Previously, tags had a `shouldCopy` flag to indicate if those tags
referenced an underlying buffer and should be copied to allow GC.
Unfortunately, this prevented tags from being copied that were
created and referenced the mmap which caused segfaults.
This change removes the `shouldCopy` flag and replaces it with a
`forceCopy` argument in `CreateSeriesIfNotExists()`. This allows
the write path to indicate that tags must be cloned on insert.
Adds a `tsdb.Series.ForEachTag()` function for safely iterating
over a series' tags within the context of a lock. This preverts
tags from being dereferenced during iteration which can cause
a seg fault.
This change delays Tag cloning until a new series is found, and will
only clone Tags acquired from `ParsePoints...` and not those referencing
the mmap-ed files (TSM) that are created on startup.
A new sorted slice was called by the monitor func every 10s. The
tag keys don't need to be sorted so this avoid the allocation of the
slice and one during sorting.
Previously, we would return a full tag set for every shard and the tag
set would include all series that existed in the database index
including series that didn't physically exist within that shard. This
led to the tag sets returned being incredibly huge when we had high
cardinality but sparse data. Since the data was sparse, it was
unexpected that it would cause such a large strain on the system by most
people.
Now we filter out the series ids that are not assigned to the current
shard when computing a tag set for that shard. This lowers the memory
usage for high cardinality sparse data drastically and allows queries on
those to complete successfully.
This does not resolve issues for high cardinality data in every shard
that is also spread out over a long series of time. That situation isn't
nearly as common as the above situation though.
Instead of assigning a boolean value of true to the filter expressions
when there was no meaningful expression, this drops a boolean expression
of true from the filter expressions so we don't have to perform a map
assignment. This allows us to reduce allocations and assignments when a
`WHERE` clause only contains tag comparisons and no field comparisons.
The TagSets function was creating a lot of intermediate maps and
slices to calculate the sorted tag sets. It first creates a map
to group tag sets with their series, it then created an equally
sized slice of the tag keys and sorted then. Finally, it created
a new slice and added the tag sets in the original map by the ordering
of the sorted keys. It was also recreating the tags map multiple time
creating extra garbage in the loop.
This simplifies the code to create one map for grouping and than adding
the distinct sets to a slice which is then sorted. It also fixes the
multple tag maps getting created.
The behavior for querying tag values with an empty string was originally
fixed in #6283, but it also added a performance problem when the
cardinality of the tag was high. Since a call to `Union()` or `Reject()`
would happen for every series key and it would be called N times for N
cardinality, the comparisons against a blank string were unnecessarily
slow with large memory allocations.
This optimizes these queries so it doesn't use those methods anymore.
Those methods are still useful and used when combining AND and OR
clauses, but they aren't useful when finding the series ids for a single
clause. These methods were unnecessary anyway because the series ids for
the tags were unique anyway and didn't have to be merged as a set.
Ben Johnson
Jason Wilder
Mark Rushakoff
Edd Robinson
Gunnar
Joe LeGasse
Mark Rushakoff
gunnaraasen
Jonathan A. Sternberg