This addresses an issue where the compaction triggered on cutting
a new block doesn't find anything as the writers are still active on the
block that should be ready for compaction.
This adds write path support for segmented chunk data files.
Files of 512MB are pre-allocated and written to. If the file size
is exceeded, the next file is started. On completion, files
are truncated to their final size.
File locks have a multitude of problems that make them hard to use
correctly. As they are just advisory, they are only meaningful to
prevent accidents like running the same process twice.
A simple PID file lock works reliably in those cases and is simpler.
This is an initial (and hacky) first pass on allowing
appending to multiple blocks simultaniously to avoid
dropping samples right after cutting a new head block.
It's also required for cases like the PGW, where a scrape may
contain varying timestamps.
The former approach created unordered postings list by either
map iteration of new series being unsorted (fixable) or concurrent
writers creating new series interleaved.
We switch back to generating ephemeral references for a single batch.
Newly created series have to be re-set upon the next insert.
This exposes a reference number of a series represented by a label set
to clients.
Subsequent samples can be directly added via the reference rather than
repeatedly passing in the full labels. This drasitcally speeds up the
append process.
The appender chain uses different sections of the reference number for
assignment to child appenders and invalidating reference numbers as
necessary.
Clients can either pass out reference numbers themselves or have their
own optimized lookup, i.e. by directly associating unparsed metric
descriptors strings with reference numbers.
This adds a 4 sample buffer to every head chunk. The XOR
compression scheme may edit bytes in place. The minimum size
of a sample is 2 bits. So keeping the last 4 samples in an in-memory
buffer makes it safe to query the preceeding ones while samples
are added
Fabian Reinartz