Before these changes, we would send mutations to the node and
immediately query the metrics to see how many hints had been written.
However, that could lead to random failures of the test: even if the
mutations have finished executing, hints are stored asynchronously, so
we don't have a guarantee they have already been processed.
To prevent such failures, we rewrite the check: we will perform multiple
checks against the metrics until we have confirmed that the hints have
indeed been written or we hit the timeout.
We're generous with the timeout: we give the test 60 seconds. That
should be enough time to avoid flakiness even on super slow machines,
and if the test does fail, we will know something is really wrong.
As a bonus, we improve the test in general too. We explicitly express
the preconditions we rely on, as well as bump the log level. If the
test fails in the future, it might be very difficult do debug it
without this additional information.
Fixes SCYLLADB-1133
Backport: The test is present on all supported branches. To avoid
running into more failures, we should backport these changes
to them.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29191
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test: cluster: Increase log level in test_write_cl_any_to_dead_node_generates_hints
test: cluster: Await all mutations concurrently in test_write_cl_any_to_dead_node_generates_hints
test: cluster: Specify min_tablet_count in test_write_cl_any_to_dead_node_generates_hints
test: cluster: Use new_test_table in test_write_cl_any_to_dead_node_generates_hints
test: cluster: Introduce auxiliary function keyspace_has_tablets
test: cluster: Deflake test_write_cl_any_to_dead_node_generates_hints
(cherry picked from commit ffd58ca1f0)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29246
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