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# Problem
While investigating #7124, I noticed that the benchmark was always using
the `DEFAULT_*` `virtual_file_io_engine` , i.e., `tokio-epoll-uring` as
of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7077.
The fundamental problem is that the `control_plane` code has its own
view of `PageServerConfig`, which, I believe, will always be a subset of
the real pageserver's `pageserver/src/config.rs`.
For the `virtual_file_io_engine` and `get_vectored_impl` parametrization
of the test suite, we were constructing a dict on the Python side that
contained these parameters, then handed it to
`control_plane::PageServerConfig`'s derived `serde::Deserialize`.
The default in serde is to ignore unknown fields, so, the Deserialize
impl silently ignored the fields.
In consequence, the fields weren't propagated to the `pageserver --init`
call, and the tests ended up using the
`pageserver/src/config.rs::DEFAULT_` values for the respective options
all the time.
Tests that explicitly used overrides in `env.pageserver.start()` and
similar were not affected by this.
But, it means that all the test suite runs where with parametrization
didn't properly exercise the code path.
# Changes
- use `serde(deny_unknown_fields)` to expose the problem
- With this change, the Python tests that override
`virtual_file_io_engine` and
`get_vectored_impl` fail on `pageserver --init`, exposing the problem.
- use destructuring to uncover the issue in the future
- fix the issue by adding the missing fields to the `control_plane`
crate's `PageServerConf`
- A better solution would be for control plane to re-use a struct
provided
by the pageserver crate, so that everything is in one place in
`pageserver/src/config.rs`, but, our config parsing code is (almost)
beyond repair anyways.
- fix the `pageserver_virtual_file_io_engine` to be responsive to the
env var
- => required to make parametrization work in benchmarks
# Testing
Before merging this PR, I re-ran the regression tests & CI with the full
matrix of `virtual_file_io_engine` and `tokio-epoll-uring`, see
9c7ea364e0