It has been observed that some peers have a growing number of goroutines,
usually stuck in go-libp2p-gorpc.MultiStream() function, which is waiting to
read items from the arguments channel.
We suspect this is due to aborted /add requests. In situations when the add
request is aborted or fails, Finalize() is never called and the blocks channel
stays open, so MultiStream() can never exit, and the BlockStreamer can never
stop streaming etc.
As a fix, we added the requirement to call Close() when we stop using a
ClusterDAGService (error or not). This should ensure that the blocks channel
is always closed and not just on Finalize().
This new component broadcasts metrics about the current size of the pinqueue,
which can in turn be used to inform allocations.
It has a weight_bucket_size option that serves to divide the actual size by a
given factor. This allows considering peers with similar queue sizes to have
the same weight.
Additionally, some changes have been made to the balanced allocator so that a
combination of tags, pinqueue sizes and free-spaces can be used. When
allocating by [<tag>, pinqueue, freespace], the allocator will prioritize
choosing peers with the smallest pin queue weight first, and of those with the
same weight, it will allocate based on freespace.
This commit introduces an api.Cid type and replaces the usage of cid.Cid
everywhere.
The main motivation here is to override MarshalJSON so that Cids are
JSON-ified as '"Qm...."' instead of '{ "/": "Qm....." }', as this "ipld"
representation of IDs is horrible to work with, and our APIs are not issuing
IPLD objects to start with.
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this cleanly, and the best way is to just
switch everything to our own type.
This commit fixes#810 and adds block streaming to the final destinations when
adding. This should add major performance gains when adding data to clusters.
Before, everytime cluster issued a block, it was broadcasted individually to
all destinations (new libp2p stream), where it was block/put to IPFS (a single
block/put http roundtrip per block).
Now, blocks are streamed all the way from the adder module to the ipfs daemon,
by making every block as it arrives a single part in a multipart block/put
request.
Before, block-broadcast needed to wait for all destinations to finish in order
to process the next block. Now, buffers allow some destinations to be faster
than others while sending and receiving blocks.
Before, if a block put request failed to be broadcasted everywhere, an error
would happen at that moment.
Now, we keep streaming until the end and only then report any errors. The
operation succeeds as long as at least one stream finished successfully.
Errors block/putting to IPFS will not abort streams. Instead, subsequent
blocks are retried with a new request, although the method will return an
error when the stream finishes if there were errors at any point.
This commit makes all the changes to make Peers() a streaming call.
While Peers is usually a non problematic call, for consistency, all calls
returning collections assembled through broadcast to cluster peers are now
streaming calls.
This commit continues the work of taking advantage of the streaming
capabilities in go-libp2p-gorpc by improving the ipfsconnector and pintracker
components.
StatusAll and RecoverAll methods are now streaming methods, with the REST API
output changing accordingly to produce a stream of GlobalPinInfos rather than
a json array.
pin/ls request to the ipfs daemon now use ?stream=true and avoid having to
load the full pinset map on memory. StatusAllLocal and RecoverAllLocal
requests to the pin tracker stream all the way and no longer store the full
pinset, and the full PinInfo status slice before sending it out.
We have additionally switched to a pattern where streaming methods receive the
channel as an argument, allowing the caller to decide on whether to launch a
goroutine, do buffering etc.
This commit introduces the new go-libp2p-gorpc streaming capabilities for
Cluster. The main aim is to work towards heavily reducing memory usage when
working with very large pinsets.
As a side-effect, it takes the chance to revampt all types for all public
methods so that pointers to static what should be static objects are not used
anymore. This should heavily reduce heap allocations and GC activity.
The main change is that state.List now returns a channel from which to read
the pins, rather than pins being all loaded into a huge slice.
Things reading pins have been all updated to iterate on the channel rather
than on the slice. The full pinset is no longer fully loaded onto memory for
things that run regularly like StateSync().
Additionally, the /allocations endpoint of the rest API no longer returns an
array of pins, but rather streams json-encoded pin objects directly. This
change has extended to the restapi client (which puts pins into a channel as
they arrive) and to ipfs-cluster-ctl.
There are still pending improvements like StatusAll() calls which should also
stream responses, and specially BlockPut calls which should stream blocks
directly into IPFS on a single call.
These are coming up in future commits.
pinsvcapi: do not cache peer information here as all the needed information is
in the status objects.
This adds ipfs_addresses as a field broadcasted with the ping metrics.
This allows to specifically request status for several CIDs as
provided in the "cids" query parameter, instead of request status for
all CIDs.
In this case, the filter is ignored.
Fixes#1554
Fixes: peer names unset for remote peers
This adds an IPFS field to pin status information (PinInfoShort).
It has not been easy to add this, given that the IPFS ID is something that
comes from outside of cluster (unlike the peer name). After several tries I
have settled in the following things:
- Use the ping metric to send out peer names and IPFS IDs to the peers in the
cluster.
- Cache the latest known IPFS ID (if IPFS dies we should still be setting
the ID).
- Provide an RPC method for the Pintracker to obtain IPFS ID from the cache.
- Given we now know information for peernames and IPFS IDs from other peers,
we can use that information even if the requests to them error or we are not
contacting (i.e. peers allocated as remote are not queried for status). We can
use the information from the last received ping metric.
- This means we should keep metrics around even if peers go away, at least for
a while rather than deleting them as soon as we detect that they have expired.
Puting it all together we now have a system to gossip peer information around on top
of the ping metrics.
The new "metrics" allocator is about to partition metrics and distribe
allocations among the partitions.
For example: given a region, an availability zone and free space on disk, the
allocator would be able to choose allocations by distributing among regions
and availability zones as much as possible, and for those peers in the same
region/az, selecting those with most free space first.
This requires a major overhaul of the allocator component.
This commit modifies the pintracker StatusAll call to take a status filter.
This allows to skip a PinLs call to ipfs when checking status for items that
are queued, pinning, unpinning or in error. Those status come directly from
the operation tracker. This should result in a significant performance
increase for those calls, particularly in nodes with several hundred thousand
pins and more, where the call to IPFS is very expensive.
A new TrackerStatusUnexpectedlyUnpinned status has been introduce to
differentiate between pin errors (tracked by the operation tracker) and "lost"
items (which before were pin errors too). This new status is handled by the
Recover() operation as before.
This commit adds a new add option: "format".
This option specifies how IPFS Cluster is expected to build the DAG when
adding content. By default, it takes a "unixfs", which chunks and DAG-ifies as
it did before, resulting in a UnixFSv1 DAG.
Alternatively, it can be set to "car". In this case, Cluster will directly
read blocks from the CAR file and add them.
Adding CAR files or doing normal processing is independent from letting
cluster do sharding or not. If sharding is ever enabled, Cluster could
potentially shard a large CAR file among peers.
Currently, importing CAR files is limited to a single CAR file with a single
root (the one that is pinned). Future iterations may support multiple CARs
and/or multiple roots by transparently wrapping them.
GlobalPinInfo objects carried redundant information (Cid, Peer) that takes
space and time to serialize.
This has been addressed by having GlobalPinInfo embed PinInfoShort rather than
PinInfo. This new types ommits redundant fields.
Receive the full pin object so that it can decide whether to check
for recursive or direct pins directly.
Additionally, unpin will not check for the pin presence anymore and
simply trigger unpins (ignoring errors)
Currently we were only specifying the block format. When adding with
a custom hash function, even though we produced the right cids, IPFS
did not know the hash function and ended up storing them using SHA256.
Additionally, since NodeWithMeta serializes the CID, we do not need
to carry a Format parameter (which specifies the Codec): it is already
embedded.
Tests have been added and BlockPut in ipfshttp now checks that the
response's CID matches the data sent. This will catch errors like
what was happening, but also any data corruption between cluster and
IPFS during the block upload.
* add ipv6 listening addresses to the default config
* ipfsproxy: support multiple listeners. Add default ipv6.
* mm
* restapi: support multiple listen addresses. enable ipv6
* cluster_config: format default listen addresses
* commands: update for multiple listeners. Fix randomports for udp and ipv6.
* ipfs-cluster-service: fix randomports test
* multiple listeners: fix remaining tests
* golint
* Disable ipv6 in defaults
It is not supported by docker by default. It is not supported in travis-CI
build environments. User can enable it now manually.
* proxy: disable ipv6 in test
* ipfshttp: fix test
Co-authored-by: @RubenKelevra <cyrond@gmail.com>
This removes mappintracker and sets stateless tracker as the default (and only) pintracker component.
Because the stateless tracker matches the cluster state with only ongoing operations being kept on memory, and additional information provided by ipfs-pin-ls, syncing operations are not necessary. Therefore the Sync/SyncAll operations are removed cluster-wide.