# TLDR
All changes are no-op except
1. publishing additional metrics.
2. problem VI
## Problem I
It has come to my attention that the Neon Storage Controller doesn't
correctly update its "observed" state of tenants previously associated
with PSs that has come back up after a local data loss. It would still
think that the old tenants are still attached to page servers and won't
ask more questions. The pageserver has enough information from the
reattach request/response to tell that something is wrong, but it
doesn't do anything about it either. We need to detect this situation in
production while I work on a fix.
(I think there is just some misunderstanding about how Neon manages
their pageserver deployments which got me confused about all the
invariants.)
## Summary of changes I
Added a `pageserver_local_data_loss_suspected` gauge metric that will be
set to 1 if we detect a problematic situation from the reattch response.
The problematic situation is when the PS doesn't have any local tenants
but received a reattach response containing tenants.
We can set up an alert using this metric. The alert should be raised
whenever this metric reports non-zero number.
Also added a HTTP PUT
`http://pageserver/hadron-internal/reset_alert_gauges` API on the
pageserver that can be used to reset the gauge and the alert once we
manually rectify the situation (by restarting the HCC).
## Problem II
Azure upload is 3x slower than AWS. -> 3x slower ingestion.
The reason for the slower upload is that Azure upload in page server is
much slower => higher flush latency => higher disk consistent LSN =>
higher back pressure.
## Summary of changes II
Use Azure put_block API to uploads a 1 GB layer file in 8 blocks in
parallel.
I set the put_block block size to be 128 MB by default in azure config.
To minimize neon changes, upload function passes the layer file path to
the azure upload code through the storage metadata. This allows the
azure put block to use FileChunkStreamRead to stream read from one
partition in the file instead of loading all file data in memory and
split it into 8 128 MB chunks.
## How is this tested? II
1. rust test_real_azure tests the put_block change.
3. I deployed the change in azure dev and saw flush latency reduces from
~30 seconds to 10 seconds.
4. I also did a bunch of stress test using sqlsmith and 100 GB TPCDS
runs.
## Problem III
Currently Neon limits the compaction tasks as 3/4 * CPU cores. This
limits the overall compaction throughput and it can easily cause
head-of-the-line blocking problems when a few large tenants are
compacting.
## Summary of changes III
This PR increases the limit of compaction tasks as `BG_TASKS_PER_THREAD`
(default 4) * CPU cores. Note that `CONCURRENT_BACKGROUND_TASKS` also
limits some other tasks `logical_size_calculation` and `layer eviction`
. But compaction should be the most frequent and time-consuming task.
## Summary of changes IV
This PR adds the following PageServer metrics:
1. `pageserver_disk_usage_based_eviction_evicted_bytes_total`: captures
the total amount of bytes evicted. It's more straightforward to see the
bytes directly instead of layers.
2. `pageserver_active_storage_operations_count`: captures the active
storage operation, e.g., flush, L0 compaction, image creation etc. It's
useful to visualize these active operations to get a better idea of what
PageServers are spending cycles on in the background.
## Summary of changes V
When investigating data corruptions, it's useful to search the base
image and all WAL records of a page up to an LSN, i.e., a breakdown of
GetPage@LSN request. This PR implements this functionality with two
tools:
1. Extended `pagectl` with a new command to search the layer files for a
given key up to a given LSN from the `index_part.json` file. The output
can be used to download the files from S3 and then search the file
contents using the second tool.
Example usage:
```
cargo run --bin pagectl index-part search --tenant-id 09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d --timeline-id 7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab --path ~/Downloads/corruption/index_part.json-0000000c-formatted --key 000000067F000080140000802100000D61BD --lsn 70C/BF3D61D8
```
Example output:
```
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F0000801400000B180000000002-000000067F0000801400008028000002FEFF__000007089F0B5381-0000070C7679EEB9-0000000c
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000000000000000000000000000000000-000000067F0000801400008028000002F3F1__000006DD95B6F609-000006E2BA14C369-0000000c
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F0000801400000B180000000002-000000067F000080140000802100001B0973__000006D33429F539-000006DD95B6F609-0000000c
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F0000801400000B180000000002-000000067F00008014000080210000164D81__000006C6343B2D31-000006D33429F539-0000000b
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F0000801400000B180000000002-000000067F0000801400008021000017687B__000006BA344FA7F1-000006C6343B2D31-0000000b
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F0000801400000B180000000002-000000067F00008014000080210000165BAB__000006AD34613D19-000006BA344FA7F1-0000000b
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F0000801400000B180000000002-000000067F00008014000080210000137A39__0000069F34773461-000006AD34613D19-0000000b
tenants/09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d-0304/timelines/7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab/000000067F000080140000802100000D4000-000000067F000080140000802100000F0000__0000069F34773460-0000000b
```
2. Added a unit test to search the layer file contents. It's not
implemented part of `pagectl` because it depends on some test harness
code, which can only be used by unit tests.
Example usage:
```
cargo test --package pageserver --lib -- tenant::debug::test_search_key --exact --nocapture -- --tenant-id 09b99ea3239bbb3b2d883a59f087659d --timeline-id 7bedf4a6995baff7c0421ff9aebbcdab --data-dir /Users/chen.luo/Downloads/corruption --key 000000067F000080140000802100000D61BD --lsn 70C/BF3D61D8
```
Example output:
```
# omitted image for brievity
delta: 69F/769D8180: will_init: false, "OgAAALGkuwXwYp12nwYAAECGAAASIqLHAAAAAH8GAAAUgAAAIYAAAL1hDQD/DLGkuwUDAAAAEAAWAA=="
delta: 69F/769CB6D8: will_init: false, "PQAAALGkuwXotZx2nwYAABAJAAAFk7tpACAGAH8GAAAUgAAAIYAAAL1hDQD/CQUAEAASALExuwUBAAAAAA=="
```
## Problem VI
Currently when page service resolves shards from page numbers, it
doesn't fully support the case that the shard could be split in the
middle. This will lead to query failures during the tenant split for
either commit or abort cases (it's mostly for abort).
## Summary of changes VI
This PR adds retry logic in `Cache::get()` to deal with shard resolution
errors more gracefully. Specifically, it'll clear the cache and retry,
instead of failing the query immediately. It also reduces the internal
timeout to make retries faster.
The PR also fixes a very obvious bug in
`TenantManager::resolve_attached_shard` where the code tries to cache
the computed the shard number, but forgot to recompute when the shard
count is different.
---------
Co-authored-by: William Huang <william.huang@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: Haoyu Huang <haoyu.huang@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: Chen Luo <chen.luo@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: Vlad Lazar <vlad.lazar@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: Vlad Lazar <vlad@neon.tech>
Updates storage components to edition 2024. We like to stay on the
latest edition if possible. There is no functional changes, however some
code changes had to be done to accommodate the edition's breaking
changes.
The PR has two commits:
* the first commit updates storage crates to edition 2024 and appeases
`cargo clippy` by changing code. i have accidentially ran the formatter
on some files that had other edits.
* the second commit performs a `cargo fmt`
I would recommend a closer review of the first commit and a less close
review of the second one (as it just runs `cargo fmt`).
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/10918
## Problem
The local filesystem backend for remote storage doesn't set a
concurrency limit. While it can't/won't enforce a concurrency limit
itself, this also bounds the upload queue concurrency. Some tests create
thousands of uploads, which slows down the quadratic scheduling of the
upload queue, and there is no point spawning that many Tokio tasks.
Resolves#10409.
## Summary of changes
Set a concurrency limit of 100 for the LocalFS backend.
Before: `test_layer_map[release-pg17].test_query: 68.338 s`
After: `test_layer_map[release-pg17].test_query: 5.209 s`
## Problem
The upload queue can currently schedule an arbitrary number of tasks.
This can both spawn an unbounded number of Tokio tasks, and also
significantly slow down upload queue scheduling as it's quadratic in
number of operations.
Touches #10096.
## Summary of changes
Limit the number of inprogress tasks to the remote storage upload
concurrency. While this concurrency limit is shared across all tenants,
there's certainly no point in scheduling more than this -- we could even
consider setting the limit lower, but don't for now to avoid
artificially constraining tenants.
## Problem
Initially we defaulted this to zero to reduce risk. We have now been
using pooling in staging for some time without issues, so let's make it
the default for anyone using this software without setting the config
explicitly.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/20971
## Summary of changes
- Set Azure blob storage connection pool size to 8 by default
## Problem
The ABS SDK's default behavior is to do no connection pooling, i.e. open
and close a fresh connection for each request. Under high request rates,
this can result in an accumulation of TCP connections in TIME_WAIT or
CLOSE_WAIT state, and in extreme cases exhaustion of client ports.
Related: https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/20971
## Summary of changes
- Add a configurable `conn_pool_size` parameter for Azure storage,
defaulting to zero (current behavior)
- Construct a custom reqwest client using this connection pool size.
## Problem
It appears that the Azure storage API tends to hang TCP connections more
than S3 does.
Currently we use a 2 minute timeout for all downloads. This is large
because sometimes the objects we download are large. However, waiting 2
minutes when doing something like downloading a manifest on tenant
attach is problematic, because when someone is doing a "create tenant,
create timeline" workflow, that 2 minutes is long enough for them
reasonably to give up creating that timeline.
Rather than propagate oversized timeouts further up the stack, we should
use a different timeout for objects that we expect to be small.
Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9836
## Summary of changes
- Add a `small_timeout` configuration attribute to remote storage,
defaulting to 30 seconds (still a very generous period to do something
like download an index)
- Add a DownloadKind parameter to DownloadOpts, so that callers can
indicate whether they expect the object to be small or large.
- In the azure client, use small timeout for HEAD requests, and for GET
requests if DownloadKind::Small is used.
- Use DownloadKind::Small for manifests, indices, and heatmap downloads.
This PR intentionally does not make the equivalent change to the S3
client, to reduce blast radius in case this has unexpected consequences
(we could accomplish the same thing by editing lots of configs, but just
skipping the code is simpler for right now)
Earlier work (#7547) has made the scrubber internally generic, but one
could only configure it to use S3 storage.
This is the final piece to make (most of, snapshotting still requires
S3) the scrubber be able to be configured via GenericRemoteStorage.
I.e. you can now set an env var like:
```
REMOTE_STORAGE_CONFIG='remote_storage = { bucket_name = "neon-dev-safekeeper-us-east-2d", bucket_region = "us-east-2" }
```
and the scrubber will read it instead.
This PR simplifies the pageserver configuration parsing as follows:
* introduce the `pageserver_api::config::ConfigToml` type
* implement `Default` for `ConfigToml`
* use serde derive to do the brain-dead leg-work of processing the toml
document
* use `serde(default)` to fill in default values
* in `pageserver` crate:
* use `toml_edit` to deserialize the pageserver.toml string into a
`ConfigToml`
* `PageServerConfig::parse_and_validate` then
* consumes the `ConfigToml`
* destructures it exhaustively into its constituent fields
* constructs the `PageServerConfig`
The rules are:
* in `ConfigToml`, use `deny_unknown_fields` everywhere
* static default values go in `pageserver_api`
* if there cannot be a static default value (e.g. which default IO
engine to use, because it depends on the runtime), make the field in
`ConfigToml` an `Option`
* if runtime-augmentation of a value is needed, do that in
`parse_and_validate`
* a good example is `virtual_file_io_engine` or `l0_flush`, both of
which need to execute code to determine the effective value in
`PageServerConf`
The benefits:
* massive amount of brain-dead repetitive code can be deleted
* "unused variable" compile-time errors when removing a config value,
due to the exhaustive destructuring in `parse_and_validate`
* compile-time errors guide you when adding a new config field
Drawbacks:
* serde derive is sometimes a bit too magical
* `deny_unknown_fields` is easy to miss
Future Work / Benefits:
* make `neon_local` use `pageserver_api` to construct `ConfigToml` and
write it to `pageserver.toml`
* This provides more type safety / coompile-time errors than the current
approach.
### Refs
Fixes#3682
### Future Work
* `remote_storage` deser doesn't reject unknown fields
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8915
* clean up `libs/pageserver_api/src/config.rs` further
* break up into multiple files, at least for tenant config
* move `models` as appropriate / refine distinction between config and
API models / be explicit about when it's the same
* use `pub(crate)` visibility on `mod defaults` to detect stale values
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).
Moves `RemoteStorageConfig` and related structs and functions into a
dedicated module. Also implements `Serialize` for the config structs
(requested in #8126).
Follow-up of #8126
