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Glauber Costa 08a0c3714c allow request-specific read timeouts in storage proxy reads
Timeouts are a global property. However, for tables in keyspaces like
the system keyspace, we don't want to uphold that timeout--in fact, we
wan't no timeout there at all.

We already apply such configuration for requests waiting in the queued
sstable queue: system keyspace requests won't be removed. However, the
storage proxy will insert its own timeouts in those requests, causing
them to fail.

This patch changes the storage proxy read layer so that the timeout is
applied based on the column family configuration, which is in turn
inherited from the keyspace configuration. This matches our usual
way of passing db parameters down.

In terms of implementation, we can either move the timeout inside the
abstract read executor or keep it external. The former is a bit cleaner,
the the latter has the nice property that all executors generated will
share the exact same timeout point. In this patch, we chose the latter.

We are also careful to propagate the timeout information to the replica.
So even if we are talking about the local replica, when we add the
request to the concurrency queue, we will do it in accordance with the
timeout specified by the storage proxy layer.

After this patch, Scylla is able to start just fine with very low
timeouts--since read timeouts in the system keyspace are now ignored.

Fixes #2462

Implementation notes, and general comments about open discussion in 2462:

* Because we are not bypassing the timeout, just setting it high enough,
  I consider the concerns about the batchlog moot: if we fail for any
  other reason that will be propagated. Last case, because the timeout
  is per-CF, we could do what we do for the dirty memory manager and
  move the batchlog alone to use a different timeout setting.

* Storage proxy likes specifying its timeouts as a time_point, whereas
  when we get low enough as to deal with the read_concurrency_config,
  we are talking about deltas. So at some point we need to convert time_points
  to durations. We do that in the database query functions.

v2:
- use per-request instead of per-table timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
2018-01-12 07:43:21 -05:00
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