redis-trib used to allocate slots not considering fractions of nodes
when computing the slots_per_node amount. So the fractional part was
carried over till the end of the allocation, where the last node
received a few more slots than any other (or a lot more if the cluster
was composed of many nodes).
The computation was changed to allocate slots more evenly when they are
not exactly divisible for the number of masters we have.
This got removed in 15ef91e during a new feature addition.
The prior commit had "break if masters.length == masters_count"
but we are guaranteed to aready have that condition met since
otherwise we would haven't gotten this far.
Without this break statement, it's possible some masters may
be forgotten and have zero replicas while other masters have
more than their requested number of replicas.
Thanks to carlos for pointing out this regression at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/_WVVqDw5B7c
This bug was introduced in 15ef91eb during a refactor.
It took me a while to understand what was going on with
the code, so I've refactored it further by:
- Replacing boolean values with meaningful symbols
- Replacing 'i' with a meaningful variable name
- Adding the proper abort check
- Factoring out now duplicated conditionals
- Adding optional verbose logging (we're inside *four*
different looping constructs, so it takes a while to
figure out where all the moving parts are)
- Updating comment for the section
This fixes a problem when the number of master instances
equaled the number of replica instances. Before, when
there were equal numbers of both, nodes_count would go to
zero, but the while loop would spin in i < @replicas because
i would never be updated (because the nodes_list of each ip
was length == 0, which triggered an endless loop of
next -> i = 0 -> 0 < 1? -> true -> next -> i = 0 ...)
Thanks to carlo who found this problem at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/_WVVqDw5B7c
Example: if the user will try to configure a cluster with 9 nodes,
asking for 1 slave for master, redis-trib will configure a 4 masters
cluster with 1 slave each as usually, but this time will assign the
spare node as a slave of one of the masters.
Later this should be configurable from the command line but at least now
we use something more appropriate for our use case compared to the
redis-rb default timeout.
This is needed in order to colorize it as next step.
We use conventions in output messages such as
>>> This is an action
*** This is a warning
[ERR] This is an error
[OK] That's fine
And so forth, so that a color will be associated checking the first
three chars.
