageserver API for checking download progress of a secondary
location
- During `optimize_all`, connect to pageservers of candidate
optimization secondary locations, and check they are warm.
- During shard split, do heatmap uploads and start secondary downloads,
so that the new shards' secondary locations start downloading ASAP,
rather than waiting minutes for background downloads to kick in.
I have intentionally not implemented this by continuously reading the
status of locations, to avoid dealing with the scale challenge of
efficiently polling & updating 10k-100k locations status. If we
implement that in the future, then this code can be simplified to act
based on latest state of a location rather than fetching it inline
during optimize_all.
## Problem
Storage controller was observed to have unexpectedly large memory
consumption when loaded with many thousands of shards.
This was recently fixed:
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7493
...but we need a general test that the controller is well behaved with
thousands of shards.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7460
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7463
## Summary of changes
- Add test test_storage_controller_many_tenants to exercise the system's
behaviour with a more substantial workload. This test measures memory
consumption and reproduces #7460 before the other changes in this PR.
- Tweak reconcile_all's return value to make it nonzero if it spawns no
reconcilers, but _would_ have spawned some reconcilers if they weren't
blocked by the reconcile concurrency limit. This makes the test's
reconcile_until_idle behave as expected (i.e. not complete until the
system is nice and calm).
- Fix an issue where tenant migrations would leave a spurious secondary
location when migrated to some location that was not already their
secondary (this was an existing low-impact bug that tripped up the
test's consistency checks).
On the test with 8000 shards, the resident memory per shard is about
20KiB. This is not really per-shard memory: the primary source of memory
growth is the number of concurrent network/db clients we create.
With 8000 shards, the test takes 125s to run on my workstation.
These are testability/logging improvements spun off from #7475
- Don't log warnings for shutdown errors in compute hook
- Revise logging around heartbeats and reconcile_all so that we aren't
emitting such a large volume of INFO messages under normal quite
conditions.
- Clean up the `last_error` of TenantShard to hold a ReconcileError
instead of a String, and use that properly typed error to suppress
reconciler cancel errors during reconcile_all_now. This is important for
tests that iteratively call that, as otherwise they would get 500 errors
when some reconciler in flight was cancelled (perhaps due to a state
change on the tenant shard starting a new reconciler).
## Problem
Storage controller memory can spike very high if we have many tenants
and they all try to reconcile at the same time.
Related:
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7463
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7460
Not closing those issues in this PR, because the test coverage for them
will be in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7475
## Summary of changes
- Add a CLI arg `--reconciler-concurrency`, defaulted to 128
- Add a semaphore to Service with this many units
- In `maybe_reconcile_shard`, try to acquire semaphore unit. If we can't
get one, return a ReconcileWaiter for a future sequence number, and push
the TenantShardId onto a channel of delayed IDs.
- In `process_result`, consume from the channel of delayed IDs if there
are semaphore units available and call maybe_reconcile_shard again for
these delayed shards.
This has been tested in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7475,
but will land that PR separately because it contains other changes &
needs the test stabilizing. This change is worth merging sooner, because
it fixes a practical issue with larger shard counts.
