If the requested server is part of the set this will always read
from the local disk, even if the disk contains a parity shard.
In default setup there is a 50% chance that at least
one shard that otherwise would have been fetched remotely
will be read locally instead.
It basically trades RPC call overhead for reed-solomon.
On distributed localhost this seems to be fairly break-even,
with a very small gain in throughput and latency.
However on networked servers this should be a bigger
1MB objects, before:
```
Operation: GET. Concurrency: 32. Hosts: 4.
Requests considered: 76257:
* Avg: 25ms 50%: 24ms 90%: 32ms 99%: 42ms Fastest: 7ms Slowest: 67ms
* First Byte: Average: 23ms, Median: 22ms, Best: 5ms, Worst: 65ms
Throughput:
* Average: 1213.68 MiB/s, 1272.63 obj/s (59.948s, starting 14:45:44 CEST)
```
After:
```
Operation: GET. Concurrency: 32. Hosts: 4.
Requests considered: 78845:
* Avg: 24ms 50%: 24ms 90%: 31ms 99%: 39ms Fastest: 8ms Slowest: 62ms
* First Byte: Average: 22ms, Median: 21ms, Best: 6ms, Worst: 57ms
Throughput:
* Average: 1255.11 MiB/s, 1316.08 obj/s (59.938s, starting 14:43:58 CEST)
```
Bonus fix: Only ask for heal once on an object.
- Data from disk was being read after bitrot verification to return
data for GetObject. Strictly speaking this does not guarantee bitrot
protection, as disks may return bad data even temporarily.
- This fix reads data from disk, verifies data for bitrot and then
returns data to the client directly.
HealFile() does not process the case when an empty file is lost in
some disks. Since, Reedsolomon erasure doesn't handle restoring empty
data, HealFile will create empty files similarly to CreateFile().
The reedsolomon library now avoids allocations during reconstruction.
This change exploits that to reduce memory allocs and GC preasure during
healing and reading.
This change removes the ReadFileWithVerify function from the
StorageAPI. The ReadFile was basically a redirection to ReadFileWithVerify.
This change removes the redirection and moves the logic of
ReadFileWithVerify directly into ReadFile.
This removes a lot of unnecessary code in all StorageAPI implementations.
Fixes#4946
* review: fix doc and typos
This change provides new implementations of the XL backend operations:
- create file
- read file
- heal file
Further this change adds table based tests for all three operations.
This affects also the bitrot algorithm integration. Algorithms are now
integrated in an idiomatic way (like crypto.Hash).
Fixes#4696Fixes#4649Fixes#4359
* Prevent unnecessary verification of parity blocks while reading erasure
coded file.
* Update klauspost/reedsolomon and just only reconstruct data blocks while
reading (prevent unnecessary parity block reconstruction)
* Remove Verification of (all) reconstructed Data and Parity blocks since
in our case we are protected by bit rot protection. And even if the
verification would fail (essentially impossible) there is no way to
definitively say whether the data is still correct or not, so this call
make no sense for our use case.
This is an enhancement to the XL/distributed-XL mode. FS mode is
unaffected.
The ReadFileWithVerify storage-layer call is similar to ReadFile with
the additional functionality of performing bit-rot checking. It
accepts additional parameters for a hashing algorithm to use and the
expected hex-encoded hash string.
This patch provides significant performance improvement because:
1. combines the step of reading the file (during
erasure-decoding/reconstruction) with bit-rot verification;
2. limits the number of file-reads; and
3. avoids transferring the file over the network for bit-rot
verification.
ReadFile API is implemented as ReadFileWithVerify with empty hashing
arguments.
Credits to AB and Harsha for the algorithmic improvement.
Fixes#4236.
This patch introduces new command line 'control'
- minio control
TO manage minio server connecting through GoRPC API frontend.
- minio control heal
Is implemented for healing objects.
Klaus Post