assert() is traditionally disabled in release builds, but not in
scylladb. This hasn't caused problems so far, but the latest abseil
release includes a commit [1] that causes a 1000 insn/op regression when
NDEBUG is not defined.
Clearly, we must move towards a build system where NDEBUG is defined in
release builds. But we can't just define it blindly without vetting
all the assert() calls, as some were written with the expectation that
they are enabled in release mode.
To solve the conundrum, change all assert() calls to a new SCYLLA_ASSERT()
macro in utils/assert.hh. This macro is always defined and is not conditional
on NDEBUG, so we can later (after vetting Seastar) enable NDEBUG in release
mode.
[1] 66ef711d68Closesscylladb/scylladb#20006
Instead of lengthy blurbs, switch to single-line, machine-readable
standardized (https://spdx.dev) license identifiers. The Linux kernel
switched long ago, so there is strong precedent.
Three cases are handled: AGPL-only, Apache-only, and dual licensed.
For the latter case, I chose (AGPL-3.0-or-later and Apache-2.0),
reasoning that our changes are extensive enough to apply our license.
The changes we applied mechanically with a script, except to
licenses/README.md.
Closes#9937
Currently, whole topology description for CDC is stored in a single row.
This means that for a large cluster of strong machines (say 100 nodes 64
cpus each), the size of the topology description can reach 32MB.
This causes multiple problems. First of all, there's a hard limit on
mutation size that can be written to Scylla. It's related to commit log
block size which is 16MB by default. Mutations bigger than that can't be
saved. Moreover, such big partitions/rows cause reactor stalls and
negatively influence latency of other requests.
This patch limits the size of topology description to about 4MB. This is
done by reducing the number of CDC streams per vnode and can lead to CDC
data not being fully colocated with Base Table data on shards. It can
impact performance and consistency of data.
This is just a quick fix to make it easily backportable. A full solution
to the problem is under development.
For more details see #7961, #7993 and #7985.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
