Modules can now register sockets/pipe to the Redis main thread event loop and do network operations asynchronously. Previously, modules had to maintain an event loop and another thread for asynchronous network operations.
Also, if a module is calling API functions after doing some network operations, it had to synchronize its event loop thread's access with Redis main thread by locking the GIL, causing contention on the lock. After this commit, no synchronization is needed as module can operate in Redis main thread context. So, this commit may improve the performance for some use cases.
Added three functions to the module API:
* RedisModule_EventLoopAdd(int fd, int mask, RedisModuleEventLoopFunc func, void *user_data)
* RedisModule_EventLoopDel(int fd, int mask)
* RedisModule_EventLoopAddOneShot(RedisModuleEventLoopOneShotFunc func, void *user_data) - This function can be called from other threads to trigger callback on Redis main thread. Callback will be triggered only once. If Redis main thread is sleeping, this call will wake up the Redis main thread.
Event loop callbacks are called by Redis main thread after locking the GIL. Inside callbacks, modules can operate as if they are holding the GIL.
Added REDISMODULE_EVENT_EVENTLOOP event with two subevents:
* REDISMODULE_SUBEVENT_EVENTLOOP_BEFORE_SLEEP
* REDISMODULE_SUBEVENT_EVENTLOOP_AFTER_SLEEP
These events are for modules that want to participate in the before and after sleep action. e.g It might be useful to implement batching : Read data from the network, write all to a file in one go on BEFORE_SLEEP event.
1. enable diskless replication by default
2. add a new config named repl-diskless-sync-max-replicas that enables
replication to start before the full repl-diskless-sync-delay was
reached.
3. put replica online sooner on the master (see below)
4. test suite uses repl-diskless-sync-delay of 0 to be faster
5. a few tests that use multiple replica on a pre-populated master, are
now using the new repl-diskless-sync-max-replicas
6. fix possible timing issues in a few cluster tests (see below)
put replica online sooner on the master
----------------------------------------------------
there were two tests that failed because they needed for the master to
realize that the replica is online, but the test code was actually only
waiting for the replica to realize it's online, and in diskless it could
have been before the master realized it.
changes include two things:
1. the tests wait on the right thing
2. issues in the master, putting the replica online in two steps.
the master used to put the replica as online in 2 steps. the first
step was to mark it as online, and the second step was to enable the
write event (only after getting ACK), but in fact the first step didn't
contains some of the tasks to put it online (like updating good slave
count, and sending the module event). this meant that if a test was
waiting to see that the replica is online form the point of view of the
master, and then confirm that the module got an event, or that the
master has enough good replicas, it could fail due to timing issues.
so now the full effect of putting the replica online, happens at once,
and only the part about enabling the writes is delayed till the ACK.
fix cluster tests
--------------------
I added some code to wait for the replica to sync and avoid race
conditions.
later realized the sentinel and cluster tests where using the original 5
seconds delay, so changed it to 0.
this means the other changes are probably not needed, but i suppose
they're still better (avoid race conditions)
This commit adds some tests that the test cases will
access the keys with expiration time set in the script call.
There was no test case for this part before. See #10080
Also there is a test will cover #1525. we block the time so
that the key can not expire in the middle of the script execution.
Other changes:
1. Delete `evalTimeSnapshot` and just use `scriptTimeSnapshot` in it's place.
2. Some cleanups to scripting.tcl.
3. better names for tests that run in a loop to make them distinctable
Added a pool for temporary client objects to reuse in module operations.
By reusing temporary clients, we are avoiding expensive createClient()/freeClient()
calls and improving performance of RM_BlockClient() and RM_GetThreadSafeContext() calls.
This commit contains two optimizations:
1 - RM_BlockClient() and RM_GetThreadSafeContext() calls create temporary clients and they are freed in
RM_UnblockClient() and RM_FreeThreadSafeContext() calls respectively. Creating/destroying client object
takes quite time. To avoid that, added a pool of temporary clients. Pool expands when more clients are needed.
Also, added a cron function to shrink the pool and free unused clients after some time. Pool starts with zero
clients in it. It does not have max size and can grow unbounded as we need it. We will keep minimum of 8
temporary clients in the pool once created. Keeping small amount of clients to avoid client allocation costs
if temporary clients are required after some idle period.
2 - After unblocking a client (RM_UnblockClient()), one byte is written to pipe to wake up Redis main thread.
If there are many clients that will be unblocked, each operation requires one write() call which is quite expensive.
Changed code to avoid subsequent calls if possible.
There are a few more places that need temporary client objects (e.g RM_Call()). These are now using the same
temporary client pool to make things more centralized.
Syntax:
`COMMAND DOCS [<command name> ...]`
Background:
Apparently old version of hiredis (and thus also redis-cli) can't
support more than 7 levels of multi-bulk nesting.
The solution is to move all the doc related metadata from COMMAND to a
new COMMAND DOCS sub-command.
The new DOCS sub-command returns a map of commands (not an array like in COMMAND),
And the same goes for the `subcommands` field inside it (also contains a map)
Besides that, the remaining new fields of COMMAND (hints, key-specs, and
sub-commands), are placed in the outer array rather than a nested map.
this was done mainly for consistency with the old format.
Other changes:
---
* Allow COMMAND INFO with no arguments, which returns all commands, so that we can some day deprecated
the plain COMMAND (no args)
* Reduce the amount of deferred replies from both COMMAND and COMMAND
DOCS, especially in the inner loops, since these create many small
reply objects, which lead to many small write syscalls and many small
TCP packets.
To make this easier, when populating the command table, we count the
history, args, and hints so we later know their size in advance.
Additionally, the movablekeys flag was moved into the flags register.
* Update generate-commands-json.py to take the data from both command, it
now executes redis-cli directly, instead of taking input from stdin.
* Sub-commands in both COMMAND (and COMMAND INFO), and also COMMAND DOCS,
show their full name. i.e. CONFIG
* GET will be shown as `config|get` rather than just `get`.
This will be visible both when asking for `COMMAND INFO config` and COMMAND INFO config|get`, but is
especially important for the later.
i.e. imagine someone doing `COMMAND INFO slowlog|get config|get` not being able to distinguish between the two
items in the array response.
The following steps will crash redis-server:
```
[root]# cat crash
PSYNC replicationid -1
SLOWLOG GET
GET key
[root]# nc 127.0.0.1 6379 < crash
```
This one following #10020 and the crash was reported in #10076.
Other changes about the output info:
1. Cmd with a full name by using `getFullCommandName`, now it will print the right
subcommand name like `slowlog|get`.
2. Print the full client info by using `catClientInfoString`, the info is also valuable.:
# Redis Function Libraries
This PR implements Redis Functions Libraries as describe on: https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9906.
Libraries purpose is to provide a better code sharing between functions by allowing to create multiple
functions in a single command. Functions that were created together can safely share code between
each other without worrying about compatibility issues and versioning.
Creating a new library is done using 'FUNCTION LOAD' command (full API is described below)
This PR introduces a new struct called libraryInfo, libraryInfo holds information about a library:
* name - name of the library
* engine - engine used to create the library
* code - library code
* description - library description
* functions - the functions exposed by the library
When Redis gets the `FUNCTION LOAD` command it creates a new empty libraryInfo.
Redis passes the `CODE` to the relevant engine alongside the empty libraryInfo.
As a result, the engine will create one or more functions by calling 'libraryCreateFunction'.
The new funcion will be added to the newly created libraryInfo. So far Everything is happening
locally on the libraryInfo so it is easy to abort the operation (in case of an error) by simply
freeing the libraryInfo. After the library info is fully constructed we start the joining phase by
which we will join the new library to the other libraries currently exist on Redis.
The joining phase make sure there is no function collision and add the library to the
librariesCtx (renamed from functionCtx). LibrariesCtx is used all around the code in the exact
same way as functionCtx was used (with respect to RDB loading, replicatio, ...).
The only difference is that apart from function dictionary (maps function name to functionInfo
object), the librariesCtx contains also a libraries dictionary that maps library name to libraryInfo object.
## New API
### FUNCTION LOAD
`FUNCTION LOAD <ENGINE> <LIBRARY NAME> [REPLACE] [DESCRIPTION <DESCRIPTION>] <CODE>`
Create a new library with the given parameters:
* ENGINE - REPLACE Engine name to use to create the library.
* LIBRARY NAME - The new library name.
* REPLACE - If the library already exists, replace it.
* DESCRIPTION - Library description.
* CODE - Library code.
Return "OK" on success, or error on the following cases:
* Library name already taken and REPLACE was not used
* Name collision with another existing library (even if replace was uses)
* Library registration failed by the engine (usually compilation error)
## Changed API
### FUNCTION LIST
`FUNCTION LIST [LIBRARYNAME <LIBRARY NAME PATTERN>] [WITHCODE]`
Command was modified to also allow getting libraries code (so `FUNCTION INFO` command is no longer
needed and removed). In addition the command gets an option argument, `LIBRARYNAME` allows you to
only get libraries that match the given `LIBRARYNAME` pattern. By default, it returns all libraries.
### INFO MEMORY
Added number of libraries to `INFO MEMORY`
### Commands flags
`DENYOOM` flag was set on `FUNCTION LOAD` and `FUNCTION RESTORE`. We consider those commands
as commands that add new data to the dateset (functions are data) and so we want to disallows
to run those commands on OOM.
## Removed API
* FUNCTION CREATE - Decided on https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9906
* FUNCTION INFO - Decided on https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9899
## Lua engine changes
When the Lua engine gets the code given on `FUNCTION LOAD` command, it immediately runs it, we call
this run the loading run. Loading run is not a usual script run, it is not possible to invoke any
Redis command from within the load run.
Instead there is a new API provided by `library` object. The new API's:
* `redis.log` - behave the same as `redis.log`
* `redis.register_function` - register a new function to the library
The loading run purpose is to register functions using the new `redis.register_function` API.
Any attempt to use any other API will result in an error. In addition, the load run is has a time
limit of 500ms, error is raise on timeout and the entire operation is aborted.
### `redis.register_function`
`redis.register_function(<function_name>, <callback>, [<description>])`
This new API allows users to register a new function that will be linked to the newly created library.
This API can only be called during the load run (see definition above). Any attempt to use it outside
of the load run will result in an error.
The parameters pass to the API are:
* function_name - Function name (must be a Lua string)
* callback - Lua function object that will be called when the function is invokes using fcall/fcall_ro
* description - Function description, optional (must be a Lua string).
### Example
The following example creates a library called `lib` with 2 functions, `f1` and `f1`, returns 1 and 2 respectively:
```
local function f1(keys, args)
return 1
end
local function f2(keys, args)
return 2
end
redis.register_function('f1', f1)
redis.register_function('f2', f2)
```
Notice: Unlike `eval`, functions inside a library get the KEYS and ARGV as arguments to the
functions and not as global.
### Technical Details
On the load run we only want the user to be able to call a white list on API's. This way, in
the future, if new API's will be added, the new API's will not be available to the load run
unless specifically added to this white list. We put the while list on the `library` object and
make sure the `library` object is only available to the load run by using [lua_setfenv](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_setfenv) API. This API allows us to set
the `globals` of a function (and all the function it creates). Before starting the load run we
create a new fresh Lua table (call it `g`) that only contains the `library` API (we make sure
to set global protection on this table just like the general global protection already exists
today), then we use [lua_setfenv](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_setfenv)
to set `g` as the global table of the load run. After the load run finished we update `g`
metatable and set `__index` and `__newindex` functions to be `_G` (Lua default globals),
we also pop out the `library` object as we do not need it anymore.
This way, any function that was created on the load run (and will be invoke using `fcall`) will
see the default globals as it expected to see them and will not have the `library` API anymore.
An important outcome of this new approach is that now we can achieve a distinct global table
for each library (it is not yet like that but it is very easy to achieve it now). In the future we can
decide to remove global protection because global on different libraries will not collide or we
can chose to give different API to different libraries base on some configuration or input.
Notice that this technique was meant to prevent errors and was not meant to prevent malicious
user from exploit it. For example, the load run can still save the `library` object on some local
variable and then using in `fcall` context. To prevent such a malicious use, the C code also make
sure it is running in the right context and if not raise an error.
# Short description
The Redis extended latency stats track per command latencies and enables:
- exporting the per-command percentile distribution via the `INFO LATENCYSTATS` command.
**( percentile distribution is not mergeable between cluster nodes ).**
- exporting the per-command cumulative latency distributions via the `LATENCY HISTOGRAM` command.
Using the cumulative distribution of latencies we can merge several stats from different cluster nodes
to calculate aggregate metrics .
By default, the extended latency monitoring is enabled since the overhead of keeping track of the
command latency is very small.
If you don't want to track extended latency metrics, you can easily disable it at runtime using the command:
- `CONFIG SET latency-tracking no`
By default, the exported latency percentiles are the p50, p99, and p999.
You can alter them at runtime using the command:
- `CONFIG SET latency-tracking-info-percentiles "0.0 50.0 100.0"`
## Some details:
- The total size per histogram should sit around 40 KiB. We only allocate those 40KiB when a command
was called for the first time.
- With regards to the WRITE overhead As seen below, there is no measurable overhead on the achievable
ops/sec or full latency spectrum on the client. Including also the measured redis-benchmark for unstable
vs this branch.
- We track from 1 nanosecond to 1 second ( everything above 1 second is considered +Inf )
## `INFO LATENCYSTATS` exposition format
- Format: `latency_percentiles_usec_<CMDNAME>:p0=XX,p50....`
## `LATENCY HISTOGRAM [command ...]` exposition format
Return a cumulative distribution of latencies in the format of a histogram for the specified command names.
The histogram is composed of a map of time buckets:
- Each representing a latency range, between 1 nanosecond and roughly 1 second.
- Each bucket covers twice the previous bucket's range.
- Empty buckets are not printed.
- Everything above 1 sec is considered +Inf.
- At max there will be log2(1000000000)=30 buckets
We reply a map for each command in the format:
`<command name> : { `calls`: <total command calls> , `histogram` : { <bucket 1> : latency , < bucket 2> : latency, ... } }`
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
This makes redis-cli --replica much faster and reduces COW/fork risks on server side.
This commit also improves the RDB filtering via REPLCONF rdb-filter-only to support no "include" specifiers at all.
This sets up dependabot to check weekly updates for pip and github-actions dependencies.
If it finds an update it will create a PR to update the dependency. More information can be found here
It includes the update of:
* vmactions/freebsd-vm from 0.1.4 to 0.1.5
* codespell from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
Also includes spelling fixes found by the latest version of codespell.
Includes a dedicated .codespell folder so dependabot can read a requirements.txt file and every files dedicated to codespell can be grouped in the same place
Co-Authored-By: Matthieu MOREL <mmorel-35@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: MOREL Matthieu <matthieu.morel@cnp.fr>
Creating fork (or even a foreground SAVE) during a transaction breaks the atomicity of the transaction.
In addition to that, it could mess up the propagated transaction to the AOF file.
This change blocks SAVE, PSYNC, SYNC and SHUTDOWN from being executed inside MULTI-EXEC.
It does that by adding a command flag, so that modules can flag their commands with that flag too.
Besides it changes BGSAVE, BGREWRITEAOF, and CONFIG SET appendonly, to turn the
scheduled flag instead of forking righ taway.
Other changes:
* expose `protected`, `no-async-loading`, and `no_multi` flags in COMMAND command
* add a test to validate propagation of FLUSHALL inside a transaction.
* add a test to validate how CONFIG SET that errors reacts in a transaction
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
This would mean that the effects of `CONFIG SET maxmemory` may not be visible once the command returns.
That could anyway happen since incremental eviction was added in redis 6.2 (see #7653)
We do this to fix one of the propagation bugs about eviction see #9890 and #10014.
Implement Multi-Part AOF mechanism to avoid overheads during AOFRW.
Introducing a folder with multiple AOF files tracked by a manifest file.
The main issues with the the original AOFRW mechanism are:
* buffering of commands that are processed during rewrite (consuming a lot of RAM)
* freezes of the main process when the AOFRW completes to drain the remaining part of the buffer and fsync it.
* double disk IO for the data that arrives during AOFRW (had to be written to both the old and new AOF files)
The main modifications of this PR:
1. Remove the AOF rewrite buffer and related code.
2. Divide the AOF into multiple files, they are classified as two types, one is the the `BASE` type,
it represents the full amount of data (Maybe AOF or RDB format) after each AOFRW, there is only
one `BASE` file at most. The second is `INCR` type, may have more than one. They represent the
incremental commands since the last AOFRW.
3. Use a AOF manifest file to record and manage these AOF files mentioned above.
4. The original configuration of `appendfilename` will be the base part of the new file name, for example:
`appendonly.aof.1.base.rdb` and `appendonly.aof.2.incr.aof`
5. Add manifest-related TCL tests, and modified some existing tests that depend on the `appendfilename`
6. Remove the `aof_rewrite_buffer_length` field in info.
7. Add `aof-disable-auto-gc` configuration. By default we're automatically deleting HISTORY type AOFs.
It also gives users the opportunity to preserve the history AOFs. just for testing use now.
8. Add AOFRW limiting measure. When the AOFRW failures reaches the threshold (3 times now),
we will delay the execution of the next AOFRW by 1 minute. If the next AOFRW also fails, it will be
delayed by 2 minutes. The next is 4, 8, 16, the maximum delay is 60 minutes (1 hour). During the limit
period, we can still use the 'bgrewriteaof' command to execute AOFRW immediately.
9. Support upgrade (load) data from old version redis.
10. Add `appenddirname` configuration, as the directory name of the append only files. All AOF files and
manifest file will be placed in this directory.
11. Only the last AOF file (BASE or INCR) can be truncated. Otherwise redis will exit even if
`aof-load-truncated` is enabled.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
This commit implements a sharded pubsub implementation based off of shard channels.
Co-authored-by: Harkrishn Patro <harkrisp@amazon.com>
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
To avoid data loss, this commit adds a grace period for lagging replicas to
catch up the replication offset.
Done:
* Wait for replicas when shutdown is triggered by SIGTERM and SIGINT.
* Wait for replicas when shutdown is triggered by the SHUTDOWN command. A new
blocked client type BLOCKED_SHUTDOWN is introduced, allowing multiple clients
to call SHUTDOWN in parallel.
Note that they don't expect a response unless an error happens and shutdown is aborted.
* Log warning for each replica lagging behind when finishing shutdown.
* CLIENT_PAUSE_WRITE while waiting for replicas.
* Configurable grace period 'shutdown-timeout' in seconds (default 10).
* New flags for the SHUTDOWN command:
- NOW disables the grace period for lagging replicas.
- FORCE ignores errors writing the RDB or AOF files which would normally
prevent a shutdown.
- ABORT cancels ongoing shutdown. Can't be combined with other flags.
* New field in the output of the INFO command: 'shutdown_in_milliseconds'. The
value is the remaining maximum time to wait for lagging replicas before
finishing the shutdown. This field is present in the Server section **only**
during shutdown.
Not directly related:
* When shutting down, if there is an AOF saving child, it is killed **even** if AOF
is disabled. This can happen if BGREWRITEAOF is used when AOF is off.
* Client pause now has end time and type (WRITE or ALL) per purpose. The
different pause purposes are *CLIENT PAUSE command*, *failover* and
*shutdown*. If clients are unpaused for one purpose, it doesn't affect client
pause for other purposes. For example, the CLIENT UNPAUSE command doesn't
affect client pause initiated by the failover or shutdown procedures. A completed
failover or a failed shutdown doesn't unpause clients paused by the CLIENT
PAUSE command.
Notes:
* DEBUG RESTART doesn't wait for replicas.
* We already have a warning logged when a replica disconnects. This means that
if any replica connection is lost during the shutdown, it is either logged as
disconnected or as lagging at the time of exit.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
This is needed in order to ease the deployment of functions for ephemeral cases, where user
needs to spin up a server with functions pre-loaded.
#### Details:
* Added `--functions-rdb` option to _redis-cli_.
* Functions only rdb via `REPLCONF rdb-filter-only functions`. This is a placeholder for a space
separated inclusion filter for the RDB. In the future can be `REPLCONF rdb-filter-only
"functions db:3 key-patten:user*"` and a complementing `rdb-filter-exclude` `REPLCONF`
can also be added.
* Handle "slave requirements" specification to RDB saving code so we can use the same RDB
when different slaves express the same requirements (like functions-only) and not share the
RDB when their requirements differ. This is currently just a flags `int`, but can be extended to
a more complex structure with various filter fields.
* make sure to support filters only in diskless replication mode (not to override the persistence file),
we do that by forcing diskless (even if disabled by config)
other changes:
* some refactoring in rdb.c (extract portion of a big function to a sub-function)
* rdb_key_save_delay used in AOFRW too
* sendChildInfo takes the number of updated keys (incremental, rather than absolute)
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Add missing information about commands, mainly from reviewing redis-doc and removing
the metadata from it (https://github.com/redis/redis-doc/pull/1722)
* Reintroduces CLUSTER S****S (supported by Redis) but missing from the JSON / docs (related? #9675).
Note that without that json file, the command won't work (breaking change)
* Adds the `replicas` argument (exists in Redis) to `CLIENT KILL`.
* Adds `history` entries to several commands based on redis-doc's man pages.
* Adds `since` to applicable command arguments based on `history` (this basically makes
some of `history` redundant - perhaps at a later stage).
* Uses proper semantic versioning in all version references.
* Also removes `geoencodeCommand` and `geodecodeCommand` header
declarations per b96af595a5.
Follow the conclusions to support Functions in redis cluster (#9899)
Added 2 new FUNCTION sub-commands:
1. `FUNCTION DUMP` - dump a binary payload representation of all the functions.
2. `FUNCTION RESTORE <PAYLOAD> [FLUSH|APPEND|REPLACE]` - give the binary payload extracted
using `FUNCTION DUMP`, restore all the functions on the given payload. Restore policy can be given to
control how to handle existing functions (default is APPEND):
* FLUSH: delete all existing functions.
* APPEND: appends the restored functions to the existing functions. On collision, abort.
* REPLACE: appends the restored functions to the existing functions. On collision,
replace the old function with the new function.
Modify `redis-cli --cluster add-node` to use `FUNCTION DUMP` to get existing functions from
one of the nodes in the cluster, and `FUNCTION RESTORE` to load the same set of functions
to the new node. `redis-cli` will execute this step before sending the `CLUSTER MEET` command
to the new node. If `FUNCTION DUMP` returns an error, assume the current Redis version do not
support functions and skip `FUNCTION RESTORE`. If `FUNCTION RESTORE` fails, abort and do not send
the `CLUSTER MEET` command. If the new node already contains functions (before the `FUNCTION RESTORE`
is sent), abort and do not add the node to the cluster. Test was added to verify
`redis-cli --cluster add-node` works as expected.
The mess:
Some parts use alsoPropagate for late propagation, others using an immediate one (propagate()),
causing edge cases, ugly/hacky code, and the tendency for bugs
The basic idea is that all commands are propagated via alsoPropagate (i.e. added to a list) and the
top-most call() is responsible for going over that list and actually propagating them (and wrapping
them in MULTI/EXEC if there's more than one command). This is done in the new function,
propagatePendingCommands.
Callers to propagatePendingCommands:
1. top-most call() (we want all nested call()s to add to the also_propagate array and just the top-most
one to propagate them) - via `afterCommand`
2. handleClientsBlockedOnKeys: it is out of call() context and it may propagate stuff - via `afterCommand`.
3. handleClientsBlockedOnKeys edge case: if the looked-up key is already expired, we will propagate the
expire but will not unblock any client so `afterCommand` isn't called. in that case, we have to propagate
the deletion explicitly.
4. cron stuff: active-expire and eviction may also propagate stuff
5. modules: the module API allows to propagate stuff from just about anywhere (timers, keyspace notifications,
threads). I could have tried to catch all the out-of-call-context places but it seemed easier to handle it in one
place: when we free the context. in the spirit of what was done in call(), only the top-most freeing of a module
context may cause propagation.
6. modules: when using a thread-safe ctx it's not clear when/if the ctx will be freed. we do know that the module
must lock the GIL before calling RM_Replicate/RM_Call so we propagate the pending commands when
releasing the GIL.
A "known limitation", which were actually a bug, was fixed because of this commit (see propagate.tcl):
When using a mix of RM_Call with `!` and RM_Replicate, the command would propagate out-of-order:
first all the commands from RM_Call, and then the ones from RM_Replicate
Another thing worth mentioning is that if, in the past, a client would issue a MULTI/EXEC with just one
write command the server would blindly propagate the MULTI/EXEC too, even though it's redundant.
not anymore.
This commit renames propagate() to propagateNow() in order to cause conflicts in pending PRs.
propagatePendingCommands is the only caller of propagateNow, which is now a static, internal helper function.
Optimizations:
1. alsoPropagate will not add stuff to also_propagate if there's no AOF and replicas
2. alsoPropagate reallocs also_propagagte exponentially, to save calls to memmove
Bugfixes:
1. CONFIG SET can create evictions, sending notifications which can cause to dirty++ with modules.
we need to prevent it from propagating to AOF/replicas
2. We need to set current_client in RM_Call. buggy scenario:
- CONFIG SET maxmemory, eviction notifications, module hook calls RM_Call
- assertion in lookupKey crashes, because current_client has CONFIG SET, which isn't CMD_WRITE
3. minor: in eviction, call propagateDeletion after notification, like active-expire and all commands
(we always send a notification before propagating the command)
## background
Till now CONFIG SET was blocked during loading.
(In the not so distant past, GET was disallowed too)
We recently (not released yet) added an async-loading mode, see #9323,
and during that time it'll serve CONFIG SET and any other command.
And now we realized (#9770) that some configs, and commands are dangerous
during async-loading.
## changes
* Allow most CONFIG SET during loading (both on async-loading and normal loading)
* Allow CONFIG REWRITE and CONFIG RESETSTAT during loading
* Block a few config during loading (`appendonly`, `repl-diskless-load`, and `dir`)
* Block a few commands during loading (list below)
## the blocked commands:
* SAVE - obviously we don't wanna start a foregreound save during loading 8-)
* BGSAVE - we don't mind to schedule one, but we don't wanna fork now
* BGREWRITEAOF - we don't mind to schedule one, but we don't wanna fork now
* MODULE - we obviously don't wanna unload a module during replication / rdb loading
(MODULE HELP and MODULE LIST are not blocked)
* SYNC / PSYNC - we're in the middle of RDB loading from master, must not allow sync
requests now.
* REPLICAOF / SLAVEOF - we're in the middle of replicating, maybe it makes sense to let
the user abort it, but he couldn't do that so far, i don't wanna take any risk of bugs due to odd state.
* CLUSTER - only allow [HELP, SLOTS, NODES, INFO, MYID, LINKS, KEYSLOT, COUNTKEYSINSLOT,
GETKEYSINSLOT, RESET, REPLICAS, COUNT_FAILURE_REPORTS], for others, preserve the status quo
## other fixes
* processEventsWhileBlocked had an issue when being nested, this could happen with a busy script
during async loading (new), but also in a busy script during AOF loading (old). this lead to a crash in
the scenario described in #6988
The issue with MAY_REPLICATE is that all automatic mechanisms to handle
write commands will not work. This require have a special treatment for:
* Not allow those commands to be executed on RO replica.
* Allow those commands to be executed on RO replica from primary connection.
* Allow those commands to be executed on the RO replica from AOF.
By setting those commands as WRITE commands we are getting all those properties from Redis.
Test was added to verify that those properties work as expected.
In addition, rearrange when and where functions are flushed. Before this PR functions were
flushed manually on `rdbLoadRio` and cleaned manually on failure. This contradicts the
assumptions that functions are data and need to be created/deleted alongside with the
data. A side effect of this, for example, `debug reload noflush` did not flush the data but
did flush the functions, `debug loadaof` flush the data but not the functions.
This PR move functions deletion into `emptyDb`. `emptyDb` (renamed to `emptyData`) will
now accept an additional flag, `NOFUNCTIONS` which specifically indicate that we do not
want to flush the functions (on all other cases, functions will be flushed). Used the new flag
on FLUSHALL and FLUSHDB only! Tests were added to `debug reload` and `debug loadaof`
to verify that functions behave the same as the data.
Notice that because now functions will be deleted along side with the data we can not allow
`CLUSTER RESET` to be called from within a function (it will cause the function to be released
while running), this PR adds `NO_SCRIPT` flag to `CLUSTER RESET` so it will not be possible
to be called from within a function. The other cluster commands are allowed from within a
function (there are use-cases that uses `GETKEYSINSLOT` to iterate over all the keys on a
given slot). Tests was added to verify `CLUSTER RESET` is denied from within a script.
Another small change on this PR is that `RDBFLAGS_ALLOW_DUP` is also applicable on functions.
When loading functions, if this flag is set, we will replace old functions with new ones on collisions.
# Background
The main goal of this PR is to remove relevant logics on Lua script verbatim replication,
only keeping effects replication logic, which has been set as default since Redis 5.0.
As a result, Lua in Redis 7.0 would be acting the same as Redis 6.0 with default
configuration from users' point of view.
There are lots of reasons to remove verbatim replication.
Antirez has listed some of the benefits in Issue #5292:
>1. No longer need to explain to users side effects into scripts.
They can do whatever they want.
>2. No need for a cache about scripts that we sent or not to the slaves.
>3. No need to sort the output of certain commands inside scripts
(SMEMBERS and others): this both simplifies and gains speed.
>4. No need to store scripts inside the RDB file in order to startup correctly.
>5. No problems about evicting keys during the script execution.
When looking back at Redis 5.0, antirez and core team decided to set the config
`lua-replicate-commands yes` by default instead of removing verbatim replication
directly, in case some bad situations happened. 3 years later now before Redis 7.0,
it's time to remove it formally.
# Changes
- configuration for lua-replicate-commands removed
- created config file stub for backward compatibility
- Replication script cache removed
- this is useless under script effects replication
- relevant statistics also removed
- script persistence in RDB files is also removed
- Propagation of SCRIPT LOAD and SCRIPT FLUSH to replica / AOF removed
- Deterministic execution logic in scripts removed (i.e. don't run write commands
after random ones, and sorting output of commands with random order)
- the flags indicating which commands have non-deterministic results are kept as hints to clients.
- `redis.replicate_commands()` & `redis.set_repl()` changed
- now `redis.replicate_commands()` does nothing and return an 1
- ...and then `redis.set_repl()` can be issued before `redis.replicate_commands()` now
- Relevant TCL cases adjusted
- DEBUG lua-always-replicate-commands removed
# Other changes
- Fix a recent bug comparing CLIENT_ID_AOF to original_client->flags instead of id. (introduced in #9780)
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Block sensitive configs and commands by default.
* `enable-protected-configs` - block modification of configs with the new `PROTECTED_CONFIG` flag.
Currently we add this flag to `dbfilename`, and `dir` configs,
all of which are non-mutable configs that can set a file redis will write to.
* `enable-debug-command` - block the `DEBUG` command
* `enable-module-command` - block the `MODULE` command
These have a default value set to `no`, so that these features are not
exposed by default to client connections, and can only be set by modifying the config file.
Users can change each of these to either `yes` (allow all access), or `local` (allow access from
local TCP connections and unix domain connections)
Note that this is a **breaking change** (specifically the part about MODULE command being disabled by default).
I.e. we don't consider DEBUG command being blocked as an issue (people shouldn't have been using it),
and the few configs we protected are unlikely to have been set at runtime anyway.
On the other hand, it's likely to assume some users who use modules, load them from the config file anyway.
Note that's the whole point of this PR, for redis to be more secure by default and reduce the attack surface on
innocent users, so secure defaults will necessarily mean a breaking change.
Introduce memory management on cluster link buffers:
* Introduce a new `cluster-link-sendbuf-limit` config that caps memory usage of cluster bus link send buffers.
* Introduce a new `CLUSTER LINKS` command that displays current TCP links to/from peers.
* Introduce a new `mem_cluster_links` field under `INFO` command output, which displays the overall memory usage by all current cluster links.
* Introduce a new `total_cluster_links_buffer_limit_exceeded` field under `CLUSTER INFO` command output, which displays the accumulated count of cluster links freed due to `cluster-link-sendbuf-limit`.
Added `FUNCTION FLUSH` command. The new sub-command allows delete all the functions.
An optional `[SYNC|ASYNC]` argument can be given to control whether or not to flush the
functions synchronously or asynchronously. if not given the default flush mode is chosen by
`lazyfree-lazy-user-flush` configuration values.
Add the missing `functions.tcl` test to the list of tests that are executed in test_helper.tcl,
and call FUNCTION FLUSH in between servers in external mode
Delete the hardcoded command table and replace it with an auto-generated table, based
on a JSON file that describes the commands (each command must have a JSON file).
These JSON files are the SSOT of everything there is to know about Redis commands,
and it is reflected fully in COMMAND INFO.
These JSON files are used to generate commands.c (using a python script), which is then
committed to the repo and compiled.
The purpose is:
* Clients and proxies will be able to get much more info from redis, instead of relying on hard coded logic.
* drop the dependency between Redis-user and the commands.json in redis-doc.
* delete help.h and have redis-cli learn everything it needs to know just by issuing COMMAND (will be
done in a separate PR)
* redis.io should stop using commands.json and learn everything from Redis (ultimately one of the release
artifacts should be a large JSON, containing all the information about all of the commands, which will be
generated from COMMAND's reply)
* the byproduct of this is:
* module commands will be able to provide that info and possibly be more of a first-class citizens
* in theory, one may be able to generate a redis client library for a strictly typed language, by using this info.
### Interface changes
#### COMMAND INFO's reply change (and arg-less COMMAND)
Before this commit the reply at index 7 contained the key-specs list
and reply at index 8 contained the sub-commands list (Both unreleased).
Now, reply at index 7 is a map of:
- summary - short command description
- since - debut version
- group - command group
- complexity - complexity string
- doc-flags - flags used for documentation (e.g. "deprecated")
- deprecated-since - if deprecated, from which version?
- replaced-by - if deprecated, which command replaced it?
- history - a list of (version, what-changed) tuples
- hints - a list of strings, meant to provide hints for clients/proxies. see https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9876
- arguments - an array of arguments. each element is a map, with the possibility of nesting (sub-arguments)
- key-specs - an array of keys specs (already in unstable, just changed location)
- subcommands - a list of sub-commands (already in unstable, just changed location)
- reply-schema - will be added in the future (see https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9845)
more details on these can be found in https://github.com/redis/redis-doc/pull/1697
only the first three fields are mandatory
#### API changes (unreleased API obviously)
now they take RedisModuleCommand opaque pointer instead of looking up the command by name
- RM_CreateSubcommand
- RM_AddCommandKeySpec
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecBeginSearchIndex
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecBeginSearchKeyword
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecFindKeysRange
- RM_SetCommandKeySpecFindKeysKeynum
Currently, we did not add module API to provide additional information about their commands because
we couldn't agree on how the API should look like, see https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/9944.
### Somehow related changes
1. Literals should be in uppercase while placeholder in lowercase. Now all the GEO* command
will be documented with M|KM|FT|MI and can take both lowercase and uppercase
### Unrelated changes
1. Bugfix: no_madaory_keys was absent in COMMAND's reply
2. expose CMD_MODULE as "module" via COMMAND
3. have a dedicated uint64 for ACL categories (instead of having them in the same uint64 as command flags)
Co-authored-by: Itamar Haber <itamar@garantiadata.com>
When disabling redis oom-score-adj managment we restore the
base value read before enabling oom-score-adj management.
This fixes an issue introduced in #9748 where updating
`oom-score-adj-values` while `oom-score-adj` was set to `no`
would write the base oom score adj value read on startup to `/proc`.
This is a bug since while `oom-score-adj` is disabled we should
never write to proc and let external processes manage it.
Added appropriate tests.
Redis function unit is located inside functions.c
and contains Redis Function implementation:
1. FUNCTION commands:
* FUNCTION CREATE
* FCALL
* FCALL_RO
* FUNCTION DELETE
* FUNCTION KILL
* FUNCTION INFO
2. Register engine
In addition, this commit introduce the first engine
that uses the Redis Function capabilities, the
Lua engine.
The functionality was moved to script_lua.c under
callFunction function. Its purpose is to call the Lua
function already located on the top of the Lua stack.
Used the new function on eval.c to invoke Lua code.
The function will also be used to invoke Lua
code on the Lua engine.
Script unit is a new unit located on script.c.
Its purpose is to provides an API for functions (and eval)
to interact with Redis. Interaction includes mostly
executing commands, but also functionalities like calling
Redis back on long scripts or check if the script was killed.
The interaction is done using a scriptRunCtx object that
need to be created by the user and initialized using scriptPrepareForRun.
Detailed list of functionalities expose by the unit:
1. Calling commands (including all the validation checks such as
acl, cluster, read only run, ...)
2. Set Resp
3. Set Replication method (AOF/REPLICATION/NONE)
4. Call Redis back to on long running scripts to allow Redis reply
to clients and perform script kill
The commit introduce the new unit and uses it on eval commands to
interact with Redis.
The following variable was renamed:
1. lua_caller -> script_caller
2. lua_time_limit -> script_time_limit
3. lua_timedout -> script_timedout
4. lua_oom -> script_oom
5. lua_disable_deny_script -> script_disable_deny_script
6. in_eval -> in_script
The following variables was moved to lctx under eval.c
1. lua
2. lua_client
3. lua_cur_script
4. lua_scripts
5. lua_scripts_mem
6. lua_replicate_commands
7. lua_write_dirty
8. lua_random_dirty
9. lua_multi_emitted
10. lua_repl
11. lua_kill
12. lua_time_start
13. lua_time_snapshot
This commit is in a low risk of introducing any issues and it
is just moving varibales around and not changing any logic.
We can now do: `config set maxmemory 10m repl-backlog-size 5m`
## Basic algorithm to support "transaction like" config sets:
1. Backup all relevant current values (via get).
2. Run "verify" and "set" on everything, if we fail run "restore".
3. Run "apply" on everything (optional optimization: skip functions already run). If we fail run "restore".
4. Return success.
### restore
1. Run set on everything in backup. If we fail log it and continue (this puts us in an undefined
state but we decided it's better than the alternative of panicking). This indicates either a bug
or some unsupported external state.
2. Run apply on everything in backup (optimization: skip functions already run). If we fail log
it (see comment above).
3. Return error.
## Implementation/design changes:
* Apply function are idempotent (have no effect if they are run more than once for the same config).
* No indication in set functions if we're reading the config or running from the `CONFIG SET` command
(removed `update` argument).
* Set function should set some config variable and assume an (optional) apply function will use that
later to apply. If we know this setting can be safely applied immediately and can always be reverted
and doesn't depend on any other configuration we can apply immediately from within the set function
(and not store the setting anywhere). This is the case of this `dir` config, for example, which has no
apply function. No apply function is need also in the case that setting the variable in the `server` struct
is all that needs to be done to make the configuration take effect. Note that the original concept of `update_fn`,
which received the old and new values was removed and replaced by the optional apply function.
* Apply functions use settings written to the `server` struct and don't receive any inputs.
* I take care that for the generic (non-special) configs if there's no change I avoid calling the setter (possible
optimization: avoid calling the apply function as well).
* Passing the same config parameter more than once to `config set` will fail. You can't do `config set my-setting
value1 my-setting value2`.
Note that getting `save` in the context of the conf file parsing to work here as before was a pain.
The conf file supports an aggregate `save` definition, where each `save` line is added to the server's
save params. This is unlike any other line in the config file where each line overwrites any previous
configuration. Since we now support passing multiple save params in a single line (see top comments
about `save` in https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/9644) we should deprecate the aggregate nature of
this config line and perhaps reduce this ugly code in the future.
Writable replicas now no longer use the values of expired keys. Expired keys are
deleted when lookupKeyWrite() is used, even on a writable replica. Previously,
writable replicas could use the value of an expired key in write commands such
as INCR, SUNIONSTORE, etc..
This commit also sorts out the mess around the functions lookupKeyRead() and
lookupKeyWrite() so they now indicate what we intend to do with the key and
are not affected by the command calling them.
Multi-key commands like SUNIONSTORE, ZUNIONSTORE, COPY and SORT with the
store option now use lookupKeyRead() for the keys they're reading from (which will
not allow reading from logically expired keys).
This commit also fixes a bug where PFCOUNT could return a value of an
expired key.
Test modules commands have their readonly and write flags updated to correctly
reflect their lookups for reading or writing. Modules are not required to
correctly reflect this in their command flags, but this change is made for
consistency since the tests serve as usage examples.
Fixes#6842. Fixes#7475.
Remove lcsGetKeys to clean up the remaining STRALGO after #9733.
i.e. it still used a getkeys_proc which was still looking for the KEYS or STRINGS arguments
Part three of implementing #8702, following #8887 and #9366 .
## Description of the feature
1. Replace the ziplist container of quicklist with listpack.
2. Convert existing quicklist ziplists on RDB loading time. an O(n) operation.
## Interface changes
1. New `list-max-listpack-size` config is an alias for `list-max-ziplist-size`.
2. Replace `debug ziplist` command with `debug listpack`.
## Internal changes
1. Add `lpMerge` to merge two listpacks . (same as `ziplistMerge`)
2. Add `lpRepr` to print info of listpack which is used in debugCommand and `quicklistRepr`. (same as `ziplistRepr`)
3. Replace `QUICKLIST_NODE_CONTAINER_ZIPLIST` with `QUICKLIST_NODE_CONTAINER_PACKED`(following #9357 ).
It represent that a quicklistNode is a packed node, as opposed to a plain node.
4. Remove `createZiplistObject` method, which is never used.
5. Calculate listpack entry size using overhead overestimation in `quicklistAllowInsert`.
We prefer an overestimation, which would at worse lead to a few bytes below the lowest limit of 4k.
## Improvements
1. Calling `lpShrinkToFit` after converting Ziplist to listpack, which was missed at #9366.
2. Optimize `quicklistAppendPlainNode` to avoid memcpy data.
## Bugfix
1. Fix crash in `quicklistRepr` when ziplist is compressed, introduced from #9366.
## Test
1. Add unittest for `lpMerge`.
2. Modify the old quicklist ziplist corrupt dump test.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Some people complain that QUIT is missing from help/command table.
Not appearing in COMMAND command, command stats, ACL, etc.
and instead, there's a hack in processCommand with a comment that looks outdated.
Note that it is [documented](https://redis.io/commands/quit)
At the same time, HOST: and POST are there in the command table although these are not real commands.
They would appear in the COMMAND command, and even in commandstats.
Other changes:
1. Initialize the static logged_time static var in securityWarningCommand
2. add `no-auth` flag to RESET so it can always be executed.
Drop the STRALGO command, now LCS is a command of its own and it only works on keys (not input strings).
The motivation is that STRALGO's syntax was really messed-up...
- assumes all (future) string algorithms will take similar arguments
- mixes command that takes keys and one that doesn't in the same command.
- make it nearly impossible to expose the right key spec in COMMAND INFO (issues cluster clients)
- hard for cluster clients to determine the key names (firstkey, lastkey, etc)
- hard for ACL / flags (is it a read command?)
This is a breaking change.
Moves ZPOP ... 0 fast exit path after type check to reply with
WRONGTYPE. In the past it will return an empty array.
Also now count is not allowed to be negative.
see #9680
before:
```
127.0.0.1:6379> set zset str
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset 0
(empty array)
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset -1
(empty array)
```
after:
```
127.0.0.1:6379> set zset str
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset 0
(error) WRONGTYPE Operation against a key holding the wrong kind of value
127.0.0.1:6379> zpopmin zset -1
(error) ERR value is out of range, must be positive
```
This refactors all `CONFIG SET`s and conf file loading arguments go through
the generic config handling interface.
Refactoring changes:
- All config params go through the `standardConfig` interface (some stuff which
is only related to the config file and not the `CONFIG` command still has special
handling for rewrite/config file parsing, `loadmodule`, for example.) .
- Added `MULTI_ARG_CONFIG` flag for configs to signify they receive a variable
number of arguments instead of a single argument. This is used to break up space
separated arguments to `CONFIG SET` so the generic setter interface can pass
multiple arguments to the setter function. When parsing the config file we also break
up anything after the config name into multiple arguments to the setter function.
Interface changes:
- A side effect of the above interface is that the `bind` argument in the config file can
be empty (no argument at all) this is treated the same as passing an single empty
string argument (same as `save` already used to work).
- Support rewrite and setting `watchdog-period` from config file (was only supported
by the CONFIG command till now).
- Another side effect is that the `save T X` config argument now supports multiple
Time-Changes pairs in a single line like its `CONFIG SET` counterpart. So in the
config file you can either do:
```
save 3600 1
save 600 10
```
or do
```
save 3600 1 600 10
```
Co-authored-by: Bjorn Svensson <bjorn.a.svensson@est.tech>
For diskless replication in swapdb mode, considering we already spend replica memory
having a backup of current db to restore in case of failure, we can have the following benefits
by instead swapping database only in case we succeeded in transferring db from master:
- Avoid `LOADING` response during failed and successful synchronization for cases where the
replica is already up and running with data.
- Faster total time of diskless replication, because now we're moving from Transfer + Flush + Load
time to Transfer + Load only. Flushing the tempDb is done asynchronously after swapping.
- This could be implemented also for disk replication with similar benefits if consumers are willing
to spend the extra memory usage.
General notes:
- The concept of `backupDb` becomes `tempDb` for clarity.
- Async loading mode will only kick in if the replica is syncing from a master that has the same
repl-id the one it had before. i.e. the data it's getting belongs to a different time of the same timeline.
- New property in INFO: `async_loading` to differentiate from the blocking loading
- Slot to Key mapping is now a field of `redisDb` as it's more natural to access it from both server.db
and the tempDb that is passed around.
- Because this is affecting replicas only, we assume that if they are not readonly and write commands
during replication, they are lost after SYNC same way as before, but we're still denying CONFIG SET
here anyways to avoid complications.
Considerations for review:
- We have many cases where server.loading flag is used and even though I tried my best, there may
be cases where async_loading should be checked as well and cases where it shouldn't (would require
very good understanding of whole code)
- Several places that had different behavior depending on the loading flag where actually meant to just
handle commands coming from the AOF client differently than ones coming from real clients, changed
to check CLIENT_ID_AOF instead.
**Additional for Release Notes**
- Bugfix - server.dirty was not incremented for any kind of diskless replication, as effect it wouldn't
contribute on triggering next database SAVE
- New flag for RM_GetContextFlags module API: REDISMODULE_CTX_FLAGS_ASYNC_LOADING
- Deprecated RedisModuleEvent_ReplBackup. Starting from Redis 7.0, we don't fire this event.
Instead, we have the new RedisModuleEvent_ReplAsyncLoad holding 3 sub-events: STARTED,
ABORTED and COMPLETED.
- New module flag REDISMODULE_OPTIONS_HANDLE_REPL_ASYNC_LOAD for RedisModule_SetModuleOptions
to allow modules to declare they support the diskless replication with async loading (when absent, we fall
back to disk-based loading).
Co-authored-by: Eduardo Semprebon <edus@saxobank.com>
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Add new no-mandatory-keys flag to support COMMAND GETKEYS of commands
which have no mandatory keys.
In the past we would have got this error:
```
127.0.0.1:6379> command getkeys eval "return 1" 0
(error) ERR Invalid arguments specified for command
```
When using SETNX and SETXX we could end up doing key lookup twice.
This presents a small inefficiency price.
Also once we have statistics of write hit and miss they'll be wrong (recording the same key hit twice)
After PR #9166 , replication backlog is not a real block of memory, just contains a
reference points to replication buffer's block and the blocks index (to accelerate
search offset when partial sync), so we need update both replication buffer's block's
offset and replication backlog blocks index's offset when master restart from RDB,
since the `server.master_repl_offset` is changed.
The implications of this bug was just a slow search, but not a replication failure.
Add timestamp annotation in AOF, one part of #9325.
Enabled with the new `aof-timestamp-enabled` config option.
Timestamp annotation format is "#TS:${timestamp}\r\n"."
TS" is short of timestamp and this method could save extra bytes in AOF.
We can use timestamp annotation for some special functions.
- know the executing time of commands
- restore data to a specific point-in-time (by using redis-check-rdb to truncate the file)
Improve code doc for allowed_firstargs (used to be allowed_commands before #9504.
I don't think the text in the code needs to refer to the history (it's not there just for backwards compatibility).
instead it should just describe what it does.
## Background
For redis master, one replica uses one copy of replication buffer, that is a big waste of memory,
more replicas more waste, and allocate/free memory for every reply list also cost much.
If we set client-output-buffer-limit small and write traffic is heavy, master may disconnect with
replicas and can't finish synchronization with replica. If we set client-output-buffer-limit big,
master may be OOM when there are many replicas that separately keep much memory.
Because replication buffers of different replica client are the same, one simple idea is that
all replicas only use one replication buffer, that will effectively save memory.
Since replication backlog content is the same as replicas' output buffer, now we
can discard replication backlog memory and use global shared replication buffer
to implement replication backlog mechanism.
## Implementation
I create one global "replication buffer" which contains content of replication stream.
The structure of "replication buffer" is similar to the reply list that exists in every client.
But the node of list is `replBufBlock`, which has `id, repl_offset, refcount` fields.
```c
/* Replication buffer blocks is the list of replBufBlock.
*
* +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+
* | refcount = 1 | ... | refcount = 0 | ... | refcount = 2 |
* +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+
* | / \
* | / \
* | / \
* Repl Backlog Replia_A Replia_B
*
* Each replica or replication backlog increments only the refcount of the
* 'ref_repl_buf_node' which it points to. So when replica walks to the next
* node, it should first increase the next node's refcount, and when we trim
* the replication buffer nodes, we remove node always from the head node which
* refcount is 0. If the refcount of the head node is not 0, we must stop
* trimming and never iterate the next node. */
/* Similar with 'clientReplyBlock', it is used for shared buffers between
* all replica clients and replication backlog. */
typedef struct replBufBlock {
int refcount; /* Number of replicas or repl backlog using. */
long long id; /* The unique incremental number. */
long long repl_offset; /* Start replication offset of the block. */
size_t size, used;
char buf[];
} replBufBlock;
```
So now when we feed replication stream into replication backlog and all replicas, we only need
to feed stream into replication buffer `feedReplicationBuffer`. In this function, we set some fields of
replication backlog and replicas to references of the global replication buffer blocks. And we also
need to check replicas' output buffer limit to free if exceeding `client-output-buffer-limit`, and trim
replication backlog if exceeding `repl-backlog-size`.
When sending reply to replicas, we also need to iterate replication buffer blocks and send its
content, when totally sending one block for replica, we decrease current node count and
increase the next current node count, and then free the block which reference is 0 from the
head of replication buffer blocks.
Since now we use linked list to manage replication backlog, it may cost much time for iterating
all linked list nodes to find corresponding replication buffer node. So we create a rax tree to
store some nodes for index, but to avoid rax tree occupying too much memory, i record
one per 64 nodes for index.
Currently, to make partial resynchronization as possible as much, we always let replication
backlog as the last reference of replication buffer blocks, backlog size may exceeds our setting
if slow replicas that reference vast replication buffer blocks, and this method doesn't increase
memory usage since they share replication buffer. To avoid freezing server for freeing unreferenced
replication buffer blocks when we need to trim backlog for exceeding backlog size setting,
we trim backlog incrementally (free 64 blocks per call now), and make it faster in
`beforeSleep` (free 640 blocks).
### Other changes
- `mem_total_replication_buffers`: we add this field in INFO command, it means the total
memory of replication buffers used.
- `mem_clients_slaves`: now even replica is slow to replicate, and its output buffer memory
is not 0, but it still may be 0, since replication backlog and replicas share one global replication
buffer, only if replication buffer memory is more than the repl backlog setting size, we consider
the excess as replicas' memory. Otherwise, we think replication buffer memory is the consumption
of repl backlog.
- Key eviction
Since all replicas and replication backlog share global replication buffer, we think only the
part of exceeding backlog size the extra separate consumption of replicas.
Because we trim backlog incrementally in the background, backlog size may exceeds our
setting if slow replicas that reference vast replication buffer blocks disconnect.
To avoid massive eviction loop, we don't count the delayed freed replication backlog into
used memory even if there are no replicas, i.e. we also regard this memory as replicas's memory.
- `client-output-buffer-limit` check for replica clients
It doesn't make sense to set the replica clients output buffer limit lower than the repl-backlog-size
config (partial sync will succeed and then replica will get disconnected). Such a configuration is
ignored (the size of repl-backlog-size will be used). This doesn't have memory consumption
implications since the replica client will share the backlog buffers memory.
- Drop replication backlog after loading data if needed
We always create replication backlog if server is a master, we need it because we put DELs in
it when loading expired keys in RDB, but if RDB doesn't have replication info or there is no rdb,
it is not possible to support partial resynchronization, to avoid extra memory of replication backlog,
we drop it.
- Multi IO threads
Since all replicas and replication backlog use global replication buffer, if I/O threads are enabled,
to guarantee data accessing thread safe, we must let main thread handle sending the output buffer
to all replicas. But before, other IO threads could handle sending output buffer of all replicas.
## Other optimizations
This solution resolve some other problem:
- When replicas disconnect with master since of out of output buffer limit, releasing the output
buffer of replicas may freeze server if we set big `client-output-buffer-limit` for replicas, but now,
it doesn't cause freezing.
- This implementation may mitigate reply list copy cost time(also freezes server) when one replication
has huge reply buffer and another replica can copy buffer for full synchronization. now, we just copy
reference info, it is very light.
- If we set replication backlog size big, it also may cost much time to copy replication backlog into
replica's output buffer. But this commit eliminates this problem.
- Resizing replication backlog size doesn't empty current replication backlog content.
