Currently, applying schema mutations involves flushing all schema
tables so that on restart commit log replay is performed on top of
latest schema (for correctness). The downside is that schema merge is
very sensitive to fdatasync latency. Flushing a single memtable
involves many syncs, and we flush several of them. It was observed to
take as long as 30 seconds on GCE disks under some conditions.
This patch changes the schema merge to rely on a separate commit log
to replay the mutations on restart. This way it doesn't have to wait
for memtables to be flushed. It has to wait for the commitlog to be
synced, but this cost is well amortized.
We put the mutations into a separate commit log so that schema can be
recovered before replaying user mutations. This is necessary because
regular writes have a dependency on schema version, and replaying on
top of latest schema satisfies all dependencies. Without this, we
could get loss of writes if we replay a write which depends on the
latest schema on top of old schema.
Also, if we have a separate commit log for schema we can delay schema
parsing for after the replay and avoid complexity of recognizing
schema transactions in the log and invoking the schema merge logic.
I reproduced bad behavior locally on my machine with a tired (high latency)
SSD disk, load driver remote. Under high load, I saw table alter (server-side part) taking
up to 10 seconds before. After the patch, it takes up to 200 ms (50:1 improvement).
Without load, it is 300ms vs 50ms.
Fixes#8272Fixes#8309Fixes#1459Closes#10333
* github.com:scylladb/scylla:
config: Introduce force_schema_commit_log option
config: Introduce unsafe_ignore_truncation_record
db: Avoid memtable flush latency on schema merge
db: Allow splitting initiatlization of system tables
db: Flush system.scylla_local on change
migration_manager: Do not drop system.IndexInfo on keyspace drop
Introduce SCHEMA_COMMITLOG cluster feature
frozen_mutation: Introduce freeze/unfreeze helpers for vectors of mutations
db/commitlog: Improve error messages in case of unknown column mapping
db/commitlog: Fix error format string to print the version
db: Introduce multi-table atomic apply()
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