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Calle Wilund 15dd76f0c2 commitlog: Fix race and edge condition in delete_segments
Fixes #8363

Delete segements has two issues when running with size-limited
commit log and strict adherence to said limit.

1.) It uses parallel processing, with deferral. This means that
    the disk usage variables it looks at might not be fully valid
    - i.e. we might have already issued a file delete that will
    reduce disk footprint such that a segment could instead be
    recycled, but since vars are (and should) only updated
    _post_ delete, we don't know.
2.) It does not take into account edge conditions, when we only
    delete a single segment, and this segment is the border segment
    - i.e. the one pushing us over the limit, yet allocation is
    desperately waiting for recycling. In this case we should
    allow it to live on, and assume that next delete will reduce
    footprint. Note: to ensure exact size limit, make sure
    total size is a multiple of segment size.

Fixed by
a.) Doing delete serialized. It is not like being parallel here will
    win us speed awards. And now we can know exact footprint, and
    how many segments we have left to delete
b.) Check if we are a block across the footprint boundry, and people
    might be waiting for a segment. If so, don't delete segment, but
    recycle.

As a follow-up, we should probably instead adjust the commitlog size
limit (per shard) to be a multiple of segment sizes, but there is
risks in that too.
2021-04-06 16:38:14 +00:00
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