Each view update is correlated to a write that generates it (aside from view
building which is throttled separately). These writes are limited by a throttling
mechanism, which effectively works by performing the writes with CL=ALL if
ongoing writes exceed some memory usage limit
When writes generate view updates, they usually also need to perform a read. This read
goes through a read concurrency semaphore where it can get delayed or killed. The
semaphore allows up to 100 concurrent reads and puts all remaining reads in a queue.
If the number of queued reads exceeds a specific limit, the view update will fail on
the replica, causing inconsistencies.
This limit is not necessary. When a read gets queued on the semaphore, the write that's
causing the view update is paused, so the write takes part in the regular write throttling.
If too many writes get stuck on view update reads, they will get throttled, so their
number is limited and the number of queued reads is also limited to the same amount.
In this patch we remove the specified queue length limit for the view update read concurrency
semaphore. Instead of this limit, the queue will be now limited indirectly, by the base write
throttling mechanism. This may allow the queue grow longer than with the previous limit, but
it shouldn't ever cause issues - we only perform up to 100 actual reads at once, and the
remaining ones that get queued use a tiny amount of memory, less than the writes that generated
them and which are getting limited directly.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/23319Closesscylladb/scylladb#24112
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