*TL;DR*
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Following the discussion over the issue [#7551](https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/7551)
We decided to refactor the client blocking code to eliminate some of the code duplications
and to rebuild the infrastructure better for future key blocking cases.
*In this PR*
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1. reprocess the command once a client becomes unblocked on key (instead of running
custom code for the unblocked path that's different than the one that would have run if
blocking wasn't needed)
2. eliminate some (now) irrelevant code for handling unblocking lists/zsets/streams etc...
3. modify some tests to intercept the error in cases of error on reprocess after unblock (see
details in the notes section below)
4. replace '$' on the client argv with current stream id. Since once we reprocess the stream
XREAD we need to read from the last msg and not wait for new msg in order to prevent
endless block loop.
5. Added statistics to the info "Clients" section to report the:
* `total_blocking_keys` - number of blocking keys
* `total_blocking_keys_on_nokey` - number of blocking keys which have at least 1 client
which would like
to be unblocked on when the key is deleted.
6. Avoid expiring unblocked key during unblock. Previously we used to lookup the unblocked key
which might have been expired during the lookup. Now we lookup the key using NOTOUCH and
NOEXPIRE to avoid deleting it at this point, so propagating commands in blocked.c is no longer needed.
7. deprecated command flags. We decided to remove the CMD_CALL_STATS and CMD_CALL_SLOWLOG
and make an explicit verification in the call() function in order to decide if stats update should take place.
This should simplify the logic and also mitigate existing issues: for example module calls which are
triggered as part of AOF loading might still report stats even though they are called during AOF loading.
*Behavior changes*
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1. As this implementation prevents writing dedicated code handling unblocked streams/lists/zsets,
since we now re-process the command once the client is unblocked some errors will be reported differently.
The old implementation used to issue
``UNBLOCKED the stream key no longer exists``
in the following cases:
- The stream key has been deleted (ie. calling DEL)
- The stream and group existed but the key type was changed by overriding it (ie. with set command)
- The key not longer exists after we swapdb with a db which does not contains this key
- After swapdb when the new db has this key but with different type.
In the new implementation the reported errors will be the same as if the command was processed after effect:
**NOGROUP** - in case key no longer exists, or **WRONGTYPE** in case the key was overridden with a different type.
2. Reprocessing the command means that some checks will be reevaluated once the
client is unblocked.
For example, ACL rules might change since the command originally was executed and
will fail once the client is unblocked.
Another example is OOM condition checks which might enable the command to run and
block but fail the command reprocess once the client is unblocked.
3. One of the changes in this PR is that no command stats are being updated once the
command is blocked (all stats will be updated once the client is unblocked). This implies
that when we have many clients blocked, users will no longer be able to get that information
from the command stats. However the information can still be gathered from the client list.
**Client blocking**
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the blocking on key will still be triggered the same way as it is done today.
in order to block the current client on list of keys, the call to
blockForKeys will still need to be made which will perform the same as it is today:
* add the client to the list of blocked clients on each key
* keep the key with a matching list node (position in the global blocking clients list for that key)
in the client private blocking key dict.
* flag the client with CLIENT_BLOCKED
* update blocking statistics
* register the client on the timeout table
**Key Unblock**
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Unblocking a specific key will be triggered (same as today) by calling signalKeyAsReady.
the implementation in that part will stay the same as today - adding the key to the global readyList.
The reason to maintain the readyList (as apposed to iterating over all clients blocked on the specific key)
is in order to keep the signal operation as short as possible, since it is called during the command processing.
The main change is that instead of going through a dedicated code path that operates the blocked command
we will just call processPendingCommandsAndResetClient.
**ClientUnblock (keys)**
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1. Unblocking clients on keys will be triggered after command is
processed and during the beforeSleep
8. the general schema is:
9. For each key *k* in the readyList:
```
For each client *c* which is blocked on *k*:
in case either:
1. *k* exists AND the *k* type matches the current client blocking type
OR
2. *k* exists and *c* is blocked on module command
OR
3. *k* does not exists and *c* was blocked with the flag
unblock_on_deleted_key
do:
1. remove the client from the list of clients blocked on this key
2. remove the blocking list node from the client blocking key dict
3. remove the client from the timeout list
10. queue the client on the unblocked_clients list
11. *NEW*: call processCommandAndResetClient(c);
```
*NOTE:* for module blocked clients we will still call the moduleUnblockClientByHandle
which will queue the client for processing in moduleUnblockedClients list.
**Process Unblocked clients**
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The process of all unblocked clients is done in the beforeSleep and no change is planned
in that part.
The general schema will be:
For each client *c* in server.unblocked_clients:
* remove client from the server.unblocked_clients
* set back the client readHandler
* continue processing the pending command and input buffer.
*Some notes regarding the new implementation*
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1. Although it was proposed, it is currently difficult to remove the
read handler from the client while it is blocked.
The reason is that a blocked client should be unblocked when it is
disconnected, or we might consume data into void.
2. While this PR mainly keep the current blocking logic as-is, there
might be some future additions to the infrastructure that we would
like to have:
- allow non-preemptive blocking of client - sometimes we can think
that a new kind of blocking can be expected to not be preempt. for
example lets imagine we hold some keys on disk and when a command
needs to process them it will block until the keys are uploaded.
in this case we will want the client to not disconnect or be
unblocked until the process is completed (remove the client read
handler, prevent client timeout, disable unblock via debug command etc...).
- allow generic blocking based on command declared keys - we might
want to add a hook before command processing to check if any of the
declared keys require the command to block. this way it would be
easier to add new kinds of key-based blocking mechanisms.
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Ran Shidlansik <ranshid@amazon.com>
1. Get rid of server.core_propagates - we can just rely on module/call nesting levels
2. Rename in_nested_call to execution_nesting and update the comment
3. Remove module_ctx_nesting (redundant, we can use execution_nesting)
4. Modify postExecutionUnitOperations according to the comment (The main purpose of this PR)
5. trackingHandlePendingKeyInvalidations: Check the nesting level inside this function
The PR reverts the changes made on #10969.
The reason for revert was trigger because of occasional test failure
that started after the PR was merged.
The issue is that if there is a lazy expire during the command invocation,
the `del` command is added to the replication stream after the command
placeholder. So the logical order on the primary is:
* Delete the key (lazy expiration)
* Command invocation
But the replication stream gets it the other way around:
* Command invocation (because the command is written into the placeholder)
* Delete the key (lazy expiration)
So if the command write to the key that was just lazy expired we will get
inconsistency between primary and replica.
One solution we considered is to add another lazy expire replication stream
and write all the lazy expire there. Then when replicating, we will replicate the
lazy expire replication stream first. This will solve this specific test failure but
we realize that the issues does not ends here and the more we dig the more
problems we find.One of the example we thought about (that can actually
crashes Redis) is as follow:
* User perform SINTERSTORE
* When Redis tries to fetch the second input key it triggers lazy expire
* The lazy expire trigger a module logic that deletes the first input key
* Now Redis hold the robj of the first input key that was actually freed
We believe we took the wrong approach and we will come up with another
PR that solve the problem differently, for now we revert the changes so we
will not have the tests failure.
Notice that not the entire code was revert, some parts of the PR are changes
that we would like to keep. The changes that **was** reverted are:
* Saving a placeholder for replication at the beginning of the command (`call` function)
* Order of the replication stream on active expire and eviction (we will decide how
to handle it correctly on follow up PR)
* `Spop` changes are no longer needed (because we reverted the placeholder code)
Changes that **was not** reverted:
* On expire/eviction, wrap the `del` and the notification effect in a multi exec.
* `PropagateNow` function can still accept a special dbid, -1, indicating not to replicate select.
* Keep optimisation for reusing the `alsoPropagate` array instead of allocating it each time.
Tests:
* All tests was kept and only few tests was modify to work correctly with the changes
* Test was added to verify that the revert fixes the issues.
Fix replication inconsistency on modules that uses key space notifications.
### The Problem
In general, key space notifications are invoked after the command logic was
executed (this is not always the case, we will discuss later about specific
command that do not follow this rules). For example, the `set x 1` will trigger
a `set` notification that will be invoked after the `set` logic was performed, so
if the notification logic will try to fetch `x`, it will see the new data that was written.
Consider the scenario on which the notification logic performs some write
commands. for example, the notification logic increase some counter,
`incr x{counter}`, indicating how many times `x` was changed.
The logical order by which the logic was executed is has follow:
```
set x 1
incr x{counter}
```
The issue is that the `set x 1` command is added to the replication buffer
at the end of the command invocation (specifically after the key space
notification logic was invoked and performed the `incr` command).
The replication/aof sees the commands in the wrong order:
```
incr x{counter}
set x 1
```
In this specific example the order is less important.
But if, for example, the notification would have deleted `x` then we would
end up with primary-replica inconsistency.
### The Solution
Put the command that cause the notification in its rightful place. In the
above example, the `set x 1` command logic was executed before the
notification logic, so it should be added to the replication buffer before
the commands that is invoked by the notification logic. To achieve this,
without a major code refactoring, we save a placeholder in the replication
buffer, when finishing invoking the command logic we check if the command
need to be replicated, and if it does, we use the placeholder to add it to the
replication buffer instead of appending it to the end.
To be efficient and not allocating memory on each command to save the
placeholder, the replication buffer array was modified to reuse memory
(instead of allocating it each time we want to replicate commands).
Also, to avoid saving a placeholder when not needed, we do it only for
WRITE or MAY_REPLICATE commands.
#### Additional Fixes
* Expire and Eviction notifications:
* Expire/Eviction logical order was to first perform the Expire/Eviction
and then the notification logic. The replication buffer got this in the
other way around (first notification effect and then the `del` command).
The PR fixes this issue.
* The notification effect and the `del` command was not wrap with
`multi-exec` (if needed). The PR also fix this issue.
* SPOP command:
* On spop, the `spop` notification was fired before the command logic
was executed. The change in this PR would have cause the replication
order to be change (first `spop` command and then notification `logic`)
although the logical order is first the notification logic and then the
`spop` logic. The right fix would have been to move the notification to
be fired after the command was executed (like all the other commands),
but this can be considered a breaking change. To overcome this, the PR
keeps the current behavior and changes the `spop` code to keep the right
logical order when pushing commands to the replication buffer. Another PR
will follow to fix the SPOP properly and match it to the other command (we
split it to 2 separate PR's so it will be easy to cherry-pick this PR to 7.0 if
we chose to).
#### Unhanded Known Limitations
* key miss event:
* On key miss event, if a module performed some write command on the
event (using `RM_Call`), the `dirty` counter would increase and the read
command that cause the key miss event would be replicated to the replication
and aof. This problem can also happened on a write command that open
some keys but eventually decides not to perform any action. We decided
not to handle this problem on this PR because the solution is complex
and will cause additional risks in case we will want to cherry-pick this PR.
We should decide if we want to handle it in future PR's. For now, modules
writers is advice not to perform any write commands on key miss event.
#### Testing
* We already have tests to cover cases where a notification is invoking write
commands that are also added to the replication buffer, the tests was modified
to verify that the replica gets the command in the correct logical order.
* Test was added to verify that `spop` behavior was kept unchanged.
* Test was added to verify key miss event behave as expected.
* Test was added to verify the changes do not break lazy expiration.
#### Additional Changes
* `propagateNow` function can accept a special dbid, -1, indicating not
to replicate `select`. We use this to replicate `multi/exec` on `propagatePendingCommands`
function. The side effect of this change is that now the `select` command
will appear inside the `multi/exec` block on the replication stream (instead of
outside of the `multi/exec` block). Tests was modified to match this new behavior.
This case is interesting because it originates from cron,
rather than from another command.
The idea came from looking at #9890 and #10573, and I was wondering if RM_Call
would work properly when `server.current_client == NULL`
Summary of changes:
1. Rename `redisCommand->name` to `redisCommand->declared_name`, it is a
const char * for native commands and SDS for module commands.
2. Store the [sub]command fullname in `redisCommand->fullname` (sds).
3. List subcommands in `ACL CAT`
4. List subcommands in `COMMAND LIST`
5. `moduleUnregisterCommands` now will also free the module subcommands.
6. RM_GetCurrentCommandName returns full command name
Other changes:
1. Add `addReplyErrorArity` and `addReplyErrorExpireTime`
2. Remove `getFullCommandName` function that now is useless.
3. Some cleanups about `fullname` since now it is SDS.
4. Delete `populateSingleCommand` function from server.h that is useless.
5. Added tests to cover this change.
6. Add some module unload tests and fix the leaks
7. Make error messages uniform, make sure they always contain the full command
name and that it's quoted.
7. Fixes some typos
see the history in #9504, fixes#10124
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: guybe7 <guy.benoish@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.
Preventing COFIG SET maxmemory from propagating is just the tip of the iceberg.
Module that performs a write operation in a notification can cause any
command to be propagated, based on server.dirty
We need to come up with a better solution.
There's a race between testing DBSIZE and the thread starting.
If the thread hadn't started by the time we checked DBISZE, no
keys will have been evicted.
The correct way is to check the evicted_keys stat.
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)
Before this commit using RM_Call without "!" could cause the master
to lazy-expire a key (delete it) but without replicating to replicas.
This could cause the replica's memory usage to gradually grow and
could also cause consistency issues if the master and replica have
a clock diff.
This bug was introduced in #8617
Added a test which demonstrates that scenario.
1. moduleReplicateMultiIfNeeded should use server.in_eval like
moduleHandlePropagationAfterCommandCallback
2. server.in_eval could have been set to 1 and not reset back
to 0 (a lot of missed early-exits after in_eval is already 1)
Note: The new assertions in processCommand cover (2) and I added
two module tests to cover (1)
Implications:
If an EVAL that failed (and thus left server.in_eval=1) runs before a module
command that replicates, the replication stream will contain MULTI (because
moduleReplicateMultiIfNeeded used to check server.lua_caller which is NULL
at this point) but not EXEC (because server.in_eval==1)
This only affects modules as module.c the only user of server.in_eval.
Affects versions 6.2.0, 6.2.1
Bug 1:
When a module ctx is freed moduleHandlePropagationAfterCommandCallback
is called and handles propagation. We want to prevent it from propagating
commands that were not replicated by the same context. Example:
1. module1.foo does: RM_Replicate(cmd1); RM_Call(cmd2); RM_Replicate(cmd3)
2. RM_Replicate(cmd1) propagates MULTI and adds cmd1 to also_propagagte
3. RM_Call(cmd2) create a new ctx, calls call() and destroys the ctx.
4. moduleHandlePropagationAfterCommandCallback is called, calling
alsoPropagates EXEC (Note: EXEC is still not written to socket),
setting server.in_trnsaction = 0
5. RM_Replicate(cmd3) is called, propagagting yet another MULTI (now
we have nested MULTI calls, which is no good) and then cmd3
We must prevent RM_Call(cmd2) from resetting server.in_transaction.
REDISMODULE_CTX_MULTI_EMITTED was revived for that purpose.
Bug 2:
Fix issues with nested RM_Call where some have '!' and some don't.
Example:
1. module1.foo does RM_Call of module2.bar without replication (i.e. no '!')
2. module2.bar internally calls RM_Call of INCR with '!'
3. at the end of module1.foo we call RM_ReplicateVerbatim
We want the replica/AOF to see only module1.foo and not the INCR from module2.bar
Introduced a global replication_allowed flag inside RM_Call to determine
whether we need to replicate or not (even if '!' was specified)
Other changes:
Split beforePropagateMultiOrExec to beforePropagateMulti afterPropagateExec
just for better readability
In the distant history there was only the read flag for commands, and whatever
command that didn't have the read flag was a write one.
Then we added the write flag, but some portions of the code still used !read
Also some commands that don't work on the keyspace at all, still have the read
flag.
Changes in this commit:
1. remove the read-only flag from TIME, ECHO, ROLE and LASTSAVE
2. EXEC command used to decides if it should propagate a MULTI by looking at
the command flags (!read & !admin).
When i was about to change it to look at the write flag instead, i realized
that this would cause it not to propagate a MULTI for PUBLISH, EVAL, and
SCRIPT, all 3 are not marked as either a read command or a write one (as
they should), but all 3 are calling forceCommandPropagation.
So instead of introducing a new flag to denote a command that "writes" but
not into the keyspace, and still needs propagation, i decided to rely on
the forceCommandPropagation, and just fix the code to propagate MULTI when
needed rather than depending on the command flags at all.
The implication of my change then is that now it won't decide to propagate
MULTI when it sees one of these: SELECT, PING, INFO, COMMAND, TIME and
other commands which are neither read nor write.
3. Changing getNodeByQuery and clusterRedirectBlockedClientIfNeeded in
cluster.c to look at !write rather than read flag.
This should have no implications, since these code paths are only reachable
for commands which access keys, and these are always marked as either read
or write.
This commit improve MULTI propagation tests, for modules and a bunch of
other special cases, all of which used to pass already before that commit.
the only one that test change that uncovered a change of behavior is the
one that DELs a non-existing key, it used to propagate an empty
multi-exec block, and no longer does.
Makse sure call() doesn't wrap replicated commands with
a redundant MULTI/EXEC
Other, unrelated changes:
1. Formatting compiler warning in INFO CLIENTS
2. Use CLIENT_ID_AOF instead of UINT64_MAX
