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From: Konstantin Osipov <kostja@tarantool.org>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: tarantool-patches@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 3/4] vinyl: abort affected transactions when space is removed from cache
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:12:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190328141205.GE11518@chai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190328140240.krymirsra4dibnst@esperanza>

* Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> [19/03/28 17:05]:
> > > A DDL operation creates a new struct space container, moving unaffected
> > > indexes from the old container, then destroying it. The problem is there
> > > may be a DML request for this space, which was passed the old container
> > > in the argument list and then yielded on disk read. When it resumes, it
> > > may try to dereference the old space container, which may have already
> > > been destroyed. This will most certainly result in a crash.
> > > 
> > > To address this problem, we introduce a new space callback, invalidate,
> > > which is called for the old space on space_cache_replace(). In case of
> > > vinyl, this callback aborts all transactions involving the space. To
> > > prevent a DML request from dereferencing a destroyed space, we also make
> > > the iterator code check the current transaction state after each yield
> > > and return an error if it was aborted. This should make any DML request
> > > bail out early without dereferencing the space anymore.
> > 
> > This patch looks good to me. I don't share Georgy's concerns. I
> > would make the name of the callback more explicit, like
> > abort_transactions_in_engine, so that it clear what it is doing
> > now. In future, should we find more use for it, I would rename it.
> 
> 'invalidate' sounds so much better IMO. Besides, the name suggests that
> the space becomes invalid when it's called and hence the function should
> take extra care.
> 
> 'abort_transactions' is, in fact, a more generic name. Looking at it,
> I wouldn't say that it should take extra precautions to assure that
> currently running transactions won't dereference the old space by any
> chance.
> 
> So I'm quite convinced we'd better call it 'invalidate'.

:)

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-28 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-23 21:07 [PATCH 0/4] Fix DML vs DDL race Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-23 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] vinyl: introduce hash of spaces affected by transaction Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-28 13:25   ` [tarantool-patches] " Konstantin Osipov
2019-03-28 13:58     ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-23 21:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] vinyl: don't abort transactions that modify only local spaces for ro Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-25  5:27   ` [tarantool-patches] " Георгий Кириченко
2019-03-25  8:13     ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-25  8:58       ` Георгий Кириченко
2019-03-25  9:30         ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-23 21:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] vinyl: abort affected transactions when space is removed from cache Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-25  5:26   ` [tarantool-patches] " Георгий Кириченко
2019-03-25  8:17     ` Vladimir Davydov
     [not found]       ` <1564677.EMV258VVK2@home.lan>
2019-03-25  9:51         ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-25  5:45   ` Георгий Кириченко
2019-03-25  8:21     ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-25  9:03       ` Георгий Кириченко
2019-03-28 13:45   ` [tarantool-patches] " Konstantin Osipov
2019-03-28 14:02     ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-28 14:12       ` Konstantin Osipov [this message]
2019-03-23 21:07 ` [PATCH 4/4] Revert "test: skip ddl test for vinyl on travis" Vladimir Davydov
2019-03-28 13:46   ` [tarantool-patches] " Konstantin Osipov

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