The consequence was that the client never reconnected to that storage node.
On commits, writes to that node always failed, causing the master to
disconnect it.

Nothing wrong actually happens.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "neo/scripts/neostorage.py", line 32, in main
    app.run()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 194, in run
    self._run()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 225, in _run
    self.doOperation()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 310, in doOperation
    poll()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 134, in _poll
    self.em.poll(1)
  File "neo/lib/event.py", line 168, in poll
    self._poll(0)
  File "neo/lib/event.py", line 220, in _poll
    if conn.readable():
  File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 483, in readable
    self._closure()
  File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 541, in _closure
    self.close()
  File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 533, in close
    handler.connectionClosed(self)
  File "neo/storage/handlers/client.py", line 46, in connectionClosed
    app.tm.abortFor(conn.getUUID())
  File "neo/storage/transactions.py", line 594, in abortFor
    self.abort(ttid)
  File "neo/storage/transactions.py", line 570, in abort
    self._replicated.get(self.getPartition(oid))), x
AssertionError: ('\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01a\xe5', '\x03\xcaZ\x04\x14o\x8e\xbb', '\x03\xcaZ\x04\x0eX{\xbb', {1: None, 21: '\x03\xcaZ\x04\x11\xc6\x94\xf6'}, set([]))

In case of storage disconnection, one packet (VoteTransaction) was not handled
the same way as other writes, and the failure was not reported to the master
so that it arbitrates the vote. The transaction was therefore partially
committed.

Here is what happened after simulating a network failure between a client and
a storage:

C8

DEBUG   recv failed for <SSLSocketConnectorIPv6 at 0x7f8198027f90 fileno 17 ('xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1', 53970), opened to ('xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3', 39085)>: ECONNRESET (Connection reset by peer)
DEBUG   connection closed for <MTClientConnection(uuid=S2, address=[xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3]:39085, handler=StorageEventHandler, closed, client) at 7f81939a0950>
DEBUG   connection started for <MTClientConnection(uuid=S2, address=[xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3]:39085, handler=StorageEventHandler, fd=17, on_close=onConnectionClosed, connecting, client) at 7f8192eb17d0>
PACKET  #0x0000 RequestIdentification          > S2 ([xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3]:39085)        | (<EnumItem CLIENT (2)>, -536870904, None, '...', [], 1535555463.455761)
DEBUG   SSL handshake done for <SSLSocketConnectorIPv6 at 0x7f8192eb1850 fileno 17 ('xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1', 54014), opened to ('xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3', 39085)>: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 256
DEBUG   connection completed for <MTClientConnection(uuid=S2, address=[xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3]:39085, handler=StorageEventHandler, fd=17, on_close=onConnectionClosed, client) at 7f8192eb17d0> (from xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1:54014)
DEBUG   <SSLSocketConnectorIPv6 at 0x7f8192eb1850 fileno 17 ('xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1', 54014), opened to ('xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3', 39085)> closed in recv
DEBUG   connection closed for <MTClientConnection(uuid=S2, address=[xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3]:39085, handler=StorageEventHandler, closed, client) at 7f8192eb17d0>
ERROR   Connection to <StorageNode(uuid=S2, address=[xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3]:39085, state=RUNNING, connection=None, not identified) at 7f81a8874690> failed

S2

DEBUG   accepted a connection from xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1:54014
DEBUG   SSL handshake done for <SSLSocketConnectorIPv6 at 0x7f657144a910 fileno 22 ('xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3', 39085), opened from ('xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1', 54014)>: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 256
DEBUG   connection completed for <ServerConnection(uuid=None, address=[xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1]:54014, handler=IdentificationHandler, fd=22, server) at 7f657144a090> (from xxxx:xxxx:60:4c2c::25c3:39085)
PACKET  #0x0000 RequestIdentification          < None ([xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1]:54014)         | (<EnumItem CLIENT (2)>, -536870904, None, '...', [], 1535555463.455761)
DEBUG   connection closed for <ServerConnection(uuid=None, address=[xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1]:54014, handler=IdentificationHandler, closed, server) at 7f657144a090>
WARNING A connection was lost during identification
ERROR   Pre-mortem data:
ERROR   Traceback (most recent call last):
ERROR     File "neo/storage/app.py", line 194, in run
ERROR       self._run()
ERROR     File "neo/storage/app.py", line 225, in _run
ERROR       self.doOperation()
ERROR     File "neo/storage/app.py", line 310, in doOperation
ERROR       poll()
ERROR     File "neo/storage/app.py", line 134, in _poll
ERROR       self.em.poll(1)
ERROR     File "neo/lib/event.py", line 160, in poll
ERROR       to_process.process()
ERROR     File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 499, in process
ERROR       self._handlers.handle(self, self._queue.pop(0))
ERROR     File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 85, in handle
ERROR       self._handle(connection, packet)
ERROR     File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 100, in _handle
ERROR       pending[0][1].packetReceived(connection, packet)
ERROR     File "neo/lib/handler.py", line 123, in packetReceived
ERROR       self.dispatch(*args)
ERROR     File "neo/lib/handler.py", line 72, in dispatch
ERROR       method(conn, *args, **kw)
ERROR     File "neo/storage/handlers/identification.py", line 56, in requestIdentification
ERROR       assert not node.isConnected(), node
ERROR   AssertionError: <ClientNode(uuid=C8, state=RUNNING, connection=<ServerConnection(uuid=C8, address=[xxxx:xxxx:120:cd8::90a1]:53970, handler=ClientOperationHandler, fd=18, on_close=onConnectionClosed, server) at 7f657147d7d0>) at 7f65714d6cd0>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "neo/tests/functional/testClient.py", line 241, in testExport
    self.assertEqual(dump, self.__dump(neo_db.storage, list))
  File "neo/tests/functional/testClient.py", line 210, in __dump
    for t in storage.iterator()}
  File "neo/tests/functional/testClient.py", line 207, in <dictcomp>
    return {u64(t.tid): sorted((u64(o.oid), o.data_txn and u64(o.data_txn),
  File "neo/client/iterator.py", line 69, in iterator
    max_tid, chunk = app.transactionLog(start, stop, CHUNK_LENGTH)
  File "neo/client/app.py", line 841, in transactionLog
    Packets.AskTIDsFrom(start, stop, limit, offset))
  File "neo/client/app.py", line 296, in _askStorageForRead
    return askStorage(conn, packet)
  File "neo/client/app.py", line 164, in _askStorage
    return self._ask(conn, packet, handler=self.storage_handler, **kw)
  File "neo/lib/threaded_app.py", line 144, in _ask
    _handlePacket(qconn, qpacket, kw, handler)
  File "neo/lib/threaded_app.py", line 133, in _handlePacket
    handler.dispatch(conn, packet, kw)
  File "neo/lib/handler.py", line 72, in dispatch
    method(conn, *args, **kw)
  File "neo/lib/handler.py", line 208, in error
    getattr(self, Errors[code])(conn, message)
  File "neo/lib/handler.py", line 227, in backendNotImplemented
    raise NotImplementedError(message)
NotImplementedError: neo.storage.database.importer.ImporterDatabaseManager does not implement getReplicationTIDList

Resulting trace files can be reused to simulate a workload
and test new cache algorithms.

Besides the use of another module for option parsing, the main change is that
there's no more Config class that mixes configuration for different components.
Application classes now takes a simple 'dict' with parsed values.

The changes in 'neoctl' are somewhat ugly, because command-line options are not
defined on the command-line class, but this component is likely to disappear
in the future.

It remains possible to pass options via a configuration file. The code is a bit
complex but isolated in neo.lib.config

For SSL, the code may be simpler if we change for a single --ssl option that
takes 3 paths. Not done to not break compatibility. Hence, the hack with
an extra OptionList class in neo.lib.app

A new functional test tests the 'neomigrate' script, instead of just the
internal API to migrate data.

This mainly concerns the storage node, and depending on how its polling loop is
changed, the following crash could happen again during replication:

  File "neo/scripts/neostorage.py", line 66, in main
    app.run()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 147, in run
    self._run()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 178, in _run
    self.doOperation()
  File "neo/storage/app.py", line 258, in doOperation
    _poll(0)
  File "neo/lib/event.py", line 231, in _poll
    conn.writable()
  File "neo/lib/connection.py", line 418, in writable
    if self.connector.send():
  File "neo/lib/connector.py", line 179, in send
    n = self.socket.send(msg)
  File "ssl.py", line 719, in send
    v = self._sslobj.write(data)
OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 byte

This commit adds a contraint when tweaking the partition table with replicas,
so that cells of each partition are assigned as far as possible from each
other, e.g. not on the same machine even if each one has several disks, and
in any case not on the same storage device.

Currently, the topology path of each node is automatically calculated by the
storage backend. Both MySQL and SQLite return a 2-tuple (host, st_dev).
To be improved:
- Add a storage option to override the path: the 'tweak' algorithm can already
  handle topology paths of any length, so something like (room, machine, disk)
  could be done easily.
- Write OS-specific code to determine the real hardware behind st_dev
  (e.g. 2 different 'st_dev' values may actually refer to the same disk,
   because of layers like partitioning, device-mapper, loop, btrfs subvolumes,
   and so on).
- Make 'neoctl' report in some way if the PT is optimal. Meanwhile,
  if it isn't, the master only logs a WARNING during tweak.

This is a follow-up of commit b3dd6973
("Optimize resumption of replication by starting from a greater TID").
I missed the case where a storage node is restarted while it is replicating:
it lost the TID where it was interrupted.

Although we commit after each replicated chunk, to avoid transferring again
all the data from the beginning, it could still waste time to check that
the data are already replicated.

Otherwise, they were either lost or flushed to a file of a next test.

The bug is likely to be in the test rather than in NEO.

NEO functional tests use pdb.wait() in a few places, for example in
NEOCluster .run(), .start() and .expectCondition(). The wait
implementation uses polling with exponentially growing wait period.

With the following instrumentation

	--- a/neo/tests/cluster.py
	+++ b/neo/tests/cluster.py
	@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ def wait(self, test, timeout):
	                         return False
	             finally:
	                 cluster_dict.release()
	+            print 'next_sleep:', next_sleep
	             sleep(next_sleep)
	         return True

during execution of functional tests it is not uncommon to see the
following sleep periods

	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.15
	next_sleep: 0.225
	next_sleep: 0.3375
	next_sleep: 0.50625
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.15
	next_sleep: 0.225
	next_sleep: 0.3375
	next_sleep: 0.50625
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.15
	next_sleep: 0.225
	next_sleep: 0.3375
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.1
	next_sleep: 0.15
	next_sleep: 0.225
	next_sleep: 0.3375
	next_sleep: 0.50625

.

Without going into reworking the wait mechanism to use real
notifications instead of polling, it was observed that the exponential
progression tends to create too coarse sleeps. Initial 0.1s interval was
found to be also too much.

This patch remove the exponential period growth and reduces period by order
of one magnitude. For functional tests timings on my computer it is thus:

before patch:

	Functional tests

	28 Tests, 0 Failed

	Title                     : TestRunner
	Date                      : 2018-04-04
	Node                      : deco
	Machine                   : x86_64
	System                    : Linux
	Python                    : 2.7.14

	Directory                 : /tmp/neo_tests/1522868674.115798
	Status                    : 100.000%
	NEO_TESTS_ADAPTER         : SQLite

	                               NEO TESTS REPORT

	              Test Module |  run  | unexpected | expected | skipped |  time
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------
	                   Client |    6  |       .    |      .   |     .   |   8.51s
	                  Cluster |    7  |       .    |      .   |     .   |   9.84s
	                   Master |    4  |       .    |      .   |     .   |   9.68s
	                  Storage |   11  |       .    |      .   |     .   |  20.76s
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------
	     neo.tests.functional |       |            |          |         |
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------
	                  Summary |   28  |       .    |      .   |     .   |  48.79s
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------

after patch:

	Functional tests

	28 Tests, 0 Failed

	Title                     : TestRunner
	Date                      : 2018-04-04
	Node                      : deco
	Machine                   : x86_64
	System                    : Linux
	Python                    : 2.7.14

	Directory                 : /tmp/neo_tests/1522868527.624376
	Status                    : 100.000%
	NEO_TESTS_ADAPTER         : SQLite

	                               NEO TESTS REPORT

	              Test Module |  run  | unexpected | expected | skipped |  time
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------
	                   Client |    6  |       .    |      .   |     .   |   7.38s
	                  Cluster |    7  |       .    |      .   |     .   |   7.05s
	                   Master |    4  |       .    |      .   |     .   |   8.22s
	                  Storage |   11  |       .    |      .   |     .   |  19.22s
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------
	     neo.tests.functional |       |            |          |         |
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------
	                  Summary |   28  |       .    |      .   |     .   |  41.87s
	--------------------------+-------+------------+----------+---------+----------

in other words ~ 10% improvement for the whole time to run functional tests.

/reviewed-by @vpelletier, @jm
/reviewed-on nexedi/neoppod!10

/reviewed-on nexedi/neoppod!9

I made a mistake in commit 13a64cfe
("Simplify definition of packets by computing automatically their codes").
My intention was that the code an answer packet continues to only differ by the
highest bit, as implemented now by this commit.

Before:
  0x0001, 0x8002   Ask1, Answer1
  0x0003           Notify2
  0x0004, 0x8005   Ask3, Answer3
  0x0006, 0x8007   Ask4, Answer4

After:
  0x0001, 0x8001   Ask1, Answer1
  0x0002           Notify2
  0x0003, 0x8003   Ask3, Answer3
  0x0004, 0x8004   Ask4, Answer4

This makes the protocol easier to document.

And by not wasting the range of possible values, it seems we have enough
space to shrink to a single byte.

This also removes code that became meaningless since that codes are generated
automatically.

Although data that are already transferred aren't transferred again, checking
that the data are there for a whole partition can still be a lot of work for
big databases. This commit is a major performance improvement in that a storage
node that gets disconnected for a short time now gets fully operational quite
instantaneously because it only has to replicate the new data. Before, the time
to recover depended on the size of the DB.

For OUT_OF_DATE cells, the difficult part was that they are writable and
can then contain holes, so we can't just take the last TID in trans/obj
(we wrongly did that at the beginning, and then committed
6b1f198f as a workaround). We solve that
by storing up to where it was up-to-date: this value is initialized from
the last TIDs in trans/obj when the state switches from UP_TO_DATE/FEEDING.

There's actually one such OUT_OF_DATE TID per assigned cell (backends store
these values in the 'pt' table). Otherwise, a cell that still has a lot to
replicate would still cause all other cells to resume from the a very small
TID, or even ZERO_TID; the worse case is when a new cell is assigned to a node
(as a result of tweak).

For UP_TO_DATE cells of a backup cluster, replication was resumed from the
maximum TID at which all assigned cells are known to be fully replicated.
Like for OUT_OF_DATE cells, the presence of a late cell could cause a lot of
extra work for others, the worst case being when setting up a backup cluster
(it always restarted from ZERO_TID as long as at least 1 cell was still empty).
Because UP_TO_DATE cells are guaranteed to have no holes, there's no need to
store extra information: we simply look at the last TIDs in trans/obj.
We even handle trans & obj independently, to minimize the work in 1 table
(i.e. trans since it's processed first) if the other is late (obj).

There's a small change in the protocol so that OUT_OF_DATE enum value equals 0.
This way, backends can store the OUT_OF_DATE TID (verbatim) in the same column
as the cell state.

Note about MySQL changes in commit ca58ccd7:
what we did as a workaround is not one any more. Now, we do so much on Python
side that it's unlikely we could reduce the number of queries using GROUP BY.
We even stopped doing that for SQLite.

It was confusing and there's already the 'Unlock TXN' log just before abort()
is called (in this case, it's more a cleanup than an abort).

Future migration steps are likely to alter tables, possibly with
transformation of data, and this is complicated for both supported backend.

Some changes in the storage format are minor and applying them automatically
would cost too much for big databases.

Here, we apply them manually so that testStorageUpgrade will be able to
compare dumps.

We hope however that with improvements like
  https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-12836
we'll be able to implement more migration steps
and revert parts of this commit.

These dumps were generated with an old version of NEO, plus a backport of the
test that will use them.

In MySQL dumps, --hex-blob was used only for inserts in the 'data' table.