A recent commit 370707b111 (re)introduced
a timeout for every group0 Raft operation. This timeout was set to 60
seconds, which, paraphrasing Bill Gates, "ought to be enough for anybody".
However, one of the things we do as a group0 operation is schema
changes, and we already noticed a few years ago, see commit
0b2cf21932, that in some extremely
overloaded test machines where tests run hundreds of times (!) slower
than usual, a single big schema operation - such as Alternator's
DeleteTable deleting a table and multiple of its CDC or view tables -
sometimes takes more than 60 seconds. The above fix changed the
client's timeout to wait for 300 seconds instead of 60 seconds,
but now we also need to increase our Raft timeout, or the server can
time out. We've seen this happening recently making some tests flaky
in CI (issue #23543).
So let's make this timeout configurable, as a new configuration option
group0_raft_op_timeout_in_ms. This option defaults to 60000 (i.e,
60 seconds), the same as the existing default. The test framework
overrides this default with a a higher 300 second timeout, matching
the client-side timeout.
Before this patch, this timeout was already configurable in a strange
way, using injections. But this was a misstep: We already have more
than a dozen timeouts configurable through the normal configration,
and this one should have been configured in the same way. There is
nothing "holy" about the default of 60 seconds we chose, and who
knows maybe in the future we might need to tweek it in the field,
just like we made the other timeouts tweakable. Injections cannot
be used in release mode, but configuration options can.
Fixes#23543
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#23717
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