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Chris Lu 3bd218e030 volume: cut idle memory at high volume counts (#10861)
* volume: start a volume's batch write worker on first use

Mounting a volume started a goroutine parked on a 128-slot channel, plus
the 128-entry batch slice it had already allocated. That is around 6.7KB
per volume the server pays whether or not the volume ever takes a write:
7231 bytes per mounted volume, of which 4101 is goroutine stack.

Only a write that asks for fsync ever reaches the worker, and a
remote-tiered or read-only volume never can. Create the channel and its
goroutine on the first such request instead, and let a write arriving
after Destroy fall back to the inline path rather than queue onto a
worker that has gone.

Measured over 20000 mounted volumes: 7231 -> 1269 bytes each.

* volume: update the heartbeat report state in place

Every heartbeat built a second map of what it was about to tell the
master, holding a freshly allocated short information message per volume,
then swapped it in over the old one -- and computed departures through a
third map of the live volume ids. A server holding 2M volumes rebuilt all
three every VolumePulsePeriod for a report that usually says nothing.

Number the heartbeats instead and mark the entry already held with the
pass that found the copy, so a quiet volume costs a map lookup and no
allocation. Departures are the entries a pass did not mark; the live-id
map is now built only when there are some, sized to them.

Measured over 10000 mounted volumes: 436 -> 196 bytes allocated per
volume per heartbeat.

* volume: fill one volume information message per heartbeat, not per volume

The heartbeat built a message for every volume held so it could hash it,
then dropped all but the few it had something to say about. At 2M volumes
that is 2M messages allocated every VolumePulsePeriod to send almost none
of them.

Fill a message the caller supplies instead, and replace it only when the
heartbeat keeps it, so a server with nothing to report fills the same one
all the way through.

Measured over 10000 mounted volumes: 196 -> 4 bytes allocated per volume
per heartbeat, and a heartbeat runs a third faster.

* volume: drop the per-volume trace from the heartbeat's status read

glog.V(4).Infof evaluates its arguments whether or not the verbosity is
on, so every volume boxed its id into a fresh interface slice on every
heartbeat: 759 of the 773 allocations a 1000-volume heartbeat made, for a
line that at this scale would print millions of unreadable rows.

Measured over 1000 mounted volumes: 4776 -> 1792 bytes and 759 -> 14
allocations per heartbeat, which no longer grows with the volume count.

* seaweed-volume: mirror the in-place heartbeat report state

Same change as the Go volume server: number the heartbeats and mark the
entry already held with the pass that found the copy, instead of building
a second map of hashes and swapping it in.

The volume snapshot must leave the reporting state as it found it, so it
keeps asking through changed() while a real heartbeat marks through
record().

* volume: refuse writes to a closed volume instead of dereferencing nil

Close and Destroy leave the needle map and data backend nil, but a caller
that already holds the volume can still reach the write path, where both
are used unguarded: a write racing a volume deletion took the server down.
syncDelete has always checked; syncWrite and the batch worker had not.

Reachable before this series and now also from the inline fallback a
durable write takes when the worker has gone.

* seaweed-volume: guard the report state with one mutex, as Go does

The full-list flag and the generation that answers it have to move
together. Split across separate atomics they cannot: a request landing
between begin's two reads returns full == false with the generation it
just raised, and one landing between commit's read and its clear is
marked answered by a heartbeat that carried no list. Either way the
resend is dropped.

Neither is reachable today -- every caller reaches this through the
store's RwLock, the flag setters under a read lock and the heartbeat
build under a write lock, so they cannot interleave. The type should not
depend on that being true two files away, and Go holds a single mutex
over exactly these fields.

* test: build the servers under test to match the harness's offset size

The mixed Go/Rust suites run both servers against one dataset, so both
have to agree on the offset width. They did not: the harness built Go
with no tags, 4-byte offsets, while the Rust crate defaults to its 5bytes
feature, and the Rust server then refused the .vif the Go server had just
written -- "bytes_offset mismatch: found 4, expected 5".

Build each side to match the offset size the test binary itself was
compiled with, so a plain `go test` and one with -tags 5BytesOffset both
get a matched pair.
2026-08-21 13:04:56 -07:00
Chris Lu f09e8345c6 storage: stop keeping the remote storage key on the master (#10672)
A master decides nothing from it. Every caller that read it was asking whether
a volume is remote, which the backend name answers, and the value itself is
reported on demand by the server holding the volume, through the volume info in
ReadVolumeFileStatus.

It is also the one string here that cannot be shared: unique per volume, so
unlike the collection and backend names it carries its own characters for every
volume a master tracks.

VolumeInfo goes from 136 bytes to 120. 800k volumes registered from a heartbeat
that has been over the wire go from 214 to 163 B/volume when tiered.

The volume server's own status page keeps showing the key, now read from the
volume it holds rather than relayed through a master, which is also where the
other volume server implementation reads it.

The heartbeat digest drops it on the same grounds: a change to something the
master does not hold cannot make its copy stale. Both implementations and their
shared vectors move together, and the field-coverage test now names what is
deliberately not retained rather than being loosened.
2026-08-09 12:43:31 -07:00
Chris Lu 6d08b08f37 heartbeat: carry a volume digest and verify it (#10627)
* pb: carry a volume digest on the heartbeat

The full volume list is the only way a master notices a volume that vanished
without a delta, so it cannot simply be dropped. A digest gives the same
guarantee without the list, and a way back to the list when they disagree.

The digest has explicit presence: a server holding no volumes reports 0, which
has to stay distinguishable from a server that does not compute one at all.

* volume: report a digest of the volumes each heartbeat carries

Digests exactly what goes on the wire: volumes skipped as quarantined, phantom
or expired are absent from both the list and the digest, so the master compares
against the same set the server meant to report.

Runs the master's own hash over the master's own conversion of the message, so
the two ends cannot drift into disagreeing about a field.

* master: check the reported volume digest and ask for the list on a mismatch

Compared after everything the heartbeat carried has been applied, so agreement
means the master is current rather than that nothing changed.

Servers reporting no digest are untouched, and a mismatch on a heartbeat that
already carried the full list is reported rather than answered: there is
nothing further to ask for, so asking again would loop. Nodes reporting one
volume id twice are skipped for the same reason.

* rust: report the heartbeat volume digest

Mirrors the Go volume server. The master compares this against a digest it
computes itself, so the hash has to agree byte for byte across the two
implementations, not merely be a hash of the same fields: report_hash_vectors
pins it against values generated by the Go side, and the ttl and replica
placement narrowing the master applies when it decodes a message is applied
here too rather than assumed away.

A drift there would not corrupt anything, but every volume server on this
implementation would report a digest the master can never match and fall back
to sending its whole volume list forever, which is the cost the digest exists
to avoid.

* master: pin what the digest check does to each kind of report

The upgrade story rests on these: a server that reports no digest is never
asked for anything, so the two sides can be upgraded in either order, and a
disagreement that resending cannot fix is reported rather than re-asked, so it
cannot loop.

* topology: enumerate the digest coverage test from the message

The list of fields was written out by hand, so a field added to
VolumeInformationMessage later would fall outside the digest while the test
went on passing, and a change to it would never reach the master. Walk the
message descriptor instead.

Some fields are narrowed or normalised on the way into VolumeInfo, so the
smallest change to the wire value can land back on the stored one; the test
offers several values per field and asks only that some change is visible.
2026-08-07 14:46:34 -07:00
Chris Lu 553bc5ab90 topology: digest the volumes a master believes each node holds (#10619)
* topology: digest the volumes a master believes each node holds

A volume server resends its whole volume list every heartbeat because that list
is the only way the master can notice a volume that vanished without a delta.
A digest gives the master the same guarantee without the list: the two ends
agree iff the master's copy is current.

VolumeInfo.ReportHash covers every field of VolumeInformationMessage, so a
change the hash misses is a change the master would never hear about. Both ends
run it over the same converted VolumeInfo, so they cannot drift apart.

Disk keeps the xor of its volumes' hashes, which is order-independent and its
own inverse, so add, update and remove each stay O(1) and the running value
needs no per-volume storage.

Nothing reads the digest yet; the heartbeat protocol change comes next.

* topology: test that a changed-volumes-only heartbeat reconciles

The digest is not a change detector -- in a live cluster some volumes always
have changed. It answers whether the master holds what the volume server holds
once the heartbeat's own changes are applied, so reporting three volumes out of
fifty has to reconcile while a volume lost without a delta must not.

* topology: digest the lookup index too, not just the disk maps

The reported digest answers whether the master holds what the volume server
holds. It cannot answer whether the master can serve those volumes: the disk
map and the lookup index are maintained separately, and a disconnect racing a
reconnect drops a volume from the index while leaving it on the node. The
server's report is identical either way, so a digest built from the disk maps
alone matches while the volume answers 'volume id not found'.

Track a second digest over volume ids on both sides of that split, so the
master can see its own indexes disagree without the volume server's help, and
without the O(volumes) scan the full heartbeat currently relies on.

* topology: exclude nodes reporting a duplicate volume id from the digest

A volume id can end up mounted on two disks of one server -- a stale twin
re-attached after a disk repair, which the store handles rather than rejects.
The server reports both copies with different disk ids, but the master keys
volumes by id alone within a disk type and keeps only the last one. Its digest
can then never equal the server's, and no amount of resending the full list
would fix it.

Detect it from the report itself, where deduplicating the ids already tells us
the count, and mark the node. A marked node has to keep sending full lists;
representing both copies is a separate question, and nesting the volume map by
disk id would cost more memory than the digest saves.

* topology: move the lookup digest with the entry, not the node passed in

Two volume servers can hold one address: GetOrCreateDataNode keys on the id a
server reports and refuses to merge a new id onto an address an older node
still claims, while the lookup list keys on address alone. Registering the
second server therefore displaces the first from the entry, and unregistering
through either removes whichever node the entry named.

Crediting the node handed to Set and Remove instead of the one actually
displaced or removed left the digest on the wrong node. A displaced node went
on reporting a consistent index while it could no longer serve the volume,
which is exactly the silent unavailability the digest exists to catch.

Set and Remove now return the node they displaced and removed, so ownership
can be transferred rather than assumed.
2026-08-07 12:42:16 -07:00