sql: avoid starvation of validation after backfill by fqazi · Pull Request #89540 · cockroachdb/cockroach

fqazi · 2022-10-06T22:11:56Z

Previously, after a backfill queries inside validateIndexes could be starved by GC jobs due to the lack of a protected time stamp. Hence it was possible that these queries could run into retry errors. To avoid these errors we can setup a protected timestamp, so that the GC job doesn't interfere with these queries.

Release note (bug fix): Index validation could be starved if it took longer then GC jobs for a given table. Protected timestamps are now created during index validation.

cockroach-teamcity · 2022-10-06T22:12:03Z

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stevendanna · 2022-10-07T03:16:35Z

pkg/sql/backfill.go

+				waitBeforeProtectedTS = ((time.Duration(zoneCfg.GC.TTLSeconds) * time.Second) *
+					indexValidationProtectTimeStampGCPct) / 100


For my own edification:

If the zone configuration is changed after this lookup, will this wait time still be correct?

Similarly, does running this in the historical transaction make sense? Wouldn't we care about the most recent zone configuration?

Is the cost of the protected timestamps high enough that we can't unconditionally install a PTS when starting the verification? Is the idea that we don't want to pay that cost for small indexes that won't end up needing the PTS?

pkg/sql/backfill.go

stevendanna · 2022-10-07T03:39:30Z

pkg/sql/backfill_protected_timestamp_test.go

+							if indexScanQuery.MatchString(sql) {
+								indexValidationQueryWait <- struct{}{}
+								<-indexValidationQueryResume
+								time.Sleep(time.Second * 5)


What's this for? Is it to give the mvccGC queue time to process what we've enqueued.

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pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1589 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, stevendanna (Steven Danna) wrote…

err will always be nil at this point as nothing has written to it.

Done.

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1626 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, stevendanna (Steven Danna) wrote…

For my own edification:

If the zone configuration is changed after this lookup, will this wait time still be correct?

Similarly, does running this in the historical transaction make sense? Wouldn't we care about the most recent zone configuration?

Is the cost of the protected timestamps high enough that we can't unconditionally install a PTS when starting the verification? Is the idea that we don't want to pay that cost for small indexes that won't end up needing the PTS?

Good points, a couple of replies:

No it won't be, but it probably won't matter. We will end up retrying the job if the GC job gets to the data before we get a chance to install a protected timestamp record. If we are too fast it doesn't really matter and we just have the record early.
For validation the timestamp is pretty much derived from when the job started, but we can do an independent txn and get the latest. Not sure if it makes a huge difference here in terms of timing both of these things are early in the validation.

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1888 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, stevendanna (Steven Danna) wrote…

I know it isn't much code, but perhaps we could pull out a function here protectTableForHistoricalTxn(ctx context.Context, runHistoricalTxn sqlutil.HistoricalInternalExecTxnRunner, table catalog.TableDescriptor) (func(ctx) error, error)

Done.

pkg/sql/backfill_protected_timestamp_test.go line 79 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, stevendanna (Steven Danna) wrote…

What's this for? Is it to give the mvccGC queue time to process what we've enqueued.

Yes, it's a delay to allow it to process what has been enqueued.

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pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1626 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, fqazi (Faizan Qazi) wrote…

Good points, a couple of replies:

No it won't be, but it probably won't matter. We will end up retrying the job if the GC job gets to the data before we get a chance to install a protected timestamp record. If we are too fast it doesn't really matter and we just have the record early.

For validation the timestamp is pretty much derived from when the job started, but we can do an independent txn and get the latest. Not sure if it makes a huge difference here in terms of timing both of these things are early in the validation.

Yes I think that's the case, but would like to get @ajwerner thoughts. I'm guessing stuff like multiregion makes it worse

stevendanna

Thanks for taking the time to answer those questions. I've left a few more comments on some things I noticed while reading through it again.

pkg/sql/backfill.go

stevendanna

Looks reasonable to me!

ajwerner

I'm so sorry about the delay

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pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1626 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, fqazi (Faizan Qazi) wrote…

Yes I think that's the case, but would like to get @ajwerner thoughts. I'm guessing stuff like multiregion makes it worse

Above I suggest

cockroach/pkg/config/provider.go

Line 18 in 8878715

GetSystemConfig() *SystemConfig

, you can register for a notification if you care. I think it's better than reading it historically

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1888 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, fqazi (Faizan Qazi) wrote…

Done.

is it done?

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1648 at r4 (raw file):

		// time.
		var waitBeforeProtectedTS time.Duration
		if err := runHistoricalTxn.Exec(ctx,

My sense is that this ought to just use the in-memory system config provider.

cockroach/pkg/config/provider.go

Line 18 in 8878715

GetSystemConfig() *SystemConfig

cockroach/pkg/config/system.go

Line 393 in 70f85cd

func (s *SystemConfig) GetZoneConfigForObject(

pkg/sql/backfill_protected_timestamp_test.go line 79 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, fqazi (Faizan Qazi) wrote…

Yes, it's a delay to allow it to process what has been enqueued.

Can you just run the mvccGCQueue synchronously?

pkg/sql/sqlutil/internal_executor.go line 241 at r1 (raw file):

// HistoricalInternalExecTxnRunnerFn callback for executing with the internal executor
// at a fixed timestamp.
type HistoricalInternalExecTxnRunnerFn func(ctx context.Context, fn InternalExecFn) error

nit: use = if you aren't going to put methods on this function.

pkg/sql/sqlutil/internal_executor.go line 273 at r1 (raw file):

// executor.
func NewHistoricalInternalExecTxnRunner(
	fn HistoricalInternalExecTxnRunnerFn, readAsOf hlc.Timestamp,

nit: reorder the arguments to put the timestamp first.

fqazi

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pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1626 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, ajwerner wrote…

Above I suggest

cockroach/pkg/config/provider.go

Line 18 in 8878715

GetSystemConfig() *SystemConfig

, you can register for a notification if you care. I think it's better than reading it historically

Done.

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1888 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, ajwerner wrote…

is it done?

Done.

Code quote:

protectedTSInstallGrp

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1583 at r2 (raw file):

Previously, stevendanna (Steven Danna) wrote…

[nit] Since we have no naked returns in this function, I think we can removed the named return arguments here. The types make it clear what is being returned in this case.

Done.

Code quote:

protectTableForHistoricalTxnFn

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1920 at r2 (raw file):

Previously, stevendanna (Steven Danna) wrote…

[nit] I think we can do the following
				err = errors.CombineErrors(err, removeErr)

Done.

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1648 at r4 (raw file):

Previously, ajwerner wrote…

My sense is that this ought to just use the in-memory system config provider.

cockroach/pkg/config/provider.go

Line 18 in 8878715

GetSystemConfig() *SystemConfig

cockroach/pkg/config/system.go

Line 393 in 70f85cd

func (s *SystemConfig) GetZoneConfigForObject(

Done.

pkg/sql/backfill_protected_timestamp_test.go line 79 at r1 (raw file):

Previously, ajwerner wrote…

Can you just run the mvccGCQueue synchronously?

Ah, that operation was already synchronous. So, I removed the sleep completely.

ajwerner

I think it's fine if you want to push back on my bookkeeping requests and save it for a later PR. Please file an issue if you do choose to defer it. One thing I would like to see is the better encapsulation of the dependencies. This sort of dependency sprawl can leave future readers wondering why this code needs access to these things. More narrow packaging of the dependencies makes future dependency injection easier.

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pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1577 at r5 (raw file):

// transaction for a specific table, once a certain percentage of the GC time has
// elapsed.
func protectTableForHistoricalTxn(

One abstract fear I have is that if the job keeps failing because, say, nodes get killed, and then we restart, we'll be leaking these protected timestamps. Ideally we'd do something like stash the ID of the protected timestamp record in the job when we create it. I think we can do that and still backport this because, in the worst case, we lose track of the fact that we had created a protected timestamp and so we're fine. To support this, I think it'd be cool to change the signature here to be something like:

jobUpdateFunc func(ctx context.Context, func(context.Context, *kv.Txn, j *jobs.Job) error) error

And have it replace db and jobID? I think that will require the creator of the function actually having a handle to the job instance to that the leasing works. I don't know, maybe this is overkill. Another option is just to search all the protected timestamp records.

Also, let's replace the systemConfigProvider with something narrower like a function to get the gcttl for a descriptor ID? This way we can do better dependency injection.

We can then use this to maybe launch a goroutine a little bit closer to the present than the ttl and see if there's a protected timestamp record already that we should just update?

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1591 at r5 (raw file):

	// figure out when to apply a protected timestamp, as a percentage of this
	// time.
	zoneCfg, err := systemConfig.GetSystemConfig().GetZoneConfigForObject(codec, config.ObjectID(tableDesc.GetID()))

so, in some bad news, GetSystemConfig can return nil as the server is starting up. You can register to get notified of a change. I think it'd be okay to just give up if it is nil because when the job restarts in the rare case you run into the TTL, then you should find the TTL next time.

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1595 at r5 (raw file):

		return nil, err
	}
	waitBeforeProtectedTS := time.Duration(zoneCfg.GC.TTLSeconds) * time.Second

didn't you want to wait some factor less than 100% of the time?

fqazi

I think it's fine if you want to push back on my bookkeeping requests and save it for a later PR. Please file an issue if you do choose to defer it. One thing I would like to see is the better encapsulation of the dependencies. This sort of dependency sprawl can leave future readers wondering why this code needs access to these things. More narrow packaging of the dependencies makes future dependency injection easier.

I'm tempted to leave the last bit for a separate PR, let me get an issue open for it. But, I agree the sprawl is a mess and I think we can separate things much better by having a specific provider for setting PTS's for these cases.

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pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1577 at r5 (raw file):

Previously, ajwerner wrote…

One abstract fear I have is that if the job keeps failing because, say, nodes get killed, and then we restart, we'll be leaking these protected timestamps. Ideally we'd do something like stash the ID of the protected timestamp record in the job when we create it. I think we can do that and still backport this because, in the worst case, we lose track of the fact that we had created a protected timestamp and so we're fine. To support this, I think it'd be cool to change the signature here to be something like:
jobUpdateFunc func(ctx context.Context, func(context.Context, *kv.Txn, j *jobs.Job) error) error
And have it replace db and jobID? I think that will require the creator of the function actually having a handle to the job instance to that the leasing works. I don't know, maybe this is overkill. Another option is just to search all the protected timestamp records.

Also, let's replace the systemConfigProvider with something narrower like a function to get the gcttl for a descriptor ID? This way we can do better dependency injection.

We can then use this to maybe launch a goroutine a little bit closer to the present than the ttl and see if there's a protected timestamp record already that we should just update?

That makes sense, I'm gonna defer it for a separate issue. I think this can be done cleanly if we fix the encapsulation issues as well.

pkg/sql/backfill.go line 1595 at r5 (raw file):

Previously, ajwerner wrote…

didn't you want to wait some factor less than 100% of the time?

Good catch, this silly on my part clobbered the code accidentally.

fqazi · 2022-10-27T16:58:57Z

Opened #90774 for tracking

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fqazi · 2022-10-27T20:30:04Z

@ajwerner TFTR!

Fixes: cockroachdb#84911 Previously, after a backfill queries inside validateIndexes could be starved by GC jobs due to the lack of a protected time stamp. Hence it was possible that these queries could run into retry errors. To avoid these errors we can setup a protected timestamp, so that the GC job doesn't interfere with these queries. Release note (bug fix): Index validation could be starved if it took longer then GC jobs for a given table. Protected timestamps are now created during index validation.

fqazi · 2022-10-28T00:40:24Z

bors r+

craig · 2022-10-28T01:24:44Z

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All of the goroutines were writing to the same `err` variable. This race was introduced in cockroachdb#89540. Release note: None

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		waitBeforeProtectedTS = ((time.Duration(zoneCfg.GC.TTLSeconds) * time.Second) *
		indexValidationProtectTimeStampGCPct) / 100

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