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Vlad Lazar 3a50d95b6d storage_controller: coordinate imports across shards in the storage controller (#11345)
## Problem

Pageservers notify control plane directly when a shard import has
completed.
Control plane has to download the status of each shard from S3 and
figure out if everything is truly done,
before proceeding with branch activation.

Issues with this approach are:
* We can't control shard split behaviour on the storage controller side.
It's unsafe to split
during import.
* Control plane needs to know about shards and implement logic to check
all timelines are indeed ready.

## Summary of changes

In short, storage controller coordinates imports, and, only when
everything is done, notifies control plane.

Big rocks:
1. Store timeline imports in the storage controller database. Each
import stores the status of its shards in the database.
We hook into the timeline creation call as our entry point for this.
2. Pageservers get a new upcall endpoint to notify the storage
controller of shard import updates.
3. Storage controller handles these updates by updating persisted state.
If an update finalizes the import,
then poll pageservers until timeline activation, and, then, notify the
control plane that the import is complete.

Cplane side change with new endpoint is in
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/pull/26166

Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11566
2025-04-24 11:26:06 +00:00
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