Remove only a move's proven second copy, and never delete a handed-out original (hq issue 558)
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Second review of #276: a dead letter delivered again beside its original
shares its request id and was removed as a copy, losing the ask; and a
publish that outlived the pause could delete an original a holder had
taken. A copy now names the message it copies, removals are said, the
publish waits inside the pause's margin, and an original handed out
meanwhile keeps its place while the copy goes.
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commit fc573f951a
3 changed files with 164 additions and 35 deletions
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"sort"
"strconv"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
@@ -111,14 +112,26 @@ var orderPasses sync.Mutex
// worker paused this long at most. moveMargin is the part of it no move starts in: a pass stops moving
// with at least this left, and the next pass moves the rest, so no move runs past the pause.
const (
pausedFor = 20 * time.Second
moveMargin = 5 * time.Second
pausedFor = 20 * time.Second
moveMargin = 5 * time.Second
publishWaits = 3 * time.Second
)
// QueuedAtHeader carries, on a moved ask, when the stream first took it: a move keeps an ask's place in
// time, its id unread or not.
const QueuedAtHeader = "Mesh-Queued-At"
// MovedFromHeader names, on a move's copy, the sequence of the message it is a copy of: with QueuedAtHeader,
// what proves a second message of one id is a move's copy and not an ask delivered again (ADR 0293), whose
// headers are its original's — and so never name that original's own sequence.
const MovedFromHeader = "Mesh-Moved-From"
// Pass is what one pass did: the asks it moved, and each second copy it removed, in words.
type Pass struct {
Moved []string
Removed []string
}
// asked is the signal an ask sends the acting controller's pass loop, in this process. An ask asked in
// another process — a verb run as its own command — is seen by the loop as the queue's last sequence moving.
var asked = make(chan struct{}, 1)
@@ -134,23 +147,24 @@ func signalAsked() {
// PutInOrder moves the seat's waiting asks into the order QueueOrder says, and says each it moved. A queue
// already in order is read and left alone; the worker is paused only while asks move. Run by the acting
// controller alone (KeepingInOrder): two passes in two processes would each resume what the other paused.
func PutInOrder(ctx context.Context, js *broker.JetStream, seat string) ([]string, error) {
func PutInOrder(ctx context.Context, js *broker.JetStream, seat string) (Pass, error) {
var pass Pass
orderPasses.Lock()
defer orderPasses.Unlock()
api, err := jetstream.New(js.Conn())
if err != nil {
return nil, err
return pass, err
}
worker, _ := broker.HolderConsumerFor("", "", broker.DeclaredSeat{Name: seat, Accepts: []string{"build"}})
waiting, extra, delivered, err := readWaiting(ctx, api, worker, seat)
if err != nil || (len(extra) == 0 && len(toMove(waiting, QueueOrder(waiting, time.Now()))) == 0) {
return nil, err
return pass, err
}
// Paused, then read again: what the worker handed out up to the pause is not waiting any more.
pauseEnds := time.Now().Add(pausedFor)
if delivered >= 0 {
if _, err := api.PauseConsumer(ctx, worker.Stream, worker.Name, pauseEnds); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("the %s worker could not be paused to put its queue in order, so it is left "+
return pass, fmt.Errorf("the %s worker could not be paused to put its queue in order, so it is left "+
"first come, first served: %w", seat, err)
}
defer func() {
@@ -162,20 +176,21 @@ func PutInOrder(ctx context.Context, js *broker.JetStream, seat string) ([]strin
}
}()
if waiting, extra, _, err = readWaiting(ctx, api, worker, seat); err != nil {
return nil, err
return pass, err
}
}
stream, err := api.Stream(ctx, worker.Stream)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
return pass, err
}
// A second copy of one ask — a move that published and stopped before it deleted — goes first.
for _, a := range extra {
if err := stream.DeleteMsg(ctx, a.Seq); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrMsgNotFound) {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("a second copy of %s (seq %d) could not be removed: %w", a.ID, a.Seq, err)
return pass, fmt.Errorf("a second copy of %s (seq %d) could not be removed: %w", a.ID, a.Seq, err)
}
pass.Removed = append(pass.Removed, fmt.Sprintf("%s at seq %d, a move's second copy of the message at seq %s",
a.ID, a.Seq, a.movedFrom))
}
var moved []string
for _, a := range toMove(waiting, QueueOrder(waiting, time.Now())) {
if delivered >= 0 && time.Until(pauseEnds) < moveMargin {
// The rest waits for the next pass, under a pause of its own.
@@ -183,20 +198,25 @@ func PutInOrder(ctx context.Context, js *broker.JetStream, seat string) ([]strin
}
ok, err := moveToTheTail(ctx, js, stream, worker.Name, seat, a)
if err != nil {
return moved, err
return pass, err
}
if ok {
moved = append(moved, a.ID)
pass.Moved = append(pass.Moved, a.ID)
}
}
return moved, nil
return pass, nil
}
// readWaiting is every ask the worker has not yet handed out, in queue order, but each second copy of one
// ask; the second copies, to remove; and the last sequence the worker handed out, -1 when there is no
// worker, so nothing is handed out to pause. A second copy is a waiting ask whose request id another ask
// before it carries, or one the worker already handed out: that one is a holder's, and the copy would build
// it twice.
// worker, so nothing is handed out to pause.
//
// **A second copy is proven, never guessed from an id**: a waiting message whose MovedFromHeader names an
// earlier message of the same request id still in the queue, and whose QueuedAtHeader is that message's
// first-queued time — a move that published its copy and stopped before it deleted the original. The
// original stays, waiting or handed out (a holder's then, and the copy would build it twice). Any other
// second message of one id — an ask a dead letter delivered again beside its original (ADR 0293) — is a
// real ask and stays.
func readWaiting(ctx context.Context, api jetstream.JetStream, worker broker.Consumer, seat string) (
waiting, extra []QueuedAsk, delivered int64, err error) {
stream, err := api.Stream(ctx, worker.Stream)
@@ -214,7 +234,12 @@ func readWaiting(ctx context.Context, api jetstream.JetStream, worker broker.Con
return nil, nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("the worker of %s cannot be read: %w", seat, err)
}
// From the first: the stream holds only what is unsettled, so this is a handful of reads.
seen := map[string]bool{}
// Every message by sequence, with its id and first-queued time, to prove a copy against.
type held struct {
id string
stored time.Time
}
bySeq := map[string]held{}
var seq uint64 = 1
for n := 0; n < 10000; n++ {
msg, err := stream.GetMsg(ctx, seq, jetstream.WithGetMsgSubject(BuildWorkOf(seat)))
@@ -226,10 +251,10 @@ func readWaiting(ctx context.Context, api jetstream.JetStream, worker broker.Con
}
seq = msg.Sequence + 1
a := askOf(msg)
again := a.ID != "" && seen[a.ID]
if a.ID != "" {
seen[a.ID] = true
}
a.movedFrom = msg.Header.Get(MovedFromHeader)
from, known := bySeq[a.movedFrom]
again := a.ID != "" && a.movedFrom != "" && known && from.id == a.ID && from.stored.Equal(a.Stored)
bySeq[strconv.FormatUint(a.Seq, 10)] = held{id: a.ID, stored: a.Stored}
switch {
case int64(a.Seq) <= delivered:
case again:
@@ -271,14 +296,36 @@ func moveToTheTail(ctx context.Context, js *broker.JetStream, stream jetstream.S
again.Header[k] = v
}
}
// Its place in time goes with it: when the stream first took it, as askOf read it.
// Its place in time goes with it: when the stream first took it, as askOf read it; and the message it
// is a copy of, which proves it one.
again.Header.Set(QueuedAtHeader, askOf(msg).Stored.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
publishing, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 10*time.Second)
_, err = js.Context().PublishMsg(again, nats.Context(publishing))
again.Header.Set(MovedFromHeader, strconv.FormatUint(a.Seq, 10))
// Inside the margin, so the publish ends while the worker is still paused.
publishing, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, publishWaits)
ack, err := js.Context().PublishMsg(again, nats.Context(publishing))
cancel()
if err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("%s (seq %d) could not be put behind, and stays where it is: %w", a.ID, a.Seq, err)
}
// **Handed out meanwhile** — a bus slow enough that the pause ended: the original is a holder's, and the
// copy goes instead, so it is built once.
if consumer, err := stream.Consumer(ctx, workerName); err == nil {
info, err := consumer.Info(ctx)
if err != nil || info.Delivered.Stream >= a.Seq {
if derr := stream.DeleteMsg(ctx, ack.Sequence); derr != nil && !errors.Is(derr, jetstream.ErrMsgNotFound) {
return false, fmt.Errorf("%s was handed out while it moved and its copy (seq %d) could not be "+
"removed; the next pass removes it: %w", a.ID, ack.Sequence, derr)
}
if err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("whether %s was handed out while it moved cannot be read, so its copy was "+
"removed and it stays where it was: %w", a.ID, err)
}
if info.Delivered.Stream >= ack.Sequence {
return false, fmt.Errorf("%s was handed out while it moved, and its copy too: it may be built twice", a.ID)
}
return false, nil
}
}
if err := stream.DeleteMsg(ctx, a.Seq); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrMsgNotFound) {
return false, fmt.Errorf("%s was copied behind and its original (seq %d) not removed; the next pass "+
"removes the second copy: %w", a.ID, a.Seq, err)
@@ -319,10 +366,13 @@ func KeepingInOrder(ctx context.Context, js *broker.JetStream, seat func() strin
}
lastSeq, lastPass = info.State.LastSeq, time.Now()
passing, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, pausedFor+10*time.Second)
moved, err := PutInOrder(passing, js, name)
pass, err := PutInOrder(passing, js, name)
cancel()
if len(moved) > 0 {
said("the %s queue put in order: %s moved behind what goes first", name, strings.Join(moved, ", "))
for _, r := range pass.Removed {
said("the %s queue: removed %s", name, r)
}
if len(pass.Moved) > 0 {
said("the %s queue put in order: %s moved behind what goes first", name, strings.Join(pass.Moved, ", "))
}
if err != nil {
said("the %s queue could not be put in order: %v", name, err)