Serve watch without resourceVersion from cache and introduce a WatchF…

…romStorageWithoutResourceVersion feature gate to allow serving watch from storage.

Kubernetes-commit: 0130072b053f85fb736c24d34552208cdd1bccfe

pkg/features/kube_features.go

@@ -258,6 +258,12 @@ const (
 	// Enables support for watch bookmark events.
 	WatchBookmark featuregate.Feature = "WatchBookmark"
 
+	// owner: @serathius
+	// beta: 1.30
+	// Enables watches without resourceVersion to be served from storage.
+	// Used to prevent https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/123072 until etcd fixes the issue.
+	WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion featuregate.Feature = "WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion"
+
 	// owner: @vinaykul
 	// kep: http://kep.k8s.io/1287
 	// alpha: v1.27
@@ -349,6 +355,8 @@ var defaultKubernetesFeatureGates = map[featuregate.Feature]featuregate.FeatureS
 
 	WatchBookmark: {Default: true, PreRelease: featuregate.GA, LockToDefault: true},
 
+	WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion: {Default: false, PreRelease: featuregate.Beta},
+
 	InPlacePodVerticalScaling: {Default: false, PreRelease: featuregate.Alpha},
 
 	WatchList: {Default: false, PreRelease: featuregate.Alpha},

pkg/storage/cacher/cacher.go

@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ func (c *Cacher) Watch(ctx context.Context, key string, opts storage.ListOptions
 		opts.SendInitialEvents = nil
 	}
 	// TODO: we should eventually get rid of this legacy case
-	if opts.SendInitialEvents == nil && opts.ResourceVersion == "" {
+	if utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate.Enabled(features.WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion) && opts.SendInitialEvents == nil && opts.ResourceVersion == "" {
 		return c.storage.Watch(ctx, key, opts)
 	}
 	requestedWatchRV, err := c.versioner.ParseResourceVersion(opts.ResourceVersion)
@@ -1282,12 +1282,14 @@ func (c *Cacher) getBookmarkAfterResourceVersionLockedFunc(parsedResourceVersion
 //
 //	if SendInitiaEvents != nil => ResourceVersionMatch = NotOlderThan
 //	if ResourceVersionmatch != nil => ResourceVersionMatch = NotOlderThan & SendInitialEvents != nil
-//
-// to satisfy the legacy case (SendInitialEvents = true, RV="") we skip checking opts.Predicate.AllowWatchBookmarks
 func (c *Cacher) getWatchCacheResourceVersion(ctx context.Context, parsedWatchResourceVersion uint64, opts storage.ListOptions) (uint64, error) {
 	if len(opts.ResourceVersion) != 0 {
 		return parsedWatchResourceVersion, nil
 	}
+	// legacy case
+	if !utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate.Enabled(features.WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion) && opts.SendInitialEvents == nil && opts.ResourceVersion == "" {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
 	rv, err := storage.GetCurrentResourceVersionFromStorage(ctx, c.storage, c.newListFunc, c.resourcePrefix, c.objectType.String())
 	return rv, err
 }

pkg/storage/cacher/cacher_test.go

@@ -381,9 +381,18 @@ func TestSendInitialEventsBackwardCompatibility(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestWatchSemantics(t *testing.T) {
-	store, terminate := testSetupWithEtcdAndCreateWrapper(t)
-	t.Cleanup(terminate)
-	storagetesting.RunWatchSemantics(context.TODO(), t, store)
+	t.Run("WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion=true", func(t *testing.T) {
+		defer featuregatetesting.SetFeatureGateDuringTest(t, utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate, features.WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion, true)()
+		store, terminate := testSetupWithEtcdAndCreateWrapper(t)
+		t.Cleanup(terminate)
+		storagetesting.RunWatchSemantics(context.TODO(), t, store)
+	})
+	t.Run("WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion=false", func(t *testing.T) {
+		defer featuregatetesting.SetFeatureGateDuringTest(t, utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate, features.WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion, false)()
+		store, terminate := testSetupWithEtcdAndCreateWrapper(t)
+		t.Cleanup(terminate)
+		storagetesting.RunWatchSemantics(context.TODO(), t, store)
+	})
 }
 
 func TestWatchSemanticInitialEventsExtended(t *testing.T) {

pkg/storage/cacher/cacher_whitebox_test.go

@@ -338,8 +338,6 @@ func TestWatchCacheBypass(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected error waiting for the cache to be ready")
 	}
 
-	// Inject error to underlying layer and check if cacher is not bypassed.
-	backingStorage.injectError(errDummy)
 	_, err = cacher.Watch(context.TODO(), "pod/ns", storage.ListOptions{
 		ResourceVersion: "0",
 		Predicate:       storage.Everything,
@@ -348,12 +346,32 @@ func TestWatchCacheBypass(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("Watch with RV=0 should be served from cache: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	// With unset RV, check if cacher is bypassed.
 	_, err = cacher.Watch(context.TODO(), "pod/ns", storage.ListOptions{
 		ResourceVersion: "",
+		Predicate:       storage.Everything,
 	})
-	if err != errDummy {
-		t.Errorf("Watch with unset RV should bypass cacher: %v", err)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Watch with RV=0 should be served from cache: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer featuregatetesting.SetFeatureGateDuringTest(t, utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate, features.WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion, false)()
+	_, err = cacher.Watch(context.TODO(), "pod/ns", storage.ListOptions{
+		ResourceVersion: "",
+		Predicate:       storage.Everything,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("With WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion disabled, watch with unset RV should be served from cache: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Inject error to underlying layer and check if cacher is not bypassed.
+	backingStorage.injectError(errDummy)
+	defer featuregatetesting.SetFeatureGateDuringTest(t, utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate, features.WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion, true)()
+	_, err = cacher.Watch(context.TODO(), "pod/ns", storage.ListOptions{
+		ResourceVersion: "",
+		Predicate:       storage.Everything,
+	})
+	if !errors.Is(err, errDummy) {
+		t.Errorf("With WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion enabled, watch with unset RV should be served from storage: %v", err)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2032,9 +2050,11 @@ func TestGetWatchCacheResourceVersion(t *testing.T) {
 		// | Unset           | true/false          | nil/true/false        |
 		// +-----------------+---------------------+-----------------------+
 		{
-			name:                         "RV=unset, allowWatchBookmarks=true, sendInitialEvents=nil",
-			opts:                         listOptions(true, nil, ""),
-			expectedWatchResourceVersion: 100,
+			name: "RV=unset, allowWatchBookmarks=true, sendInitialEvents=nil",
+			opts: listOptions(true, nil, ""),
+			// Expecting RV 0, due to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123935 reverted to serving those requests from watch cache.
+			// Set to 100, when WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion is set to true.
+			expectedWatchResourceVersion: 0,
 		},
 		{
 			name:                         "RV=unset, allowWatchBookmarks=true, sendInitialEvents=true",
@@ -2047,9 +2067,11 @@ func TestGetWatchCacheResourceVersion(t *testing.T) {
 			expectedWatchResourceVersion: 100,
 		},
 		{
-			name:                         "RV=unset, allowWatchBookmarks=false, sendInitialEvents=nil",
-			opts:                         listOptions(false, nil, ""),
-			expectedWatchResourceVersion: 100,
+			name: "RV=unset, allowWatchBookmarks=false, sendInitialEvents=nil",
+			opts: listOptions(false, nil, ""),
+			// Expecting RV 0, due to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123935 reverted to serving those requests from watch cache.
+			// Set to 100, when WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion is set to true.
+			expectedWatchResourceVersion: 0,
 		},
 		{
 			name:                         "RV=unset, allowWatchBookmarks=false, sendInitialEvents=true, legacy",