There is now a compute_ctl_config field in the response that currently
only contains a JSON Web Key set. compute_ctl currently doesn't do
anything with the keys, but will in the future.
The reasoning for the new field is due to the nature of empty computes.
When an empty compute is created, it does not have a tenant. A compute
spec is the primary means of communicating the details of an attached
tenant. In the empty compute state, there is no spec. Instead we wait
for the control plane to pass us one via /configure. If we were to
include the jwks field in the compute spec, we would have a partial
compute spec, which doesn't logically make sense.
Instead, we can have two means of passing settings to the compute:
- spec: tenant specific config details
- compute_ctl_config: compute specific settings
For instance, the JSON Web Key set passed to the compute is independent
of any tenant. It is a setting of the compute whether it is attached or
not.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
Previously, when cutting over to cold secondary locations,
we would clobber the previous, good, heatmap with a cold one.
This is because heatmap generation used to include only resident layers.
Once this merges, we can add an endpoint which triggers full heatmap
hydration on attached locations to heal cold migrations.
## Summary of changes
With this patch, heatmap generation becomes additive. If we have a
heatmap from when this location was secondary, the new uploaded heatmap
will be the result of a reconciliation between the old one and the on
disk resident layers.
More concretely, when we have the previous heatmap:
1. Filter the previous heatmap and keep layers that are (a) present
in the current layer map, (b) visible, (c) not resident. Call this set
of layers `visible_non_resident`.
2. From the layer map, select all layers that are resident and visible.
Call this set of layers `resident`.
3. The new heatmap is the result of merging the two disjoint sets.
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10541
## Problem
L0 compaction frequently gets starved out by other background tasks and
image/GC compaction. L0 compaction must be responsive to keep read
amplification under control.
Touches #10694.
Resolves#10689.
## Summary of changes
Use a separate semaphore for the L0-only compaction pass.
* Add a `CONCURRENT_L0_COMPACTION_TASKS` semaphore and
`BackgroundLoopKind::L0Compaction`.
* Add a setting `compaction_l0_semaphore` (default off via
`compaction_l0_first`).
* Use the L0 semaphore when doing an `OnlyL0Compaction` pass.
* Use the background semaphore when doing a regular compaction pass
(which includes an initial L0 pass).
* While waiting for the background semaphore, yield for L0 compaction if
triggered.
* Add `CompactFlags::NoYield` to disable L0 yielding, and set it for the
HTTP API route.
* Remove the old `use_compaction_semaphore` setting and
compaction-scoped semaphore.
* Remove the warning when waiting for a semaphore; it's noisy and we
have metrics.
## Problem
Image compaction can starve out L0 compaction if a tenant has several
timelines with L0 debt.
Touches #10694.
Requires #10740.
## Summary of changes
* Add an initial L0 compaction pass, in order of L0 count.
* Add a tenant option `compaction_l0_first` to control the L0 pass
(disabled by default).
* Add `CompactFlags::OnlyL0Compaction` to run an L0-only compaction
pass.
* Clean up the compaction iteration logic.
A later PR will use separate semaphores for the L0 and image compaction
passes to avoid cross-tenant L0 starvation. That PR will also make image
compaction yield if _any_ of the tenant's timelines have pending L0
compaction to further avoid starvation.
Avoids compiling the crate and its dependencies into binaries that don't
need them. Shrinks the compute_ctl binary from about 31MB to 28MB in the
release-line-debug-size-lto profile.
The compute_ctl HTTP server has the following purposes:
- Allow management via the control plane
- Provide an endpoint for scaping metrics
- Provide APIs for compute internal clients
- Neon Postgres extension for installing remote extensions
- local_proxy for installing extensions and adding grants
The first two purposes require the HTTP server to be available outside
the compute.
The Neon threat model is a bad actor within our internal network. We
need to reduce the surface area of attack. By exposing unnecessary
unauthenticated HTTP endpoints to the internal network, we increase the
surface area of attack. For endpoints described in the third bullet
point, we can just run an extra HTTP server, which is only bound to the
loopback interface since all consumers of those endpoints are within the
compute.
The compute_id will be used when verifying claims sent by the control
plane.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
## Problem
Image layer generation could block L0 compactions for a long time.
## Summary of changes
* Refactored the return value of `create_image_layers_for_*` functions
to make it self-explainable.
* Preempt image layer generation in `Try` mode if L0 piles up.
Note that we might potentially run into a state that only the beginning
part of the keyspace gets image coverage. In that case, we either need
to implement something to prioritize some keyspaces with image coverage,
or tune the image_creation_threshold to ensure that the frequency of
image creation could keep up with L0 compaction.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Erik Grinaker <erik@neon.tech>
## Problem
Follow-up of the incident, we should not use the same bound on
lower/upper limit of compaction files. This patch adds an upper bound
limit, which is set to 50 for now.
## Summary of changes
Add `compaction_upper_limit`.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
We need a setting to disable the flush upload wait, to test L0 flush
backpressure in staging.
## Summary of changes
Add `l0_flush_wait_upload` setting.
## Problem
There is no direct backpressure for compaction and L0 read
amplification. This allows a large buildup of compaction debt and read
amplification.
Resolves#5415.
Requires #10402.
## Summary of changes
Delay layer flushes based on the number of level 0 delta layers:
* `l0_flush_delay_threshold`: delay flushes such that they take 2x as
long (default `2 * compaction_threshold`).
* `l0_flush_stall_threshold`: stall flushes until level 0 delta layers
drop below threshold (default `4 * compaction_threshold`).
If either threshold is reached, ephemeral layer rolls also synchronously
wait for layer flushes to propagate this backpressure up into WAL
ingestion. This will bound the number of frozen layers to 1 once
backpressure kicks in, since all other frozen layers must flush before
the rolled layer.
## Analysis
This will significantly change the compute backpressure characteristics.
Recall the three compute backpressure knobs:
* `max_replication_write_lag`: 500 MB (based on Pageserver
`last_received_lsn`).
* `max_replication_flush_lag`: 10 GB (based on Pageserver
`disk_consistent_lsn`).
* `max_replication_apply_lag`: disabled (based on Pageserver
`remote_consistent_lsn`).
Previously, the Pageserver would keep ingesting WAL and build up
ephemeral layers and L0 layers until the compute hit
`max_replication_flush_lag` at 10 GB and began backpressuring. Now, once
we delay/stall WAL ingestion, the compute will begin backpressuring
after `max_replication_write_lag`, i.e. 500 MB. This is probably a good
thing (we're not building up a ton of compaction debt), but we should
consider tuning these settings.
`max_replication_flush_lag` probably doesn't serve a purpose anymore,
and we should consider removing it.
Furthermore, the removal of the upload barrier in #10402 will mean that
we no longer backpressure flushes based on S3 uploads, since
`max_replication_apply_lag` is disabled. We should consider enabling
this as well.
### When and what do we compact?
Default compaction settings:
* `compaction_threshold`: 10 L0 delta layers.
* `compaction_period`: 20 seconds (between each compaction loop check).
* `checkpoint_distance`: 256 MB (size of L0 delta layers).
* `l0_flush_delay_threshold`: 20 L0 delta layers.
* `l0_flush_stall_threshold`: 40 L0 delta layers.
Compaction characteristics:
* Minimum compaction volume: 10 layers * 256 MB = 2.5 GB.
* Additional compaction volume (assuming 128 MB/s WAL): 128 MB/s * 20
seconds = 2.5 GB (10 L0 layers).
* Required compaction bandwidth: 5.0 GB / 20 seconds = 256 MB/s.
### When do we hit `max_replication_write_lag`?
Depending on how fast compaction and flushes happens, the compute will
backpressure somewhere between `l0_flush_delay_threshold` or
`l0_flush_stall_threshold` + `max_replication_write_lag`.
* Minimum compute backpressure lag: 20 layers * 256 MB + 500 MB = 5.6 GB
* Maximum compute backpressure lag: 40 layers * 256 MB + 500 MB = 10.0
GB
This seems like a reasonable range to me.
Drop logical replication subscribers
before compute starts on a non-main branch.
Add new compute_ctl spec flag: drop_subscriptions_before_start
If it is set, drop all the subscriptions from the compute node
before it starts.
To avoid race on compute start, use new GUC
neon.disable_logical_replication_subscribers
to temporarily disable logical replication workers until we drop the
subscriptions.
Ensure that we drop subscriptions exactly once when endpoint starts on a
new branch.
It is essential, because otherwise, we may drop not only inherited, but
newly created subscriptions.
We cannot rely only on spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start flag,
because if for some reason compute restarts inside VM,
it will start again with the same spec and flag value.
To handle this, we save the fact of the operation in the database
in the neon.drop_subscriptions_done table.
If the table does not exist, we assume that the operation was never
performed, so we must do it.
If table exists, we check if the operation was performed on the current
timeline.
fixes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8790
## Problem
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9114
The automatic trigger is already implemented at
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/10221 but I need to write some
tests and finish my experiments in staging before I can merge it with
confidence. Given that I have some other patches that will modify the
config items, I'd like to get the config items merged first to reduce
conflicts.
## Summary of changes
* add `l2_lsn` to index_part.json -- below that LSN, data have been
processed by gc-compaction
* add a set of gc-compaction auto trigger control items into the config
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
Currently, if we want to move a secondary there isn't a neat way to do
that: we just have migration API for the attached location, and it is
only clean to use that if you've manually created a secondary via
pageserver API in the place you're going to move it to.
Secondary migration API enables:
- Moving the secondary somewhere because we would like to later move the
attached location there.
- Move the secondary location because we just want to reclaim some disk
space from its current location.
## Summary of changes
- Add `/migrate_secondary` API
- Add `tenant-shard-migrate-secondary` CLI
- Add tests for above
With a new beta build of the rust compiler, it's good to check out the
new lints. Either to find false positives, or find flaws in our code.
Additionally, it helps reduce the effort required to update to 1.85 in 6
weeks.
This is a refactor to create better abstractions related to our
management server. It cleans up the code, and prepares everything for
authorized communication to and from the control plane.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
ref neondatabase/cloud#21731
## Problem
When we manually override the LFC size for particular computes,
autoscaling will typically undo that because vm-monitor will resize LFC
itself.
So, we'd like a way to make vm-monitor not set LFC size — this actually
already exists, if we just don't give vm-monitor a postgres connection
string.
## Summary of changes
Add a new field to the compute spec, `disable_lfc_resizing`. When set to
`true`, we pass in `None` for its postgres connection string. That
matches the configuration tested in `neondatabase/autoscaling` CI.
## Problem
Currently default value of storage controller heartbeat interval is
100msec. It means that 10 times per second it establish connection to
PS. And it seems to be quite expensive.
At MacOS right now storage_controller consumes 70% CPU and trusts - 30%.
So together they completely utilize one core.
A lot of us has Macs. Let's save environment a little bit and do not
waste electricity and contribute to global warming.
By the way, on prod we have interval 10seconds
## Summary of changes
Increase heartbeat interval from 100msec to 1 second.
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
`test_pgdata_import_smoke` writes two gigabytes of pages and then reads
them back serially. This is CPU bottlenecked and results in a long
runtime, and sensitivity to CPU load from other tests on the same
machine.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10071
## Summary of changes
- Use effective_io_concurrency=32 when doing sequential scans through
2GiB of pages in test_pgdata_import_smoke. This is a ~10x runtime
decrease in the parts of the test that do sequential scans.
- Also set `effective_io_concurrency=2` for tests, as I noticed while
debugging that we were doing all getpage requests serially, which is bad
for checking the stability of the batching code.
## Problem
`neon_local` has always been unsafe to run concurrently with itself: it
uses simple text files for persistent state, and concurrent runs will
step on each other.
In some test environments we intentionally handle this with mutexes in
python land, but it's fragile to try and always remember to do that.
## Summary of changes
- Add a `flock` based mutex around the `main` function of neon_local,
using the repo directory as the file to lock
- Clean up an Option<> around control_plane_api, this is a drive-by
change because it was one of the fields that had a weird effect when
previous concurrent stuff stamped on it.
## Problem
CI currently uses static credentials in some places. These are less
secure and hard to maintain, so we are going to deprecate them and use
OIDC auth.
## Summary of changes
- ci(fix): Use OIDC auth to upload artifact on s3
- ci(fix): Use OIDC auth to login on ECR
## Problem
Cplane and storage controller tenant config changes are not additive.
Any change overrides all existing tenant configs. This would be fine if
both did client side patching, but that's not the case.
Once this merges, we must update cplane to use the PATCH endpoint.
## Summary of changes
### High Level
Allow for patching of tenant configuration with a `PATCH
/v1/tenant/config` endpoint.
It takes the same data as it's PUT counterpart. For example the payload
below will update `gc_period` and unset `compaction_period`. All other
fields are left in their original state.
```
{
"tenant_id": "1234",
"gc_period": "10s",
"compaction_period": null
}
```
### Low Level
* PS and storcon gain `PATCH /v1/tenant/config` endpoints. PS endpoint
is only used for cplane managed instances.
* `storcon_cli` is updated to have separate commands for
`set-tenant-config` and `patch-tenant-config`
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/21043
## Problem
We need a higher concurrency during reconfiguration in case of many DBs,
but the instance is already running and used by the client. We can
easily get out of `max_connections` limit, and the current code won't
handle that.
## Summary of changes
Default to 1, but also allow control plane to override this value for
specific projects. It's also recommended to bump
`superuser_reserved_connections` += `reconfigure_concurrency` for such
projects to ensure that we always have enough spare connections for
reconfiguration process to succeed.
Quick workaround for neondatabase/cloud#17846
## 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
After enabling LFC in tests and lowering `shared_buffers` we started
having more problems with `test_pg_regress`.
## Summary of changes
Set `shared_buffers` to 1MB to both exercise getPage requests/LFC, and
still have enough room for Postgres to operate. Everything smaller might
be not enough for Postgres under load, and can cause errors like 'no
unpinned buffers available'.
See Konstantin's comment [1] as well.
Fixes#9956
[1]:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9956#issuecomment-2511608097
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Stas Kelvic <stas@neon.tech>
# Context
This PR contains PoC-level changes for a product feature that allows
onboarding large databases into Neon without going through the regular
data path.
# Changes
This internal RFC provides all the context
* https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/19799
In the language of the RFC, this PR covers
* the Importer code (`fast_import`)
* all the Pageserver changes (mgmt API changes, flow implementation,
etc)
* a basic test for the Pageserver changes
# Reviewing
As acknowledged in the RFC, the code added in this PR is not ready for
general availability.
Also, the **architecture is not to be discussed in this PR**, but in the
RFC and associated Slack channel instead.
Reviewers of this PR should take that into consideration.
The quality bar to apply during review depends on what area of the code
is being reviewed:
* Importer code (`fast_import`): practically anything goes
* Core flow (`flow.rs`):
* Malicious input data must be expected and the existing threat models
apply.
* The code must not be safe to execute on *dedicated* Pageserver
instances:
* This means in particular that tenants *on other* Pageserver instances
must not be affected negatively wrt data confidentiality, integrity or
availability.
* Other code: the usual quality bar
* Pay special attention to correct use of gate guards, timeline
cancellation in all places during shutdown & migration, etc.
* Consider the broader system impact; if you find potentially
problematic interactions with Storage features that were not covered in
the RFC, bring that up during the review.
I recommend submitting three separate reviews, for the three high-level
areas with different quality bars.
# References
(Internal-only)
* refs https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/17507
* refs https://github.com/neondatabase/company_projects/issues/293
* refs https://github.com/neondatabase/company_projects/issues/309
* refs https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/20646
---------
Co-authored-by: Stas Kelvich <stas.kelvich@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: John Spray <john@neon.tech>
## Problem
In test environments, the `syncfs` that the pageserver does on startup
can take a long time, as other tests running concurrently might have
many gigabytes of dirty pages.
## Summary of changes
- Add a `no_sync` option to the pageserver's config.
- Skip syncfs on startup if this is set
- A subsequent PR (https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9678) will
enable this by default in tests. We need to wait until after the next
release to avoid breaking compat tests, which would fail if we set
no_sync & use an old pageserver binary.
Q: Why is this a different mechanism than safekeeper, which as a
--no-sync CLI?
A: Because the way we manage pageservers in neon_local depends on the
pageserver.toml containing the full configuration, whereas safekeepers
have a config file which is neon-local-specific and can drive a CLI
flag.
Q: Why is the option no_sync rather than sync?
A: For boolean configs with a dangerous value, it's preferable to make
"false" the safe option, so that any downstream future config tooling
that might have a "booleans are false by default" behavior (e.g. golang
structs) is safe by default.
Q: Why only skip the syncfs, and not all fsyncs?
A: Skipping all fsyncs would require more code changes, and the most
acute problem isn't fsyncs themselves (these just slow down a running
test), it's the syncfs (which makes a pageserver startup slow as a
result of _other_ tests)
Since 5f83c9290b482dc90006c400dfc68e85a17af785/#1504 we've had
duplication in construction of models::TenantConfig, where both
constructs contained the same code. This PR removes one of the two
locations to avoid the duplication.
## Problem
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8623
## Summary of changes
Removed all aux-v1 config processing code. Note that we persisted it
into the index part file, so we cannot really remove the field from
index part. I also kept the config item within the tenant config, but we
will not read it any more.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
# Problem
Timeline creation can either be bootstrap or branch.
The distinction is made based on whether the `ancestor_*` fields are
present or not.
In the PGDATA import code
(https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9218), I add a third variant
to timeline creation.
# Solution
The above pushed me to refactor the code in Pageserver to distinguish
the different creation requests through enum variants.
There is no externally observable effect from this change.
On the implementation level, a notable change is that the acquisition of
the `TimelineCreationGuard` happens later than before. This is necessary
so that we have everything in place to construct the
`CreateTimelineIdempotency`. Notably, this moves the acquisition of the
creation guard _after_ the acquisition of the `gc_cs` lock in the case
of branching. This might appear as if we're at risk of holding `gc_cs`
longer than before this PR, but, even before this PR, we were holding
`gc_cs` until after the `wait_completion()` that makes the timeline
creation durable in S3 returns. I don't see any deadlock risk with
reversing the lock acquisition order.
As a drive-by change, I found that the `create_timeline()` function in
`neon_local` is unused, so I removed it.
# Refs
* platform context: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9218
* product context: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/17507
* next PR stacked atop this one:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9501
## Problem
Occasionally, we get failures to start the storage controller's db with
errors like:
```
aborting due to panic at /__w/neon/neon/control_plane/src/background_process.rs:349:67:
claim pid file: lock file
Caused by:
file is already locked
```
e.g.
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-9428/11380574562/index.html#/testresult/1c68d413ea9ecd4a
This is happening in a stop,start cycle during a test. Presumably the
pidfile from the startup background process is still held at the point
we stop, because we let pg_ctl keep running in the background.
## Summary of changes
- Refactor pg_ctl invocations into a helper
- In the controller's `start` function, use pg_ctl & a wait loop for
pg_isready, instead of using background_process
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Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds a test for the (now fixed) storage broker limit issue, see #9268
for the description and #9299 for the fix.
Also fix a race condition with endpoint creation/starts running in parallel,
leading to file not found errors.
1. Adds local-proxy to compute image and vm spec
2. Updates local-proxy config processing, writing PID to a file eagerly
3. Updates compute-ctl to understand local proxy compute spec and to
send SIGHUP to local-proxy over that pid.
closes https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/16867
Follow-up of #9234 to give hyper 1.0 the version-free name, and the
legacy version of hyper the one with the version number inside. As we
move away from hyper 0.14, we can remove the `hyper0` name piece by
piece.
Part of #9255
## Problem
We don't have an alert for long running reconciles. Stuck reconciles are
problematic
as we've seen in a recent incident.
## Summary of changes
Add a new metric `storage_controller_reconcile_long_running_total` with
labels: `{tenant_id, shard_number, seq}`.
The metric is removed after the long running reconcile finishes. These
events should be rare, so we won't break
the bank on cardinality.
Related https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9150
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/13127. Resolves
#9153
What changed in this PR:
1. Adds `ComputeSpec.disk_quota_bytes: Option<u64>`
2. Adds new arg to compute_ctl: `--set-disk-quota-for-fs <mountpoint>`
3. Implements running `/neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota` with the right value
if both cmdline arg AND field in the spec are specified
4. Patches `/etc/sudoers.d` to allow `compute_ctl` to set quota with
sudo
This PR is very similar to the swap support added earlier, you can take
a look at it as prior art: #7434
In theory, it can be implemented outside of compute_ctl when we will
have a separate neonvm daemon, but we are not there yet. Current
implementation is the simplest possible to unblock computes with larger
disks.
All code related to usage of `/neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota` is located in
`disk_quota.rs`. We need to call this script with the following
arguments: `/neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota {size_kb} {mountpoint}`. Quotas
are set on the filesystem level, so we need to provide path to the
directory that filesystem was mounted to.
I tested this change locally with
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/17270. It should be safe to
merge, because this feature is gated by both cmdline arg and field in
the spec. If control-plane doesn't set values in both places,
compute_ctl won't be affected by this change.
Part of #7497, closes#8817.
## Problem
See #8817.
## Summary of changes
**compute_ctl**
- Renew lsn lease as soon as `/configure` updates pageserver_connstr,
use `state_changed` Condvar for synchronization.
**pageserver**
As mentioned in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8817#issuecomment-2315768076,
we still want some permanent error reported if a lease cannot be
granted. By considering attachment mode and the added
`lsn_lease_deadline` when processing lease requests, we can also bound
the case of bad requests to a very short period after migration/restart.
- Refactor https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9024 and move
`lsn_lease_deadline` to `AttachedTenantConf` so timeline can easily
access it.
- Have separate HTTP `init_lsn_lease` and libpq `renew_lsn_lease` API.
- Always do LSN verification for the initial HTTP lease request.
- LSN verification for the renewal is **still done** when tenants are
not in `AttachedSingle` and we have pass the `lsn_lease_deadline`, which
give plenty of time for compute to renew the lease.
**neon_local**
- add and call `timeline_init_lsn_lease` mgmt_api at static endpoint
start. The initial lsn lease http request is sent when we run `cargo
neon endpoint start <static endpoint>`.
## Testing
- Extend `test_readonly_node_gc` to do pageserver restarts and
migration.
## Future Work
- The control plane should make the initial lease request through HTTP
when creating a static endpoint. This is currently only done in
`neon_local`.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Verbosity in this case is good when reading the code. Short options are
better when operating in an interactive shell.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
(Found this useful during investigation
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/16886.)
Problem
-------
Before this PR, `neon_local` sequentially does the following:
1. launch storcon process
2. wait for storcon to signal readiness
[here](75310fe441/control_plane/src/storage_controller.rs (L804-L808))
3. start pageserver
4. wait for pageserver to become ready
[here](c43e664ff5/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs (L343-L346))
5. etc
The problem is that storcon's readiness waits for the
[`startup_reconcile`](cbcd4058ed/storage_controller/src/service.rs (L520-L523))
to complete.
But pageservers aren't started at this point.
So, worst case we wait for `STARTUP_RECONCILE_TIMEOUT/2`, i.e., 15s.
This is more than the 10s default timeout allowed by neon_local.
So, the result is that `neon_local start` fails to start storcon and
stops everything.
Solution
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In this PR I choose the the radical solution to start everything in
parallel.
It junks up the output because we do stuff like `print!(".")` to
indicate progress.
We should just abandon that.
And switch to `utils::logging` + `tracing` with separate spans for each
component.
I can do that in this PR or we leave it as a follow-up.
Alternatives Considered
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The Pageserver's `/v1/status` or in fact any endpoint of the mgmt API
will not `accept()` on the mgmt API socket until after the `re-attach`
call to storcon returned success.
So, it's insufficient to change the startup order to start Pageservers
first.
We cannot easily change Pageserver startup order because
`init_tenant_mgr` must complete before we start serving the mgmt API.
Otherwise tenant detach calls et al can race with `init_tenant_mgr`.
We'd have to add a "loading" state to tenant mgr and make all API
endpoints except `/v1/status` wait for _that_ to complete.
Related
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- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6475
