The worker is responsible for merging MVCC snapshots, which is similar
to merging sstables, but in memory. The new scheduling group will be
therefore called "memory compaction".
We should run it in a separate scheduling group instead of
main/memtables, so that it doesn't disrupt writes and other system
activities. It's also nice for monitoring how much CPU time we spend
on this.
If memtable snapshot goes away after memtable started merging to
cache, it would enqueue the snapshots for cleaning on the memtable's
cleaner, which will have to clean without deferrring when the memtable
is destroyed. That may stall the reactor. To avoid this, make merge()
cause the old instance of the cleaner to redirect to the new instance
(owned by cache), like we do for regions. This way the snapshots
mentioned earlier can be cleaned after memtable is destroyed,
gracefully.
Before this patch, maybe_merge_versions() had to be manually called
before partition snapshot goes away. That is error prone and makes
client code more complicated. Delegate that task to a new
partition_snapshot_ptr object, through which all snapshots are
published now.
As a prepratation for the switch to the new cell representation this
patch changes the type returned by atomic_cell_view::value() to one that
requires explicit linearisation of the cell value. Even though the value
is still implicitly linearised (and only when managed by the LSA) the
new interface is the same as the target one so that no more changes to
its users will be needed.
Now all snapshots will have a mutation_cleaner which they will use to
gently destroy freed partition_version objects.
Destruction of memtable entries during cache update is also using the
gentle cleaner now. We need to have a separate cleaner for memtable
objects even though they're owned by cache's region, because memtable
versions must be cleared without a cache_tracker.
Each memtable will have its own cleaner, which will be merged with the
cache's cleaner when memtable is merged into cache.
Fixes some sources of reactor stalls on cache update when there are
large partition entries in memtables.
Partitions can get very large. Destroying them all at once can stall
the reactor for significant amount of time. We want to avoid that by
doing destruction incrementally, deferring in between. A new API is
added for that at various levels:
stop_iteration clear_gently() noexcept;
It returns stop_iteration::yes when the object is fully cleared and
can be now destroyed quickly. So a deferring destruction can look like
this:
return repeat([this] { return clear_gently(); });
The reason why clear_gently() doesn't return a future<> itself is that some
contexts cannot defer, like memory reclamation.
We are now keeping track of the minimum timestamp in a memtable. Also
keep track of the max timestamp so we can know what it is before we
finish flushing the entire memtable to an SSTable. Will be used by
partially written SSTables undergoing TWCS.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
"Previously, partition tombstone was not written for partitions with no
rows causing corrupted data files.
This is now fixed and covered with tests.
In addition, we now track partition tombstones while collecting encoding
statistics."
* 'projects/sstables-30/fix-partition-tombstone/v3' of https://github.com/argenet/scylla:
tests: Don't use deprecated schema constructor.
tests: Add tests to cover partitions consisting only of partition keys.
sstables: Make sure partition level tombstone is written for partitions with no rows.
memtable: Collect statistics from partition-level tombstone.
The switch to the new in-memory representation will require a larger
parts of the logic be aware of the type of the values they are dealing
with. In most cases it is not a significant burden for the users.
We keep track of all updates and store the minimal values of timestamps,
TTLs and local deletion times across all the inserted data.
These values are written as a part of serialization_header for
Statistics.db and used for delta-encoding values when writing Data.db
file in SSTables 3.0 (mc) format.
For #1969.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Krivopalov <vladimir@scylladb.com>
Retryable code that has side effects is a recipe for bugs. This patch
reworkds the snapshot reader so that the amount of logic run with
reclamation disabled is minimal and has a very limited side effects.
Once that is added, also add a method to a memtable entry to calculate
the entire size of a memtable entry. Right now we only have one method
to calculate the size minus rows.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
The total size is the sum of two components. Add a method that
does that sum so this code gets easier to reuse.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
This method creates a flat_mutation_reader
instead of mutation_reader. All users will be gradually
converted to the new interface. make_reader is implemented
using make_flat_reader and will be removed once all users
are migrated.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
query::full_slice doesn't select any regular or static columns, which
is at odds with the expectations of its users. This patch replaces it
with the schema::full_slice() version.
Refs #2885
Signed-off-by: Duarte Nunes <duarte@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <1507732800-9448-2-git-send-email-duarte@scylladb.com>
In commit c63e88d556, support was added for
fast_forward_to() in data_consume_rows(). Because an input stream's end
cannot be changed after creation, that patch ignores the specified end
byte, and uses the end of file as the end position of the stream.
As result of this, even when we want to read a specific byte range (e.g.,
in the repair code to checksum the partitions in a given range), the code
reads an entire 128K buffer around the end byte, or significantly more, with
read-ahead enabled. This causes repair to do more than 10 times the amount
of I/O it really has to do in the checksumming phase (which in the current
implementation, reads small ranges of partitions at a time).
This patch has two levels:
1. In the lower level, sstable::data_consume_rows(), which reads all
partitions in a given disk byte range, now gets another byte position,
"last_end". That can be the range's end, the end of the file, or anything
in between the two. It opens the disk stream until last_end, which means
1. we will never read-ahead beyond last_end, and 2. fast_fordward_to() is
not allowed beyond last_end.
2. In the upper level, we add to the various layers of sstable readers,
mutation readers, etc., a boolean flag mutation_reader::forwarding, which
says whether fast_forward_to() is allowed on the stream of mutations to
move the stream to a different partition range.
Note that this flag is separate from the existing boolean flag
streamed_mutation::fowarding - that one talks about skipping inside a
single partition, while the flag we are adding is about switching the
partition range being read. Most of the functions that previously
accepted streamed_mutation::forwarding now accept *also* the option
mutation_reader::forwarding. The exception are functions which are known
to read only a single partition, and not support fast_forward_to() a
different partition range.
We note that if mutation_reader::forwarding::no is requested, and
fast_forward_to() is forbidden, there is no point in reading anything
beyond the range's end, so data_consume_rows() is called with last_end as
the range's end. But if forwarding::yes is requested, we use the end of the
file as last_end, exactly like the code before this patch did.
Importantly, we note that the repair's partition reading code,
column_family::make_streaming_reader, uses mutation_reader::forwarding::no,
while the other existing reading code will use the default forwarding::yes.
In the future, we can further optimize the amount of bytes read from disk
by replacing forwarding::yes by an actual last partition that may ever be
read, and use its byte position as the last_end passed to data_consume_rows.
But we don't do this yet, and it's not a regression from the existing code,
which also opened the file input stream until the end of the file, and not
until the end of the range query. Moreover, such an improvement will not
improve of anything if the overall range is always very large, in which
case not over-reading at its end will not improve performance.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20170619152629.11703-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
This reverts commit 317d7fc253 (and also the
related 2c57ab84b2). It causes crashes
during range scans, reported by Gleb:
"To reproduce I run SELECT * FROM keyspace1.standard1; on typical c-s
dataset and 3 node cluster.
Backtrace:
at /home/gleb/work/seastar/seastar/core/apply.hh:36
rvalue=<unknown type in /home/gleb/work/seastar/build/release/scylla, CU 0x54cf307, DIE 0x55ebf2a>) at /home/gleb/work/seastar/seastar/core/do_with.hh:57
range=std::vector of length 6, capacity 8 = {...}) at /home/gleb/work/seastar/seastar/core/future-util.hh:142
at ./seastar/core/future.hh:890
at /home/gleb/work/seastar/seastar/core/future-util.hh:119
at /home/gleb/work/seastar/seastar/core/future-util.hh:142
In commit c63e88d556, support was added for
fast_forward_to() in data_consume_rows(). Because an input stream's end
cannot be changed after creation, that patch ignores the specified end
byte, and uses the end of file as the end position of the stream.
As result of this, even when we want to read a specific byte range (e.g.,
in the repair code to checksum the partitions in a given range), the code
reads an entire 128K buffer around the end byte, or significantly more, with
read-ahead enabled. This causes repair to do more than 10 times the amount
of I/O it really has to do in the checksumming phase (which in the current
implementation, reads small ranges of partitions at a time).
This patch has two levels:
1. In the lower level, sstable::data_consume_rows(), which reads all
partitions in a given disk byte range, now gets another byte position,
"last_end". That can be the range's end, the end of the file, or anything
in between the two. It opens the disk stream until last_end, which means
1. we will never read-ahead beyond last_end, and 2. fast_fordward_to() is
not allowed beyond last_end.
2. In the upper level, we add to the various layers of sstable readers,
mutation readers, etc., a boolean flag mutation_reader::forwarding, which
says whether fast_forward_to() is allowed on the stream of mutations to
move the stream to a different partition range.
Note that this flag is separate from the existing boolean flag
streamed_mutation::fowarding - that one talks about skipping inside a
single partition, while the flag we are adding is about switching the
partition range being read. Most of the functions that previously
accepted streamed_mutation::forwarding now accept *also* the option
mutation_reader::forwarding. The exception are functions which are known
to read only a single partition, and not support fast_forward_to() a
different partition range.
We note that if mutation_reader::forwarding::no is requested, and
fast_forward_to() is forbidden, there is no point in reading anything
beyond the range's end, so data_consume_rows() is called with last_end as
the range's end. But if forwarding::yes is requested, we use the end of the
file as last_end, exactly like the code before this patch did.
Importantly, we note that the repair's partition reading code,
column_family::make_streaming_reader, uses mutation_reader::forwarding::no,
while the other existing reading code will use the default forwarding::yes.
In the future, we can further optimize the amount of bytes read from disk
by replacing forwarding::yes by an actual last partition that may ever be
read, and use its byte position as the last_end passed to data_consume_rows.
But we don't do this yet, and it's not a regression from the existing code,
which also opened the file input stream until the end of the file, and not
until the end of the range query. Moreover, such an improvement will not
improve of anything if the overall range is always very large, in which
case not over-reading at its end will not improve performance.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20170614072122.13473-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
Use per CF-id reference count instead, and use handles as result of
add operations. These must either be explicitly released or stored
(rp_set), or they will release the corresponding replay_position
upon destruction.
Note: this does _not_ remove the replay positioning ordering requirement
for mutations. It just removes it as a means to track segment liveness.
We can make the dependency more abstract by using mutation_source
instead of an sstable.
Will be useful in some stress tests which want to avoid the disk, but
is also good for the sake of decoupling.
Message-Id: <1495729508-30081-2-git-send-email-tgrabiec@scylladb.com>
So that memory is released gradually (impacting latency less) and
sooner than when memtable is destroyed. Active readers may keep the
memtable alive for unbounded amount of time.
Refs #1879
When memtable is flushing, it subtracts _flushed_memory from groups's
size to gradually allow more writes. Ideally _flushed_memory would be
equal to region's size when flush ends, so the group's size would
reach zero. When the memtable and its region are gone the group size
should remain the same as after the flush. This is ensured by adding
back _flushed_memory to group's size right before the region is
removed from the group.
Calling clear() before region is removed from the group breaks the
accounting because it will shrink the region, but will not affect the
amount of memory subtracted due to _flushed_memory. So group's size
would decrease more than we want (twice the region's size). The fix is
to change clear() so that it reverts _flushed_memory by the amount by
which the region size is reduced. This will keep the groups's size
constant as long as _flushed_memory > 0.
The implementation assumes that memtable's region group is owned by
dirty_memory_manager, and tries to obtain a reference to it like this:
boost::intrusive::get_parent_from_member(_region.group(), &dirty_memory_manager::_region_group));
This is undefined behavior when the region's group does not come from
dirty manager. It's safer to be explicit about this dependency by
taking a reference to dirty_memory_manager in the constructor.
We current pass a region group to the memtable, but after so many recent
changes, that is a bit too low level. This patch changes that so we pass
a memtable list instead.
Doing that also has a couple of advantages. Mainly, during flush we must
get to a memtable to a memtable_list. Currently we do that by going to
the memtable to a column family through the schema, and from there to
the memtable_list.
That, however, involves calling virtual functions in a derived class,
because a single column family could have both streaming and normal
memtables. If we pass a memtable_list to the memtable, we can keep
pointer, and when needed get the memtable_list directly.
Not only that gets rid of the inheritance for aesthetic reasons, but
that inheritance is not even correct anymore. Since the introduction of
the big streaming memtables, we now have a plethora of lists per column
family and this transversal is totally wrong. We haven't noticed before
because we were flushing the memtables based on their individual sizes,
but it has been wrong all along for edge cases in which we would have to
resort to size-based flush. This could be the case, for instance, with
various plan_ids in flight at the same time.
At this point, there is no more reason to keep the derived classes for
the dirty_memory_manager. I'm only keeping them around to reduce
clutter, although they are useful for the specialized constructors and
to communicate to the reader exactly what they are. But those can be
removed in a follow up patch if we want.
The old memtable constructor signature is kept around for the benefit of
two tests in memtable_tests which have their own flush logic. In the
future we could do something like we do for the SSTable tests, and have
a proxy class that is friends with the memtable class. That too, is left
for the future.
Fixes#1870
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <811ec9e8e123dc5fc26eadbda82b0bae906657a9.1479743266.git.glauber@scylladb.com>
Renaming the function to external_memory_usage() makes it clear that
sizeof(T) is not included, something that was a source of confusion in
the past.
Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@scylladb.com>
That is technically not needed because a memtable inherits from group. So
whenever we have a memtable, we can use it's group() method to obtain a
group for it, and then from there go to the region_group.
However, region() is a const method in the memtable, so we have to play
trick with the const_cast, or remove the constness from the region. An
alternative to that, which I prefer, is to expose a method for the
region_group directly from the memtable object that does the right thing
and bypasses all that.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
The latest virtual dirty patches broke the SSTable tests. The reason for
this is that those tests will flush synthetic memtables that do not have
a region_group attached to it.
Normally in cases like this we would just give the flush_reader an empty
region group. However, the memtable class constructor takes a
region_group pointer and that can be null according to the interface.
So we must conditionally test it.
If there isn't a region_group involved, the virtual dirty accounting
should be disabled: after all, we won't even have the baseline memory
to begin with.
One of the approaches to fix this could be to just provide null
accounter classes to be used as a surrogate for the accounting classes
in this case. However, since this is mostly used for tests, a much
simpler way is to just revert back to the scanning reader in that case.
The scanning reader is similar enough to the flush_reader, except that
it can handle partial ranges, slices, and delegate accesses to an
sstable post-flush. We don't need any of that, but as argued above,
there is no need to remove it either.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <1475667271-60806-1-git-send-email-glommer@scylladb.com>
Scylla currently suffers from a brick wall behavior of the request throttler.
Requests pile up until we reach the dirty memory limit, at which point we stop
serving them until we have freed enough memory to allow for more requests.
The problem is that freeing dirty memory means writing an SSTable to completion.
That can take a long time, even if we are blessed with great disks. Those long
waiting times can and will translate into timeouts. That is bad behavior.
What this patch does is introduce one form of virtual dirty memory accounting.
Instead of allowing 100 % of the dirty memory to be filled up until we stop
accepting requests, we will do that when we reach 50 % of memory. However,
instead of releasing requests only when an SSTable is fully written, we start
releasing them when some memory was written.
The practical effect of that is that once we reach 50 % occupancy in our dirty
memory region, we will bring the system from CPU speed to disk speed, and will
start accepting requests only at the rate we are able to write memory back.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
The code that is common will live in its own reader, the iterator_reader. All
friendly private access to memtable attributes and methods happen through the
iterator reader.
After this patch, we are now left with the scanning_reader - same as always,
but now implemented on top of the iterator_reader, and a flush_reader, which
will be used by SSTable flushes only.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Right now the special reader doesn't do much, but the idea is that we will
soon replace it will a reader that specializes in flush, and is in turn able
to provide read-side on-flush functionality like virtual dirty.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Remove clustering_key_filter_factory and clustering_key_filtering_context.
Use partition_slice directly with a static get_ranges method.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
The LSA memory pressure mechanism will let us know which region is the best
candidate for eviction when under pressure. We need to somehow then translate
region -> memtable -> column family.
The easiest way to convert from region to memtable, is having memtable inherit
from region. Despite the fact that this requires multiple inheritance, which
always raise a flag a bit, the other class we inherit from is
enable_shared_from_this, which has a very simple and well defined interface. So
I think it is worthy for us to do it.
Once we have the memtable, grabing the column family is easy provided we have a
database object. We can grab it from the schema.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
