Current implementation heavily relies on readAllFileInfo
but with the advent of xl.meta inlined with data, we cannot
easily avoid reading data when we are only interested is
updating metadata, this leads to invariably write
amplification during metadata updates, repeatedly reading
data when we are only interested in updating metadata.
This PR ensures that we implement a metadata only update
API at storage layer, that handles updates to metadata alone
for any given version - given the version is valid and
present.
This helps reduce the chattiness for following calls..
- PutObjectTags
- DeleteObjectTags
- PutObjectLegalHold
- PutObjectRetention
- ReplicateObject (updates metadata on replication status)
This is to ensure that Go contexts work properly, after some
interesting experiments I found that Go net/http doesn't
cancel the context when Body is non-zero and hasn't been
read till EOF.
The following gist explains this, this can lead to pile up
of go-routines on the server which will never be canceled
and will die at a really later point in time, which can
simply overwhelm the server.
https://gist.github.com/harshavardhana/c51dcfd055780eaeb71db54f9c589150
To avoid this refactor the locking such that we take locks after we
have started reading from the body and only take locks when needed.
Also, remove contextReader as it's not useful, doesn't work as expected
context is not canceled until the body reaches EOF so there is no point
in wrapping it with context and putting a `select {` on it which
can unnecessarily increase the CPU overhead.
We will still use the context to cancel the lockers etc.
Additional simplification in the locker code to avoid timers
as re-using them is a complicated ordeal avoid them in
the hot path, since locking is very common this may avoid
lots of allocations.
In the Current bug we were re-using the context
from previously granted lockers, this would
lead to lock timeouts for existing valid
read or write locks, leading to premature
timeout of locks.
This bug affects only local lockers in FS
or standalone erasure coded mode. This issue
is rather historical as well and was present
in lsync for some time but we were lucky to
not see it.
Similar changes are done in dsync as well
to keep the code more familiar
Fixes#9827
At a customer setup with lots of concurrent calls
it can be observed that in newRetryTimer there
were lots of tiny alloations which are not
relinquished upon retries, in this codepath
we were only interested in re-using the timer
and use it wisely for each locker.
```
(pprof) top
Showing nodes accounting for 8.68TB, 97.02% of 8.95TB total
Dropped 1198 nodes (cum <= 0.04TB)
Showing top 10 nodes out of 79
flat flat% sum% cum cum%
5.95TB 66.50% 66.50% 5.95TB 66.50% time.NewTimer
1.16TB 13.02% 79.51% 1.16TB 13.02% github.com/ncw/directio.AlignedBlock
0.67TB 7.53% 87.04% 0.70TB 7.78% github.com/minio/minio/cmd.xlObjects.putObject
0.21TB 2.36% 89.40% 0.21TB 2.36% github.com/minio/minio/cmd.(*posix).Walk
0.19TB 2.08% 91.49% 0.27TB 2.99% os.statNolog
0.14TB 1.59% 93.08% 0.14TB 1.60% os.(*File).readdirnames
0.10TB 1.09% 94.17% 0.11TB 1.25% github.com/minio/minio/cmd.readDirN
0.10TB 1.07% 95.23% 0.10TB 1.07% syscall.ByteSliceFromString
0.09TB 1.03% 96.27% 0.09TB 1.03% strings.(*Builder).grow
0.07TB 0.75% 97.02% 0.07TB 0.75% path.(*lazybuf).append
```
Harshavardhana