ceph/doc/dev/osd_internals/backfill_reservation.rst
Loic Dachary 69b5c72cbe doc: updates on Backfill Reservation
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Backfill Reservation
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When a new osd joins a cluster, all pgs containing it must eventually backfill
to it. If all of these backfills happen simultaneously, it would put excessive
load on the osd. osd_max_backfills limits the number of outgoing or
incoming backfills on a single node. The maximum number of outgoing backfills is
osd_max_backfills. The maximum number of incoming backfills is
osd_max_backfills. Therefore there can be a maximum of osd_max_backfills * 2
simultaneous backfills on one osd.
Each OSDService now has two AsyncReserver instances: one for backfills going
from the osd (local_reserver) and one for backfills going to the osd
(remote_reserver). An AsyncReserver (common/AsyncReserver.h) manages a queue
by priority of waiting items and a set of current reservation holders. When a
slot frees up, the AsyncReserver queues the Context* associated with the next
item on the highest priority queue in the finisher provided to the constructor.
For a primary to initiate a backfill, it must first obtain a reservation from
its own local_reserver. Then, it must obtain a reservation from the backfill
target's remote_reserver via a MBackfillReserve message. This process is
managed by substates of Active and ReplicaActive (see the substates of Active
in PG.h). The reservations are dropped either on the Backfilled event, which
is sent on the primary before calling recovery_complete and on the replica on
receipt of the BackfillComplete progress message), or upon leaving Active or
ReplicaActive.
It's important that we always grab the local reservation before the remote
reservation in order to prevent a circular dependency.
We want to minimize the risk of data loss by prioritizing the order in
which PGs are recovered. The highest priority is log based recovery
(OSD_RECOVERY_PRIORITY_MAX) since this must always complete before
backfill can start. The next priority is backfill of degraded PGs and
is a function of the degradation. A backfill for a PG missing two
replicas will have a priority higher than a backfill for a PG missing
one replica. The lowest priority is backfill of non-degraded PGs.