The pg_log_t variant does seem to be cleaner.
-Sam

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Sage Weil <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Wang, Zhiqiang wrote:
>> The downside of this approach is that we may need to search the pg_log
>> for a specific object in every write io?
>
> Not quite.  IndexedLog maintains a hash_map of all of the request ids in
> the log, so it's just a hash lookup on each IO.  (Well, now 2 hash
> lookups, because I put the additional request IDs in a second auxilliary
> map to handle dups properly.  I think we can avoid that lookup if we use
> the request flags carefully, though.. the RETRY and REDIRECTED flags
> I think?  Need to check carefully.)
>
>> Maybe we can combine this
>> approach and the changes in PR 3447. For the flush case when the object
>> is deleted in the base, we search the pg_log for dup op. This should be
>> rare cases. Otherwise the object exists, we check the reqid list in the
>> object_info_t for dup op.
>
> We could do a hybrid approach, but there is some cost to the per-object
> tracking: a tiny bit more memory, and an O(n) search of the items in that
> list (~10 or 20?) for the dup check.  I suspect the hash lookup is
> cheaper?  And simpler.
>
> sage
>
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wang, Zhiqiang
>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 10:35 AM
>> To: Sage Weil; Gregory Farnum
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: idempotent op (esp delete)
>>
>> This method puts the reqid list in the pg_log instead of the object_info_t, 
>> so that it's preserved even in the delete case, which sounds more reasonable.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sage Weil
>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 6:19 AM
>> To: Gregory Farnum
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: idempotent op (esp delete)
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Gregory Farnum wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Sage Weil <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > Background:
>> > >
>> > > 1) Way back when we made a task that would thrash the cache modes by
>> > > adding and removing the cache tier while ceph_test_rados was running.
>> > > This mostly worked, but would occasionally fail because we would
>> > >
>> > >  - delete an object from the cache tier
>> > >  - a network failure injection would lose the reply
>> > >  - we'd disable the cache
>> > >  - the delete would resend to the base tier, not get recognized as a
>> > > dup (different pool, different pg log)
>> > >    -> -ENOENT instead of 0
>> > >
>> > > 2) The proxy write code hits a similar problem:
>> > >
>> > >  - delete gets proxied
>> > >  - we initiate async promote
>> > >  - a network failure injection loses the delete reply
>> > >  - delete resends and blocks on promote (or arrives after it
>> > > finishes)
>> > >  - promote finishes
>> > >  - delete is handled
>> > >   -> -ENOENT instead of 0
>> > >
>> > > The ticket is http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/8935
>> > >
>> > > The problem is partially addressed by
>> > >
>> > >         https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/3447
>> > >
>> > > by logging a few request ids on every object_info_t and preserving
>> > > that on promote and flush.
>> > >
>> > > However, it doesn't solve the problem for delete because we throw
>> > > out object_info_t so that reqid_t is lost.
>> > >
>> > > I think we have two options, not necessarily mutually exclusive:
>> > >
>> > > 1) When promoting an object that doesn't exist (to create a
>> > > whiteout), pull reqids out of the base tier's pg log so that the
>> > > whiteout is primed with request ids.
>> > >
>> > > 1.5) When flushing... well, that is harder because we have nowhere
>> > > to put the reqids.  Unless we make a way to cram a list of reqid's
>> > > into a single PG log entry...?  In that case, we wouldn't strictly
>> > > need the per-object list since we could pile the base tier's reqids
>> > > into the promote log entry in the cache tier.
>> > >
>> > > 2) Make delete idempotent (0 instead of ENOENT if the object doesn't
>> > > exist).  This will require a delicate compat transition (let's
>> > > ignore that a moment) but you can preserve the old behavior for
>> > > callers that care by preceding the delete with an assert_exists op.
>> > > Most callers don't care, but a handful do.  This simplifies the
>> > > semantics we need to support going forward.
>> > >
>> > > Of course, it's all a bit delicate.  The idempotent op semantics
>> > > have a time horizon so it's all a bit wishy-washy... :/
>> > >
>> > > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Do we have other cases that we're worried about which would be
>> > improved by maintaining reqids across pool cache transitions? I'm not
>> > a big fan of maintaining those per-op lists (they sound really
>> > expensive?), but if we need them for something else that's a point in
>> > their favor.
>>
>> I don't think they're *too* expensive (say, vector of 20 per 
>> object_info_t?).  But the only thing I can think of beyond the cache tiering 
>> stuff would be cases where the pg log isnt long enough for a very laggy 
>> client.  In general ops will be distributed across ops so it will be catch 
>> the dup from another angle.
>>
>> However.. I just hacked up a patch that lets us cram lots of reqids into a 
>> single pg_log_entry_t and I think that may be a simpler solution.  We can 
>> cram all reqids (for the last N of them) for promote and flush into the 
>> single log entry and the delete is no longer special.. it'd work equally 
>> well for other dups and for class methods that do who knows what.  The patch 
>> is here:
>>
>>       https://github.com/liewegas/ceph/commit/wip-pg-reqids
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> > We could make delete idempotent instead and that's what I initially
>> > favor, but it also seems a bit scary (it's not like our operations can
>> > be made idempotent; lots of them invoke classes that will differ or
>> > whatever!) and I can't think of which callers might care so I'm having
>> > trouble formulating the bounds of this solution.
>>
>> Yeah, it seems like an easier endpoint but a dangerous path to get there...
>>
>> sage
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