If the GC finds a key k that it wants to keep, it records that in a
Bloom filter. If a key k' can be removed but its hash collides with k,
it will be kept. Since the old Bloom filter code was completely
deterministic, the next run would encounter the same collision, assuming
k must still be kept.
A randomized hash function that uses all the SHA-256 bits solves this
problem: the second run has a non-zero probability of removing k', as
long as the Bloom filter is not completely full.
This makes Go 1.15 test/vet happy, avoiding "conversion from untyped int
to string yields a string of one rune" warning where we do
string(KeyTypeWhatever) in namespaced.go.
It also clarifies and enforces the currently allowed range of these
numbers so I think it's fine.
This matches the convention of the stdlib and avoids ambiguity: when
customErr{} and &customErr{} both implement error, client code needs to
check for both.
Memory use should remain the same, since storing a non-pointer type in
an interface value still copies the value to the heap.
Group the global list of files by version, instead of having one flat list for all devices. This removes lots of duplicate protocol.Vectors.
Co-authored-by: Jakob Borg <jakob@kastelo.net>
This reduces the size of our write batches before we flush them. This
has two effects: reducing the amount of data lost if we crash when
updating the database, and reducing the amount of memory used when we do
large updates without checkpoint (e.g., deleting a folder).
I ran our SyncManyFiles benchmark as it is the one doing most
transactions, however there was no relevant change in any metric (it's
limited by our fsync I expect). This is good as any visible change would
just be a decrease in performance.
I don't have a benchmark on deleting a large folder, taking that part on
trust for now...
This adds indirection of large version vectors in the same manner as we
already to block lists. The effect is the same: less duplicated data in
some situations.
To mitigate the impact for when this indirection
wouldn't be needed I've added an indirection cutoff for both blocks and
the new version vector stuff: we don't do the indirection at all for
small block lists or small version vectors, instead storing it directly
like we used to do. This is faster for small files and small setups.
This makes the GC runner a service that will stop fairly quickly when
told to.
As a bonus, STTRACE=app will print the service tree on the way out,
including any errors they've flagged.
As of the latest database checker we are again putting files without
blocks. I'm not 100% convinced that's a great idea, but we also do it
for ignored files apparently so it looks like we probably should support
it. This adds an escape hatch that must be manually enabled...
