"This series enables cache to keep partial partitions.
Reads no longer have to read whole partition from sstables
in order to cache the result.
The 10MB threshold for partition size in cache is lifted.
Known issues:
- There is no partial eviction yet, whole partitions are still evicted,
and partition snapshots held by active reads are not evictable at all
- Information about range continuity is not recorded if that
would require inserting a dummy entry, or if previous entry
doesn't belong to the latest snapshot
- Cache update after memtable flush happening concurrently with reads
may inhibit that reads' ability to populate cache (new issue)
- Cache update from flushed memtables has partition granularity,
so may cause latency problems with large partition
- Schema is still tracked per-partition, so after schema changes
reads may induce high latency due to whole partition needing
to be converted atomically
- Range tombstones are repeated in the stream for every range between
cache entries they cover (new issue)
- Populating scans for both small and large partitions (perf_fast_forward)
experienced a 40% reduction of throughput, CPU bound
How was this tested:
- test.py --mode release
- row_cache_stress_test -c1 -m1G
- perf_fast_forward, passes except for the test case checking range continuity population
which would require inserting a dummy entry (mentioned above)
- perf_simple_query (-c1 -m1G --duration 32):
before: 90k [ops/s] stdev: 4k [ops/s]
after: 94k [ops/s] stdev: 2k [ops/s]"
* tag 'tgrabiec/introduce-partial-cache-v8' of github.com:cloudius-systems/seastar-dev: (130 commits)
tests: row_cache: Add test_tombstone_merging_in_partial_partition test case
tests: Introduce row_cache_stress_test
utils: Add helpers for dealing with nonwrapping_range<int>
tests: simple_schema: Allow passing the tombstone to make_range_tombstone()
tests: simple_schema: Accept value by reference
tests: simple_schema: Make add_row() accept optional timestamp
tests: simple_schema: Make new_timestamp() public
tests: simple_schema: Introduce make_ckeys()
tests: simple_schema: Introduce get_value(const clustered_row&) helper
tests: simple_schema: Fix comment
tests: simple_schema: Add missing include
row_cache: Introduce evict()
tests: Add cache_streamed_mutation_test
tests: mutation_assertions: Allow expecting fragments
mutation_fragment: Implement equality check
tests: row_cache: Add test for population of random partitions
tests: row_cache: Add test for partition tombstone population
tests: row_cache: Test reading randomly populated partition
tests: row_cache: Add test_single_partition_update()
tests: row_cache: Add test_scan_with_partial_partitions
...
Currently readers are always using the latest snapshot. This is fine
for respecting write atomicity if partitions are fully continuous in
cache (now), but will break write atomicity once partial population is
allowed.
Consider the following case:
flush write(ck=1), write(ck=2) -> snapshot_1
cache reader 1 reads and inserts ck=1 @snapshot_1
flush write(ck=1), write(ck=2) -> snapshot_2
cache reader 2 reads and inserts ck=2 @snapshot_2
Because cache update is not atomic, it can happen that reader 2 will
complete while the partition hasn't been updated yet for snapshot_2.
In such case, after read 2 the partition would contain ck=1 from
snapshot_1 and ck=2 from snapshot_2. It will match neither of the
snapshots, and this could violate write atomicity.
To solve this problem we conceptually assign each partition key in the
ring to its current snapshot which it reflects. The update process
gradually converts entries in ring order to the new snapshot. Reads
will not be using the latest snapshot, but rather the current snapshot
for the position in the ring they are at.
There is a race between the update process and populating reads. Since
after the update all entries must reflect the new snapshot, reads
using the old snapshot cannot be allowed to insert data which can no
longer be reached by the update process. Before this patch this race
was prevented by the use of a phased_barrier, where readers would keep
phased_barrier::operation alive between starting a read of a partition
and inserting it into cache. Cache update was waiting for all prior
operations before starting the update. Any later read which was not
waited for would use the latest snapshot for reads, so the update
process didn't have to fix anything up for such reads.
After this change, later reads cannot always use the latest snapshot,
they have to use the snapshot corresponding to given entry. So it's
not enough for update() to wait for prior reads in order to prevent
stale populations. The (simple) solution implemented in this patch is
to detect the conflict and abandon population of given sub-range. In
general, reads are allowed to populate given range only if it belongs
to a single snapshot.
Note that the range here is not the whole query range. For population
of continuity, it is the range starting after the previous key and
ending after the key being inserted. When populating a partition
entry, the range is a singular range containing only the partition
key. Readers switch to new snapshots automatically as they move across
the ring. It's possible that the insertion of the partition doesn't
conflict, but continuity does. In such case the entry will be inserted
but continuity will not be set.
Currently every time cache needs to create reader for missing data it
obtains a reader which is most up to date. That reader includes writes
from later populate phases, for which update() was not yet
called. This will be problematic once we allow partitions to be
partially populated, because different parts of the partition could be
partially populated using readers using different sets of writes, and break
write atomicity.
The solution will be to always populate given partition using the same
set of writes, using reader created from the current snapshot. The
snapshot changes only on update(), with update() gradually converting
each partition to the new snapshot.
1) Reduce duplication by delegating to more general overloads
2) Improve documentation to not mention effects in terms of
population (detail) but rather write visibiliy
3) Rename clear() to invalidate() and merge with the range variant,
it has the same semantics
mutation source sometimes ignore fast forwarding parameter so
this change adds assertion to check that this parameter
can be safely ignored.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@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>
After changing region evicitability condition to be less strict, cache
update stopped failing because reclamation was able to compact dense
region. Induce failure by installing evictor which refuses to evict
from cache beyond few elements.
Currently the test does not wait for cache update
to finish before carrying on with the checks.
This makes the test nondeterministic and purely wrong
because checks expect update to be finished.
This patch changes the test to wait for update to finish.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <2a99bba24b1628466d3495332b48ef3ccdb43c26.1485862389.git.piotr@scylladb.com>
partition_range passed to row_cache::make_reader
has to be kept alive as long as the resulting reader
is used.
Otherwise weird things start to happen.
This used to work just because of a pure luck.
When I started changing the row_cache implementation
I run into very weird behaviors for this tests.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <2c9e337dbbcf35f4e1394cad043eda10b8c2bd4a.1478602876.git.piotr@scylladb.com>
Wrapping ranges are a pain, so we are moving wrap handling to the edges.
Since cql can't generate wrapping ranges, this means thrift and the ring
maintenance code; also range->ring transformations need to merge the first
and last ranges.
Message-Id: <1478105905-31613-1-git-send-email-avi@scylladb.com>
Originally, cache tests checked how many times a mutation reader was
created from the underlying mutation source to determine whether
continuity flag is working correctly.
This is not going to work with fast forwarding mutation readers so the
test is switched to count number of mutations (+ end of stream markers)
returned from underlying mutaiton readers which is much less fragile.
Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@scylladb.com>
This reverts commit 1726b1d0cc.
Reverting this patch turns our SSTable access counter into a miss counter only.
The estimated histogram always starts its first bucket at 1, so by marking cache
accesses we will be wrongly feeding "1" into the buckets.
Notice that this is not yet ideal: nodetool is supposed to show a histogram of
all reads, and by doing this we are changing its meaning slightly. Workloads
that serve mostly from cache will be distorted towards their misses.
The real solution is to use a different histogram, but we will need to enforce
a newer version of nodetool for that: the current issue is that nodetool expects
an EstimatedHistogram in a specific format in the other side.
Conflicts:
row_cache.hh
Message-Id: <a599fa9e949766e7c9697450ae34fc28e881e90a.1472742276.git.glauber@scy
lladb.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
If we have a cache hit, we still need to update our sstable histogram - notting
that we have touched 0 SSTables.
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>
Once we encounter a wide partition store information
about this in cache entry and don't try to read it all
and cache next time it's requested.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
[Paweł: rebased, moved large partition reading logic to
cache_entry::read_wide()]
Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@scylladb.com>
In case of failure BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL() is nicer and prints the actual
values that were supposed to be equal, but aren't.
Signed-off-by: Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@scylladb.com>
Add contiguity flag to cache entry and set it in scanning reader.
Partitions fetched during scanning are continuous
and we know there's nothing between them.
Clear contiguity flag on cache entries
when the succeeding entry is removed.
Use continuous flag in range queries.
Don't go do disk if we know that there's nothing
between two entries we have in cache. We know that
when continuous flag of the first one is set to true.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jastrzebski <piotr@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <72bae432717037e95d1ac9465deaccfa7c7da707.1466627603.git.piotr@scylladb.com>
