In this PR we introduce the main benefit of dual channel replication by
continuously steaming the COB (client output buffers) in parallel to the
RDB and thus keeping the primary's side COB small AND accelerating the
overall sync process. By streaming the replication data to the replica
during the full sync, we reduce
1. Memory load from the primary's node.
2. CPU load from the primary's main process. [Latest performance
tests](#data)
## Motivation
* Reduce primary memory load. We do that by moving the COB tracking to
the replica side. This also decrease the chance for COB overruns. Note
that primary's input buffer limits at the replica side are less
restricted then primary's COB as the replica plays less critical part in
the replication group. While increasing the primary’s COB may end up
with primary reaching swap and clients suffering, at replica side we’re
more at ease with it. Larger COB means better chance to sync
successfully.
* Reduce primary main process CPU load. By opening a new, dedicated
connection for the RDB transfer, child processes can have direct access
to the new connection. Due to TLS connection restrictions, this was not
possible using one main connection. We eliminate the need for the child
process to use the primary's child-proc -> main-proc pipeline, thus
freeing up the main process to process clients queries.
## Dual Channel Replication high level interface design
- Dual channel replication begins when the replica sends a `REPLCONF
CAPA DUALCHANNEL` to the primary during initial
handshake. This is used to state that the replica is capable of dual
channel sync and that this is the replica's main channel, which is not
used for snapshot transfer.
- When replica lacks sufficient data for PSYNC, the primary will send
`-FULLSYNCNEEDED` response instead
of RDB data. As a next step, the replica creates a new connection
(rdb-channel) and configures it against
the primary with the appropriate capabilities and requirements. The
replica then requests a sync
using the RDB channel.
- Prior to forking, the primary sends the replica the snapshot's end
repl-offset, and attaches the replica
to the replication backlog to keep repl data until the replica requests
psync. The replica uses the main
channel to request a PSYNC starting at the snapshot end offset.
- The primary main threads sends incremental changes via the main
channel, while the bgsave process
sends the RDB directly to the replica via the rdb-channel. As for the
replica, the incremental
changes are stored on a local buffer, while the RDB is loaded into
memory.
- Once the replica completes loading the rdb, it drops the
rdb-connection and streams the accumulated incremental
changes into memory. Repl steady state continues normally.
## New replica state machine
## Data <a name="data"></a>
## Explanation
These graphs demonstrate performance improvements during full sync
sessions using rdb-channel + streaming rdb directly from the background
process to the replica.
First graph- with at most 50 clients and light weight commands, we saw
5%-7.5% improvement in write latency during sync session.
Two graphs below- full sync was tested during heavy read commands from
the primary (such as sdiff, sunion on large sets). In that case, the
child process writes to the replica without sharing CPU with the loaded
main process. As a result, this not only improves client response time,
but may also shorten sync time by about 50%. The shorter sync time
results in less memory being used to store replication diffs (>60% in
some of the tested cases).
## Test setup
Both primary and replica in the performance tests ran on the same
machine. RDB size in all tests is 3.7gb. I generated write load using
valkey-benchmark ` ./valkey-benchmark -r 100000 -n 6000000 lpush my_list
__rand_int__`.
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Signed-off-by: naglera <anagler123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: naglera <58042354+naglera@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Viktor Söderqvist <viktor.soderqvist@est.tech>
Co-authored-by: Ping Xie <pingxie@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
Make the one backwards compatible config change we are allowed to
replace for removing master from our API.
`masterauth` and `masteruser` are still used as an alias, but aren't
explicitly referenced. As an addendum to
https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/591, it would be good to have
this in 8. Given the related PR for updated other references for master,
I just updated the ones around this specific change.
Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
Occurrences of "redis" in TCL test suites and helpers, such as TCL
client used in tests, are replaced with "valkey".
Occurrences of uppercase "Redis" are not changed in this PR.
No files are renamed in this PR.
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Signed-off-by: Shivshankar-Reddy <shiva.sheri.github@gmail.com>
By the convention of errors, there is supposed to be a space between the code and the name.
While looking at some lua stuff I noticed that interpreter errors were not adding the space,
so some clients will try to map the detailed error message into the error.
We have tests that hit this condition, but they were just checking that the string "starts" with ERR.
I updated some other tests with similar incorrect string checking. This isn't complete though, as
there are other ways we check for ERR I didn't fix.
Produces some fun output like:
```
# Errorstats
errorstat_ERR:count=1
errorstat_ERRuser_script_1_:count=1
```
This change sets a low limit for multibulk and bulk length in the
protocol for unauthenticated connections, so that they can't easily
cause redis to allocate massive amounts of memory by sending just a few
characters on the network.
The new limits are 10 arguments of 16kb each (instead of 1m of 512mb)
This commit revives the improves the ability to run the test suite against
external servers, instead of launching and managing `redis-server` processes as
part of the test fixture.
This capability existed in the past, using the `--host` and `--port` options.
However, it was quite limited and mostly useful when running a specific tests.
Attempting to run larger chunks of the test suite experienced many issues:
* Many tests depend on being able to start and control `redis-server` themselves,
and there's no clear distinction between external server compatible and other
tests.
* Cluster mode is not supported (resulting with `CROSSSLOT` errors).
This PR cleans up many things and makes it possible to run the entire test suite
against an external server. It also provides more fine grained controls to
handle cases where the external server supports a subset of the Redis commands,
limited number of databases, cluster mode, etc.
The tests directory now contains a `README.md` file that describes how this
works.
This commit also includes additional cleanups and fixes:
* Tests can now be tagged.
* Tag-based selection is now unified across `start_server`, `tags` and `test`.
* More information is provided about skipped or ignored tests.
* Repeated patterns in tests have been extracted to common procedures, both at a
global level and on a per-test file basis.
* Cleaned up some cases where test setup was based on a previous test executing
(a major anti-pattern that repeats itself in many places).
* Cleaned up some cases where test teardown was not part of a test (in the
future we should have dedicated teardown code that executes even when tests
fail).
* Fixed some tests that were flaky running on external servers.
This way the behavior is very similar to the past one.
This is useful in order to remember the user she probably failed to
configure a password correctly.
