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 attempt to commit any pending batches when the crdt component is being
shutudown. A commit should succeed if the new DAG node is created, heads are
replaced and broadcast.
The latest version of CRDT ensure that the datastore does not unnecessarily
gets marked as dirty when a broadcasted head cannot be fetched/processed, so
the side effect of publishing a head before shutting down should be under
control at least.
I think this should fix the issue. As solution we make every retry with a
temporary channel and copy results to the final channel which is only closed
by us. This only affects streaming methods.
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 does 3 things:
- Add a NoPin option to the adder. When set to true, the adding process does not
send a pin in the end.
- When user-allocations are set and local=true happens, we do not overwrite
the allocations returned by the allocator to include the local peer
anymore, as this could alter user-allocations.
- Some code improvement (remove pointers).
This will facilitate building outputs for the Pinning Services API, saving a
round trip to query the cluster State, since all the needed information
already comes from the PinTracker, which has already accessed the state.
Since the pintracker already included a state attribute (Name), we are simply
going down that path.
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.
We call RecoverAll regularly and I noticed it was way slower than it should be.
After all, it should just loop the pinset and enqueued items that are
unexpectedly unpinned or in pin error.
However, at some point we decided that RecoverAll would return information for
all pins, regardless of whether they were recovered or not. This ends up
resulting in a separate Status call for every pin that is already pinned, and
this call hits IPFS. This is pretty bad with big pinsets.
This commit fixes that, we return no state information for pins that are not
touched.
This adds a Timestamp field to the pin objects. This allows to track when they were pinned.
This:
* Allows the pin-tracker to actually show accurate information on when the pin
entered the system for pins that are not part of ongoing operations
(currently it shows time.Now())
* Adds support for reporting timestamp on a pinning services api.
On large pinsets this may take a very long time and prevents metrics and
re-boostrapping from starting, among other things. See bug description.
This lets watchPinset trigger an immediate RecoverAllLocal instead, but this
happens in its own goroutine and should allow everything else to start.
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.
StatusCID() and Peers() are calls that should return relatively quickly.
If they don't, it means they are hanging for some reason. We cannot let the
whole Multicall request hang waiting on a single peer, therefore, set a
hardcoded 15 second deadline for both.
The Allocations of a pin that has been added with default replication factor
are kept even when the replication factor turns out to be -1.
This resulted in the Status(cid) code skipping calls to a number of peers
and setting the pin directly as REMOTE.
The fix, on one side makes sure Allocations is always nil when the replication
factor is -1. On the other size, lets the globalPinInfoCid method check the
replication factor value, rather than the number of allocations to decide if
any nodes are bound to be remote.
On the plus side, the pin tracker used the IsRemotePin method, which uses the
replication factor, so things were pinned even if the Status(cid) method shows
them as remote.
* feat: make MDNS failure on start non-fatal
- if discovery.NewMdnsService errors on start, show warning "error message, MDNS service will be disabled"
- same as setting MDNSInterval to 0: NewCluster is still created and daemon runs, but without MDNS
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.
We cannot rely on current pin allocations anymore since the allocations
may be follower peers that do not even handle alerts.
Instead, we assume that we are a trusted peer (because we are not in follower
mode), get all other trusted peers and act if we are the XOR-closest to the
CID.
This also means that replication-factor = 1 pins can be recovered too.
i.e. a direct pin can be repinned as recursive, but a recursive
pin cannot be pinned as direct (this fails in IPFS too).
Additionally, save a couple of calls to the datastore by obtaining the
existing pin only once.
