We don't want that the API could be used directly in an unsafe way,
without checking if there is an active child. Now the safety checks are
moved directly in the function performing the operations.
In theory currently there is only one active child, but the API may
change or for bugs in the implementation we may have several (it was
like that for years because of a bug). Better to wait for a specific
pid and avoid consuing other pending children information.
We can't expect SIGUSR1 to have any specific value range, so let's
define an exit code that we can handle in a special way.
This also fixes an #include <wait.h> that is not standard.
This is especially needed in diskless loading, were a short read could have
caused redis to exit. now the module can handle the error and return to the
caller gracefully.
this fixes#5326
* create module API for forking child processes.
* refactor duplicate code around creating and tracking forks by AOF and RDB.
* child processes listen to SIGUSR1 and dies exitFromChild in order to
eliminate a valgrind warning of unhandled signal.
* note that BGSAVE error reply has changed.
valgrind error is:
Process terminating with default action of signal 10 (SIGUSR1)
Fixes#6012.
As long as "INFO is broken", this should be adequate IMO. Once we rework
`INFO`, perhaps into RESP3, this implementation should be revisited.
when redis appends the blocked client reply list to the real client, it didn't
bother to check if it is in fact the master client. so a slave executing that
module command will send replies to the master, causing the master to send the
slave error responses, which will mess up the replication offset
(slave will advance it's replication offset, and the master does not)
A filter handle is returned and can be used to unregister a filter. In
the future it can also be used to further configure or manipulate the
filter.
Filters are now automatically unregistered when a module unloads.
In some cases processMultibulkBuffer uses sdsMakeRoomFor to
expand the querybuf, but later in some cases it uses that query
buffer as is for an argv element (see "Optimization"), which means
that the sds in argv may have a lot of wasted space, and then in case
modules keep that argv RedisString inside their data structure, this
space waste will remain for long (until restarted from rdb).
It does not make much sense to limit what modules can do: the admin
should instead limit what module commnads an user may call. So
RedisModule_Call() and other module operations should be able to execute
everything they want: the limitation should be posed by the API exported
by the module itself.
Storing the context is useless, because we can't really reuse that
later. For instance in the API RM_DictNext() that returns a
RedisModuleString for the next key iterated, the user should pass the
new context, because we may run the keys of the dictionary in a
different context of the one where the dictionary was created. Also the
dictionary may be created without a context, but we may still demand
automatic memory management for the returned strings while iterating.
By using the "C" suffix for functions getting pointer/len, we can do the
same in the future for other modules APIs that need a variant with
pointer/len and that are now accepting a RedisModuleString.
The burden of having to always create RedisModuleString objects within a
module context was too much, especially now that we have threaded
operations and modules are doing more interesting things. The context in
the string API is currently only used for automatic memory managemnet,
so now the API was modified so that the user can opt-out this feature by
passing a NULL context.
A) slave buffers didn't count internal fragmentation and sds unused space,
this caused them to induce eviction although we didn't mean for it.
B) slave buffers were consuming about twice the memory of what they actually needed.
- this was mainly due to sdsMakeRoomFor growing to twice as much as needed each time
but networking.c not storing more than 16k (partially fixed recently in 237a38737).
- besides it wasn't able to store half of the new string into one buffer and the
other half into the next (so the above mentioned fix helped mainly for small items).
- lastly, the sds buffers had up to 30% internal fragmentation that was wasted,
consumed but not used.
C) inefficient performance due to starting from a small string and reallocing many times.
what i changed:
- creating dedicated buffers for reply list, counting their size with zmalloc_size
- when creating a new reply node from, preallocate it to at least 16k.
- when appending a new reply to the buffer, first fill all the unused space of the
previous node before starting a new one.
other changes:
- expose mem_not_counted_for_evict info field for the benefit of the test suite
- add a test to make sure slave buffers are counted correctly and that they don't cause eviction
