This draft extends and obsoletes #8123 by introducing a way of determining the workload type from service level parameters, and then using this context to qualify requests for shedding.
The rough idea is that when the admission queue in the CQL server is hit, it might make more sense to start shedding surplus requests instead of accumulating them on the semaphore. The assumption that interactive workloads are more interested in the success rate of as many requests as possible, and hanging on a semaphore reduces the chances for a request to succeed. Thus, it may make sense to shed some requests to reduce the load on this coordinator and let the existing requests to finish.
It's a draft, because I only performed local guided tests. #8123 was followed by some experiments on a multinode cluster which I want to rerun first.
Closes#8680
* github.com:scylladb/scylla:
test: add a case for conflicting workload types
cql-pytest: add basic tests for service level workload types
docs: describe workload types for service levels
sys_dist_ks: fix redundant parsing in get_service_level
sys_dist_ks: make get_service_level exception-safe
transport: start shedding requests during potential overload
client_state: hook workload type from service levels
cql3: add listing service level workload type
cql3: add persisting service level workload type
qos: add workload_type service level parameter
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