## Problem
We wish to have high level WAL decoding logic in `wal_decoder::decoder`
module.
## Summary of Changes
For this we need the `Value` and `NeonWalRecord` types accessible there, so:
1. Move `Value` and `NeonWalRecord` to `pageserver::value` and
`pageserver::record` respectively.
2. Get rid of `pageserver::repository` (follow up from (1))
3. Move PG specific WAL record types to `postgres_ffi::walrecord`. In
theory they could live in `wal_decoder`, but it would create a circular
dependency between `wal_decoder` and `postgres_ffi`. Long term it makes
sense for those types to be PG version specific, so that will work out nicely.
4. Move higher level WAL record types (to be ingested by pageserver)
into `wal_decoder::models`
Related: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9335
Epic: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9329
## Problem
When layer visibility was added, an info log was included for the
situation where actual access to a layer disagrees with the visibility
calculation. This situation is safe, but I was interested in seeing when
it happens.
The log is pretty high volume, so this PR refines it to fire less often.
## Summary of changes
- For cases where accessing non-visible layers is normal, don't log at
all.
- Extend a unit test to increase confidence that the updates to
visibility on access are working as expected
- During compaction, only call the visibility calculation routine if
some image layers were created: previously, frequent calls resulted in
the visibility of layers getting reset every time we passed through
create_image_layers.
Ephemeral files cleanup on drop but did not delay shutdown, leading to
problems with restarting the tenant. The solution is as proposed:
- make ephemeral files carry the gate guard to delay `Timeline::gate`
closing
- flush in-memory layers and strong references to those on
`Timeline::shutdown`
The above are realized by making LayerManager an `enum` with `Open` and
`Closed` variants, and fail requests to modify `LayerMap`.
Additionally:
- fix too eager anyhow conversions in compaction
- unify how we freeze layers and handle errors
- optimize likely_resident_layers to read LayerFileManager hashmap
values instead of bouncing through LayerMap
Fixes: #7830
## Problem
We have been maintaining two read paths (legacy and vectored) for a
while now. The legacy read-path was only used for cross validation in some tests.
## Summary of changes
* Tweak all tests that were using the legacy read path to use the
vectored read path instead
* Remove the read path dispatching based on the pageserver configs
* Remove the legacy read path code
We will be able to remove the single blob io code in
`pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs` when https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7386 is complete.
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8005
## Problem
LayerAccessStats contains a lot of detail that we don't use: short
histories of most recent accesses, specifics on what kind of task
accessed a layer, etc. This is all stored inside a Mutex, which is
locked every time something accesses a layer.
## Summary of changes
- Store timestamps at a very low resolution (to the nearest second),
sufficient for use on the timescales of eviction.
- Pack access time and last residence change time into a single u64
- Use the high bits of the u64 for other flags, including the new layer
visibility concept.
- Simplify the external-facing model for access stats to just include
what we now track.
Note that the `HistoryBufferWithDropCounter` is removed here because it
is no longer used. I do not dislike this type, we just happen not to use
it for anything else at present.
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
As described in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8398, layer
visibility is a new hint that will help us manage disk space more
efficiently.
## Summary of changes
- Introduce LayerVisibilityHint and store it as part of access stats
- Automatically mark a layer visible if it is accessed, or when it is
created.
The impact on the access stats size will be reversed in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8431
This is functionally a no-op change: subsequent PRs will add the logic
that sets layers to Covered, and which uses the layer visibility as an
input to eviction and heatmap generation.
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Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
PR #8299 has switched the storage scrubber to use
`DefaultCredentialsChain`. Now we do this for `remote_storage`, as it
allows us to use `remote_storage` from inside kubernetes. Most of the
diff is due to `GenericRemoteStorage::from_config` becoming `async fn`.
M-series macOS has different alignments/size for some fields (which I
did not investigate in detail) and therefore this test cannot pass on
macOS. Fixed by using `<=` for the comparison so that we do not test for
an exact match.
observed by @yliang412
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
This is historical baggage from when the pageserver could be run with
local disk only: we had a bunch of places where we had to treat remote
storage as optional.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6890
## Changes
- Remove Option<> around remote storage (in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7722 we made remote storage
clearly mandatory)
- Remove code for deleting old metadata files: they're all gone now.
- Remove other references to metadata files when loading directories, as
none exist.
I checked last 14 days of logs for "found legacy metadata", there are no
instances.
As part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7375 and to improve
the current vectored get implementation, we separate the missing key
error out. This also saves us several Box allocations in the get page
implementation.
## Summary of changes
* Create a caching field of layer traversal id for each of the layer.
* Remove box allocations for layer traversal id retrieval and implement
MissingKey error message as before. This should be a little bit faster.
* Do not format error message until `Display`.
* For in-mem layer, the descriptor is different before/after frozen. I'm
using once lock for that.
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Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
#7030 introduced an annoying papercut, deeming a failure to acquire a
strong reference to `LayerInner` from `DownloadedLayer::drop` as a
canceled eviction. Most of the time, it wasn't that, but just timeline
deletion or tenant detach with the layer not wanting to be deleted or
evicted.
When a Layer is dropped as part of a normal shutdown, the `Layer` is
dropped first, and the `DownloadedLayer` the second. Because of this, we
cannot detect eviction being canceled from the `DownloadedLayer::drop`.
We can detect it from `LayerInner::drop`, which this PR adds.
Test case is added which before had 1 started eviction, 2 canceled. Now
it accurately finds 1 started, 1 canceled.
## Problem
The current implementation of struct Layer supports canceled read
requests, but those will leave the internal state such that a following
`Layer::keep_resident` call will need to repair the state. In
pathological cases seen during generation numbers resetting in staging
or with too many in-progress on-demand downloads, this repair activity
will need to wait for the download to complete, which stalls disk
usage-based eviction. Similar stalls have been observed in staging near
disk-full situations, where downloads failed because the disk was full.
Fixes#6028 or the "layer is present on filesystem but not evictable"
problems by:
1. not canceling pending evictions by a canceled
`LayerInner::get_or_maybe_download`
2. completing post-download initialization of the `LayerInner::inner`
from the download task
Not canceling evictions above case (1) and always initializing (2) lead
to plain `LayerInner::inner` always having the up-to-date information,
which leads to the old `Layer::keep_resident` never having to wait for
downloads to complete. Finally, the `Layer::keep_resident` is replaced
with `Layer::is_likely_resident`. These fix#7145.
## Summary of changes
- add a new test showing that a canceled get_or_maybe_download should
not cancel the eviction
- switch to using a `watch` internally rather than a `broadcast` to
avoid hanging eviction while a download is ongoing
- doc changes for new semantics and cleanup
- fix `Layer::keep_resident` to use just `self.0.inner.get()` as truth
as `Layer::is_likely_resident`
- remove `LayerInner::wanted_evicted` boolean as no longer needed
Builds upon: #7185. Cc: #5331.
The second part of work towards fixing `Layer::keep_resident` so that it
does not need to repair the internal state. #7135 added a nicer API for
initialization. This PR uses it to remove a few indentation levels and
the loop construction. The next PR #7175 will use the refactorings done
in this PR, and always initialize the internal state after a download.
Cc: #5331
Because of bugs evictions could hang and pause disk usage eviction task.
One such bug is known and fixed#6928. Guard each layer eviction with a
modest timeout deeming timeouted evictions as failures, to be
conservative.
In addition, add logging and metrics recording on each eviction
iteration:
- log collection completed with duration and amount of layers
- per tenant collection time is observed in a new histogram
- per tenant layer count is observed in a new histogram
- record metric for collected, selected and evicted layer counts
- log if eviction takes more than 10s
- log eviction completion with eviction duration
Additionally remove dead code for which no dead code warnings appeared
in earlier PR.
Follow-up to: #6060.
Not allowing evicting wanted deleted layers is something I've forgotten
to implement on #5645. This PR makes it possible to evict such layers,
which should reduce the amount of hanging evictions.
Fixes: #6928
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
