The central idea of incremental repair is to allow repair participants
to select and repair only a portion of the dataset to speed up the
repair process. All repair participants must utilize an identical
selection method to repair and synchronize the same selected dataset.
There are two primary selection methods: time-based and file-based. The
time-based method selects data within a specified time frame. It is
versatile but it is less efficient because it requires reading all of
the dataset and omitting data beyond the time frame. The file-based
method selects data from unrepaired SSTables and is more efficient
because it allows the entire SSTable to be omitted. This document patch
implements the file-based selection method.
Incremental repair will only be supported for tablet tables; it will not
be supported for vnode tables. On one hand, the legacy vnode is less
important to support. On the other hand, the incremental repair for
vnode is much harder to implement. With vnodes, a SSTalbe could contain
data for multiple vnode ranges. When a given vnode range is repaired,
only a portion of the SSTable is repaired. This complicates the
manipulation of SSTables significantly during both repair and
compaction. With tablets, an entire tablet is repaired so that a
sstable is either fully repaired or not repaired which is a huge
simplification.
This patch uses the repaired_at from sstables::statistics component to
mark a sstable as repaired. It uses a virtual clock as the repair
timestamp, i.e., using a monotonically increasing number for the
repaired_at field of a SSTable and sstables_repaired_at column in
system.tablets table. Notice that when a sstable is not repaired, the
repaired_at field will be set to the default value 0 by default. The
being_repaired in memory field of a SSTable is used to explicitly mark
that a SSTable is being selected. The following variables are used for
incremental repair:
The repaired_at on disk field of a SSTable is used.
- A 64-bit number increases sequentially
The sstables_repaired_at is added to the system.tablets table.
- repaired_at <= sstables_repaired_at means the sstable is repaired
The being_repaired in memory field of a SSTable is added.
- A repair UUID tells which sstable has participated in the repair
Initial test results:
1) Medium dataset results
Node amount: 3
Instance type: i4i.2xlarge
Disk usage per node: ~500GB
Cluster pre-populated with ~500GB of data before starting repairs job.
Results for Repair Timings:
The regular repair run took 210 mins.
Incremental repair 1st run took 183 mins, 2nd and 3rd runs took around 48s
The speedup is: 183 mins / 48s = 228X
2) Small dataset results
Node amount: 3
Instance type: i4i.2xlarge
Disk usage per node: ~167GB
Cluster pre-populated with ~167GB of data before starting the repairs job.
Regular repair 1st run took 110s, 2nd and 3rd runs took 110s.
Incremental repair 1st run took 110 seconds, 2nd and 3rd run took 1.5 seconds.
The speedup is: 110s / 1.5s = 73X
3) Large dataset results
Node amount: 6
Instance type: i4i.2xlarge, 3 racks
50% of base load, 50% read/write
Dataset == Sum of data on each node
Dataset Non-incremental repair (minutes)
1.3 TiB 31:07
3.5 TiB 25:10
5.0 TiB 19:03
6.3 TiB 31:42
Dataset Incremental repair (minutes)
1.3 TiB 24:32
3.0 TiB 13:06
4.0 TiB 5:23
4.8 TiB 7:14
5.6 TiB 3:58
6.3 TiB 7:33
7.0 TiB 6:55
Fixes#22472Closesscylladb/scylladb#24291
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
replica: Introduce get_compaction_reenablers_and_lock_holders_for_repair
compaction: Move compaction_reenabler to compaction_reenabler.hh
topology_coordinator: Make rpc::remote_verb_error to warning level
repair: Add metrics for sstable bytes read and skipped from sstables
test.py: Disable incremental for test_tombstone_gc_for_streaming_and_repair
test.py: Add tests for tablet incremental repair
repair: Add tablet incremental repair support
compaction: Add tablet incremental repair support
feature_service: Add TABLET_INCREMENTAL_REPAIR feature
tablet_allocator: Add tablet_force_tablet_count_increase and decrease
repair: Add incremental helpers
sstable: Add being_repaired to sstable
sstables: Add set_repaired_at to metadata_collector
mutation_compactor: Introduce add operator to compaction_stats
tablet: Add sstables_repaired_at to system.tablets table
test: Fix drain api in task_manager_client.py
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