Currently this is marginally useful, only to make sure two keys are in
the same hash slot when the cluster is stable (no rehashing in
progress).
In the future it is possible that support will be added to run
mutli-keys operations with keys in the same hash slot.
When a slave requests masters vote for a manual failover, the
REQUEST_AUTH message is flagged in a special way in order to force the
masters to give the authorization even if the master is not marked as
failing.
The check was placed in a way that conflicted with the continue
statements used by the node hearth beat code later that needs to skip
the current node sometimes. Moved at the start of the function so that's
always executed.
This feature allows slaves to migrate to orphaned masters (masters
without working slaves), as long as a set of conditions are met,
including the fact that the migrating slave needs to be in a
master-slaves ring with at least another slave working.
When we schedule a failover, broadcast a PONG to the slaves.
The other slaves that plan to get elected will do the same too, this way
it is likely that every slave will have a good picture of its own rank.
Note that this is N*N messages where N is the number of slaves for the
failing master, however usually even large clusters have many master
nodes but a limited number of replicas per node, so this is harmless.
Note that when we compute the initial delay, there are probably still
more up to date information to receive from slaves with new offsets, so
the delay is recomputed when new data is available.
Return the number of slaves for the same master having a better
replication offset of the current slave, that is, the slave "rank" used
to pick a delay before the request for election.
Accessing to the 'myself' node, the node representing the currently
running instance, is handy without the need to type
server.cluster->myself every time.
The two fields are used in order to remember the latest known
replication offset and the time we received it from other slave nodes.
This will be used by slaves in order to start the election procedure
with a delay that is proportional to the rank of the slave among the
other slaves for this master, when sorted for replication offset.
Usually this allows the slave with the most updated offset to win the
election and replace the failing master in the cluster.
One of the simple heuristics used by Redis Cluster in order to avoid
losing data in the typical failure modes created by the asynchronous
replication with the slaves (a master is unable, when accepting a
write, to immediately tell if it should be really accepted or refused
because of a configuration change), is to wait some time before to
rejoin the cluster after being partitioned away from the majority of
instances.
A similar condition happens when a master is restarted. It does not know
if it was already failed over, nor if all the clients have already an
updated configuration about the cluster map, so it is possible that
clients will try to write to stale masters that were restarted.
In a similar way this commit changes masters behavior so they wait
2000 milliseconds before accepting writes after a reboot. There is
nothing special about 2 seconds if not to be a value supposedly larger
a few orders of magnitude compared to the cluster bus communication
latencies.
The code was doing checks for slaves that should be done only when the
instance is currently a master. Switching a slave from a master to
another one should just work.
CLUSTER FORGET is not useful if we can't remove a node from all the
nodes of our cluster because of the Gossip protocol that keeps adding
a given node to nodes where we already tried to remove it.
So now CLUSTER FORGET implements a nodes blacklist that is set and
checked by the Gossip section processing function. This way before a
node is re-added at least 60 seconds must elapse since the FORGET
execution.
This means that redis-trib has some time to remove a node from a whole
cluster. It is possible that in the future it will be uesful to raise
the 60 sec figure to something bigger.
The rejoin delay usually is the node timeout. However if the node
timeout is too small, we set it to 500 milliseconds, that is a value
chosen to be greater than most setups RTT / instances latency figures
so that likely communication with other nodes happen before rejoining.
Usually we update the cluster state (to understand if we should accept
queries or reply with an error) only when there is a change in the state
of the nodes. However for the "delayed rejoin" feature to work, that is,
for a master to wait some time before accepting queries again after it
rejoins the majority, we need to periodically update the last time when
the node was partitioned away from the majority.
With this commit if the cluster is down we update the state ten times
per second.
Even without the user messing manually with the file, it is still
possible to have blank lines (just a single "\n" per line) because of
how the nodes.conf update/write process works.
The way the file was generated was unsafe and leaded to nodes.conf file
corruption (zero length file) on server stop/crash during the creation
of the file.
The previous file update method was as simple as open with O_TRUNC
followed by the write call. While the write call was a single one with
the full payload, ensuring no half-written files for POSIX semantics,
stopping the server just after the open call resulted into a zero-length
file (all the nodes information lost!).
A client can enter a special cluster read-only mode using the READONLY
command: if the client read from a slave instance after this command,
for slots that are actually served by the instance's master, the queries
will be processed without redirection, allowing clients to read from
slaves (but without any kind fo read-after-write guarantee).
The READWRITE command can be used in order to exit the readonly state.
When the configured node timeout is very small, the data validity time
(maximum data age for a slave to try a failover) is too little (ten
times the configured node timeout) when the replication link with the
master is mostly idle. In this case we'll receive some data from the
master only every server.repl_ping_slave_period to refresh the last
interaction with the master.
This commit adds to the max data validity time the slave ping period to
avoid this problem of slaves sensing too old data without a good reason.
However this max data validity time is likely a setting that should be
configurable by the Redis Cluster user in a way completely independent
from the node timeout.
