For counter updates, use a counter ID that is constructed from the
node's rack instead of the node's host ID.
A rack can have at most two active tablet replicas at a time: a single
normal tablet replica, and during tablet migration there are two active
replicas, the normal and pending replica. Therefore we can have two
unique counter IDs per rack that are reused by all replicas in the rack.
We construct the counter ID from the rack UUID, which is constructed
from the name "dc:rack". The pending replica uses a deterministic
variation of the rack's counter ID by negating it.
This improves the performance and size of counter cells by having less
unique counter IDs and less counter shards in a counter cell.
Previously the number of counter shards was the number of different
host_id's that updated the counter, which can be typically the number of
nodes in the cluster and continue growing indefinitely when nodes are
replaced. with the rack-based counter id the number of counter shards
will be at most twice the number of different racks (including removed
racks, which should not be significant).
Fixes SCYLLADB-356
backport not needed - an enhancement
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28901
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs/dev: add counters doc
counters: reuse counter IDs by rack
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