The naming was confusing because the boolean return value expresses
whether the resource needed changing (the check failed) as opposed to
the state not being not OK.
purpleidea note: The "stateok" (now properly renamed to "checkok") is
actually the historical bool return value of the Check() -> bool
function which is now part of the CheckApply() amalgamation. This is an
easy way to think about it if you're trying to understand why at the end
of a successful apply we return false, nil.
The old converged detection was hacked in code, instead of something
with a nice interface. This cleans it up, splits it into a separate
file, and removes a race condition that happened with the old code.
We also take the time to get rid of the ugly Set* methods and replace
them all with a single AssociateData method. This might be unnecessary
if we can pass in the Converger method at Resource construction.
Lastly, and most interesting, we suspend the individual timeout callers
when they've already converged, thus reducing unnecessary traffic, and
avoiding fast (eg: < 5 second) timers triggering more than once if they
stay converged!
A quick note on theory for any future readers... What happens if we have
--converged-timeout=0 ? Well, for this and any other positive value,
it's important to realize that deciding if something is converged is
actually a race between if the converged timer will fire and if some
random new event will get triggered. This is because there is nothing
that can actually predict if or when a new event will happen (eg the
user modifying a file). As a result, a race is always inherent, and
actually not a negative or "incorrect" algorithm.
A future improvement could be to add a global lock to each resource, and
to lock all resources when computing if we are converged or not. In
practice, this hasn't been necessary. The worst case scenario would be
(in theory, because this hasn't been tested) if an event happens
*during* the converged calculation, and starts running, the exit command
then runs, and the event finishes, but it doesn't get a chance to notify
some service to restart. A lock could probably fix this theoretical
case.
Sorry for the size of this patch, I was busy hacking and plumbing away
and it got out of hand! I'm allowing this because there doesn't seem to
be anyone hacking away on parts of the code that this would break, since
the resource code is fairly stable in this change. In particular, it
revisits and refreshes some areas of the code that didn't see anything
new or innovative since the project first started. I've gotten rid of a
lot of cruft, and in particular cleaned up some things that I didn't
know how to do better before! Here's hoping I'll continue to learn and
have more to improve upon in the future! (Well let's not hope _too_ hard
though!)
The logical goal of this patch was to make logical grouping of resources
possible. For example, it might be more efficient to group three package
installations into a single transaction, instead of having to run three
separate transactions. This is because a package installation typically
has an initial one-time per run cost which shouldn't need to be
repeated.
Another future goal would be to group file resources sharing a common
base path under a common recursive fanotify watcher. Since this depends
on fanotify capabilities first, this hasn't been implemented yet, but
could be a useful method of reducing the number of separate watches
needed, since there is a finite limit.
It's worth mentioning that grouping resources typically _reduces_ the
parallel execution capability of a particular graph, but depending on
the cost/benefit tradeoff, this might be preferential. I'd submit it's
almost universally beneficial for pkg resources.
This monster patch includes:
* the autogroup feature
* the grouping interface
* a placeholder algorithm
* an extensive test case infrastructure to test grouping algorithms
* a move of some base resource methods into pgraph refactoring
* some config/compile clean ups to remove code duplication
* b64 encoding/decoding improvements
* a rename of the yaml "res" entries to "kind" (more logical)
* some docs
* small fixes
* and more!
By adding the "kind" to the base resource, it is still identifiable even
when the resource specific elements are gone in calls that are only
defined in the base resource. This is also more logical for building
resources!
This also switches resources to use an Init() method. This will be
useful for when resources have more complex initialization to do.
This allows for resources to automatically add necessary edges to the
graph so that the event system doesn't have to work overtime due to
sub-optimal execution order.
I added a regression to the file resource. This was caused by two
different bugs that I added when I switched the API to use checkapply. I
would have caught these issues, except my test cases *also* had a bug! I
think I've fixed all three issues now.
Lastly, when running on travis, the tests behave very differently! Some
of the tests actually fail, and it's not clear why. As a result, we had
to disable them! I guess you get what you pay for.
This used to be GetType(), but since now things are "resources", we want
to know what "kind" they are, since asking what "type" they are is
confusing, and makes less logical sense than "Kind".
This simplifies the API, and reduces code duplication for most
resources. It became obvious when writing the pkg resource, that the two
operations should really be one. Hopefully this will last! Comments
welcome.
Naming the resources "type" was a stupid mistake, and is a huge source
of confusion when also talking about real types. Fix this before it gets
out of hand.
* Fixup graph state readability
* Rename original SetState() to SetConvergedState() and friends...
* Add type state management for proper BackPoke() commands...
* Add better DEBUG logging
This is an important optimization that prevents running a BackPoke on a
parent which is in the process of running and will most certainly poke
the caller back in a moment. This avoids unnecessary roundtrips.
Unfortunately, there are still other algorithms required so that races
can't cause the graph to run for longer than necessary.
* Fix Process() object calling
* Add PokeParent() to poke upwards
* Break linear exec chains :(
This was the issue where in a graph f1 -> f2, if you were to rm f2 &&
cat f2, then f2 would not come back because we didn't poke upwards to
refresh the timestamp. Unfortunately this adds another bug which we
solve in a later patch.
* Add exec type
* Switch erroneous use of fmt to log instead
* Check for edge existence for safety before using
* Avoid recalling etcd channel maker
* Clean up logging output
