1. 01 Oct, 2012 1 commit
  2. 28 Sep, 2012 2 commits
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      Scripting: add helper functions redis.error_reply() and redis.status_reply(). · 9c21b72b
      antirez authored
      A previous commit introduced Redis.NIL. This commit adds similar helper
      functions to return tables with a single field set to the specified
      string so that instead of using 'return {err="My Error"}' it is possible
      to use a more idiomatic form:
      
          return redis.error_reply("My Error")
          return redis.status_reply("OK")
      9c21b72b
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      Scripting: redis.NIL to return nil bulk replies. · 6dd1693c
      antirez authored
      Lua arrays can't contain nil elements (see
      http://www.lua.org/pil/19.1.html for more information), so Lua scripts
      were not able to return a multi-bulk reply containing nil bulk
      elements inside.
      
      This commit introduces a special conversion: a table with just
      a "nilbulk" field set to a boolean value is converted by Redis as a nil
      bulk reply, but at the same time for Lua this type is not a "nil" so can
      be used inside Lua arrays.
      
      This type is also assigned to redis.NIL, so the following two forms
      are equivalent and will be able to return a nil bulk reply as second
      element of a three elements array:
      
          EVAL "return {1,redis.NIL,3}" 0
          EVAL "return {1,{nilbulk=true},3}" 0
      
      The result in redis-cli will be:
      
          1) (integer) 1
          2) (nil)
          3) (integer) 3
      6dd1693c
  3. 26 Sep, 2012 1 commit
  4. 21 Sep, 2012 2 commits
    • antirez's avatar
      SRANDMEMBER <count> leak fixed. · 578c9459
      antirez authored
      For "CASE 4" (see code) we need to free the element if it's already in
      the result dictionary and adding it failed.
      578c9459
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      Added the SRANDMEMBER key <count> variant. · be90c803
      antirez authored
      SRANDMEMBER called with just the key argument can just return a single
      random element from a Redis Set. However many users need to return
      multiple unique elements from a Set, this is not a trivial problem to
      handle in the client side, and for truly good performance a C
      implementation was required.
      
      After many requests for this feature it was finally implemented.
      
      The problem implementing this command is the strategy to follow when
      the number of elements the user asks for is near to the number of
      elements that are already inside the set. In this case asking random
      elements to the dictionary API, and trying to add it to a temporary set,
      may result into an extremely poor performance, as most add operations
      will be wasted on duplicated elements.
      
      For this reason this implementation uses a different strategy in this
      case: the Set is copied, and random elements are returned to reach the
      specified count.
      
      The code actually uses 4 different algorithms optimized for the
      different cases.
      
      If the count is negative, the command changes behavior and allows for
      duplicated elements in the returned subset.
      be90c803
  5. 17 Sep, 2012 2 commits
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      d310fbed
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      A reimplementation of blocking operation internals. · 7eb850ef
      antirez authored
      Redis provides support for blocking operations such as BLPOP or BRPOP.
      This operations are identical to normal LPOP and RPOP operations as long
      as there are elements in the target list, but if the list is empty they
      block waiting for new data to arrive to the list.
      
      All the clients blocked waiting for th same list are served in a FIFO
      way, so the first that blocked is the first to be served when there is
      more data pushed by another client into the list.
      
      The previous implementation of blocking operations was conceived to
      serve clients in the context of push operations. For for instance:
      
      1) There is a client "A" blocked on list "foo".
      2) The client "B" performs `LPUSH foo somevalue`.
      3) The client "A" is served in the context of the "B" LPUSH,
      synchronously.
      
      Processing things in a synchronous way was useful as if "A" pushes a
      value that is served by "B", from the point of view of the database is a
      NOP (no operation) thing, that is, nothing is replicated, nothing is
      written in the AOF file, and so forth.
      
      However later we implemented two things:
      
      1) Variadic LPUSH that could add multiple values to a list in the
      context of a single call.
      2) BRPOPLPUSH that was a version of BRPOP that also provided a "PUSH"
      side effect when receiving data.
      
      This forced us to make the synchronous implementation more complex. If
      client "B" is waiting for data, and "A" pushes three elemnents in a
      single call, we needed to propagate an LPUSH with a missing argument
      in the AOF and replication link. We also needed to make sure to
      replicate the LPUSH side of BRPOPLPUSH, but only if in turn did not
      happened to serve another blocking client into another list ;)
      
      This were complex but with a few of mutually recursive functions
      everything worked as expected... until one day we introduced scripting
      in Redis.
      
      Scripting + synchronous blocking operations = Issue #614.
      
      Basically you can't "rewrite" a script to have just a partial effect on
      the replicas and AOF file if the script happened to serve a few blocked
      clients.
      
      The solution to all this problems, implemented by this commit, is to
      change the way we serve blocked clients. Instead of serving the blocked
      clients synchronously, in the context of the command performing the PUSH
      operation, it is now an asynchronous and iterative process:
      
      1) If a key that has clients blocked waiting for data is the subject of
      a list push operation, We simply mark keys as "ready" and put it into a
      queue.
      2) Every command pushing stuff on lists, as a variadic LPUSH, a script,
      or whatever it is, is replicated verbatim without any rewriting.
      3) Every time a Redis command, a MULTI/EXEC block, or a script,
      completed its execution, we run the list of keys ready to serve blocked
      clients (as more data arrived), and process this list serving the
      blocked clients.
      4) As a result of "3" maybe more keys are ready again for other clients
      (as a result of BRPOPLPUSH we may have push operations), so we iterate
      back to step "3" if it's needed.
      
      The new code has a much simpler semantics, and a simpler to understand
      implementation, with the disadvantage of not being able to "optmize out"
      a PUSH+BPOP as a No OP.
      
      This commit will be tested with care before the final merge, more tests
      will be added likely.
      7eb850ef
  6. 11 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • antirez's avatar
      Make sure that SELECT argument is an integer or return an error. · bfc197c3
      antirez authored
      Unfortunately we had still the lame atoi() without any error checking in
      place, so "SELECT foo" would work as "SELECT 0". This was not an huge
      problem per se but some people expected that DB can be strings and not
      just numbers, and without errors you get the feeling that they can be
      numbers, but not the behavior.
      
      Now getLongFromObjectOrReply() is used as almost everybody else across
      the code, generating an error if the number is not an integer or
      overflows the long type.
      
      Thanks to @mipearson for reporting that on Twitter.
      bfc197c3
  7. 10 Sep, 2012 1 commit
  8. 05 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • Haruto Otake's avatar
      BITCOUNT: fix segmentation fault. · 749aac72
      Haruto Otake authored
      remove unsafe and unnecessary cast.
      until now, this cast may lead segmentation fault when end > UINT_MAX
      
      setbit foo 0 1
      bitcount  0 4294967295
      => ok
      bitcount  0 4294967296
      => cause segmentation fault.
      
      Note by @antirez: the commit was modified a bit to also change the
      string length type to long, since it's guaranteed to be at max 512 MB in
      size, so we can work with the same type across all the code path.
      
      A regression test was also added.
      749aac72
  9. 04 Sep, 2012 3 commits
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      Scripting: Force SORT BY constant determinism inside SORT itself. · 36741b2c
      antirez authored
      SORT is able to return (faster than when ordering) unordered output if
      the "BY" clause is used with a constant value. However we try to play
      well with scripting requirements of determinism providing always sorted
      outputs when SORT (and other similar commands) are called by Lua
      scripts.
      
      However we used the general mechanism in place in scripting in order to
      reorder SORT output, that is, if the command has the "S" flag set, the
      Lua scripting engine will take an additional step when converting a
      multi bulk reply to Lua value, calling a Lua sorting function.
      
      This is suboptimal as we can do it faster inside SORT itself.
      This is also broken as issue #545 shows us: basically when SORT is used
      with a constant BY, and additionally also GET is used, the Lua scripting
      engine was trying to order the output as a flat array, while it was
      actually a list of key-value pairs.
      
      What we do know is to recognized if the caller of SORT is the Lua client
      (since we can check this using the REDIS_LUA_CLIENT flag). If so, and if
      a "don't sort" condition is triggered by the BY option with a constant
      string, we force the lexicographical sorting.
      
      This commit fixes this bug and improves the performance, and at the same
      time simplifies the implementation. This does not mean I'm smart today,
      it means I was stupid when I committed the original implementation ;)
      36741b2c
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: reply -IDONTKNOW to get-master-addr-by-name on lack of info. · 9bd0e097
      antirez authored
      If we don't have any clue about a master since it never replied to INFO
      so far, reply with an -IDONTKNOW error to SENTINEL
      get-master-addr-by-name requests.
      9bd0e097
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: more easy master redirection if master is a slave. · 8bdde086
      antirez authored
      Before this commit Sentienl used to redirect master ip/addr if the
      current instance reported to be a slave only if this was the first INFO
      output received, and the role was found to be slave.
      
      Now instead also if we find that the runid is different, and the
      reported role is slave, we also redirect to the reported master ip/addr.
      
      This unifies the behavior of Sentinel in the case of a reboot (where it
      will see the first INFO output with the wrong role and will perform the
      redirection), with the behavior of Sentinel in the case of a change in
      what it sees in the INFO output of the master.
      8bdde086
  10. 02 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • antirez's avatar
      Send an async PING before starting replication with master. · bb66fc31
      antirez authored
      During the first synchronization step of the replication process, a Redis
      slave connects with the master in a non blocking way. However once the
      connection is established the replication continues sending the REPLCONF
      command, and sometimes the AUTH command if needed. Those commands are
      send in a partially blocking way (blocking with timeout in the order of
      seconds).
      
      Because it is common for a blocked master to accept connections even if
      it is actually not able to reply to the slave requests, it was easy for
      a slave to block if the master had serious issues, but was still able to
      accept connections in the listening socket.
      
      For this reason we now send an asynchronous PING request just after the
      non blocking connection ended in a successful way, and wait for the
      reply before to continue with the replication process. It is very
      unlikely that a master replying to PING can't reply to the other
      commands.
      
      This solution was proposed by Didier Spezia (Thanks!) so that we don't
      need to turn all the replication process into a non blocking affair, but
      still the probability of a slave blocked is minimal even in the event of
      a failing master.
      
      Also we now use getsockopt(SO_ERROR) in order to check errors ASAP
      in the event handler, instead of waiting for actual I/O to return an
      error.
      
      This commit fixes issue #632.
      bb66fc31
  11. 31 Aug, 2012 2 commits
    • antirez's avatar
      Scripting: Reset Lua fake client reply_bytes after command execution. · e323635c
      antirez authored
      Lua scripting uses a fake client in order to run commands in the context
      of a client, accumulate the reply, and convert it into a Lua object
      to return to the caller. This client is reused again and again, and is
      referenced by the server.lua_client globally accessible pointer.
      
      However after every call to redis.call() or redis.pcall(), that is
      handled by the luaRedisGenericCommand() function, the reply_bytes field
      of the client was not set back to zero. This filed is used to estimate
      the amount of memory currently used in the reply. Because of the lack of
      reset, script after script executed, this value used to get bigger and
      bigger, and in the end on 32 bit systems it triggered the following
      assert:
      
          redisAssert(c->reply_bytes < ULONG_MAX-(1024*64));
      
      On 64 bit systems this does not happen because it takes too much time to
      reach values near to 2^64 for users to see the practical effect of the
      bug.
      
      Now in the cleanup stage of luaRedisGenericCommand() we reset the
      reply_bytes counter to zero, avoiding the issue. It is not practical to
      add a test for this bug, but the fix was manually tested using a
      debugger.
      
      This commit fixes issue #656.
      e323635c
    • antirez's avatar
      Scripting: require at least one argument for redis.call(). · 46c31a15
      antirez authored
      Redis used to crash with a call like the following:
      
          EVAL "redis.call()" 0
      
      Now the explicit check for at least one argument prevents the problem.
      
      This commit fixes issue #655.
      46c31a15
  12. 30 Aug, 2012 1 commit
  13. 29 Aug, 2012 2 commits
  14. 28 Aug, 2012 4 commits
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      Sentinel: Sentinel-side support for slave priority. · 3ec701e0
      antirez authored
      The slave priority that is now published by Redis in INFO output is
      now used by Sentinel in order to select the slave with minimum priority
      for promotion, and in order to consider slaves with priority set to 0 as
      not able to play the role of master (they will never be promoted by
      Sentinel).
      
      The "slave-priority" field is now one of the fileds that Sentinel
      publishes when describing an instance via the SENTINEL commands such as
      "SENTINEL slaves mastername".
      3ec701e0
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: Redis-side support for slave priority. · 169a44cb
      antirez authored
      A Redis slave can now be configured with a priority, that is an integer
      number that is shown in INFO output and can be get and set using the
      redis.conf file or the CONFIG GET/SET command.
      
      This field is used by Sentinel during slave election. A slave with lower
      priority is preferred. A slave with priority zero is never elected (and
      is considered to be impossible to elect even if it is the only slave
      available).
      
      A next commit will add support in the Sentinel side as well.
      169a44cb
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: suppress harmless warning by initializing 'table' to NULL. · c14e0eca
      antirez authored
      Note that the assertion guarantees that one of the if branches setting
      table is always entered.
      c14e0eca
    • antirez's avatar
      Incrementally flush RDB on disk while loading it from a master. · 784b9308
      antirez authored
      This fixes issue #539.
      
      Basically if there is enough free memory the OS may buffer the RDB file
      that the slave transfers on disk from the master. The file may
      actually be flused on disk at once by the operating system when it gets
      closed by Redis, causing the close system call to block for a long time.
      
      This patch is a modified version of one provided by yoav-steinberg of
      @garantiadata (the original version was posted in the issue #539
      comments), and tries to flush the OS buffers incrementally (every 8 MB
      of loaded data).
      784b9308
  15. 24 Aug, 2012 4 commits
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      Better Out of Memory handling. · 6fdc6354
      antirez authored
      The previous implementation of zmalloc.c was not able to handle out of
      memory in an application-specific way. It just logged an error on
      standard error, and aborted.
      
      The result was that in the case of an actual out of memory in Redis
      where malloc returned NULL (In Linux this actually happens under
      specific overcommit policy settings and/or with no or little swap
      configured) the error was not properly logged in the Redis log.
      
      This commit fixes this problem, fixing issue #509.
      Now the out of memory is properly reported in the Redis log and a stack
      trace is generated.
      
      The approach used is to provide a configurable out of memory handler
      to zmalloc (otherwise the default one logging the event on the
      standard output is used).
      6fdc6354
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: send SCRIPT KILL on -BUSY reply and SDOWN instance. · 850789ce
      antirez authored
      From the point of view of Redis an instance replying -BUSY is down,
      since it is effectively not able to reply to user requests. However
      a looping script is a recoverable condition in Redis if the script still
      did not performed any write to the dataset. In that case performing a
      fail over is not optimal, so Sentinel now tries to restore the normal server
      condition killing the script with a SCRIPT KILL command.
      
      If the script already performed some write before entering an infinite
      (or long enough to timeout) loop, SCRIPT KILL will not work and the
      fail over will be triggered anyway.
      850789ce
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: fixed a crash on script execution. · 01477753
      antirez authored
      The call to sentinelScheduleScriptExecution() lacked the final NULL
      argument to signal the end of arguments. This resulted into a crash.
      01477753
  16. 21 Aug, 2012 1 commit
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      redis-benchmark: disable big buffer cleanup in hiredis context. · 227b4293
      antirez authored
      This new hiredis features allows us to reuse a previous context reader
      buffer even if already very big in order to maximize performances with
      big payloads (Usually hiredis re-creates buffers when they are too big
      and unused in order to save memory).
      227b4293
  17. 13 Aug, 2012 2 commits
  18. 03 Aug, 2012 1 commit
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      Sentinel: SENTINEL FAILOVER command implemented. · cada7f96
      antirez authored
      This command can be used in order to force a Sentinel instance to start
      a failover for the specified master, as leader, forcing the failover
      even if the master is up.
      
      The commit also adds some minor refactoring and other improvements to
      functions already implemented that make them able to work when the
      master is not in SDOWN condition. For instance slave selection
      assumed that we ask INFO every second to every slave, this is true
      only when the master is in SDOWN condition, so slave selection did not
      worked when the master was not in SDOWN condition.
      cada7f96
  19. 02 Aug, 2012 1 commit
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: client reconfiguration script execution. · 6275004c
      antirez authored
      This commit adds support to optionally execute a script when one of the
      following events happen:
      
      * The failover starts (with a slave already promoted).
      * The failover ends.
      * The failover is aborted.
      
      The script is called with enough parameters (documented in the example
      sentinel.conf file) to provide information about the old and new ip:port
      pair of the master, the role of the sentinel (leader or observer) and
      the name of the master.
      
      The goal of the script is to inform clients of the configuration change
      in a way specific to the environment Sentinel is running, that can't be
      implemented in a genereal way inside Sentinel itself.
      6275004c
  20. 31 Jul, 2012 4 commits
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: when leader in wait-start, sense another leader as race. · fd92b366
      antirez authored
      When we are in wait start, if another leader (or any other external
      entity) turns a slave into a master, abort the failover, and detect it
      as an observer.
      
      Note that the wait-start state is mainly there for this reason but the
      abort was yet not implemented.
      
      This adds a new sentinel event -failover-abort-race.
      fd92b366
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    • Michael Parker's avatar
      Use correct variable name for value to convert. · f1d187bb
      Michael Parker authored
      Note by @antirez: this code was never compiled because utils.c lacked the
      float.h include, so we never noticed this variable was mispelled in the
      past.
      
      This should provide a noticeable speed boost when saving certain types
      of databases with many sorted sets inside.
      f1d187bb
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: abort failover when in wait-start if master is back. · 75084e05
      antirez authored
      When we are a Leader Sentinel in wait-start state, starting with this
      commit the failover is aborted if the master returns online.
      
      This improves the way we handle a notable case of net split, that is the
      split between Sentinels and Redis servers, that will be a very common
      case of split becase Sentinels will often be installed in the client's
      network and servers can be in a differnt arm of the network.
      
      When Sentinels and Redis servers are isolated the master is in ODOWN
      condition since the Sentinels can agree about this state, however the
      failover does not start since there are no good slaves to promote (in
      this specific case all the slaves are unreachable).
      
      However when the split is resolved, Sentinels may sense the slave back
      a moment before they sense the master is back, so the failover may start
      without a good reason (since the master is actually working too).
      
      Now this condition is reversible, so the failover will be aborted
      immediately after if the master is detected to be working again, that
      is, not in SDOWN nor in ODOWN condition.
      75084e05
  21. 28 Jul, 2012 2 commits
    • antirez's avatar
      Sentinel: scripts execution engine improved. · 3f194a9d
      antirez authored
      We no longer use a vanilla fork+execve but take a queue of jobs of
      scripts to execute, with retry on error, timeouts, and so forth.
      
      Currently this is used only for notifications but soon the ability to
      also call clients reconfiguration scripts will be added.
      3f194a9d
    • Jan-Erik Rediger's avatar
      Include sys/wait.h to avoid compiler warning · c6c19c83
      Jan-Erik Rediger authored
      gcc warned about an implicit declaration of function 'wait3'. 
      Including this header fixes this.
      c6c19c83
  22. 26 Jul, 2012 1 commit