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Remove Progress.is_learner #119

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@Hoverbear Hoverbear commented Sep 7, 2018

Remove the is_learner value from Progress.

Rationale

In the process of Joint Consensus (#101) we will have two different Configuration sets during some points in operation.

In #108 we made Progress a single set (instead of having separate sets for voters and learners). Progress still held an is_learner value, which meant we had two ways to determine if a node was a learner (via the ProgressSet.has_learner() and Progress.is_learner). This is not necessary.

We can use ProgressSet.has_learner(id) and ProgressSet.has_voter(id) exclusively.

Benefits

Doing this helps minimize complexity, and reduces places we keep track of voter status.

Future Work

In the future we may be in a joint consensus state, meaning that the Progress.is_learner value could be incorrect (If you promoted a learner, then the old configuration still has it has a non-voter).

This internalizes the concept of the is_learner() so we can minimize possible bug surface.

@Hoverbear Hoverbear added Enhancement An improvement to existing code. learner Anything related to learner mechanism. labels Sep 7, 2018
@Hoverbear Hoverbear added this to the 0.4.0 milestone Sep 7, 2018
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@Hoverbear Hoverbear added the Feature Related to a major feature. label Sep 7, 2018
@Hoverbear Hoverbear modified the milestones: 0.4.0, 0.5.0 Sep 11, 2018
@Hoverbear Hoverbear force-pushed the remove_is_learner branch 3 times, most recently from 2810600 to 4dd2e63 Compare September 12, 2018 00:03
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b.iter(|| ProgressSet::new());
};

c.bench_function(&format!("ProgressSet::new"), bench);
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How about c.bench_function("ProgressSet::new", bench)?

@Hoverbear Hoverbear force-pushed the remove_is_learner branch 2 times, most recently from e250876 to 546b926 Compare September 26, 2018 17:17
src/raft.rs Outdated
@@ -1993,12 +1993,13 @@ impl<T: Storage> Raft<T> {
fn check_quorum_active(&mut self) -> bool {
let self_id = self.id;
let mut act = 0;
let learners = self.prs().learner_ids().clone();
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The clone here seems the best way, as much as I hate it. Since we use .mut_prs() and iterate we have a mutable borrow out for self.

We copy this HashSet<u64> which should only have learner _ids() in it, which should be not unreasonably large. An alternative is we can clone voter_ids() which should always be reasonable even if there are many learners. The downside being we always have the cost of the voters (3-7 usually).

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You can use take_prs to get around the lifetime check just as other places already did.

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I always feel so dirty doing this. 🤣 But yes you're right.

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if let Some(progress) = self.prs().get(id) {
// If progress.is_learner == learner, then it's already inserted as what it should be, return early to avoid error.
if progress.is_learner == learner {
if self.prs().get(id).is_some() {
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It's not necessary any more.

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Agree. insert_learner and similar functions do the check already. We can check the result to reflect errors.

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Ok. I will make this function (which is private) return a Result<()>. I would like to make the callers return a Result<()> in 0.5.0.

See #129.

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hicqu commented Sep 29, 2018

rest LGTM. Nice work!

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@BusyJay Can you take another look?

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hicqu commented Oct 11, 2018

PTAL @BusyJay .

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@BusyJay Please take a look again, the test name is fixed.

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Rest LGTM

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@siddontang Resolved, PTAL. I think it's ready for merge.

@Hoverbear Hoverbear merged commit dcba27f into master Oct 22, 2018
@Hoverbear Hoverbear deleted the remove_is_learner branch October 22, 2018 14:26
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121: Move poll & quorum functionality into ProgressSet r=Hoverbear a=Hoverbear

Based off #119. **You are seeing that change set as well here, so go review that, then this after merging it! :)**

Migrate poll and quorum related functionality inside `ProgressSet`.

These functions operated on the `ProgressSet` anyways, they were just scoped to the `Raft`.

# Rationale

With the introduction of Joint Consensus, the idea of a Quorum is no longer always a single value. (If the cluster is in a joint state it actually has two quorums. The old configuration and the new one.)

In the interest of isolating responsibility and dulling sharp edges, this PR migrates code the following functionality:

* `check_quorum_active`: Migrated, it was doing a mutable fold on the peers and resetting their recent active, then returning if there was enough for quorum. The `ProgressSet` can do this itself, and it means we can avoid having to return some enum of either `(quorum)` or `(new_quorum, old_quorum)`. The `Raft` module need not care.
* `poll`: Was split into a mutating vote-setter function, and a check function (non mutating). The check function returns a semantically meaningful enum now. This was a good idea since `poll(vote) >= quorum`, while still valid, may be comparing tuples or values. Internalizing this logic and instead returning a semantic value helps with understanding.
* `minimum_committed_index`: Since in a joint consensus state we need to check the minimum committed index of both old and new, we can internalize this check and just return a bool.

# Benefits

This PR essentially amounts to API cleaning. It doesn't change any behavior, but it's a change we should do to make future work easier.

# Future Work

When Joint Consensus (#101 ) lands it will change these new functions to be joint-aware and correctly return values regardless of the configuration state.

Co-authored-by: Hoverbear <andrew@hoverbear.org>
Co-authored-by: Hoverbear <operator@hoverbear.org>
Co-authored-by: A. Hobden <andrew@hoverbear.org>
Co-authored-by: A. Hobden <operator@hoverbear.org>
Co-authored-by: qupeng <onlyqupeng@gmail.com>
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