[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/7] ovsdb raft: Sync commit index to followers without delay.

Han Zhou zhouhan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 01:21:16 UTC 2019


From: Han Zhou <hzhou8 at ebay.com>

When update is requested from follower, the leader sends AppendRequest
to all followers and wait until AppendReply received from majority, and
then it will update commit index - the new entry is regarded as committed
in raft log. However, this commit will not be notified to followers
(including the one initiated the request) until next heartbeat (ping
timeout), if no other pending requests. This results in long latency
for updates made through followers, especially when a batch of updates
are requested through the same follower.

$ time for i in `seq 1 100`; do ovn-nbctl ls-add ls$i; done

real    0m34.154s
user    0m0.083s
sys 0m0.250s

This patch solves the problem by sending heartbeat as soon as the commit
index is updated in leader. It also avoids unnessary heartbeat by resetting
the ping timer whenever AppendRequest is broadcasted. With this patch
the performance is improved more than 50 times in same test:

$ time for i in `seq 1 100`; do ovn-nbctl ls-add ls$i; done

real    0m0.564s
user    0m0.080s
sys 0m0.199s

Torture test cases are also updated because otherwise the tests will
all be skipped because of the improved performance.

Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <hzhou8 at ebay.com>
---
 ovsdb/raft.c           | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 tests/ovsdb-cluster.at | 16 +++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ovsdb/raft.c b/ovsdb/raft.c
index eee4f33..31e9e72 100644
--- a/ovsdb/raft.c
+++ b/ovsdb/raft.c
@@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ static void raft_send_append_request(struct raft *,
 
 static void raft_become_leader(struct raft *);
 static void raft_become_follower(struct raft *);
-static void raft_reset_timer(struct raft *);
+static void raft_reset_election_timer(struct raft *);
+static void raft_reset_ping_timer(struct raft *);
 static void raft_send_heartbeats(struct raft *);
 static void raft_start_election(struct raft *, bool leadership_transfer);
 static bool raft_truncate(struct raft *, uint64_t new_end);
@@ -376,8 +377,8 @@ raft_alloc(void)
     hmap_init(&raft->add_servers);
     hmap_init(&raft->commands);
 
-    raft->ping_timeout = time_msec() + PING_TIME_MSEC;
-    raft_reset_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_ping_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_election_timer(raft);
 
     return raft;
 }
@@ -865,7 +866,7 @@ raft_read_log(struct raft *raft)
 }
 
 static void
-raft_reset_timer(struct raft *raft)
+raft_reset_election_timer(struct raft *raft)
 {
     unsigned int duration = (ELECTION_BASE_MSEC
                              + random_range(ELECTION_RANGE_MSEC));
@@ -874,6 +875,12 @@ raft_reset_timer(struct raft *raft)
 }
 
 static void
+raft_reset_ping_timer(struct raft *raft)
+{
+    raft->ping_timeout = time_msec() + PING_TIME_MSEC;
+}
+
+static void
 raft_add_conn(struct raft *raft, struct jsonrpc_session *js,
               const struct uuid *sid, bool incoming)
 {
@@ -1603,7 +1610,7 @@ raft_start_election(struct raft *raft, bool leadership_transfer)
             VLOG_INFO("term %"PRIu64": starting election", raft->term);
         }
     }
-    raft_reset_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_election_timer(raft);
 
     struct raft_server *peer;
     HMAP_FOR_EACH (peer, hmap_node, &raft->servers) {
@@ -1782,8 +1789,8 @@ raft_run(struct raft *raft)
                     raft_command_complete(raft, cmd, RAFT_CMD_TIMEOUT);
                 }
             }
+            raft_reset_ping_timer(raft);
         }
-        raft->ping_timeout = time_msec() + PING_TIME_MSEC;
     }
 
     /* Do this only at the end; if we did it as soon as we set raft->left or
@@ -1963,6 +1970,7 @@ raft_command_initiate(struct raft *raft,
             s->next_index++;
         }
     }
+    raft_reset_ping_timer(raft);
 
     return cmd;
 }
@@ -2313,7 +2321,7 @@ raft_become_follower(struct raft *raft)
     }
 
     raft->role = RAFT_FOLLOWER;
-    raft_reset_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_election_timer(raft);
 
     /* Notify clients about lost leadership.
      *
@@ -2387,6 +2395,8 @@ raft_send_heartbeats(struct raft *raft)
                                             RAFT_CMD_INCOMPLETE, 0);
         }
     }
+
+    raft_reset_ping_timer(raft);
 }
 
 /* Initializes the fields in 's' that represent the leader's view of the
@@ -2413,7 +2423,7 @@ raft_become_leader(struct raft *raft)
     raft->role = RAFT_LEADER;
     raft->leader_sid = raft->sid;
     raft->election_timeout = LLONG_MAX;
-    raft->ping_timeout = time_msec() + PING_TIME_MSEC;
+    raft_reset_ping_timer(raft);
 
     struct raft_server *s;
     HMAP_FOR_EACH (s, hmap_node, &raft->servers) {
@@ -2573,11 +2583,13 @@ raft_get_next_entry(struct raft *raft, struct uuid *eid)
     return data;
 }
 
-static void
+/* Updates commit index in raft log. If commit index is already up-to-date
+ * it does nothing and return false, otherwise, returns true. */
+static bool
 raft_update_commit_index(struct raft *raft, uint64_t new_commit_index)
 {
     if (new_commit_index <= raft->commit_index) {
-        return;
+        return false;
     }
 
     if (raft->role == RAFT_LEADER) {
@@ -2610,6 +2622,7 @@ raft_update_commit_index(struct raft *raft, uint64_t new_commit_index)
         .commit_index = raft->commit_index,
     };
     ignore(ovsdb_log_write_and_free(raft->log, raft_record_to_json(&r)));
+    return true;
 }
 
 /* This doesn't use rq->entries (but it does use rq->n_entries). */
@@ -2809,7 +2822,7 @@ raft_handle_append_request(struct raft *raft,
                                "usurped leadership");
         return;
     }
-    raft_reset_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_election_timer(raft);
 
     /* First check for the common case, where the AppendEntries request is
      * entirely for indexes covered by 'log_start' ... 'log_end - 1', something
@@ -3045,7 +3058,9 @@ raft_consider_updating_commit_index(struct raft *raft)
             }
         }
     }
-    raft_update_commit_index(raft, new_commit_index);
+    if (raft_update_commit_index(raft, new_commit_index)) {
+        raft_send_heartbeats(raft);
+    }
 }
 
 static void
@@ -3274,7 +3289,7 @@ raft_handle_vote_request__(struct raft *raft,
         return false;
     }
 
-    raft_reset_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_election_timer(raft);
 
     return true;
 }
@@ -3697,7 +3712,7 @@ static bool
 raft_handle_install_snapshot_request__(
     struct raft *raft, const struct raft_install_snapshot_request *rq)
 {
-    raft_reset_timer(raft);
+    raft_reset_election_timer(raft);
 
     /*
      * Our behavior here depend on new_log_start in the snapshot compared to
diff --git a/tests/ovsdb-cluster.at b/tests/ovsdb-cluster.at
index c7f1e34..5550a19 100644
--- a/tests/ovsdb-cluster.at
+++ b/tests/ovsdb-cluster.at
@@ -131,12 +131,16 @@ ovsdb|WARN|schema: changed 2 columns in 'OVN_Southbound' database from ephemeral
     done
     export OVN_SB_DB
 
-    n1=10 n2=5
+    n1=10 n2=5 n3=50
     echo "starting $n1*$n2 ovn-sbctl processes..."
     for i in $(seq 0 $(expr $n1 - 1) ); do
         (for j in $(seq $n2); do
              : > $i-$j.running
-             run_as "ovn-sbctl($i-$j)" ovn-sbctl "-vPATTERN:console:ovn-sbctl($i-$j)|%D{%H:%M:%S}|%05N|%c|%p|%m" --log-file=$i-$j.log -vfile -vsyslog:off -vtimeval:off --timeout=120 --no-leader-only add SB_Global . external_ids $i-$j=$i-$j
+             txn="add SB_Global . external_ids $i-$j=$i-$j"
+             for k in $(seq $n3); do
+                 txn="$txn -- add SB_Global . external_ids $i-$j-$k=$i-$j-$k"
+             done
+             run_as "ovn-sbctl($i-$j)" ovn-sbctl "-vPATTERN:console:ovn-sbctl($i-$j)|%D{%H:%M:%S}|%05N|%c|%p|%m" --log-file=$i-$j.log -vfile -vsyslog:off -vtimeval:off --timeout=120 --no-leader-only $txn
              status=$?
              if test $status != 0; then
                  echo "$i-$j exited with status $status" > $i-$j:$status
@@ -146,13 +150,12 @@ ovsdb|WARN|schema: changed 2 columns in 'OVN_Southbound' database from ephemeral
          : > $i.done)&
     done
     echo "...done"
-    sleep 2
 
     echo "waiting for ovn-sbctl processes to exit..."
     # Use file instead of var because code inside "while" runs in a subshell.
     echo 0 > phase
     i=0
-    (while :; do echo; sleep 1; done) | while read REPLY; do
+    (while :; do echo; sleep 0.1; done) | while read REPLY; do
         printf "t=%2d s:" $i
         done=0
         for j in $(seq 0 $(expr $n1 - 1)); do
@@ -168,7 +171,7 @@ ovsdb|WARN|schema: changed 2 columns in 'OVN_Southbound' database from ephemeral
 
         case $(cat phase) in # (
         0)
-            if test $done -ge $(expr $n1 / 4); then
+            if test $done -ge $(expr $n1 / 10); then
                 if test $variant = kill; then
                     stop_server $victim
                 else
@@ -199,6 +202,9 @@ ovsdb|WARN|schema: changed 2 columns in 'OVN_Southbound' database from ephemeral
     for i in $(seq 0 $(expr $n1 - 1) ); do
         for j in `seq $n2`; do
             echo "$i-$j=$i-$j"
+            for k in `seq $n3`; do
+                echo "$i-$j-$k=$i-$j-$k"
+            done
         done
     done | sort > expout
     AT_CHECK([ovn-sbctl --timeout=30 --log-file=finalize.log -vtimeval:off -vfile -vsyslog:off --bare get SB_Global . external-ids | tr ',' '\n' | sed 's/[[{}"" ]]//g' | sort], [0], [expout])
-- 
2.1.0



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