[Tarantool-patches] [PATCH] vinyl: unthrottle scheduler on checkpoint

[Vladislav Shpilevoy]

Hi! Thanks for the patch!

On 31/03/2020 16:42, Nikita Pettik wrote:
> Before this patch box.snapshot() bails out immediately if it sees that
> the scheduler is throttled due to errors. For instance:
> 
> box.error.injection.set('ERRINJ_VY_RUN_WRITE', true)
> snapshot() -- fails due to ERRINJ_VY_RUN_WRITE
> box.error.injection.set('ERRINJ_VY_RUN_WRITE', false)
> snapshot() -- still fails despite the fact that injected error is unset
> 
> As a result, one has to wait up to a minute to make a snapshot. The
> reason why throttling was introduced was to avoid flooding the log
> in case of repeating disk errors.
> On the other hand, checkpoint process is either called manually or on
> schedule. What is more, to deal with schedule throttling in tests, we
> had to introduce a new error injection (ERRINJ_VY_SCHED_TIMEOUT).
> It reduces time duration during which the scheduler remains throttled,
> which is ugly and race prone.
> So, let's unthrottle scheduler when checkpoint process is launched.
> 
> Closes #3519
> ---
> Note that VY_SCHED_TIMEOUT error injection is not completely removed
> from tests, since at least one of them fails (instance crashes) without
> it (vinyl/errinj_stat.test.lua). It's not a problem of this patch -
> reproducer is extracted and filed in gh-4821.
> 
> Branch: https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/tree/np/gh-3519-unthrottle-sched
> Issue: https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/3519
> 
>  src/box/vy_scheduler.c           | 14 +++++---------
>  test/box/errinj.result           |  8 --------
>  test/box/errinj.test.lua         |  2 --
>  test/vinyl/errinj.result         | 12 ++----------
>  test/vinyl/errinj.test.lua       |  5 +----
>  test/vinyl/errinj_vylog.result   | 14 --------------
>  test/vinyl/errinj_vylog.test.lua |  4 ----
>  7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/box/vy_scheduler.c b/src/box/vy_scheduler.c
> index 9dba93d34..f57f10119 100644
> --- a/src/box/vy_scheduler.c
> +++ b/src/box/vy_scheduler.c
> @@ -687,17 +687,13 @@ vy_scheduler_begin_checkpoint(struct vy_scheduler *scheduler)
>  	assert(!scheduler->checkpoint_in_progress);
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * If the scheduler is throttled due to errors, do not wait
> -	 * until it wakes up as it may take quite a while. Instead
> -	 * fail checkpoint immediately with the last error seen by
> -	 * the scheduler.
> +	 * It makes no sense throttling checkpoint process since
> +	 * it can be either ran manually or due to timeout. At this
> +	 * point let's ignore it.

Kostja's questio is fair. Can it be done for manual snapshots only?
Automated checkpoints already have problems with killing the disk,
when multiple instances on the same machine start them at the same
time. With unthrotled scheduler it is going to get worse.

However, if this is hard to detect, then it is ok. Just do a quick
check if it is possible.

>  	 */
>  	if (scheduler->is_throttled) {
> -		struct error *e = diag_last_error(&scheduler->diag);
> -		diag_add_error(diag_get(), e);
> -		say_error("cannot checkpoint vinyl, "
> -			  "scheduler is throttled with: %s", e->errmsg);
> -		return -1;
> +		say_info("scheduler is unthrottled due to checkpoint process");
> +		scheduler->is_throttled = false;

Is there a simple way to let the throttling continue after the
checkpoint is finished?

>  	}
>  
>  	if (!vy_scheduler_dump_in_progress(scheduler)) {