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.
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 metadata updates to the same write batch as the underlying
file change. The odds of a metadata update going missing is greatly
reduced.
Bonus change: actually commit the transaction in recalcMeta.
We could potentially get a snapshot and then fail to get a releaser,
leaking the snapshot. This takes the releaser first and makes sure to
release it on snapshot error.
* lib/db: Deduplicate block lists in database (fixes#5898)
This moves the block list in the database out from being just a field on
the FileInfo to being an object of its own. When putting a FileInfo we
marshal the block list separately and store it keyed by the sha256 of
the marshalled block list. When getting, if we are not doing a
"truncated" get, we do an extra read and unmarshal for the block list.
Old block lists are cleared out by a periodic GC sweep. The alternative
would be to use refcounting, but:
- There is a larger risk of getting that wrong and either dropping a
block list in error or keeping them around forever.
- It's tricky with our current database, as we don't have dirty reads.
This means that if we update two FileInfos with identical block lists in
the same transaction we can't just do read/modify/write for the ref
counters as we wouldn't see our own first update. See above about
tracking this and risks about getting it wrong.
GC uses a bloom filter for keys to avoid heavy RAM usage. GC can't run
concurrently with FileInfo updates so there is a new lock around those
operation at the lowlevel.
The end result is a much more compact database, especially for setups
with many peers where files get duplicated many times.
This is per-key-class stats for a large database I'm currently working
with, under the current schema:
```
0x00: 9138161 items, 870876 KB keys + 7397482 KB data, 95 B + 809 B avg, 1637651 B max
0x01: 185656 items, 10388 KB keys + 1790909 KB data, 55 B + 9646 B avg, 924525 B max
0x02: 916890 items, 84795 KB keys + 3667 KB data, 92 B + 4 B avg, 192 B max
0x03: 384 items, 27 KB keys + 5 KB data, 72 B + 15 B avg, 87 B max
0x04: 1109 items, 17 KB keys + 17 KB data, 15 B + 15 B avg, 69 B max
0x06: 383 items, 3 KB keys + 0 KB data, 9 B + 2 B avg, 18 B max
0x07: 510 items, 4 KB keys + 12 KB data, 9 B + 24 B avg, 41 B max
0x08: 1349 items, 12 KB keys + 10 KB data, 9 B + 8 B avg, 17 B max
0x09: 194 items, 0 KB keys + 123 KB data, 5 B + 634 B avg, 11484 B max
0x0a: 3 items, 0 KB keys + 0 KB data, 14 B + 7 B avg, 30 B max
0x0b: 181836 items, 2363 KB keys + 10694 KB data, 13 B + 58 B avg, 173 B max
Total 10426475 items, 968490 KB keys + 9202925 KB data.
```
Note 7.4 GB of data in class 00, total size 9.2 GB. After running the
migration we get this instead:
```
0x00: 9138161 items, 870876 KB keys + 2611392 KB data, 95 B + 285 B avg, 4788 B max
0x01: 185656 items, 10388 KB keys + 1790909 KB data, 55 B + 9646 B avg, 924525 B max
0x02: 916890 items, 84795 KB keys + 3667 KB data, 92 B + 4 B avg, 192 B max
0x03: 384 items, 27 KB keys + 5 KB data, 72 B + 15 B avg, 87 B max
0x04: 1109 items, 17 KB keys + 17 KB data, 15 B + 15 B avg, 69 B max
0x06: 383 items, 3 KB keys + 0 KB data, 9 B + 2 B avg, 18 B max
0x07: 510 items, 4 KB keys + 12 KB data, 9 B + 24 B avg, 41 B max
0x09: 194 items, 0 KB keys + 123 KB data, 5 B + 634 B avg, 11484 B max
0x0a: 3 items, 0 KB keys + 0 KB data, 14 B + 17 B avg, 51 B max
0x0b: 181836 items, 2363 KB keys + 10694 KB data, 13 B + 58 B avg, 173 B max
0x0d: 44282 items, 1461 KB keys + 61081 KB data, 33 B + 1379 B avg, 1637399 B max
Total 10469408 items, 969939 KB keys + 4477905 KB data.
```
Class 00 is now down to 2.6 GB, with just 61 MB added in class 0d.
There will be some additional reads in some cases which theoretically
hurts performance, but this will be more than compensated for by smaller
writes and better compaction.
On my own home setup which just has three devices and a handful of
folders the difference is smaller in absolute numbers of course, but
still less than half the old size:
```
0x00: 297122 items, 20894 KB keys + 306860 KB data, 70 B + 1032 B avg, 103237 B max
0x01: 115299 items, 7738 KB keys + 17542 KB data, 67 B + 152 B avg, 419 B max
0x02: 1430537 items, 121223 KB keys + 5722 KB data, 84 B + 4 B avg, 253 B max
...
Total 1947412 items, 151268 KB keys + 337485 KB data.
```
to:
```
0x00: 297122 items, 20894 KB keys + 37038 KB data, 70 B + 124 B avg, 520 B max
0x01: 115299 items, 7738 KB keys + 17542 KB data, 67 B + 152 B avg, 419 B max
0x02: 1430537 items, 121223 KB keys + 5722 KB data, 84 B + 4 B avg, 253 B max
...
0x0d: 18041 items, 595 KB keys + 71964 KB data, 33 B + 3988 B avg, 101109 B max
Total 1965447 items, 151863 KB keys + 139628 KB data.
```
* wip
* wip
* wip
* wip
This PR does two things, because one lead to the other:
- Move the leveldb specific stuff into a small "backend" package that
defines a backend interface and the leveldb implementation. This allows,
potentially, in the future, switching the db implementation so another
KV store should we wish to do so.
- Add proper error handling all along the way. The db and backend
packages are now errcheck clean. However, I drew the line at modifying
the FileSet API in order to keep this manageable and not continue
refactoring all of the rest of Syncthing. As such, the FileSet methods
still panic on database errors, except for the "database is closed"
error which is instead handled by silently returning as quickly as
possible, with the assumption that we're anyway "on the way out".
