When multiple concurrent processes try to update references in a repository they may try to lock the same lockfiles. This can happen even when the updates are non-conflicting and can both be applied, so it doesn't always make sense to abort the transaction immediately. Both the "loose" and "packed" backends thus have a grace period that they wait for the lock to be released that can be controlled via the config values "core.filesRefLockTimeout" and "core.packedRefsTimeout", respectively. The reftable backend doesn't have such a setting yet and instead fails immediately when it sees such a lock. But the exact same concepts apply here as they do apply to the other backends. Introduce a new "reftable.lockTimeout" config that controls how long we may wait for a "tables.list" lock to be released. The default value of this config is 100ms, which is the same default as we have it for the "loose" backend. Note that even though we also lock individual tables, this config really only applies to the "tables.list" file. This is because individual tables are only ever locked when we already hold the "tables.list" lock during compaction. When we observe such a lock we in fact do not want to compact the table at all because it is already in the process of being compacted by a concurrent process. So applying the same timeout here would not make any sense and only delay progress. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> --- Documentation/config/reftable.txt | 7 +++++++ refs/reftable-backend.c | 4 ++++ reftable/reftable-writer.h | 8 ++++++++ reftable/stack.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ t/t0610-reftable-basics.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config/reftable.txt b/Documentation/config/reftable.txt index 05157279778..6c9449d0232 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/reftable.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/reftable.txt @@ -46,3 +46,10 @@ reftable.geometricFactor:: By default, the geometric sequence uses a factor of 2, meaning that for any table, the next-biggest table must at least be twice as big. A maximum factor of 256 is supported. + +reftable.lockTimeout:: + Whenever the reftable backend appends a new table to the stack, it has + to lock the central "tables.list" file before updating it. This config + controls how long the process will wait to acquire the lock in case + another process has already acquired it. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry + for 1 second). diff --git a/refs/reftable-backend.c b/refs/reftable-backend.c index 1c4b19e737f..e90ddfb98dd 100644 --- a/refs/reftable-backend.c +++ b/refs/reftable-backend.c @@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ static int reftable_be_config(const char *var, const char *value, if (factor > UINT8_MAX) die("reftable geometric factor cannot exceed %u", (unsigned)UINT8_MAX); opts->auto_compaction_factor = factor; + } else if (!strcmp(var, "reftable.locktimeout")) { + unsigned long lock_timeout = git_config_ulong(var, value, ctx->kvi); + opts->lock_timeout_ms = lock_timeout; } return 0; @@ -281,6 +284,7 @@ static struct ref_store *reftable_be_init(struct repository *repo, refs->write_options.default_permissions = calc_shared_perm(0666 & ~mask); refs->write_options.disable_auto_compact = !git_env_bool("GIT_TEST_REFTABLE_AUTOCOMPACTION", 1); + refs->write_options.lock_timeout_ms = 100; git_config(reftable_be_config, &refs->write_options); diff --git a/reftable/reftable-writer.h b/reftable/reftable-writer.h index 189b1f4144f..d5f2446220b 100644 --- a/reftable/reftable-writer.h +++ b/reftable/reftable-writer.h @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ struct reftable_write_options { * tables to compact. Defaults to 2 if unset. */ uint8_t auto_compaction_factor; + + /* + * The number of milliseconds to wait when trying to lock "tables.list". + * Note that this does not apply to locking individual tables, as these + * should only ever be locked when already holding the "tables.list" + * lock. + */ + unsigned lock_timeout_ms; }; /* reftable_block_stats holds statistics for a single block type */ diff --git a/reftable/stack.c b/reftable/stack.c index ce0a35216ba..5ccad2cff31 100644 --- a/reftable/stack.c +++ b/reftable/stack.c @@ -603,8 +603,10 @@ static int reftable_stack_init_addition(struct reftable_addition *add, add->stack = st; - err = hold_lock_file_for_update(&add->tables_list_lock, st->list_file, - LOCK_NO_DEREF); + err = hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(&add->tables_list_lock, + st->list_file, + LOCK_NO_DEREF, + st->opts.lock_timeout_ms); if (err < 0) { if (errno == EEXIST) { err = REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR; @@ -1056,8 +1058,10 @@ static int stack_compact_range(struct reftable_stack *st, * Hold the lock so that we can read "tables.list" and lock all tables * which are part of the user-specified range. */ - err = hold_lock_file_for_update(&tables_list_lock, st->list_file, - LOCK_NO_DEREF); + err = hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(&tables_list_lock, + st->list_file, + LOCK_NO_DEREF, + st->opts.lock_timeout_ms); if (err < 0) { if (errno == EEXIST) err = REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR; @@ -1156,8 +1160,10 @@ static int stack_compact_range(struct reftable_stack *st, * "tables.list". We'll then replace the compacted range of tables with * the new table. */ - err = hold_lock_file_for_update(&tables_list_lock, st->list_file, - LOCK_NO_DEREF); + err = hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(&tables_list_lock, + st->list_file, + LOCK_NO_DEREF, + st->opts.lock_timeout_ms); if (err < 0) { if (errno == EEXIST) err = REFTABLE_LOCK_ERROR; diff --git a/t/t0610-reftable-basics.sh b/t/t0610-reftable-basics.sh index 37510c2b2a5..62da3e37823 100755 --- a/t/t0610-reftable-basics.sh +++ b/t/t0610-reftable-basics.sh @@ -423,6 +423,33 @@ test_expect_success 'ref transaction: fails gracefully when auto compaction fail ) ' +test_expect_success 'ref transaction: timeout acquiring tables.list lock' ' + test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" && + git init repo && + ( + cd repo && + test_commit initial && + >.git/reftable/tables.list.lock && + test_must_fail git update-ref refs/heads/branch HEAD 2>err && + test_grep "cannot lock references" err + ) +' + +test_expect_success 'ref transaction: retry acquiring tables.list lock' ' + test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" && + git init repo && + ( + cd repo && + test_commit initial && + LOCK=.git/reftable/tables.list.lock && + >$LOCK && + { + ( sleep 1 && rm -f $LOCK ) & + } && + git -c reftable.lockTimeout=5000 update-ref refs/heads/branch HEAD + ) +' + test_expect_success 'pack-refs: compacts tables' ' test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" && git init repo && -- 2.46.0.551.gc5ee8f2d1c.dirty