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>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#24426
(cherry picked from commit 2d716f3ffe)
Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphaelsc@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#24875
f926083fbd