The implementation of the diskless replication was currently diskless only on the master side.
The slave side was still storing the received rdb file to the disk before loading it back in and parsing it.
This commit adds two modes to load rdb directly from socket:
1) when-empty
2) using "swapdb"
the third mode of using diskless slave by flushdb is risky and currently not included.
other changes:
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distinguish between aof configuration and state so that we can re-enable aof only when sync eventually
succeeds (and not when exiting from readSyncBulkPayload after a failed attempt)
also a CONFIG GET and INFO during rdb loading would have lied
When loading rdb from the network, don't kill the server on short read (that can be a network error)
Fix rdb check when performed on preamble AOF
tests:
run replication tests for diskless slave too
make replication test a bit more aggressive
Add test for diskless load swapdb
CLIENT PAUSE may be used, in other contexts, for a long time making all
the slaves time out. Better for now to be more specific about what
should disable senidng PINGs.
An alternative to that would be to virtually refresh the slave
interactions when clients are paused, however for now I went for this
more conservative solution.
In mostly production environment, normal user's behavior should be
limited.
Now in redis ACL mechanism we can do it like that:
user default on +@all ~* -@dangerous nopass
user admin on +@all ~* >someSeriousPassword
Then the default normal user can not execute dangerous commands like
FLUSHALL/KEYS.
But some admin commands are in dangerous category too like PSYNC,
and the configurations above will forbid replica from sync with master.
Finally I think we could add a new configuration for replication,
it is masteruser option, like this:
masteruser admin
masterauth someSeriousPassword
Then replica will try AUTH admin someSeriousPassword and get privilege
to execute PSYNC. If masteruser is NULL, replica would AUTH with only
masterauth like before.
During the full database resync we may still have unsaved changes
on the receiving side. This causes a race condition between
synced data rename/load and the rename of rdbSave tempfile.
The slave sends \n keepalive messages to the master while parsing the rdb,
and later sends REPLCONF ACK once a second. rarely, the master recives both
a linefeed char and a REPLCONF in the same read, \n*3\r\n$8\r\nREPLCONF\r\n...
and it tries to trim two chars (\r\n) from the query buffer,
trimming the '*' from *3\r\n$8\r\nREPLCONF\r\n...
then the master tries to process a command starting with '3' and replies to
the slave a bunch of -ERR and one +OK.
although the slave silently ignores these (prints a log message), this corrupts
the replication offset at the slave since the slave increases the replication
offset, and the master did not.
other than the fix in processInlineBuffer, i did several other improvments
while hunting this very rare bug.
- when redis replies with "unknown command" it includes a portion of the
arguments, not just the command name. so it would be easier to understand
what was recived, in my case, on the slave side, it was -ERR, but
the "arguments" were the interesting part (containing info on the error).
- about a year ago i added code in addReplyErrorLength to print the error to
the log in case of a reply to master (since this string isn't actually
trasmitted to the master), now changed that block to print a similar log
message to indicate an error being sent from the master to the slave.
note that the slave is marked as CLIENT_SLAVE only after PSYNC was received,
so this will not cause any harm for REPLCONF, and will only indicate problems
that are gonna corrupt the replication stream anyway.
- two places were c->reply was emptied, and i wanted to reset sentlen
this is a precaution (i did not actually see such a problem), since a
non-zero sentlen will cause corruption to be transmitted on the socket.
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
PR #5081 fixes an "interesting" bug about Redis Cluster failover but in
general about the updating of repl_down_since, that is used in order to
count the time a slave was left disconnected from its master.
While the fix provided resolves the specific issue, in general the
validity of repl_down_since is limited to states that are different
than the state CONNECTED, and the disconnected time is set when the
state is DISCONNECTED. However from CONNECTED to other states, the state
machine must always go to DISCONNECTED first. So it makes sense to set
the field to zero (since it is meaningless in that context) when the
state is set to CONNECTED.
after a slave is promoted (assuming it has no slaves
and it booted over an hour ago), it will lose it's replication
backlog at the next replication cron, rather than waiting for slaves
to connect to it.
so on a simple master/slave faiover, if the new slave doesn't connect
immediately, it may be too later and PSYNC2 will fail.
We have this operation in two places: when caching the master and
when linking a new client after the client creation. By having an API
for this we avoid incurring in errors when modifying one of the two
places forgetting the other. The function is also a good place where to
document why we cache the linked list node.
Related to #4497 and #4210.
When we free the backlog, we should use a new
replication ID and clear the ID2. Since without
backlog we can not increment master_repl_offset
even do write commands, that may lead to inconsistency
when we try to connect a "slave-before" master
(if this master is our slave before, our replid
equals the master's replid2). As the master have our
history, so we can match the master's replid2 and
second_replid_offset, that make partial sync work,
but the data is inconsistent.
