Using CLUSTER FAILOVER FORCE it is now possible to failover a master in
a forced way, which means:
1) No check to understand if the master is up is performed.
2) No data age of the slave is checked. Evan a slave with very old data
can manually failover a master in this way.
3) No chat with the master is attempted to reach its replication offset:
the master can just be down.
Automatic failovers only happen in Redis Cluster if the slave trying to
be elected was disconnected from its master for no more than 10 times
the node-timeout value. However there should be no such a check for
manual failovers, since these are initiated by the sysadmin that, in
theory, knows what she is doing when a slave is selected to be promoted.
Will be configurable / adaptive at some point but let's start with a
saner value compared to 1 sec which is not a good idea for big data
structures stored into a single key.
The error when the target key is busy was a generic one, while it makes
sense to be able to distinguish between the target key busy error and
the others easily.
The same change was operated for normal client connections. This is
important for Cluster as well, since when a node rejoins the cluster,
when a partition heals or after a restart, it gets flooded with new
connection attempts by all the other nodes trying to form a full
mesh again.
When a Sentinel performs a failover (successful or not), or when a
Sentinel votes for a different Sentinel trying to start a failover, it
sets a min delay before it will try to get elected for a failover.
While not strictly needed, because if multiple Sentinels will try
to failover the same master at the same time, only one configuration
will eventually win, this serialization is practically very useful.
Normal failovers are cleaner: one Sentinel starts to failover, the
others update their config when the Sentinel performing the failover
is able to get the selected slave to move from the role of slave to the
one of master.
However currently this timeout was implicit, so users could see
Sentinels not reacting, after a failed failover, for some time, without
giving any feedback in the logs to the poor sysadmin waiting for clues.
This commit makes Sentinels more verbose about the delay: when a master
is down and a failover attempt is not performed because the delay has
still not elaped, something like that will be logged:
Next failover delay: I will not start a failover
before Thu May 8 16:48:59 2014
SPOP, tested in the new test, is among the commands rewritng the
client->argv argument vector (it gets rewritten as SREM) for command
replication purposes.
Because of recent optimizations to client->argv caching in the context
of the Lua internal Redis client, it is important to test for SPOP to be
callable from Lua without bad effects to the other commands.
Sometimes the process is still there but no longer in a state that can
be checked (after being killed). This used to happen after a call to
SHUTDOWN NOSAVE in the scripting unit, causing a false positive.
Reusing small objects when possible is a major speedup under certain
conditions, since it is able to avoid the malloc/free pattern that
otherwise is performed for every argument in the client command vector.
Replace the three calls to Lua API lua_tostring, lua_lua_strlen,
and lua_isstring, with a single call to lua_tolstring.
~ 5% consistent speed gain measured.
Calling lua_gc() after every script execution is too expensive, and
apparently does not make the execution smoother: the same peak latency
was measured before and after the commit.
This change accounts for scripts execution speedup in the order of 10%.
The function showed up consuming a non trivial amount of time in the
profiler output. After this change benchmarking gives a 6% speed
improvement that can be consistently measured.
When the reply is only contained in the client static output buffer, use
a fast path avoiding the dynamic allocation of an SDS string to
concatenate the client reply objects.
Initially Redis Cluster accepted that after cluster creation all the
nodes were at configEpoch 0, evolving from zero as failovers happen.
However later the semantic was made more strict in order to make sure a
cluster has always all the master nodes with a different configEpoch,
which is more robust in some corner case (especially resulting from
errors by the system administrator).
To assign different configEpochs to different nodes at startup was a
task performed naturally by the config conflicts resolution algorithm
(see the Cluster specification). However this works well only for small
clusters or when there are actually just a few collisions, since it is
designed for exceptional cases.
When a large cluster is created hundred of nodes can be at epoch 0, so
the conflict resolution code is slow to provide an unique config to each
node. For this reason this new command was introduced. It can be called
only when a node is totally fresh: no other nodes known, and configEpoch
set to zero, so it is safe even against misuses.
redis-trib will use the new command in order to start the cluster
already setting an incremental unique config to every node.
This makes tests a bit slower, but it is better to test things at a
decent scale instead of using just a few nodes, and for a few tests we
actually need so many nodes.
This commit adds peer ID caching in the client structure plus an API
change and the use of sdsMakeRoomFor() in order to improve the
reallocation pattern to generate the CLIENT LIST output.
Both the changes account for a very significant speedup.
