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Each view update is correlated to a write that generates it (aside from view
building which is throttled separately). These writes are limited by a throttling
mechanism, which effectively works by performing the writes with CL=ALL if
ongoing writes exceed some memory usage limit
When writes generate view updates, they usually also need to perform a read. This read
goes through a read concurrency semaphore where it can get delayed or killed. The
semaphore allows up to 100 concurrent reads and puts all remaining reads in a queue.
If the number of queued reads exceeds a specific limit, the view update will fail on
the replica, causing inconsistencies.
This limit is not necessary. When a read gets queued on the semaphore, the write that's
causing the view update is paused, so the write takes part in the regular write throttling.
If too many writes get stuck on view update reads, they will get throttled, so their
number is limited and the number of queued reads is also limited to the same amount.
In this patch we remove the specified queue length limit for the view update read concurrency
semaphore. Instead of this limit, the queue will be now limited indirectly, by the base write
throttling mechanism. This may allow the queue grow longer than with the previous limit, but
it shouldn't ever cause issues - we only perform up to 100 actual reads at once, and the
remaining ones that get queued use a tiny amount of memory, less than the writes that generated
them and which are getting limited directly.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/23319
Closes scylladb/scylladb#24112
(cherry picked from commit 5920647617)
Closes scylladb/scylladb#24168
Scylla
What is Scylla?
Scylla is the real-time big data database that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs.
For more information, please see the ScyllaDB web site.
Build Prerequisites
Scylla is fairly fussy about its build environment, requiring very recent versions of the C++23 compiler and of many libraries to build. The document HACKING.md includes detailed information on building and developing Scylla, but to get Scylla building quickly on (almost) any build machine, Scylla offers a frozen toolchain, This is a pre-configured Docker image which includes recent versions of all the required compilers, libraries and build tools. Using the frozen toolchain allows you to avoid changing anything in your build machine to meet Scylla's requirements - you just need to meet the frozen toolchain's prerequisites (mostly, Docker or Podman being available).
Building Scylla
Building Scylla with the frozen toolchain dbuild is as easy as:
$ git submodule update --init --force --recursive
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./configure.py
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ninja build/release/scylla
For further information, please see:
- Developer documentation for more information on building Scylla.
- Build documentation on how to build Scylla binaries, tests, and packages.
- Docker image build documentation for information on how to build Docker images.
Running Scylla
To start Scylla server, run:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --workdir tmp --smp 1 --developer-mode 1
This will start a Scylla node with one CPU core allocated to it and data files stored in the tmp directory.
The --developer-mode is needed to disable the various checks Scylla performs at startup to ensure the machine is configured for maximum performance (not relevant on development workstations).
Please note that you need to run Scylla with dbuild if you built it with the frozen toolchain.
For more run options, run:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --help
Testing
See test.py manual.
Scylla APIs and compatibility
By default, Scylla is compatible with Apache Cassandra and its API - CQL. There is also support for the API of Amazon DynamoDB™, which needs to be enabled and configured in order to be used. For more information on how to enable the DynamoDB™ API in Scylla, and the current compatibility of this feature as well as Scylla-specific extensions, see Alternator and Getting started with Alternator.
Documentation
Documentation can be found here. Seastar documentation can be found here. User documentation can be found here.
Training
Training material and online courses can be found at Scylla University. The courses are free, self-paced and include hands-on examples. They cover a variety of topics including Scylla data modeling, administration, architecture, basic NoSQL concepts, using drivers for application development, Scylla setup, failover, compactions, multi-datacenters and how Scylla integrates with third-party applications.
Contributing to Scylla
If you want to report a bug or submit a pull request or a patch, please read the contribution guidelines.
If you are a developer working on Scylla, please read the developer guidelines.
Contact
- The community forum and Slack channel are for users to discuss configuration, management, and operations of the ScyllaDB open source.
- The developers mailing list is for developers and people interested in following the development of ScyllaDB to discuss technical topics.