Summary:
BackupEngine previously had unclear but strict concurrency
requirements that the API user must follow for safe use. Now we make
that clear, by separating operations into "Read," "Append," and "Write"
operations, and specifying which combinations are safe across threads on
the same BackupEngine object (previously none; now all, using a
read-write lock), and which are safe across different BackupEngine
instances open on the same backup_dir.
The changes to backupable_db.h should be backward compatible. It is
mostly about eliminating copies of what should be the same function and
(unsurprisingly) useful documentation comments were often placed on
only one of the two copies. With the re-organization, we are also
grouping different categories of operations. In the future we might add
BackupEngineReadAppendOnly, but that didn't seem necessary.
To mark API Read operations 'const', I had to mark some implementation
functions 'const' and some fields mutable.
Functional changes:
* Added RWMutex locking around public API functions to implement thread
safety on a single object. To avoid future bugs, this is another
internal class layered on top (removing many "override" in
BackupEngineImpl). It would be possible to allow more concurrency
between operations, rather than mutual exclusion, but IMHO not worth the
work.
* Fixed a race between Open() (Initialize()) and CreateNewBackup() for
different objects on the same backup_dir, where Initialize() could
delete the temporary meta file created during CreateNewBackup().
(This was found by the new test.)
Also cleaned up a couple of "status checked" TODOs, and improved a
checksum mismatch error message to include involved files.
Potential follow-up work:
* CreateNewBackup has an API wart because it doesn't tell you the
BackupID it just created, which makes it of limited use in a multithreaded
setting.
* We could also consider a Refresh() function to catch up to
changes made from another BackupEngine object to the same dir.
* Use a lock file to prevent multiple writer BackupEngines, but this
won't work on remote filesystems not supporting lock files.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8115
Test Plan:
new mini-stress test in backup unit tests, run with gcc,
clang, ASC, TSAN, and UBSAN, 100 iterations each.
Reviewed By: ajkr
Differential Revision: D27347589
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 28d82ed2ac672e44085a739ddb19d297dad14b15
Peter Dillinger