Fix agent cache incorrectly notifying unchanged protobufs.
This change fixes a situation where the protobuf private fields
would be read by reflect.DeepEqual() and indicate data was modified.
This resulted in change notifications being fired every time, which
could cause performance problems in proxycfg.
This continues the work done in #14908 where a crude solution to prevent a
goroutine leak was implemented. The former code would launch a perpetual
goroutine family every iteration (+1 +1) and the fixed code simply caused a
new goroutine family to first cancel the prior one to prevent the
leak (-1 +1 == 0).
This PR refactors this code completely to:
- make it more understandable
- remove the recursion-via-goroutine strangeness
- prevent unnecessary RPC fetches when the prior one has errored.
The core issue arose from a conflation of the entry.Fetching field to mean:
- there is an RPC (blocking query) in flight right now
- there is a goroutine running to manage the RPC fetch retry loop
The problem is that the goroutine-leak-avoidance check would treat
Fetching like (2), but within the body of a goroutine it would flip that
boolean back to false before the retry sleep. This would cause a new
chain of goroutines to launch which #14908 would correct crudely.
The refactored code uses a plain for-loop and changes the semantics
to track state for "is there a goroutine associated with this cache entry"
instead of the former.
We use a uint64 unique identity per goroutine instead of a boolean so
that any orphaned goroutines can tell when they've been replaced when
the expiry loop deletes a cache entry while the goroutine is still running
and is later replaced.
OSS portion of enterprise PR 1857.
This removes (most) references to the `cache.UpdateEvent` type in the
`proxycfg` package.
As we're going to be direct usage of the agent cache with interfaces that
can be satisfied by alternative server-local datasources, it doesn't make
sense to depend on this type everywhere anymore (particularly on the
`state.ch` channel).
We also plan to extract `proxycfg` out of Consul into a shared library in
the future, which would require removing this dependency.
Aside from a fairly rote find-and-replace, the main change is that the
`cache.Cache` and `health.Client` types now accept a callback function
parameter, rather than a `chan<- cache.UpdateEvents`. This allows us to
do the type conversion without running another goroutine.
Blocking queries issues will still be uncancellable (that cannot be helped until we get rid of net/rpc). However this makes it so that if calling getWithIndex (like during a cache Notify go routine) we can cancell the outer routine. Previously it would keep issuing more blocking queries until the result state actually changed.
A few of the unexported functions in agent/cache took a large number of
arguments. These arguments were effectively overrides for values that
were provided in RequestInfo.
By using a struct we can not only reduce the number of arguments, but
also simplify the logic by removing the need for overrides.
Previously the SupportsBlocking option was specified by a method on the
type, and all the other options were specified from RegisterOptions.
This change moves RegisterOptions to a method on the type, and moves
SupportsBlocking into the options struct.
Currently there are only 2 cache-types. So all cache-types can implement
this method by embedding a struct with those predefined values. In the
future if a cache type needs to be registered more than once with different
options it can remove the embedded type and implement the method in a way
that allows for paramaterization.
These two notify functions are very similar. There appear to be just
enough differences that trying to parameterize the differences may not
improve things.
For now, reduce some of the cosmetic differences so that the material
differences are more obvious.
This change moves all the typeEntry lookups to the first step in the exported methods,
and makes unexporter internals accept the typeEntry struct.
This change is primarily intended to make it easier to extract the container of caches
from the Cache type.
It may incidentally reduce locking in fetch, but that was not a goal.
Fixes#6521
Ensure that initial failures to fetch an agent cache entry using the
notify API where the underlying RPC returns a synthetic index of 1
correctly recovers when those RPCs resume working.
The bug in the Cache.notifyBlockingQuery used to incorrectly "fix" the
index for the next query from 0 to 1 for all queries, when it should
have not done so for queries that errored.
Also fixed some things that made debugging difficult:
- config entry read/list endpoints send back QueryMeta headers
- xds event loops don't swallow the cache notification errors
Fixes#4969
This implements non-blocking request polling at the cache layer which is currently only used for prepared queries. Additionally this enables the proxycfg manager to poll prepared queries for use in envoy proxy upstreams.
R.B. Boyer