This fixes a quadratic behavior in case lots of snapshots with range
tombstones are queued for merging. Before the change, new snapshots
were inserted at the front, which is also where the worker looks
at. Merging a version has a linear component in complexity function
which depends on the number of range tombstones. If we merge snapshots
starting from the latest to oldest then the whole process becomes
quadratic because the version which is merged accumulates an
increasing amont of tombstones, ones which were already merged
before. We should instead merge starting from the oldest snapshots,
this way each tombstone is applied exactly once during merge.
This bug got wose after 4bd4aa2e88,
which makes merging tombstones more expensive.
Closes#10916
This patch prevents virtual dirty from going negative during memtable
flush in case partition version merging erases data previously
accounted by the flush reader. There is an assert in
~flush_memory_accounter which guards for this.
This will start happening after tombstones are compacted with rows on
partition version merging.
This problem is prevented by the patch by having the cleaner notify
the memtable layer via callback about the amount of dirty memory released
during merging, so that the memtable layer can adjust its accounting.
This reverts commit e0670f0bb5, reversing
changes made to 605ee74c39. It causes failures
in debug mode in
database_test.test_database_with_data_in_sstables_is_a_mutation_source_plain,
though with low probability.
Fixes#10780Reopens#652.
This patch prevents virtual dirty from going negative during memtable
flush in case partition version merging erases data previously
accounted by the flush reader. There is an assert in
~flush_memory_accounter which guards for this.
This will start happening after tombstones are compacted with rows on
partition version merging.
This problem is prevented by the patch by having the cleaner notify
the memtable layer via callback about the amount of dirty memory released
during merging, so that the memtable layer can adjust its accounting.
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
Adds per-table metrics for counting partition and row reuse
in memtables. New metrics are as follows:
- memtable_partition_writes - number of write operations performed
on partitions in memtables,
- memtable_partition_hits - number of write operations performed
on partitions that previously existed in a memtable,
- memtable_row_writes - number of row write operations performed
in memtables,
- memtable_row_hits - number of row write operations that ovewrote
rows previously present in a memtable.
Tests: unit(release)
partition_snapshots created in the memtable will keep a reference to
the memtable (as region*) and to memtable::_cleaner. As long as the
reader is alive the memtable will be kept alive by
partition_snapshot_flat_reader::_container_guard. But after that,
nothing prevents it from being destroyed. The snapshot can outlive the
read if mutation_cleaner::merge_and_destroy() defers its destruction
for later. When the read ends after memtable was flushed, the snapshot
will be queued in the cache's cleaner, but internally will reference
memtable's region and cleaner. This will result in a use-after-free
when the snapshot resumses destruction.
The fix is to update snapshots's region and cleaner references at the
time of queueing to point to the cache's region and cleaner.
When memtable is destroyed without being moved to cache there is no
problem, because the snapshot would be queued into memtable's cleaner,
which will be drained on destruction from all snapshots.
Introduced in f3da043.
Fixes#4030.
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.
When snapshots go away, typically when the last reader is destroyed,
we used to merge adjacent versions atomically. This could induce
reactor stalls if partitions were large. This is especially true for
versions created on cache update from memtables.
The solution is to allow this process to be preempted and move to the
background. mutation_cleaner keeps a linked list of such unmerged
snapshots and has a worker fiber which merges them incrementally and
asynchronously with regards to reads.
This reduces scheduling latency spikes in tests/perf_row_cache_update
for the case of large partition with many rows. For -c1 -m1G I saw
them dropping from 23ms to 2ms.
mutation_cleaner has already caused problems by extending lifetime of
mutation_partition past the lifetime of LSA migrators that it uses (due
to the fact that both the cleaner and migrators where thread-local
globals). Since, the long term goal is to make mutation_partition
internal representation depend more and more on schema that lifetime
extension may again cause problems in the future, so let's add a
disclaimer that hopefuly, will help avoiding them.
