statistics: fix wrong singleflight implementation for stats' syncload

pkg/parser/model/model.go

@@ -1786,6 +1786,11 @@ type TableItemID struct {
 	IsSyncLoadFailed bool
 }
 
+// Key is used to generate unique key for TableItemID to use in the syncload
+func (t TableItemID) Key() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%d%d%t%t", t.ID, t.TableID, t.IsIndex, t.IsSyncLoadFailed)
+}
+
 // StatsLoadItem represents the load unit for statistics's memory loading.
 type StatsLoadItem struct {
 	TableItemID

pkg/statistics/handle/syncload/stats_syncload.go

@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ func NewStatsSyncLoad(statsHandle statstypes.StatsHandle) statstypes.StatsSyncLo
 	s.StatsLoad.SubCtxs = make([]sessionctx.Context, cfg.Performance.StatsLoadConcurrency)
 	s.StatsLoad.NeededItemsCh = make(chan *statstypes.NeededItemTask, cfg.Performance.StatsLoadQueueSize)
 	s.StatsLoad.TimeoutItemsCh = make(chan *statstypes.NeededItemTask, cfg.Performance.StatsLoadQueueSize)
-	s.StatsLoad.WorkingColMap = map[model.TableItemID][]chan stmtctx.StatsLoadResult{}
 	return s
 }
 
@@ -231,24 +230,45 @@ func (s *statsSyncLoad) HandleOneTask(sctx sessionctx.Context, lastTask *statsty
 	} else {
 		task = lastTask
 	}
-	return s.handleOneItemTask(sctx, task)
+	resultChan := s.StatsLoad.Singleflight.DoChan(task.Item.Key(), func() (any, error) {
+		return s.handleOneItemTask(sctx, task)
+	})
+	timeout := time.Until(task.ToTimeout)
+	select {
+	case result := <-resultChan:
+		if result.Err == nil {
+			slr := *(result.Val.(*stmtctx.StatsLoadResult))
+			if slr.Error != nil {
+				return task, slr.Error
+			}
+			task.ResultCh <- slr
+			return nil, nil
+		}
+		return task, result.Err
+	case <-time.After(timeout):
+		return task, nil
+	}
 }
 
-func (s *statsSyncLoad) handleOneItemTask(sctx sessionctx.Context, task *statstypes.NeededItemTask) (*statstypes.NeededItemTask, error) {
-	result := stmtctx.StatsLoadResult{Item: task.Item.TableItemID}
+func (s *statsSyncLoad) handleOneItemTask(sctx sessionctx.Context, task *statstypes.NeededItemTask) (result *stmtctx.StatsLoadResult, err error) {
+	defer func() {
+		// recover for each task, worker keeps working
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			logutil.BgLogger().Error("handleOneItemTask panicked", zap.Any("recover", r), zap.Stack("stack"))
+			err = errors.Errorf("stats loading panicked: %v", r)
+		}
+	}()
+	result = &stmtctx.StatsLoadResult{Item: task.Item.TableItemID}
 	item := result.Item
 	tbl, ok := s.statsHandle.Get(item.TableID)
 	if !ok {
-		s.writeToResultChan(task.ResultCh, result)
-		return nil, nil
+		return result, nil
 	}
-	var err error
 	wrapper := &statsWrapper{}
 	if item.IsIndex {
 		index, loadNeeded := tbl.IndexIsLoadNeeded(item.ID)
 		if !loadNeeded {
-			s.writeToResultChan(task.ResultCh, result)
-			return nil, nil
+			return result, nil
 		}
 		if index != nil {
 			wrapper.idxInfo = index.Info
@@ -258,27 +278,20 @@ func (s *statsSyncLoad) handleOneItemTask(sctx sessionctx.Context, task *statsty
 	} else {
 		col, loadNeeded := tbl.ColumnIsLoadNeeded(item.ID, task.Item.FullLoad)
 		if !loadNeeded {
-			s.writeToResultChan(task.ResultCh, result)
-			return nil, nil
+			return result, nil
 		}
 		if col != nil {
 			wrapper.colInfo = col.Info
 		} else {
 			wrapper.colInfo = tbl.ColAndIdxExistenceMap.GetCol(item.ID)
 		}
 	}
-	// to avoid duplicated handling in concurrent scenario
-	working := s.setWorking(result.Item, task.ResultCh)
-	if !working {
-		s.writeToResultChan(task.ResultCh, result)
-		return nil, nil
-	}
 	t := time.Now()
 	needUpdate := false
 	wrapper, err = s.readStatsForOneItem(sctx, item, wrapper, tbl.IsPkIsHandle, task.Item.FullLoad)
 	if err != nil {
 		result.Error = err
-		return task, err
+		return result, err
 	}
 	if item.IsIndex {
 		if wrapper.idxInfo != nil {
@@ -291,9 +304,8 @@ func (s *statsSyncLoad) handleOneItemTask(sctx sessionctx.Context, task *statsty
 	}
 	metrics.ReadStatsHistogram.Observe(float64(time.Since(t).Milliseconds()))
 	if needUpdate && s.updateCachedItem(item, wrapper.col, wrapper.idx, task.Item.FullLoad) {
-		s.writeToResultChan(task.ResultCh, result)
+		return result, nil
 	}
-	s.finishWorking(result)
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
@@ -509,32 +521,3 @@ func (s *statsSyncLoad) updateCachedItem(item model.TableItemID, colHist *statis
 	s.statsHandle.UpdateStatsCache([]*statistics.Table{tbl}, nil)
 	return true
 }
-
-func (s *statsSyncLoad) setWorking(item model.TableItemID, resultCh chan stmtctx.StatsLoadResult) bool {
-	s.StatsLoad.Lock()
-	defer s.StatsLoad.Unlock()
-	chList, ok := s.StatsLoad.WorkingColMap[item]
-	if ok {
-		if chList[0] == resultCh {
-			return true // just return for duplicate setWorking
-		}
-		s.StatsLoad.WorkingColMap[item] = append(chList, resultCh)
-		return false
-	}
-	chList = []chan stmtctx.StatsLoadResult{}
-	chList = append(chList, resultCh)
-	s.StatsLoad.WorkingColMap[item] = chList
-	return true
-}
-
-func (s *statsSyncLoad) finishWorking(result stmtctx.StatsLoadResult) {
-	s.StatsLoad.Lock()
-	defer s.StatsLoad.Unlock()
-	if chList, ok := s.StatsLoad.WorkingColMap[result.Item]; ok {
-		list := chList[1:]
-		for _, ch := range list {
-			s.writeToResultChan(ch, result)
-		}
-	}
-	delete(s.StatsLoad.WorkingColMap, result.Item)
-}

pkg/statistics/handle/syncload/stats_syncload_test.go

@@ -207,17 +207,14 @@ func TestConcurrentLoadHistWithPanicAndFail(t *testing.T) {
 		require.Error(t, err1)
 		require.NotNil(t, task1)
 
-		task2, err2 := h.HandleOneTask(testKit.Session().(sessionctx.Context), nil, exitCh)
-		require.Nil(t, err2)
-		require.Nil(t, task2)
-
 		require.NoError(t, failpoint.Disable(fp.failPath))
 		task3, err3 := h.HandleOneTask(testKit.Session().(sessionctx.Context), task1, exitCh)
 		require.NoError(t, err3)
 		require.Nil(t, task3)
 
-		require.Len(t, stmtCtx1.StatsLoad.ResultCh, 1)
-		require.Len(t, stmtCtx2.StatsLoad.ResultCh, 1)
+		task, err3 := h.HandleOneTask(testKit.Session().(sessionctx.Context), nil, exitCh)
+		require.NoError(t, err3)
+		require.Nil(t, task)
 
 		rs1, ok1 := <-stmtCtx1.StatsLoad.ResultCh
 		require.True(t, ok1)

pkg/statistics/handle/types/BUILD.bazel

@@ -17,5 +17,6 @@ go_library(
         "//pkg/types",
         "//pkg/util",
         "//pkg/util/sqlexec",
+        "@org_golang_x_sync//singleflight",
     ],
 )

pkg/statistics/handle/types/interfaces.go

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/pkg/types"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/pkg/util"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/pkg/util/sqlexec"
+	"golang.org/x/sync/singleflight"
 )
 
 // StatsGC is used to GC unnecessary stats.
@@ -372,10 +373,31 @@ type NeededItemTask struct {
 }
 
 // StatsLoad is used to load stats concurrently
+// TODO(hawkingrei): Our implementation of loading statistics is flawed.
+// Currently, we enqueue tasks that require loading statistics into a channel,
+// from which workers retrieve tasks to process. Then, using the singleflight mechanism,
+// we filter out duplicate tasks. However, the issue with this approach is that it does
+// not filter out all duplicate tasks, but only the duplicates within the number of workers.
+// Such an implementation is not reasonable.
+//
+// We should first filter all tasks through singleflight as shown in the diagram, and then use workers to load stats.
+//
+// ┌─────────▼──────────▼─────────────▼──────────────▼────────────────▼────────────────────┐
+// │                                                                                       │
+// │                                       singleflight                                    │
+// │                                                                                       │
+// └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+//
+//		            │                │
+//	   ┌────────────▼──────┐ ┌───────▼───────────┐
+//	   │                   │ │                   │
+//	   │  syncload worker  │ │  syncload worker  │
+//	   │                   │ │                   │
+//	   └───────────────────┘ └───────────────────┘
 type StatsLoad struct {
 	NeededItemsCh  chan *NeededItemTask
 	TimeoutItemsCh chan *NeededItemTask
-	WorkingColMap  map[model.TableItemID][]chan stmtctx.StatsLoadResult
+	Singleflight   singleflight.Group
 	SubCtxs        []sessionctx.Context
 	sync.Mutex
 }