1. 02 Oct, 2015 3 commits
  2. 30 Sep, 2015 1 commit
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Teach ZBlk1 not to waste memory on memory-page -> DB path · 1bf0cf31
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ZBlk* objects are intermediate ZODB object in between data stored in
      ZODB and memory pages managed by virtmem. As such, after they do their
      job to either load data from DB to memory, or store from memory to DB,
      it is not needed to keep them alive with duplicate content thus only
      wasting memory.
      
      ZBlk0 cares about this detail via "deactivating" ._v_blkdata in
      loadblkdata() and __getstate__() prologues.
      
      ZBlk1 did the same for load path in loadblkdata() prologue, but for
      .__getstate__() it was not directly possible, because for ZBlk1 the
      state is IOBTree, not one non-persistent object, and thus it first needs
      to be processed by ZODB together with its subobjects on its way to
      storage and only then all they deactivated.
      
      So 13c0c17c (bigfile/zodb: Format #1 which is optimized for small
      changes) only put TODO for memory-page -> DB path about not wasting
      memory this way.
      
      But the problem is relatively easy to solve:
      
          - we can deactivate ZData objects (leaf objects in ZBlk1.chunktab
            btree) by hooking into ZData.__getstate__() prologue;
      
          - we also need to care to deactivate chunks right away, which
            setblkdata() loaded to compare .data and found them to be not
            changed
      
      This way we do not waste memory keeping intermediate ZData objects alive
      with the same content as memory page after commit.
      
      /cc @Tyagov
      1bf0cf31
  3. 28 Sep, 2015 5 commits
  4. 24 Sep, 2015 9 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Format #1 which is optimized for small changes · 13c0c17c
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Our current approach is that each file block is represented by 1 zodb
      object, with block size being 2M. Even with trailing \0 trimming, which
      halves the overhead on average, DB size grows very fast if we do a lot
      of small appends or changes. So another format needs to be introduced
      which has lower overhead for storing small changes:
      
      In general, to represent BigFile as ZODB objects, each file block could
      be represented separately either as
      
          1) one ZODB object, or          (ZBlk0 - this what we have already)
          2) group of ZODB objects        (ZBlk1 - this is what we introduce)
      
      with top-level BTree directory #blk -> objects representing block.
      
      For "1" we have
      
          - low-overhead access time (only 1 object loaded from DB), but
          - high-overhead in terms of ZODB size (with FileStorage / ZEO, every change
            to a block causes it to be written into DB in full again)
      
      For "2" we have
      
          - low-overhead in terms of ZODB size (only part of a block is overwritten
            in DB on single change), but
          - high-overhead in terms of access time
            (several objects need to be loaded for 1 block)
      
      In general it is not possible to have low-overhead for both i) access-time, and
      ii) DB size, with approach where we do block objects representation /
      management on *client* side.
      
      On the other hand, if object management is moved to DB *server* side, it is
      possible to deduplicate them there and this way have low-overhead for both
      access-time and DB size with just client storing 1 object per file block. This
      will be our future approach after we teach NEO about object deduplication.
      
      ~~~~
      
      As shown above in the last paragraph it is not possible to perform
      optimally on client side. Thus ZBlk1 should be only an intermediate
      solution until we move data management to DB server side, with main
      criteria for ZBlk1 to keep it simple.
      
      In this patch a simple scheme is used, where every block is divided into
      chunks organized via BTree. When a block part changes, only corresponding
      chunk is updated. Chunk size is chosen to be 4K which creates ~ 512
      fanout for 2M block.
      
      DB size after tests is changed as follows:
      
              bigfile     bigarray
      
      ZBlk0     24K       6200K
      ZBlk1     36K         36K
      
      ( slight size increase for bigfile tests is because of btree structures
        overhead )
      
      Time to run tests stays approximately the same.
      
      /cc @Tyagov, @klaus
      13c0c17c
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Prepare to have several ZBlk formats · 70ea8573
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      - current ZBlk becomes format 0
      - write format can be selected via WENDELIN_CORE_ZBLK_FMT env var
      - upon writing a block we always make sure we write it in current write
        format - so if a block was previously written in one format, it could
        be changed on the next write.
      - tox is prepared to test all write formats (so far only ZBlk0 there).
      
      The reason is - in the next patch we'll introduce another format for
      blocks which is optimized for small changes.
      70ea8573
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Split common functionality from ZBlk to base class · a7b7c294
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      If we aim to have several kinds of ZBlk, the functionality to invalidate
      a block and bind it to zfile is common and thus should be shared.
      
      If we introduce a base class, it also makes sense to document what
      .loadblkdata() and .setblkdata() should do there - in one place.
      a7b7c294
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Reuse __setstate__() in ZBlk.__init__() · a354d36b
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      - we have logic to init ._v_zfile and ._v_blk there
      
      - the same for ._v_blkdata - logic to init it is there + it is better to
        set variables right from instance creation, not hoping "it will be set
        outside from master"
      
        NOTE ._v_blkdata = None means the block was not yet loaded and
        generally fits into logic how ZBlk operates and thus the change is ok.
      a354d36b
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Do not waste DB space storing trailing zeros for a ZBlk · f696ce92
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      A lot of times data in blocks come shorter than block size and the rest
      of the memory page is zeros (because it was pre-filled zeros by OS when
      page was allocated).
      
      Do a simple heuristic and trim those trailing zeros and not store them
      into DB.
      
      With this change size of DB created by running bigfile and bigarray
      tests changes as following:
      
                  bigfile     bigarray
      
          old     145M         35M
          new      24K          6M
      
      Trimming trailing zeros is currently done with str.rstrip('\0') which
      creates a copy. When/if needed this could be optimized to work in-place.
      f696ce92
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Make "set blkdata to be later saved to DB" explicit method of ZBlk · e0b00bda
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      - to keep things uniform with counterpart .loadblkdata()
      - so that master do not mess with ZBlk internals and works only through
        interface - this way it will be possible to use several
        kinds of ZBlk.
      e0b00bda
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Clarify which stage .loadblkdata() and __{get,set}state__() do · a9072290
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      All those functions move data between DB and ._v_blkdata and only master
      then connects data to memory page. Make that fact explicit.
      a9072290
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Comments for ZBigFile + LivePersistent are ok · 0d8081c4
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Again, leftover from 4174b84a (bigfile: BigFile backend to store data in
      ZODB).
      0d8081c4
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: __getstate__() & __setstate__() are ok · 20bad3cf
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      The comment was a leftover there from 4174b84a (bigfile: BigFile backend
      to store data in ZODB).
      20bad3cf
  5. 23 Sep, 2015 2 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      lib/mem: Allow memcpy destination to be bigger than source · 520cbc6f
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      i.e. it is ok to copy smaller data into larger buffer.
      520cbc6f
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      lib/mem: Allow memcpy & friends to work on arbitrary-length buffer · a35106c2
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      - not only multiple of 8. We can do it by using uint8 typed arrays, and
      it does not hurt performance:
      
      In [1]: from wendelin.lib.mem import bzero, memset, memcpy
      In [2]: A = bytearray(2*1024*1024)
      In [3]: B = bytearray(2*1024*1024)
      
              memcpy(B, A)    bzero(A)        memset(A, 0xff)
      
      old:    718 µs          227 µs / 1116   228 µs / 1055 (*)
      new:    718 µs          176 µs / 1080   175 µs / 1048
      
          (*) the second number comes from e.g.
      
              In [8]: timeit bzero(A)
              The slowest run took 4.63 times longer than the fastest.
              This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached
              10000 loops, best of 3: 228 µs per loop
      
              so the second number is more realistic and says performance
              stays aproximately the same and only slightly improves.
      a35106c2
  6. 21 Sep, 2015 2 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray: Fix __getitem__ for cases where element overlaps with edge between pages · e5b7c31b
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      When we serve indexing request, we first compute page range in backing
      file, which contains the result based on major index range, then mmap
      that file range and pick up result from there.
      
      Page range math was however not correct: e.g. for positive strides, last
      element's byte is (byte0_stop-1), NOT (byte0_stop - byte0_stride) which
      for cases where byte0_stop is just a bit after page boundary, can make a
      difference - page_max will be 1 page less what it should be and then
      whole ndarray view creation breaks:
      
          ...
          Module wendelin.bigarray, line 381, in __getitem__
            view0 = ndarray(view0_shape, self._dtype, vma0, view0_offset, view0_stridev)
        ValueError: strides is incompatible with shape of requested array and size of buffer
      
      ( because vma0 was created less in size than what is needed to create view0_shape
        shaped array starting from view0_offset in vma0. )
      
      Similar story for negative strides math - it was not correct neither.
      
      Fix it.
      
      /reported-by @Camata
      e5b7c31b
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray/tests: Factor-out generic read-only BigFile_Data · 386ae339
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      We'll need this class in tests in the next patch.
      386ae339
  7. 11 Sep, 2015 1 commit
  8. 02 Sep, 2015 2 commits
  9. 19 Aug, 2015 1 commit
  10. 18 Aug, 2015 4 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray: Test for correctly handling conflict on array metadata · 9752178c
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      e.g. on .shape
      9752178c
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: ZBlk._p_invalidate() can be called more than once, in particular in case of conflicts · 800c14a9
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      When there is a conflict (on any object, but on ZBlk in particular) ZODB
      machinery calls its ._p_invalidate() twice:
      
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/tests/test_filezodb.py", line 661, in test_bigfile_filezodb_vs_conflicts
          tm2.commit()    # this should raise ConflictError and stay at 11 state
        File ".../transaction/_manager.py", line 111, in commit
          return self.get().commit()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 271, in commit
          self._commitResources()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 414, in _commitResources
          self._cleanup(L)
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 426, in _cleanup
          rm.abort(self)
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 436, in abort
          self._abort()
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 479, in _abort
          self._cache.invalidate(oid)
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 148, in _p_invalidate
          traceback.print_stack()
      
      and
      
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/tests/test_filezodb.py", line 661, in test_bigfile_filezodb_vs_conflicts
          tm2.commit()    # this should raise ConflictError and stay at 11 state
        File ".../transaction/_manager.py", line 111, in commit
          return self.get().commit()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 271, in commit
          self._commitResources()
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 416, in _commitResources
          self._synchronizers.map(lambda s: s.afterCompletion(self))
        File ".../transaction/weakset.py", line 59, in map
          f(elt)
        File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 416, in <lambda>
          self._synchronizers.map(lambda s: s.afterCompletion(self))
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 831, in _storage_sync
          self._flush_invalidations()
        File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 539, in _flush_invalidations
          self._cache.invalidate(invalidated)
        File ".../wendelin.core/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 148, in _p_invalidate
          traceback.print_stack()
      
      i.e. first invalidation is done by commit cleanup:
      
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/transaction/blob/1.4.4/transaction/_transaction.py#L414
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L479
      
      and then Connection.afterCompletion() flushes invalidation again:
      
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/transaction/blob/1.4.4/transaction/_transaction.py#L416
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L833
          https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L539
      
      If there was no conflict - there will be no ConflictError raised and
      thus no Transaction._cleanup() done in its ._commitResources() ->
      invalidation called only once. But with ConflictError - it is twice.
      
      Adjust ZBlk._p_invalidate() not to delve into real invalidation more
      than once - else we will fail, as ZBlk._v_zfile becomes unbound after
      invalidation done the first time.
      800c14a9
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray: Test for ZBigArray invalidation via usual attribute, e.g. .shape · e6bea85f
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      All is currently handled correctly, but an observation is made that upon
      such invalidation we through away ._v_fileh i.e. we through away whole
      data cache just because an array was resized.
      e6bea85f
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Note that even LivePersistent goes to GHOST state on invalidation · 48b2bb74
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      LivePersistent can go to ghost state, because invalidation cannot be
      ignored, i.e. they indicate the object has been changed externally.
      
      This does not break our logic for ZBigFile and ZBigArray as
      invalidations can happen only at transaction boundary, so during the
      course of transaction those classes are guaranteed to stay uptodate and
      thus not loose ._v_file and ._v_fileh (which is the reason they inherit
      from LivePersistent).
      
      it is ok to loose ._v_file and ._v_fileh at transaction boundary and
      become ghost - those objects will be recreated upon going back uptodate
      and will stay alive again during the whole transaction window.
      
      We care only not to loose e.g. ._v_fileh inside transaction, because
      loosing that data manager and thus data it manages inside transaction
      can break synchronization logic and forget changed-through-mmap data.
      48b2bb74
  11. 17 Aug, 2015 5 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Fix typos · 26d5b35e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      26d5b35e
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Do not hold reference to ZBigFileH indefinitely in Connection.onOpenCallback · 059c71e1
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      If we do - ZBigFileH objects just don't get garbage collected, and
      sooner or later this way it leaks enough filedescriptors so that main
      zope loop breaks:
      
          Traceback (most recent call last):
            File ".../bin/runzope", line 194, in <module>
              sys.exit(Zope2.Startup.run.run())
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/run.py", line 26, in run
              starter.run()
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Zope2/Startup/__init__.py", line 105, in run
              Lifetime.loop()
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Lifetime/__init__.py", line 43, in loop
              lifetime_loop()
            File ".../eggs/Zope2-2.13.22-py2.7.egg/Lifetime/__init__.py", line 53, in lifetime_loop
              asyncore.poll(timeout, map)
            File ".../parts/python2.7/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 145, in poll
              r, w, e = select.select(r, w, e, timeout)
          ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()
      
          $ lsof -p <runzope-pid> |grep ramh | wc -l
          950
      
      So continuing 64d1f40b (bigfile/zodb: Monkey-patch for ZODB.Connection
      to support callback on .open()) let's change the implementation to use
      WeakSet for callbacks list.
      
      Yes, because weakref to bound methods release immediately, we give up
      flexibility to subscribe to arbitrary callbacks. If it become an issue,
      something like WeakMethod from py3 or recipes from the net how to do it
      are there.
      059c71e1
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      Drop support for ZODB < 3.10 · 105ab1c7
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ZODB 3.10.4 was released almost 4 years ago, and contains significant
      change how ghost objects coming from DB are initially setup.
      105ab1c7
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile: ZODB -> BigFileH invalidate propagation · 92bfd03e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Continuing theme from the previous patch, here is propagation of
      invalidation messages from ZODB to BigFileH memory.
      
      The use-case here is that e.g. one fileh mapping was created in one
      connection, another in another, and after doing changes in second
      connection and committing there, the first fileh has to invalidate
      appropriate already-loaded pages, so its next transaction won't work
      with stale data.
      
      To do it, we hook into ZBlk._p_invalidate() and propagate the
      invalidation message to ZBigFile which then notifies all
      opened-through-it ZBigFileH to invalidate a page.
      
      ZBlk -> ZBigFile lookup is done without storing backpointer in ZODB -
      instead, every time ZBigFile touches ZBlk object (and thus potentially
      does GHOST -> Live transition to it), we (re-)bind it back to ZBigFile.
      Since ZBigFile is the only class that works with ZBlk objects it is safe
      to do so.
      
      For ZBigFile to notify "all-opened-through-it" ZBigFileH, a weakset is
      introduced to track them.
      
      Otherwise the real page invalidation work is done by virtmem (see
      previous patch).
      92bfd03e
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/virtmem: Client API to invalidate a fileh page · cb779c7b
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      FileH is a handle representing snapshot of a file. If, for a pgoffset,
      fileh already has loaded page, but we know the content of the file has
      changed externally after loading has been done, we need to propagate to
      fileh that such-and-such page should be invalidated (and reloaded on
      next access).
      
      This patch introduces
      
          fileh_invalidate_page(fileh, pgoffset)
      
      to do just that.
      
      In the next patch we'll use this facility to propagate invalidations of
      ZBlk ZODB objects to virtmem subsystem.
      
      NOTE
      
      Since invalidation removes "dirtiness" from a page state, several
      subsequent invalidations can make a fileh completely non-dirty
      (invalidating all dirty page). Previously fileh->dirty was just a one
      bit, so we needed to improve how we track dirtiness.
      
      One way would be to have a dirty list for fileh pages and operate on
      that. This has advantage to even optimize dirty pages processing like
      fileh_dirty_writeout() where we currently scan through all fileh pages
      just to write only PAGE_DIRTY ones.
      
      Another simpler way is to make fileh->dirty a counter and maintain that.
      
      Since we are going to move virtmem subsystem back into the kernel, here,
      a simpler less-intrusive approach is used.
      cb779c7b
  12. 12 Aug, 2015 4 commits
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: ZODB.Connection can migrate between threads on close/open and we have to care · c7c01ce4
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Intro
      -----
      
      ZODB maintains pool of opened-to-DB connections. For each request Zope
      opens 1 connection and, after request handling is done, returns the
      connection back to ZODB pool (via Connection.close()). The same
      connection will be opened again for handling some future next request at
      some future time. This next open can happen in different-from-first
      request worker thread.
      
      TransactionManager  (as accessed by transaction.{get,commit,abort,...})
      is thread-local, that is e.g. transaction.get() returns different
      transaction for threads T1 and T2.
      
      When _ZBigFileH hooks into txn_manager to get a chance to run its
      .beforeCompletion() when transaction.commit() is run, it hooks into
      _current_ _thread_ transaction manager.
      
      Without unhooking on connection close, and circumstances where
      connection migrates to different thread this can lead to
      dissynchronization between ZBigFileH managing fileh pages and Connection
      with ZODB objects. And even to data corruption, e.g.
      
          T1              T2
      
          open
          zarray[0] = 11
          commit
          close
      
                          open                # opens connection as closed in T1
          open
                          zarray[0] = 21
          commit
                          abort
      
          close           close
      
      Here zarray[0]=21 _will_ be committed by T1 as part of T1 transaction -
      because when T1 does commit .beforeCompletion() for zarray is invoked,
      sees there is dirty data and propagate changes to zodb objects in
      connection for T2, joins connection for T2 into txn for T1, and then txn
      for t1 when doing two-phase-commit stores modified objects to DB ->
      oops.
      
      ----------------------------------------
      
      To prevent such dissynchronization _ZBigFileH needs to be a DataManager
      which works in sync with the connection it was initially created under -
      on connection close, unregister from transaction_manager, and on
      connection open, register to transaction manager in current, possibly
      different, thread context. Then there won't be incorrect
      beforeCompletion() notification and corruption.
      
      This issue, besides possible data corruption, was probably also exposing
      itself via following ways we've seen in production (everywhere
      connection was migrated from T1 to T2):
      
      1. Exception ZODB.POSException.ConnectionStateError:
              ConnectionStateError('Cannot close a connection joined to a transaction',)
              in <bound method Cleanup.__del__ of <App.ZApplication.Cleanup instance at 0x7f10f4bab050>> ignored
      
           T1          T2
      
                       modify zarray
                       commit/abort    # does not join zarray to T2.txn,
                                       # because .beforeCompletion() is
                                       # registered in T1.txn_manager
      
           commit                      # T1 invokes .beforeCompletion()
           ...                         # beforeCompletion() joins ZBigFileH and zarray._p_jar (=T2.conn) to T1.txn
           ...                         # commit is going on in progress
           ...
           ...         close           # T2 thinks request handling is done and
           ...                         # and closes connection. But T2.conn is
           ...                         # still joined to T1.txn
      
      2. Traceback (most recent call last):
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 121, in storeblk
             def storeblk(self, blk, buf):   return self.zself.storeblk(blk, buf)
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 220, in storeblk
             zblk._v_blkdata = bytes(buf)    # FIXME does memcpy
           File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 857, in setstate
             raise ConnectionStateError(msg)
         ZODB.POSException.ConnectionStateError: Shouldn't load state for 0x1f23a5 when the connection is closed
      
         Similar to "1", but close in T2 happens sooner, so that when T1 does
         the commit and tries to store object to database, Connection refuses to
         do the store:
      
           T1          T2
      
                       modify zarray
                       commit/abort
      
           commit
           ...         close
           ...
           ...
           . obj.store()
           ...
           ...
      
      3. Traceback (most recent call last):
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 121, in storeblk
             def storeblk(self, blk, buf):   return self.zself.storeblk(blk, buf)
           File ".../wendelin/bigfile/file_zodb.py", line 221, in storeblk
             zblk._p_changed = True          # if zblk was already in DB: _p_state -> CHANGED
           File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 979, in register
             self._register(obj)
           File ".../ZODB/Connection.py", line 989, in _register
             self.transaction_manager.get().join(self)
           File ".../transaction/_transaction.py", line 220, in join
             Status.ACTIVE, Status.DOOMED, self.status))
         ValueError: expected txn status 'Active' or 'Doomed', but it's 'Committing'
      
        ( storeblk() does zblk._p_changed -> Connection.register(zblk) ->
          txn.join() but txn is already committing
      
          IOW storeblk() was invoked with txn.state being already 'Committing' )
      
          T1          T2
      
                      modify obj      # this way T2.conn joins T2.txn
                      modify zarray
      
          commit                      # T1 invokes .beforeCompletion()
          ...                         # beforeCompletion() joins only _ZBigFileH to T1.txn
          ...                         # (because T2.conn is already marked as joined)
          ...
          ...         commit/abort    # T2 does commit/abort - this touches only T2.conn, not ZBigFileH
          ...                         # in particular T2.conn is now reset to be not joined
          ...
          . tpc_begin                 # actual active commit phase of T1 was somehow delayed a bit
          . tpc_commit                # when changes from RAM propagate to ZODB objects associated
          .  storeblk                 # connection (= T2.conn !) is notified again,
          .   zblk = ...              # wants to join txn for it thinks its transaction_manager,
                                      # which when called from under T1 returns *T1* transaction manager for
                                      # which T1.txn is already in state='Committing'
      
      4. Empty transaction committed to NEO
      
         ( different from doing just transaction.commit() without changing
           any data - a connection was joined to txn, but set of modified
           object turned out to be empty )
      
         This is probably a race in Connection._register when both T1 and T2
         go to it at the same time:
      
         https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/blob/3.10/src/ZODB/Connection.py#L988
      
         def _register(self, obj=None):
              if self._needs_to_join:
                  self.transaction_manager.get().join(self)
                  self._needs_to_join = False
      
          T1                          T2
      
                                      modify zarray
          commit
          ...
          .beforeCompletion           modify obj
          . if T2.conn.needs_join      if T2.conn.needs_join      # race here
          .   T2.conn.join(T1.txn)       T2.conn.join(T2.txn)     # as a result T2.conn joins both T1.txn and T2.txn
          .
          commit finishes             # T2.conn registered-for-commit object list is now empty
      
                                      commit
                                       tpc_begin
                                        storage.tpc_begin
                                       tpc_commit
                                        # no object stored, because for-commit-list is empty
      
      /cc @jm, @klaus, @Tyagov, @vpelletier
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    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/zodb: Monkey-patch for ZODB.Connection to support callback on .open() · 64d1f40b
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ZODB.Connection has support for calling callbacks on .close() but not on
      .open() . We'll need to hook into both Connection open/close process in the
      next patch (for _ZBigFileH to stay in sync with Connection state).
      
      NOTE
      
      on-open  callbacks are setup once and fire many times on every open,
      on-close callbacks are setup once and fire only once on next close.
      
      The reason for this is that on-close callbacks are useful for scheduling
      current connection cleanup, after its processing is done. But on-open
      callback is for future connection usage, which is generally not related
      to current connection.
      
      /cc @jm, @vpelletier
      64d1f40b
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    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigarray/zodb: Forgot to close DB in tests · 070aeaa9
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      ( without dbclose, next test will not be able to open database - will
        timeout on open on waiting for FileStorage lock )
      070aeaa9
  13. 09 Aug, 2015 1 commit
    • Kirill Smelkov's avatar
      bigfile/py: Teach storeblk() how to correctly propagate traceback on error · 6da5172e
      Kirill Smelkov authored
      Previously we were limited to printing traceback starting down from just
      storeblk() via explicit PyErr_PrintEx() - because pybuf was attached to
      memory which could go away right after return from C function - so we
      had to destroy that object for sure, not letting any traceback to hold a
      reference to it.
      
      This turned out to be too limiting and not showing full context where
      errors happen.
      
      So do the following trick: before returning, reattach pybuf to empty
      region at NULL, and this way we don't need to worry about pybuf pointing
      to memory which can go away -> thus instead of printing exception locally
      - just return it the usual way it is done with C api in Python.
      
      NOTE In contrast to PyMemoryViewObject, PyBufferObject definition is not
      public, so to support Python2 - had to copy its definition to PY2 compat
      header.
      
      NOTE2 loadblk() is not touched - the loading is done from sighandler
      context, which simulates as if it work in separate python thread, so it
      is leaved as is for now.
      6da5172e