kv/concurrency: drop uncontended replicated lock on unreplicated upgrade#49980
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Here's the before and after running the demo referenced by #49658 and watching the 99th percentile latency across the system: Before:
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This is beneficial because it serves as a mitigation for #49973 and avoids the 99th percentile latency regression observed in #49658. Since we aren't currently great at avoiding excessive contention on limited scans when locks are in the lockTable, it's better the keep locks out of the lockTable when possible.
If any of the readers do truly contend with this lock even after their limit has been applied,
So the higher latency had nothing to do with acquiring unreplicated locks and was only due to limited scans seeing false contention? Also, it sounds like in this workload the duration a transaction holds the replicated lock is a large fraction of the total duration it holds the lock, so eliminating the former is sufficient to fix the latency of other transactions.
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pkg/kv/kvserver/concurrency/lock_table.go, line 1860 at r1 (raw file):
} else { l = iter.Cur() if durability == lock.Replicated && l.holder.locked && l.holder.holder[lock.Replicated].txn == nil {
l.holder should be protected by l.mu. This may be correct because there isn't a concurrent writer and latching will ensure we see a previous write, but I would prefer something that is less abstraction breaking, say:
if durability == lock.Replicated && l.tryFreeLockDueToReplicatedAcquire() {
tree.Delete(l)
tree.mu.Unlock()
...
}
pkg/kv/kvserver/concurrency/testdata/lock_table/size_limit_exceeded, line 77 at r1 (raw file):
queued writers: active: true req: 2, txn: none distinguished req: 2
It is unfortunate that the numbering scheme in these tests is fragile and readability requires the correspondence of req2 and req: 2.
I could add a description string field to the Request struct that would get set by tests and printed. Feel free to add a TODO for me in lock_table_test.go.
Fixes cockroachdb#49658. Informs cockroachdb#9521. Informs cockroachdb#49973. Related to cockroachdb#49684. This commit tweaks the `lockTable`'s handling of lock acquisition to drop write-uncontended locks when upgraded from the Unreplicated to Replicated durability in much the same way we drop Replicated locks when first acquired. This is possible because a Replicated lock is also stored as an MVCC intent, so it does not need to also be stored in the lockTable if writers are not queuing on it. This is beneficial because it serves as a mitigation for cockroachdb#49973 and avoids the 99th percentile latency regression observed in cockroachdb#49658. Since we aren't currently great at avoiding excessive contention on limited scans when locks are in the lockTable, it's better the keep locks out of the lockTable when possible. If any of the readers do truly contend with this lock even after their limit has been applied, they will notice during their MVCC scan and re-enter the queue (possibly recreating the lock through AddDiscoveredLock). Still, in practice this seems to work well in avoiding most of the artificial concurrency discussed in cockroachdb#49973. It's a bit of a hack and I am very interested in fixing this fully in the future (through an approach like cockroachdb#33373 or by incrementally consulting the lockTable in a `lockAwareIterator`), but for now, I don't see a downside to make this change. I intend to backport this change to v20.1, as it's causing issues in one of the demos we like to run. Release note (performance improvement): limited SELECT statements now do a better job avoiding unnecessary contention with UPDATE and SELECT FOR UPDATE statements.
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So the higher latency had nothing to do with acquiring unreplicated locks and was only due to limited scans seeing false contention?
There still is also a shift in the latency distribution between 19.2 and 20.1 and p99 latency still does go up a bit even with this change, but the major regression we saw in 99th percentile latency in #49658 appears to be due to this.
Also, it sounds like in this workload the duration a transaction holds the replicated lock is a large fraction of the total duration it holds the lock, so eliminating the former is sufficient to fix the latency of other transactions.
Yes, I think that's almost always true. In practice, we never acquire unreplicated locks without the intention of quickly replacing them with replicated locks (outside of confused SFU users).
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pkg/kv/kvserver/concurrency/lock_table.go, line 1860 at r1 (raw file):
Previously, sumeerbhola wrote…
l.holdershould be protected byl.mu. This may be correct because there isn't a concurrent writer and latching will ensure we see a previous write, but I would prefer something that is less abstraction breaking, say:if durability == lock.Replicated && l.tryFreeLockDueToReplicatedAcquire() { tree.Delete(l) tree.mu.Unlock() ... }
Good catch. Done.
pkg/kv/kvserver/concurrency/testdata/lock_table/size_limit_exceeded, line 77 at r1 (raw file):
Previously, sumeerbhola wrote…
It is unfortunate that the numbering scheme in these tests is fragile and readability requires the correspondence of
req2andreq: 2.
I could add adescriptionstring field to theRequeststruct that would get set by tests and printed. Feel free to add a TODO for me inlock_table_test.go.
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This commit fixes a fairly bad bug introduced by cockroachdb#49980. The bug was that we were not clearing `lockState.holder` while under lock in `tryFreeLockOnReplicatedAcquire`, so the lock was never marked as "empty" (see `isEmptyLock`). This meant that even though we held the `tree.mu` in `AcquireLock` continuously between the calls to `tryFreeLockOnReplicatedAcquire` and `tree.Delete`, it was possible for requests with existing snapshots of the tree to begin waiting on the partially cleared **but not empty** `lockState`. We would then remove the `lockState` from the lock table's main tree, abandoning any waiter that managed to slip in and begin waiting on the removed `lockState`. These waiters would eventually push the original holder of the lock, but even after their push succeeded and they resolved the corresponding intent, they would not receive any update on their lockTableGuard's channel. This should have been caught by some of the YCSB roachtests, but they haven't actually run for the past week due to various CI flakes. It would have also been caught by the new assertion the commit adds to `lockState.lockIsFree`.
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This commit fixes a fairly bad bug introduced by cockroachdb#49980. The bug was that we were not clearing `lockState.holder` while under lock in `tryFreeLockOnReplicatedAcquire`, so the lock was never marked as "empty" (see `isEmptyLock`). This meant that even though we held the `tree.mu` in `AcquireLock` continuously between the calls to `tryFreeLockOnReplicatedAcquire` and `tree.Delete`, it was possible for requests with existing snapshots of the tree to begin waiting on the partially cleared **but not empty** `lockState`. We would then remove the `lockState` from the lock table's main tree, abandoning any waiter that managed to slip in and begin waiting on the removed `lockState`. These waiters would eventually push the original holder of the lock, but even after their push succeeded and they resolved the corresponding intent, they would not receive any update on their lockTableGuard's channel. This should have been caught by some of the YCSB roachtests, but they haven't actually run for the past week due to various CI flakes. It would have also been caught by the new assertion the commit adds to `lockState.lockIsFree`.
Fixes #49658.
Informs #9521.
Informs #49973.
Related to #49684.
This commit tweaks the
lockTable's handling of lock acquisition to drop write-uncontended locks when upgraded from the Unreplicated to Replicated durability in much the same way we drop Replicated locks when first acquired. This is possible because a Replicated lock is also stored as an MVCC intent, so it does not need to also be stored in the lockTable if writers are not queuing on it. This is beneficial because it serves as a mitigation for #49973 and avoids the 99th percentile latency regression observed in #49658. Since we aren't currently great at avoiding excessive contention on limited scans when locks are in the lockTable, it's better the keep locks out of the lockTable when possible.If any of the readers do truly contend with this lock even after their limit has been applied, they will notice during their MVCC scan and re-enter the queue (possibly recreating the lock through AddDiscoveredLock). Still, in practice this seems to work well in avoiding most of the artificial concurrency discussed in #49973. It's a bit of a hack and I am very interested in fixing this fully in the future (through an approach like #33373 or by incrementally consulting the lockTable in a
lockAwareIterator), but for now, I don't see a downside to make this change.I intend to backport this change to v20.1, as it's causing issues in one of the demos we like to run: #49658.
Release note (performance improvement): limited SELECT statements now do a better job avoiding unnecessary contention with UPDATE and SELECT FOR UPDATE statements.