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From: Konstantin Osipov <kostja.osipov@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: tarantool-patches@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] box: do not rotate WAL when replica subscribes
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:50:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181126175037.GD7839@chai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51805fb0af1b8192c8226348bb46683b14ead224.1543152574.git.vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>

* Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> [18/11/26 10:27]:

OK to push.
> Because this is pointless and confusing. This "feature" was silently
> introduced by commit f2bccc18485d ("Use WAL vclock instead of TX vclock
> in most places"). Let's revert this change. This will allow us to
> clearly separate WAL checkpointing from WAL flushing, which will in turn
> facilitate implementation of the checkpoint-on-WAL-threshold feature.
> 
> There are two problems here, however. First, not rotating the log breaks
> expectations of replication/gc test: an xlog file doesn't get deleted in
> time as a consequence. This happens, because we don't delete xlogs
> relayed to a replica after join stage is complete - we only do it during
> subscribe stage - and if we don't rotate WAL on subscribe the garbage
> collector won't be invoked. This is actually a bug - we should advance
> the WAL consumer associated with a replica once join stage is complete.
> This patch fixes it, but it unveils another problem - this time in the
> WAL garbage collection procedure.
> 
> Turns out, when passed a vclock, the WAL garbage collection procedure
> removes all WAL files that were created before the vclock. Apparently,
> this isn't quite correct - if a consumer is in the middle of a WAL file,
> we must not delete the WAL file, but we do. This works as long as
> consumers never track vlcocks inside WAL files - currently they are
> advanced only when a WAL file is closed and naturally they are advanced
> to the beginning of the next WAL file. However, if we want to advance
> the consumer associated with a replica when join stage ends (this is
> what the previous paragraph is about), it might occur that we will
> advance it to the middle of a WAL file. If that happens the WAL garbage
> collector might remove a file which is actually in use by a replica.
> Fix this as well.

-- 
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http://tarantool.io - www.twitter.com/kostja_osipov

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-26 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-25 13:48 [PATCH 0/6] WAL garbage collection and checkpointing fixes Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-25 13:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] vclock: allow to use const vclock as search key Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-26 17:38   ` Konstantin Osipov
2018-11-27  9:56     ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-25 13:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] engine: pass vclock instead of lsn to collect_garbage callback Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-26 17:41   ` Konstantin Osipov
2018-11-27  9:56     ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-25 13:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] box: do not rotate WAL when replica subscribes Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-26 17:50   ` Konstantin Osipov [this message]
2018-11-27  9:57     ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-25 13:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] box: use replicaset.vclock in replica join/subscribe Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-26 17:54   ` Konstantin Osipov
2018-11-27  9:57     ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-25 13:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] wal: separate checkpoint and flush paths Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-26 17:58   ` Konstantin Osipov
2018-11-26 20:19     ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-28 16:46       ` Konstantin Osipov
2018-11-25 13:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] wal: remove files needed for recovery from backup checkpoints on ENOSPC Vladimir Davydov
2018-11-28 16:14   ` Vladimir Davydov

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