1. 14 Mar, 2023 1 commit
    • Slava Koyfman's avatar
      Implementing the WAITAOF command (issue #10505) (#11713) · 9344f654
      Slava Koyfman authored
      
      
      Implementing the WAITAOF functionality which would allow the user to
      block until a specified number of Redises have fsynced all previous write
      commands to the AOF.
      
      Syntax: `WAITAOF <num_local> <num_replicas> <timeout>`
      Response: Array containing two elements: num_local, num_replicas
      num_local is always either 0 or 1 representing the local AOF on the master.
      num_replicas is the number of replicas that acknowledged the a replication
      offset of the last write being fsynced to the AOF.
      
      Returns an error when called on replicas, or when called with non-zero
      num_local on a master with AOF disabled, in all other cases the response
      just contains number of fsync copies.
      
      Main changes:
      * Added code to keep track of replication offsets that are confirmed to have
        been fsynced to disk.
      * Keep advancing master_repl_offset even when replication is disabled (and
        there's no replication backlog, only if there's an AOF enabled).
        This way we can use this command and it's mechanisms even when replication
        is disabled.
      * Extend REPLCONF ACK to `REPLCONF ACK <ofs> FACK <ofs>`, the FACK
        will be appended only if there's an AOF on the replica, and already ignored on
        old masters (thus backwards compatible)
      * WAIT now no longer wait for the replication offset after your last command, but
        rather the replication offset after your last write (or read command that caused
        propagation, e.g. lazy expiry).
      
      Unrelated changes:
      * WAIT command respects CLIENT_DENY_BLOCKING (not just CLIENT_MULTI)
      
      Implementation details:
      * Add an atomic var named `fsynced_reploff_pending` that's updated
        (usually by the bio thread) and later copied to the main `fsynced_reploff`
        variable (only if the AOF base file exists).
        I.e. during the initial AOF rewrite it will not be used as the fsynced offset
        since the AOF base is still missing.
      * Replace close+fsync bio job with new BIO_CLOSE_AOF (AOF specific)
        job that will also update fsync offset the field.
      * Handle all AOF jobs (BIO_CLOSE_AOF, BIO_AOF_FSYNC) in the same bio
        worker thread, to impose ordering on their execution. This solves a
        race condition where a job could set `fsynced_reploff_pending` to a higher
        value than another pending fsync job, resulting in indicating an offset
        for which parts of the data have not yet actually been fsynced.
        Imposing an ordering on the jobs guarantees that fsync jobs are executed
        in increasing order of replication offset.
      * Drain bio jobs when switching `appendfsync` to "always"
        This should prevent a write race between updates to `fsynced_reploff_pending`
        in the main thread (`flushAppendOnlyFile` when set to ALWAYS fsync), and
        those done in the bio thread.
      * Drain the pending fsync when starting over a new AOF to avoid race conditions
        with the previous AOF offsets overriding the new one (e.g. after switching to
        replicate from a new master).
      * Make sure to update the fsynced offset at the end of the initial AOF rewrite.
        a must in case there are no additional writes that trigger a periodic fsync,
        specifically for a replica that does a full sync.
      
      Limitations:
      It is possible to write a module and a Lua script that propagate to the AOF and doesn't
      propagate to the replication stream. see REDISMODULE_ARGV_NO_REPLICAS and luaRedisSetReplCommand.
      These features are incompatible with the WAITAOF command, and can result
      in two bad cases. The scenario is that the user executes command that only
      propagates to AOF, and then immediately
      issues a WAITAOF, and there's no further writes on the replication stream after that.
      1. if the the last thing that happened on the replication stream is a PING
        (which increased the replication offset but won't trigger an fsync on the replica),
        then the client would hang forever (will wait for an fack that the replica will never
        send sine it doesn't trigger any fsyncs).
      2. if the last thing that happened is a write command that got propagated properly,
        then WAITAOF will be released immediately, without waiting for an fsync (since
        the offset didn't change)
      
      Refactoring:
      * Plumbing to allow bio worker to handle multiple job types
        This introduces infrastructure necessary to allow BIO workers to
        not have a 1-1 mapping of worker to job-type. This allows in the
        future to assign multiple job types to a single worker, either as
        a performance/resource optimization, or as a way of enforcing
        ordering between specific classes of jobs.
      Co-authored-by: default avatarOran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
      9344f654
  2. 12 Feb, 2023 1 commit
    • Tian's avatar
      Reclaim page cache of RDB file (#11248) · 7dae142a
      Tian authored
      # Background
      The RDB file is usually generated and used once and seldom used again, but the content would reside in page cache until OS evicts it. A potential problem is that once the free memory exhausts, the OS have to reclaim some memory from page cache or swap anonymous page out, which may result in a jitters to the Redis service.
      
      Supposing an exact scenario, a high-capacity machine hosts many redis instances, and we're upgrading the Redis together. The page cache in host machine increases as RDBs are generated. Once the free memory drop into low watermark(which is more likely to happen in older Linux kernel like 3.10, before [watermark_scale_factor](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1455813719-2395-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org/) is introduced, the `low watermark` is linear to `min watermark`, and there'is not too much buffer space for `kswapd` to be wake up to reclaim memory), a `direct reclaim` happens, which means the process would stall to wait for memory allocation.
      
      # What the PR does
      The PR introduces a capability to reclaim the cache when the RDB is operated. Generally there're two cases, read and write the RDB. For read it's a little messy to address the incremental reclaim, so the reclaim is done in one go in background after the load is finished to avoid blocking the work thread. For write, incremental reclaim amortizes the work of reclaim so no need to put it into background, and the peak watermark of cache can be reduced in this way.
      
      Two cases are addresses specially, replication and restart, for both of which the cache is leveraged to speed up the processing, so the reclaim is postponed to a right time. To do this, a flag is added to`rdbSave` and `rdbLoad` to control whether the cache need to be kept, with the default value false.
      
      # Something deserve noting
      1. Though `posix_fadvise` is the POSIX standard, but only few platform support it, e.g. Linux, FreeBSD 10.0.
      2. In Linux `posix_fadvise` only take effect on writeback-ed pages, so a `sync`(or `fsync`, `fdatasync`) is needed to flush the dirty page before `posix_fadvise` if we reclaim write cache.
      
      # About test
      A unit test is added to verify the effect of `posix_fadvise`.
      In integration test overall cache increase is checked, as well as the cache backed by RDB as a specific TCL test is executed in isolated Github action job.
      7dae142a
  3. 26 Aug, 2022 1 commit
    • Moti Cohen's avatar
      Removing old redundant code from bio.c (#11136) · 246f44d7
      Moti Cohen authored
      * Remove redundant array bio_pending[]. Value at index i identically reflects the
      length of list bio_jobs[i]. Better use listLength() instead and discard this array.
      (no critical section issues to concern about).
      
      changed returned value of bioPendingJobsOfType() from "long long" to "long".
      
      Remove unused API. Maybe we will use this API later.
      246f44d7
  4. 25 Jul, 2022 1 commit
    • Binbin's avatar
      fsync the old aof file when open a new INCR AOF (#11004) · 03fff10a
      Binbin authored
      
      
      In rewriteAppendOnlyFileBackground, after flushAppendOnlyFile(1),
      and before openNewIncrAofForAppend, we should call redis_fsync
      to fsync the aof file.
      
      Because we may open a new INCR AOF in openNewIncrAofForAppend,
      in the case of using everysec policy, the old AOF file may not
      be fsynced in time (or even at all).
      
      When using everysec, we don't want to pay the disk latency from
      the main thread, so we will do a background fsync.
      
      Adding a argument for bioCreateCloseJob, a `need_fsync` flag to
      indicate that a fsync is required before the file is closed. So we will
      fsync the old AOF file before we close it.
      
      A cleanup, we make union become a union, since the free_* args and
      the fd / fsync args are never used together.
      Co-authored-by: default avatarOran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
      03fff10a
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  10. 22 Nov, 2012 1 commit
    • antirez's avatar
      Make bio.c threads killable ASAP if needed. · 75369917
      antirez authored
      We use this new bio.c feature in order to stop our I/O threads if there
      is a memory test to do on crash. In this case we don't want anything
      else than the main thread to run, otherwise the other threads may mess
      with the heap and the memory test will report a false positive.
      75369917
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