f926083fbd
Truncate doesn't really go well with concurrent writes. The fix (#23560) exposed
a preexisting fragility which I missed.
1) truncate gets RP mark X, truncated_at = second T
2) new sstable written during snapshot or later, also at second T (difference of MS)
3) discard_sstables() get RP Y > saved RP X, since creation time of sstable
with RP Y is equal to truncated_at = second T.
So the problem is that truncate is using a clock of second granularity for
filtering out sstables written later, and after we got low mark and truncate time,
it can happen that a sstable is flushed later within the same second, but at a
different millisecond.
By switching to a millisecond clock (db_clock), we allow sstables written later
within the same second from being filtered out. It's not perfect but
extremely unlikely a new write lands and get flushed in the same
millisecond we recorded truncated_at timepoint. In practice, truncate
will not be used concurrently to writes, so this should be enough for
our tests performing such concurrent actions.
We're moving away from gc_clock which is our cheap lowres_clock, but
time is only retrieved when creating sstable objects, which frequency of
creation is low enough for not having significant consequences, and also
db_clock should be cheap enough since it's usually syscall-less.
Fixes #23771.
Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphaelsc@scylladb.com>
Closes scylladb/scylladb#24426
(cherry picked from commit 2d716f3ffe)
Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphaelsc@scylladb.com>
Closes scylladb/scylladb#24875
Scylla unit tests using C++ and the Boost test framework
The source files in this directory are Scylla unit tests written in C++ using the Boost.Test framework. These unit tests come in three flavors:
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Some simple tests that check stand-alone C++ functions or classes use Boost's
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE. -
Some tests require Seastar features, and need to be declared with Seastar's extensions to Boost.Test, namely
SEASTAR_TEST_CASE. -
Even more elaborate tests require not just a functioning Seastar environment but also a complete (or partial) Scylla environment. Those tests use the
do_with_cql_env()ordo_with_cql_env_thread()function to set up a mostly-functioning environment behaving like a single-node Scylla, in which the test can run.
While we have many tests of the third flavor, writing new tests of this type should be reserved to white box tests - tests where it is necessary to inspect or control Scylla internals that do not have user-facing APIs such as CQL. In contrast, black-box tests - tests that can be written only using user-facing APIs, should be written in one of newer test frameworks that we offer - such as test/cqlpy or test/alternator (in Python, using the CQL or DynamoDB APIs respectively) or test/cql (using textual CQL commands), or - if more than one Scylla node is needed for a test - using the test/topology* framework.
Running tests
Because these are C++ tests, they need to be compiled before running.
To compile a single test executable row_cache_test, use a command like
ninja build/dev/test/boost/row_cache_test
You can also use ninja dev-test to build all C++ tests, or use
ninja deb-build to build the C++ tests and also the full Scylla executable
(however, note that full Scylla executable isn't needed to run Boost tests).
Replace "dev" by "debug" or "release" in the examples above and below to use the "debug" build mode (which, importantly, compiles the test with ASAN and UBSAN enabling on and helps catch difficult-to-catch use-after-free bugs) or the "release" build mode (optimized for run speed).
To run an entire test file row_cache_test, including all its test
functions, use a command like:
build/dev/test/boost/row_cache_test -- -c1 -m1G
to run a single test function test_reproduce_18045() from the longer test
file, use a command like:
build/dev/test/boost/row_cache_test -t test_reproduce_18045 -- -c1 -m1G
In these command lines, the parameters before the -- are passed to
Boost.Test, while the parameters after the -- are passed to the test code,
and in particular to Seastar. In this example Seastar is asked to run on one
CPU (-c1) and use 1G of memory (-m1G) instead of hogging the entire
machine. The Boost.Test option -t test_reproduce_18045 asks it to run just
this one test function instead of all the test functions in the executable.
Unfortunately, interrupting a running test with control-C while doesn't
work. This is a known bug (#5696). Kill a test with SIGKILL (-9) if you
need to kill it while it's running.
Boost tests can also be run using test.py - which is a script that provides a uniform way to run all tests in scylladb.git - C++ tests, Python tests, etc.
Writing tests
Because of the large build time and build size of each separate test executable, it is recommended to put test functions into relatively large source files. But not too large - to keep compilation time of a single source file (during development) at reasonable levels.
When adding new source files in test/boost, don't forget to list the new source file in configure.py and also in CMakeLists.txt. The former is needed by our CI, but the latter is preferred by some developers.