22 мая 2019 г., в 19:28, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> написал(а):

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 07:11:42PM +0300, Serge Petrenko wrote:
Memtx index build used to stall event loop for all the build period.
Add occasional yields so that the loop is not blocked for too long.

Closes #3976
---
https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/3976
https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/tree/sp/gh-3976-background-index-build

src/box/memtx_space.c                         | 13 +++++
test/box/memtx_background_index_build.result  | 55 +++++++++++++++++++
.../box/memtx_background_index_build.test.lua | 32 +++++++++++
test/box/suite.ini                            |  2 +-
4 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 test/box/memtx_background_index_build.result
create mode 100644 test/box/memtx_background_index_build.test.lua

diff --git a/src/box/memtx_space.c b/src/box/memtx_space.c
index 5ddb4f7ee..b90e2707e 100644
--- a/src/box/memtx_space.c
+++ b/src/box/memtx_space.c
@@ -874,6 +874,15 @@ static int
memtx_space_build_index(struct space *src_space, struct index *new_index,
struct tuple_format *new_format)
{
+ /*
+  * Yield every 1K tuples.
+  * In debug mode yield more often for testing purposes.
+  */
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+ enum { YIELD_LOOPS = 1000 };
+#else
+ enum { YIELD_LOOPS = 10 };
+#endif
/**
 * If it's a secondary key, and we're not building them
 * yet (i.e. it's snapshot recovery for memtx), do nothing.
@@ -909,6 +918,7 @@ memtx_space_build_index(struct space *src_space, struct index *new_index,
/* Build the new index. */
int rc;
struct tuple *tuple;
+ size_t count = 0;
while ((rc = iterator_next(it, &tuple)) == 0 && tuple != NULL) {
/*
 * Check that the tuple is OK according to the
@@ -933,6 +943,9 @@ memtx_space_build_index(struct space *src_space, struct index *new_index,
 */
if (new_index->def->iid == 0)
tuple_ref(tuple);
+ if (++count % YIELD_LOOPS == 0) {
+ fiber_sleep(0);
+ }

This isn't enough as tuples may be inserted into / deleted from the
space while DDL is in progress. We need to propagate these changes
to the new index using on_replace trigger. Take a look at how vinyl
handles it.

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