Currently, most of the failures that occur during CQL reads or writes are reported using C++ exceptions. Although the seastar framework avoids most of the cost of unwinding by keeping exceptions in futures as `std::exception_ptr`s, the exceptions need to be inspected at various points for the purposes of accounting metrics or converting them to a CQL error response. Analyzing the value and type of an exception held by `std::exception_ptr`'s cannot be done without rethrowing the exception, and that can be very costly even if the exception is immediately caught. Because of that, exceptions are not a good fit for reporting failures which happen frequently during overload, especially if the CPU is the bottleneck.
This PR introduces facilities for reporting exceptions as values using the boost::outcome library. As a first step, the need to use exceptions for reporting timeouts was eliminated for regular and batch writes, and no exceptions are thrown between creation of a `mutation_write_timeout_exception` and its serialization as a CQL response in the `cql_server`.
The types and helpers introduced here can be reused in order to migrate more exceptions and exception paths in a similar fashion.
Results of `perf_simple_query --smp 1 --operations-per-shard 1000000`:
Master (00a9326ae7)
128789.53 tps ( 82.2 allocs/op, 12.2 tasks/op, 49245 insns/op)
This PR
127072.93 tps ( 82.2 allocs/op, 12.2 tasks/op, 49356 insns/op)
The new version seems to be slower by about 100 insns/op, fortunately not by much (about 0.2%).
Tests: unit(dev), unit(result_utils_test, debug)
Closes#10014
* github.com:scylladb/scylla:
cql_test_env: optimize handling result_message::exception
transport/server: handle exceptions from coordinator_result without throwing
transport/server: propagate coordinator_result to the error handling code
transport/server: unwrap the exception result_message in process_xyz_internal
query_processor: add exception-returning variants of execute_ methods
modification_statement: propagate failed result through result_message::exception
batch_statement: propagate failed result through result_message::exception
cql_statement: add `execute_without_checking_exception_message`
result_message: add result_message::exception
storage_proxy: change mutate_with_triggers to return future<result<>>
storage_proxy: add mutate_atomically_result
storage_proxy: return result<> from mutate_result
storage_proxy: return result<> from mutate_internal
storage_proxy: properly propagate future from mutate_begin to mutate_end
storage_proxy: handle exceptions as values in mutate_end
storage_proxy: let mutate_end take a future<result<>>
storage_proxy: resultify mutate_begin
storage_proxy: use result in the _ready future of write handlers
storage_proxy: introduce helpers for dealing with results
exceptions: add coordinator_exception_container and coordinator_result
utils: add result utils
utils: add exception_container
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