## Problem
The metrics we have today aren't convenient for planning around the
impact of timeline archival on costs.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8108
## Summary of changes
- Add metric `pageserver_archive_size`, which indicates the logical
bytes of data which we would expect to write into an archived branch.
- Add metric `pageserver_pitr_history_size`, which indicates the
distance between last_record_lsn and the PITR cutoff.
These metrics are somewhat temporary: when we implement #8088 and
associated consumption metric changes, these will reach a final form.
For now, an "archived" branch is just any branch outside of its parent's
PITR window: later, archival will become an explicit state (which will
_usually_ correspond to falling outside the parent's PITR window).
The overall volume of timeline metrics is something to watch, but we are
removing many more in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8245
than this PR is adding.
I'd like to add some constraints to the layer map we generate in tests.
(1) is the layer map that the current compaction algorithm will produce.
There is a property that for all delta layer, all delta layer overlaps
with it on the LSN axis will have the same LSN range.
(2) is the layer map that cannot be produced with the legacy compaction
algorithm.
(3) is the layer map that will be produced by the future
tiered-compaction algorithm. The current validator does not allow that
but we can modify the algorithm to allow it in the future.
## Summary of changes
Add a validator to check if the layer map is valid and refactor the test
cases to include delta layer start/end LSN.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
We record detailed histograms for all page_service op types, which
mostly aren't very interesting, but make our prometheus scrapes huge.
Closes: #8223
## Summary of changes
- Only track GetPageAtLsn histograms on a per-timeline granularity. For
all other operation types, rely on existing node-wide histograms.
PR #8106 was created with the assumption that no blob is larger than
`256 MiB`. Due to #7852 we have checking for *writes* of blobs larger
than that limit, but we didn't have checking for *reads* of such large
blobs: in theory, we could be reading these blobs every day but we just
don't happen to write the blobs for some reason.
Therefore, we now add a warning for *reads* of such large blobs as well.
To make deploying compression less dangerous, we therefore only assume a
blob is compressed if the compression setting is present in the config.
This also means that we can't back out of compression once we enabled
it.
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5431
## Problem
test_location_conf_churn fails on log errors when it tries to shutdown a
pageserver immediately after starting a tenant attach, like this:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8224/9761000525/index.html#/testresult/15fb6beca5c7327c
```
shutdown:shutdown{tenant_id=35f5c55eb34e7e5e12288c5d8ab8b909 shard_id=0000}:timeline_shutdown{timeline_id=30936747043353a98661735ad09cbbfe shutdown_mode=FreezeAndFlush}: failed to freeze and flush: cannot flush frozen layers when flush_loop is not running, state is Exited\n')
```
This is happening because Tenant::shutdown fires its cancellation token
early if the tenant is not fully attached by the time shutdown is
called, so the flush loop is shutdown by the time we try and flush.
## Summary of changes
- In the early-cancellation case, also set the shutdown mode to Hard to
skip trying to do a flush that will fail.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7418
# Motivation
(reproducing #7418)
When we do an `InMemoryLayer::write_to_disk`, there is a tremendous
amount of random read I/O, as deltas from the ephemeral file (written in
LSN order) are written out to the delta layer in key order.
In benchmarks (https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7409) we can
see that this delta layer writing phase is substantially more expensive
than the initial ingest of data, and that within the delta layer write a
significant amount of the CPU time is spent traversing the page cache.
# High-Level Changes
Add a new mode for L0 flush that works as follows:
* Read the full ephemeral file into memory -- layers are much smaller
than total memory, so this is afforable
* Do all the random reads directly from this in memory buffer instead of
using blob IO/page cache/disk reads.
* Add a semaphore to limit how many timelines may concurrently do this
(limit peak memory).
* Make the semaphore configurable via PS config.
# Implementation Details
The new `BlobReaderRef::Slice` is a temporary hack until we can ditch
`blob_io` for `InMemoryLayer` => Plan for this is laid out in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8183
# Correctness
The correctness of this change is quite obvious to me: we do what we did
before (`blob_io`) but read from memory instead of going to disk.
The highest bug potential is in doing owned-buffers IO. I refactored the
API a bit in preliminary PR
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8186 to make it less
error-prone, but still, careful review is requested.
# Performance
I manually measured single-client ingest performance from `pgbench -i
...`.
Full report:
https://neondatabase.notion.site/2024-06-28-benchmarking-l0-flush-performance-e98cff3807f94cb38f2054d8c818fe84?pvs=4
tl;dr:
* no speed improvements during ingest, but
* significantly lower pressure on PS PageCache (eviction rate drops to
1/3)
* (that's why I'm working on this)
* noticable but modestly lower CPU time
This is good enough for merging this PR because the changes require
opt-in.
We'll do more testing in staging & pre-prod.
# Stability / Monitoring
**memory consumption**: there's no _hard_ limit on max `InMemoryLayer`
size (aka "checkpoint distance") , hence there's no hard limit on the
memory allocation we do for flushing. In practice, we a) [log a
warning](23827c6b0d/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs (L5741-L5743))
when we flush oversized layers, so we'd know which tenant is to blame
and b) if we were to put a hard limit in place, we would have to decide
what to do if there is an InMemoryLayer that exceeds the limit.
It seems like a better option to guarantee a max size for frozen layer,
dependent on `checkpoint_distance`. Then limit concurrency based on
that.
**metrics**: we do have the
[flush_time_histo](23827c6b0d/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs (L3725-L3726)),
but that includes the wait time for the semaphore. We could add a
separate metric for the time spent after acquiring the semaphore, so one
can infer the wait time. Seems unnecessary at this point, though.
Add support for reading and writing zstd-compressed blobs for use in
image layer generation, but maybe one day useful also for delta layers.
The reading of them is unconditional while the writing is controlled by
the `image_compression` config variable allowing for experiments.
For the on-disk format, we re-use some of the bitpatterns we currently
keep reserved for blobs larger than 256 MiB. This assumes that we have
never ever written any such large blobs to image layers.
After the preparation in #7852, we now are unable to read blobs with a
size larger than 256 MiB (or write them).
A non-goal of this PR is to come up with good heuristics of when to
compress a bitpattern. This is left for future work.
Parts of the PR were inspired by #7091.
cc #7879
Part of #5431
## Problem
At high percentiles we see more than 800 layers being visited by the
read path. We need the tenant/timeline to investigate.
## Summary of changes
Add a rate limited log line when the average number of layers visited
per key is in the last specified histogram bucket.
I plan to use this to identify tenants in us-east-2 staging that exhibit
this behaviour. Will revert before next week's release.
Before this PR, during timeline shutdown, we'd occasionally see
log lines like this one:
```
2024-06-26T18:28:11.063402Z INFO initial_size_calculation{tenant_id=$TENANT,shard_id=0000 timeline_id=$TIMELINE}:logical_size_calculation_task:get_or_maybe_download{layer=000000000000000000000000000000000000-000000067F0001A3950001C1630100000000__0000000D88265898}: layer file download failed, and caller has been cancelled: Cancelled, shutting down
Stack backtrace:
0: <core::result::Result<T,F> as core::ops::try_trait::FromResidual<core::result::Result<core::convert::Infallible,E>>>::from_residual
at /rustc/129f3b9964af4d4a709d1383930ade12dfe7c081/library/core/src/result.rs:1964:27
pageserver::tenant::remote_timeline_client::RemoteTimelineClient::download_layer_file::{{closure}}
at /home/nonroot/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs:531:13
pageserver::tenant::storage_layer::layer::LayerInner::download_and_init::{{closure}}
at /home/nonroot/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs:1136:14
pageserver::tenant::storage_layer::layer::LayerInner::download_init_and_wait::{{closure}}::{{closure}}
at /home/nonroot/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs:1082:74
```
We can eliminate the anyhow backtrace with no loss of information
because the conversion to anyhow::Error happens in exactly one place.
refs #7427
## Problem
Tenant attachment has error paths for failures to write local
configuration, but these types of local storage I/O errors should be
considered fatal for the process. Related thread on an earlier PR that
touched this code:
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7947#discussion_r1655134114
## Summary of changes
- Make errors writing tenant config fatal (abort process)
- When reading tenant config, make all I/O errors except ENOENT fatal
- Replace use of bare anyhow errors with `LoadConfigError`
Before this PR, `RemoteStorageConfig::from_toml` would support
deserializing an
empty `{}` TOML inline table to a `None`, otherwise try `Some()`.
We can instead let
* in proxy: let clap derive handle the Option
* in PS & SK: assume that if the field is specified, it must be a valid
RemtoeStorageConfig
(This PR started with a much simpler goal of factoring out the
`deserialize_item` function because I need that in another PR).
## Problem
We lack visibility of how much local disk space is used by secondary
tenant locations
Close: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8181
## Summary of changes
- Add `pageserver_secondary_resident_physical_size`, tagged by tenant
- Register & de-register label sets from SecondaryTenant
- Add+use wrappers in SecondaryDetail that update metrics when
adding+removing layers/timelines
We have one pretty serious MVCC visibility bug with hot standby
replicas. We incorrectly treat any transactions that are in progress
in the primary, when the standby is started, as aborted. That can
break MVCC for queries running concurrently in the standby. It can
also lead to hint bits being set incorrectly, and that damage can last
until the replica is restarted.
The fundamental bug was that we treated any replica start as starting
from a shut down server. The fix for that is straightforward: we need
to set 'wasShutdown = false' in InitWalRecovery() (see changes in the
postgres repo).
However, that introduces a new problem: with wasShutdown = false, the
standby will not open up for queries until it receives a running-xacts
WAL record from the primary. That's correct, and that's how Postgres
hot standby always works. But it's a problem for Neon, because:
* It changes the historical behavior for existing users. Currently,
the standby immediately opens up for queries, so if they now need to
wait, we can breka existing use cases that were working fine
(assuming you don't hit the MVCC issues).
* The problem is much worse for Neon than it is for standalone
PostgreSQL, because in Neon, we can start a replica from an
arbitrary LSN. In standalone PostgreSQL, the replica always starts
WAL replay from a checkpoint record, and the primary arranges things
so that there is always a running-xacts record soon after each
checkpoint record. You can still hit this issue with PostgreSQL if
you have a transaction with lots of subtransactions running in the
primary, but it's pretty rare in practice.
To mitigate that, we introduce another way to collect the
running-xacts information at startup, without waiting for the
running-xacts WAL record: We can the CLOG for XIDs that haven't been
marked as committed or aborted. It has limitations with
subtransactions too, but should mitigate the problem for most users.
See https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7236.
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
Whenever we see an XLOG_MULTIXACT_CREATE_ID WAL record, we need to
update the nextMulti and NextMultiOffset fields in the pageserver's
copy of the CheckPoint struct, to cover the new multi-XID. In
PostgreSQL, this is done by updating an in-memory struct during WAL
replay, but because in Neon you can start a compute node at any LSN,
we need to have an up-to-date value pre-calculated in the pageserver
at all times. We do the same for nextXid.
However, we had a bug in WAL ingestion code that does that: the
multi-XIDs will wrap around at 2^32, just like XIDs, so we need to do
the comparisons in a wraparound-aware fashion.
Fix that, and add tests.
Fixes issue #6520
Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
Very long running downloads can be wasteful, because the heatmap they're
using is outdated after a few minutes.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8182
## Summary of changes
- Impose a deadline on timeline downloads, using the same period as we
use for scheduling, and returning an UpdateError::Restart when it is
reached. This restart will involve waiting for a scheduling interval,
but that's a good thing: it helps let other tenants proceed.
- Refactor download_timeline so that the part where we update the state
for local layers is done even if we fall out of the layer download loop
with an error: this is important, especially for big tenants, because
only layers in the SecondaryDetail state will be considered for
eviction.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7418
I reviewed how the VirtualFile API's `read` methods look like and came
to the conclusion that we've been using `IoBufMut` / `BoundedBufMut` /
`Slice` wrong.
This patch rectifies the situation.
# Change 1: take `tokio_epoll_uring::Slice` in the read APIs
Before, we took an `IoBufMut`, which is too low of a primitive and while
it _seems_ convenient to be able to pass in a `Vec<u8>` without any
fuzz, it's actually very unclear at the callsite that we're going to
fill up that `Vec` up to its `capacity()`, because that's what
`IoBuf::bytes_total()` returns and that's what
`VirtualFile::read_exact_at` fills.
By passing a `Slice` instead, a caller that "just wants to read into a
`Vec`" is forced to be explicit about it, adding either `slice_full()`
or `slice(x..y)`, and these methods panic if the read is outside of the
bounds of the `Vec::capacity()`.
Last, passing slices is more similar to what the `std::io` APIs look
like.
# Change 2: fix UB in `virtual_file_io_engine=std-fs`
While reviewing call sites, I noticed that the
`io_engine::IoEngine::read_at` method for `StdFs` mode has been
constructing an `&mut[u8]` from raw parts that were uninitialized.
We then used `std::fs::File::read_exact` to initialize that memory, but,
IIUC we must not even be constructing an `&mut[u8]` where some of the
memory isn't initialized.
So, stop doing that and add a helper ext trait on `Slice` to do the
zero-initialization.
# Change 3: eliminate `read_exact_at_n`
The `read_exact_at_n` doesn't make sense because the caller can just
1. `slice = buf.slice()` the exact memory it wants to fill
2. `slice = read_exact_at(slice)`
3. `buf = slice.into_inner()`
Again, the `std::io` APIs specify the length of the read via the Rust
slice length.
We should do the same for the owned buffers IO APIs, i.e., via
`Slice::bytes_total()`.
# Change 4: simplify filling of `PageWriteGuard`
The `PageWriteGuardBuf::init_up_to` was never necessary.
Remove it. See changes to doc comment for more details.
---
Reviewers should probably look at the added test case first, it
illustrates my case a bit.
## Problem
For some time, we have created tenants with calls to location_conf. The
legacy "POST /v1/tenant" path was only used in some tests.
## Summary of changes
- Remove the API
- Relocate TenantCreateRequest to the controller API file (this used to
be used in both pageserver and controller APIs)
- Rewrite tenant_create test helper to use location_config API, as
control plane and storage controller do
- Update docker-compose test script to create tenants with
location_config API (this small commit is also present in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7947)
While investigating Pageserver logs from the cases where systemd hangs
during shutdown (https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/11387), I
noticed that even if Pageserver shuts down cleanly[^1], there are
lingering walredo processes.
[^1]: Meaning, pageserver finishes its shutdown procedure and calls
`exit(0)` on its own terms, instead of hitting the systemd unit's
`TimeoutSec=` limit and getting SIGKILLed.
While systemd should never lock up like it does, maybe we can avoid
hitting that bug by cleaning up properly.
Changes
-------
This PR adds a shutdown method to `WalRedoManager` and hooks it up to
tenant shutdown.
We keep track of intent to shutdown through the new `enum
ProcessOnceCell` stored inside the pre-existing `redo_process` field.
A gate is added to keep track of running processes, using the new type
`struct Process`.
Future Work
-----------
Requests that don't need the redo process will not observe the shutdown
(see doc comment).
Doing so would be nice for completeness sake, but doesn't provide much
benefit because `Tenant` and `Timeline` already shut down all walredo
users.
Testing
-------
I did manual testing to confirm that the problem exists before this PR
and that it's gone after.
Setup:
* `neon_local` with a single tenant, create some data using `pgbench`
* ensure walredo process is running, not pid
* watch `strace -e kill,wait4 -f -p "$(pgrep pageserver)"`
* `neon_local pageserver stop`
With this PR, we always observe
```
$ strace -e kill,wait4 -f -p "$(pgrep pageserver)"
...
[pid 591120] --- SIGTERM {si_signo=SIGTERM, si_code=SI_USER, si_pid=591215, si_uid=1000} ---
[pid 591134] kill(591174, SIGKILL) = 0
[pid 591134] wait4(591174, <unfinished ...>
[pid 591142] --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_KILLED, si_pid=591174, si_uid=1000, si_status=SIGKILL, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
[pid 591134] <... wait4 resumed>[{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGKILL}], 0, NULL) = 591174
...
+++ exited with 0 +++
```
Before this PR, we'd usually observe just
```
...
[pid 596239] --- SIGTERM {si_signo=SIGTERM, si_code=SI_USER, si_pid=596455, si_uid=1000} ---
...
+++ exited with 0 +++
```
Refs
----
refs https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/11387
## Problem
In https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/5299, the new config-v1
tenant config file was added to hold the LocationConf type. We left the
old config file in place for forward compat, and because running without
generations (therefore without LocationConf) as still useful before the
storage controller was ready for prime-time.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/5388
## Summary of changes
- Remove code for reading and writing the legacy config file
- Remove Generation::Broken: it was unused.
- Treat missing config file on disk as an error loading a tenant, rather
than defaulting it. We can now remove LocationConf::default, and thereby
guarantee that we never construct a tenant with a None generation.
- Update some comments + add some assertions to clarify that
Generation::None is only used in layer metadata, not in the state of a
running tenant.
- Update docker compose test to create tenants with a generation
I was looking for metrics on how many computes are still using protocol
version 1 and 2. This provides counters for that as "pagestream" and
"pagestream_v2" commands, but also all the other commands. The new
metrics are global for the whole pageserver instance rather than
per-tenant, so the additional metrics bloat should be fairly small.
A follow-up on https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8103/.
Previously, main branch fails with:
```
assertion `left == right` failed
left: b"value 3@0x10@0x30@0x28@0x40"
right: b"value 3@0x10@0x28@0x30@0x40"
```
This gets fixed after #8103 gets merged.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Adds manual compaction trigger; add gc compaction to test_gc_feedback
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
```
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].logical_size: 50 Mb
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].physical_size: 2269 Mb
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].physical/logical ratio: 44.5302
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].max_total_num_of_deltas: 7
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].max_num_of_deltas_above_image: 2
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].logical_size_after_bottom_most_compaction: 50 Mb
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].physical_size_after_bottom_most_compaction: 287 Mb
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].physical/logical ratio after bottom_most_compaction: 5.6312
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].max_total_num_of_deltas_after_bottom_most_compaction: 4
test_gc_feedback[debug-pg15].max_num_of_deltas_above_image_after_bottom_most_compaction: 1
```
## Summary of changes
* Add the manual compaction trigger
* Use in test_gc_feedback
* Add a guard to avoid running it with retain_lsns
* Fix: Do `schedule_compaction_update` after compaction
* Fix: Supply deltas in the correct order to reconstruct value
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
## Summary of changes
This pull request adds the image layer iterator. It buffers a fixed
amount of key-value pairs in memory, and give developer an iterator
abstraction over the image layer. Once the buffer is exhausted, it will
issue 1 I/O to fetch the next batch.
Due to the Rust lifetime mysteries, the `get_stream_from` API has been
refactored to `into_stream` and consumes `self`.
Delta layer iterator implementation will be similar, therefore I'll add
it after this pull request gets merged.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
These APIs have been deprecated for some time, but were still used from
test code.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4282
## Summary of changes
- It is still convenient to do a "tenant_attach" from a test without
having to write out a location_conf body, so those test methods have
been retained with implementations that call through to their
location_conf equivalent.
Part of #7497, closes#8120.
## Summary of changes
This PR adds a metric to track the number of valid leases after `GCInfo`
gets refreshed each time.
Besides this metric, we should also track disk space and synthetic size
(after #8071 is closed) to make sure leases are used properly.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Part of #7497, closes#8072.
## Problem
Currently the `get_lsn_by_timestamp` and branch creation pageserver APIs do not provide a pleasant client experience where the looked-up LSN might be GC-ed between the two API calls.
This PR attempts to prevent common races between GC and branch creation by making use of LSN leases provided in #8084. A lease can be optionally granted to a looked-up LSN. With the lease, GC will not touch layers needed to reconstruct all pages at this LSN for the duration of the lease.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
This pull request adds tests for bottom-most gc-compaction with delta
records. Also fixed a bug in the compaction process that creates
overlapping delta layers by force splitting at the original delta layer
boundary.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
We now have a `vX` number in the file name, i.e.,
`000000067F0000000400000B150100000000-000000067F0000000400000D350100000000__00000000014B7AC8-v1-00000001`
The related pull request for new-style path was merged a month ago
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7660
## Summary of changes
Fixed the draw timeline dir command to handle it.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
## Problem
`test_sharding_autosplit` is occasionally failing on warnings about
shard splits taking longer than expected (`Exclusive lock by ShardSplit
was held for`...)
It's not obvious which part is taking the time (I suspect remote storage
uploads).
Example:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/main/9618788427/index.html#testresult/b395294d5bdeb783/
## Summary of changes
- Since shard splits are infrequent events, we can afford to be very
chatty: add a bunch of info-level logging throughout the process.
#8082 removed the legacy deletion path, but retained code for completing
deletions that were started before a pageserver restart. This PR cleans
up that remaining code, and removes all the pageserver code that dealt
with tenant deletion markers and resuming tenant deletions.
The release at https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8138 contains
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8082, so we can now merge this
to `main`
Adds a `Deserialize` impl to `RemoteStorageConfig`. We thus achieve the
same as #7743 but with less repetitive code, by deriving `Deserialize`
impls on `S3Config`, `AzureConfig`, and `RemoteStorageConfig`. The
disadvantage is less useful error messages.
The git history of this PR contains a state where we go via an
intermediate representation, leveraging the `serde_json` crate,
without it ever being actual json though.
Also, the PR adds deserialization tests.
Alternative to #7743 .
In #7957 we enabled deletion without attachment, but retained the
old-style deletion (return 202, delete in background) for attached
tenants. In this PR, we remove the old-style deletion path, such that if
the tenant delete API is invoked while a tenant is detached, it is
simply detached before completing the deletion.
This intentionally doesn't rip out all the old deletion code: in case a
deletion was in progress at time of upgrade, we keep around the code for
finishing it for one release cycle. The rest of the code removal happens
in https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8091
Now that deletion will always be via the new path, the new path is also
updated to use some retries around remote storage operations, to
tripping up the control plane with 500s if S3 has an intermittent issue.
## Problem
These APIs have be unused for some time. They were superseded by
/location_conf: the equivalent of ignoring a tenant is now to put it in
secondary mode.
## Summary of changes
- Remove APIs
- Remove tests & helpers that used them
- Remove error variants that are no longer needed.
part of Epic https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7386
# Motivation
The materialized page cache adds complexity to the code base, which
increases the maintenance burden and risk for subtle and hard to
reproduce bugs such as #8050.
Further, the best hit rate that we currently achieve in production is ca
1% of materialized page cache lookups for
`task_kind=PageRequestHandler`. Other task kinds have hit rates <0.2%.
Last, caching page images in Pageserver rewards under-sized caches in
Computes because reading from Pageserver's materialized page cache over
the network is often sufficiently fast (low hundreds of microseconds).
Such Computes should upscale their local caches to fit their working
set, rather than repeatedly requesting the same page from Pageserver.
Some more discussion and context in internal thread
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1718714037708459
# Changes
This PR removes the materialized page cache code & metrics.
The infrastructure for different key kinds in `PageCache` is left in
place, even though the "Immutable" key kind is the only remaining one.
This can be further simplified in a future commit.
Some tests started failing because their total runtime was dependent on
high materialized page cache hit rates. This test makes them
fixed-runtime or raises pytest timeouts:
* test_local_file_cache_unlink
* test_physical_replication
* test_pg_regress
# Performance
I focussed on ensuring that this PR will not result in a performance
regression in prod.
* **getpage** requests: our production metrics have shown the
materialized page cache to be irrelevant (low hit rate). Also,
Pageserver is the wrong place to cache page images, it should happen in
compute.
* **ingest** (`task_kind=WalReceiverConnectionHandler`): prod metrics
show 0 percent hit rate, so, removing will not be a regression.
* **get_lsn_by_timestamp**: important API for branch creation, used by
control pane. The clog pages that this code uses are not
materialize-page-cached because they're not 8k. No risk of introducing a
regression here.
We will watch the various nightly benchmarks closely for more results
before shipping to prod.
The new image iterator and delta iterator uses an iterator-based API.
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8006 / part of
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
This requires the underlying thing (the btree) to have an iterator API,
and the iterator should have a type name so that it can be stored
somewhere.
```rust
pub struct DeltaLayerIterator {
index_iterator: BTreeIterator
}
```
versus
```rust
pub struct DeltaLayerIterator {
index_iterator: impl Stream<....>
}
```
(this requires nightly flag and still buggy in the Rust compiler)
There are multiple ways to achieve this:
1. Either write a BTreeIterator from scratch that provides `async next`.
This is the most efficient way to do that.
2. Or wrap the current `get_stream` API, which is the current approach
in the pull request.
In the future, we should do (1), and the `get_stream` API should be
refactored to use the iterator API. With (2), we have to wrap the
`get_stream` API with `Pin<Box<dyn Stream>>`, where we have the overhead
of dynamic dispatch. However, (2) needs a rewrite of the `visit`
function, which would take some time to write and review. I'd like to
define this iterator API first and work on a real iterator API later.
## Summary of changes
Add `DiskBtreeIterator` and related tests.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
Part of #7497, extracts from #7996, closes#8063.
## Problem
With the LSN lease API introduced in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7808, we want to implement
the real lease logic so that GC will
keep all the layers needed to reconstruct all pages at all the leased
LSNs with valid leases at a given time.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
## Problem
```
ERROR synthetic_size_worker: failed to calculate synthetic size for tenant ae449af30216ac56d2c1173f894b1122: Could not find size at 0/218CA70 in timeline d8da32b5e3e0bf18cfdb560f9de29638\n')
```
e.g.
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/main/9518948590/index.html#/testresult/30a6d1e2471d2775
This test had allow lists but was disrupted by
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8051. In that PR, I had kept
an error path in fill_logical_sizes that covered the case where we
couldn't find sizes for some of the segments, but that path could only
be hit in the case that some Timeline was shut down concurrently with a
synthetic size calculation, so it makes sense to just leave the
segment's size None in this case: the subsequent size calculations do
not assume it is Some.
## Summary of changes
- Remove `CalculateSyntheticSizeError::LsnNotFound` and just proceed in
the case where we used to return it
- Remove defunct allow list entries in `test_metric_collection`
## Problem
rust 1.79 new enabled by default lints
## Summary of changes
* update to rust 1.79
* `s/default_features/default-features/`
* fix proxy dead code.
* fix pageserver dead code.
## Problem
This PR refactors some error handling to avoid log spam on
tenant/timeline shutdown.
- "ignoring failure to find gc cutoffs: timeline shutting down." logs
(https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8012)
- "synthetic_size_worker: failed to calculate synthetic size for tenant
...: Failed to refresh gc_info before gathering inputs: tenant shutting
down", for example here:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8049/9502988669/index.html#suites/3fc871d9ee8127d8501d607e03205abb/1a074a66548bbcea
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8012
## Summary of changes
- Refactor: Add a PageReconstructError variant to GcError: this is the
only kind of error that find_gc_cutoffs can emit.
- Functional change: only ignore shutdown PageReconstructError variant:
for other variants, treat it as a real error
- Refactor: add a structured CalculateSyntheticSizeError type and use it
instead of anyhow::Error in synthetic size calculations
- Functional change: while iterating through timelines gathering logical
sizes, only drop out if the whole tenant is cancelled: individual
timeline cancellations indicate deletion in progress and we can just
ignore those.
## Problem
Some code paths during secondary mode download are returning Ok() rather
than UpdateError::Cancelled. This is functionally okay, but it means
that the end of TenantDownloader::download has a sanity check that the
progress is 100% on success, and prints a "Correcting drift..." warning
if not. This warning can be emitted in a test, e.g.
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8049/9503642976/index.html#/testresult/fff1624ba6adae9e.
## Summary of changes
- In secondary download cancellation paths, use
Err(UpdateError::Cancelled) rather than Ok(), so that we drop out of the
download function and do not reach the progress sanity check.
# Problem
Suppose our vectored get starts with an inexact materialized page cache
hit ("cached lsn") that is shadowed by a newer image layer image layer.
Like so:
```
<inmemory layers>
+-+ < delta layer
| |
-|-|----- < image layer
| |
| |
-|-|----- < cached lsn for requested key
+_+
```
The correct visitation order is
1. inmemory layers
2. delta layer records in LSN range `[image_layer.lsn,
oldest_inmemory_layer.lsn_range.start)`
3. image layer
However, the vectored get code, when it visits the delta layer, it
(incorrectly!) returns with state `Complete`.
The reason why it returns is that it calls `on_lsn_advanced` with
`self.lsn_range.start`, i.e., the layer's LSN range.
Instead, it should use `lsn_range.start`, i.e., the LSN range from the
correct visitation order listed above.
# Solution
Use `lsn_range.start` instead of `self.lsn_range.start`.
# Refs
discovered by & fixes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6967
Co-authored-by: Vlad Lazar <vlad@neon.tech>
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8002
We need mock WAL record to make it easier to write unit tests. This pull
request adds such a record. It has `clear` flag and `append` field. The
tests for legacy-enhanced compaction are not modified yet and will be
part of the next pull request.
---------
Signed-off-by: Alex Chi Z <chi@neon.tech>
