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neon/pageserver/src/virtual_file/owned_buffers_io/write/flush.rs
Yuchen Liang e6cd5050fc pageserver: make BufferedWriter do double-buffering (#9693)
Closes #9387.

## Problem

`BufferedWriter` cannot proceed while the owned buffer is flushing to
disk. We want to implement double buffering so that the flush can happen
in the background. See #9387.

## Summary of changes

- Maintain two owned buffers in `BufferedWriter`.
- The writer is in charge of copying the data into owned, aligned
buffer, once full, submit it to the flush task.
- The flush background task is in charge of flushing the owned buffer to
disk, and returned the buffer to the writer for reuse.
- The writer and the flush background task communicate through a
bi-directional channel.

For in-memory layer, we also need to be able to read from the buffered
writer in `get_values_reconstruct_data`. To handle this case, we did the
following
- Use replace `VirtualFile::write_all` with `VirtualFile::write_all_at`,
and use `Arc` to share it between writer and background task.
- leverage `IoBufferMut::freeze` to get a cheaply clonable `IoBuffer`,
one clone will be submitted to the channel, the other clone will be
saved within the writer to serve reads. When we want to reuse the
buffer, we can invoke `IoBuffer::into_mut`, which gives us back the
mutable aligned buffer.
- InMemoryLayer reads is now aware of the maybe_flushed part of the
buffer.

**Caveat**

- We removed the owned version of write, because this interface does not
work well with buffer alignment. The result is that without direct IO
enabled,
[`download_object`](a439d57050/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs (L243))
does one more memcpy than before this PR due to the switch to use
`_borrowed` version of the write.
- "Bypass aligned part of write" could be implemented later to avoid
large amount of memcpy.

**Testing**
- use an oneshot channel based control mechanism to make flush behavior
deterministic in test.
- test reading from `EphemeralFile` when the last submitted buffer is
not flushed, in-progress, and done flushing to disk.


## Performance


We see performance improvement for small values, and regression on big
values, likely due to being CPU bound + disk write latency.


[Results](https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/Benchmarking-New-BufferedWriter-11-20-2024-143f189e0047805ba99acda89f984d51?pvs=4)


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Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
2024-12-04 16:54:56 +00:00

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Rust

use std::sync::Arc;
use utils::sync::duplex;
use crate::{
context::RequestContext,
virtual_file::owned_buffers_io::{io_buf_aligned::IoBufAligned, io_buf_ext::FullSlice},
};
use super::{Buffer, CheapCloneForRead, OwnedAsyncWriter};
/// A handle to the flush task.
pub struct FlushHandle<Buf, W> {
inner: Option<FlushHandleInner<Buf, W>>,
/// Immutable buffer for serving tail reads.
/// `None` if no flush request has been submitted.
pub(super) maybe_flushed: Option<FullSlice<Buf>>,
}
pub struct FlushHandleInner<Buf, W> {
/// A bi-directional channel that sends (buffer, offset) for writes,
/// and receives recyled buffer.
channel: duplex::mpsc::Duplex<FlushRequest<Buf>, FullSlice<Buf>>,
/// Join handle for the background flush task.
join_handle: tokio::task::JoinHandle<std::io::Result<Arc<W>>>,
}
struct FlushRequest<Buf> {
slice: FullSlice<Buf>,
offset: u64,
#[cfg(test)]
ready_to_flush_rx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver<()>,
#[cfg(test)]
done_flush_tx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Sender<()>,
}
/// Constructs a request and a control object for a new flush operation.
#[cfg(not(test))]
fn new_flush_op<Buf>(slice: FullSlice<Buf>, offset: u64) -> (FlushRequest<Buf>, FlushControl) {
let request = FlushRequest { slice, offset };
let control = FlushControl::untracked();
(request, control)
}
/// Constructs a request and a control object for a new flush operation.
#[cfg(test)]
fn new_flush_op<Buf>(slice: FullSlice<Buf>, offset: u64) -> (FlushRequest<Buf>, FlushControl) {
let (ready_to_flush_tx, ready_to_flush_rx) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel();
let (done_flush_tx, done_flush_rx) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel();
let control = FlushControl::not_started(ready_to_flush_tx, done_flush_rx);
let request = FlushRequest {
slice,
offset,
ready_to_flush_rx,
done_flush_tx,
};
(request, control)
}
/// A handle to a `FlushRequest` that allows unit tests precise control over flush behavior.
#[cfg(test)]
pub(crate) struct FlushControl {
not_started: FlushNotStarted,
}
#[cfg(not(test))]
pub(crate) struct FlushControl;
impl FlushControl {
#[cfg(test)]
fn not_started(
ready_to_flush_tx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Sender<()>,
done_flush_rx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver<()>,
) -> Self {
FlushControl {
not_started: FlushNotStarted {
ready_to_flush_tx,
done_flush_rx,
},
}
}
#[cfg(not(test))]
fn untracked() -> Self {
FlushControl
}
/// In tests, turn flush control into a not started state.
#[cfg(test)]
pub(crate) fn into_not_started(self) -> FlushNotStarted {
self.not_started
}
/// Release control to the submitted buffer.
///
/// In `cfg(test)` environment, the buffer is guranteed to be flushed to disk after [`FlushControl::release`] is finishes execution.
pub async fn release(self) {
#[cfg(test)]
{
self.not_started
.ready_to_flush()
.wait_until_flush_is_done()
.await;
}
}
}
impl<Buf, W> FlushHandle<Buf, W>
where
Buf: IoBufAligned + Send + Sync + CheapCloneForRead,
W: OwnedAsyncWriter + Send + Sync + 'static + std::fmt::Debug,
{
/// Spawns a new background flush task and obtains a handle.
///
/// Note: The background task so we do not need to explicitly maintain a queue of buffers.
pub fn spawn_new<B>(
file: Arc<W>,
buf: B,
gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
ctx: RequestContext,
) -> Self
where
B: Buffer<IoBuf = Buf> + Send + 'static,
{
// It is fine to buffer up to only 1 message. We only 1 message in-flight at a time.
let (front, back) = duplex::mpsc::channel(1);
let join_handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
FlushBackgroundTask::new(back, file, gate_guard, ctx)
.run(buf.flush())
.await
});
FlushHandle {
inner: Some(FlushHandleInner {
channel: front,
join_handle,
}),
maybe_flushed: None,
}
}
/// Submits a buffer to be flushed in the background task.
/// Returns a buffer that completed flushing for re-use, length reset to 0, capacity unchanged.
/// If `save_buf_for_read` is true, then we save the buffer in `Self::maybe_flushed`, otherwise
/// clear `maybe_flushed`.
pub async fn flush<B>(&mut self, buf: B, offset: u64) -> std::io::Result<(B, FlushControl)>
where
B: Buffer<IoBuf = Buf> + Send + 'static,
{
let slice = buf.flush();
// Saves a buffer for read while flushing. This also removes reference to the old buffer.
self.maybe_flushed = Some(slice.cheap_clone());
let (request, flush_control) = new_flush_op(slice, offset);
// Submits the buffer to the background task.
let submit = self.inner_mut().channel.send(request).await;
if submit.is_err() {
return self.handle_error().await;
}
// Wait for an available buffer from the background flush task.
// This is the BACKPRESSURE mechanism: if the flush task can't keep up,
// then the write path will eventually wait for it here.
let Some(recycled) = self.inner_mut().channel.recv().await else {
return self.handle_error().await;
};
// The only other place that could hold a reference to the recycled buffer
// is in `Self::maybe_flushed`, but we have already replace it with the new buffer.
let recycled = Buffer::reuse_after_flush(recycled.into_raw_slice().into_inner());
Ok((recycled, flush_control))
}
async fn handle_error<T>(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<T> {
Err(self
.shutdown()
.await
.expect_err("flush task only disconnects duplex if it exits with an error"))
}
/// Cleans up the channel, join the flush task.
pub async fn shutdown(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<Arc<W>> {
let handle = self
.inner
.take()
.expect("must not use after we returned an error");
drop(handle.channel.tx);
handle.join_handle.await.unwrap()
}
/// Gets a mutable reference to the inner handle. Panics if [`Self::inner`] is `None`.
/// This only happens if the handle is used after an error.
fn inner_mut(&mut self) -> &mut FlushHandleInner<Buf, W> {
self.inner
.as_mut()
.expect("must not use after we returned an error")
}
}
/// A background task for flushing data to disk.
pub struct FlushBackgroundTask<Buf, W> {
/// A bi-directional channel that receives (buffer, offset) for writes,
/// and send back recycled buffer.
channel: duplex::mpsc::Duplex<FullSlice<Buf>, FlushRequest<Buf>>,
/// A writter for persisting data to disk.
writer: Arc<W>,
ctx: RequestContext,
/// Prevent timeline from shuting down until the flush background task finishes flushing all remaining buffers to disk.
_gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
}
impl<Buf, W> FlushBackgroundTask<Buf, W>
where
Buf: IoBufAligned + Send + Sync,
W: OwnedAsyncWriter + Sync + 'static,
{
/// Creates a new background flush task.
fn new(
channel: duplex::mpsc::Duplex<FullSlice<Buf>, FlushRequest<Buf>>,
file: Arc<W>,
gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
ctx: RequestContext,
) -> Self {
FlushBackgroundTask {
channel,
writer: file,
_gate_guard: gate_guard,
ctx,
}
}
/// Runs the background flush task.
/// The passed in slice is immediately sent back to the flush handle through the duplex channel.
async fn run(mut self, slice: FullSlice<Buf>) -> std::io::Result<Arc<W>> {
// Sends the extra buffer back to the handle.
self.channel.send(slice).await.map_err(|_| {
std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe, "flush handle closed early")
})?;
// Exit condition: channel is closed and there is no remaining buffer to be flushed
while let Some(request) = self.channel.recv().await {
#[cfg(test)]
{
// In test, wait for control to signal that we are ready to flush.
if request.ready_to_flush_rx.await.is_err() {
tracing::debug!("control dropped");
}
}
// Write slice to disk at `offset`.
let slice = self
.writer
.write_all_at(request.slice, request.offset, &self.ctx)
.await?;
#[cfg(test)]
{
// In test, tell control we are done flushing buffer.
if request.done_flush_tx.send(()).is_err() {
tracing::debug!("control dropped");
}
}
// Sends the buffer back to the handle for reuse. The handle is in charged of cleaning the buffer.
if self.channel.send(slice).await.is_err() {
// Although channel is closed. Still need to finish flushing the remaining buffers.
continue;
}
}
Ok(self.writer)
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
pub(crate) struct FlushNotStarted {
ready_to_flush_tx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Sender<()>,
done_flush_rx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver<()>,
}
#[cfg(test)]
pub(crate) struct FlushInProgress {
done_flush_rx: tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver<()>,
}
#[cfg(test)]
pub(crate) struct FlushDone;
#[cfg(test)]
impl FlushNotStarted {
/// Signals the background task the buffer is ready to flush to disk.
pub fn ready_to_flush(self) -> FlushInProgress {
self.ready_to_flush_tx
.send(())
.map(|_| FlushInProgress {
done_flush_rx: self.done_flush_rx,
})
.unwrap()
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
impl FlushInProgress {
/// Waits until background flush is done.
pub async fn wait_until_flush_is_done(self) -> FlushDone {
self.done_flush_rx.await.unwrap();
FlushDone
}
}