package consul import ( "fmt" "sync" "time" ) // TombstoneGC is used to track creation of tombstones // so that they can be garbage collected after their TTL // expires. The tombstones allow queries to provide monotonic // index values within the TTL window. The GC is used to // prevent monotonic growth in storage usage. This is a trade off // between the length of the TTL and the storage overhead. // // In practice, this is required to fix the issue of delete // visibility. When data is deleted from the KV store, the // "latest" row can go backwards if the newest row is removed. // The tombstones provide a way to ensure time doesn't move // backwards within some interval. // type TombstoneGC struct { ttl time.Duration granularity time.Duration // expires maps the time of expiration to the highest // tombstone value that should be expired. expires map[time.Time]*expireInterval expiresLock sync.Mutex // expireCh is used to stream expiration expireCh chan uint64 } // expireInterval is used to track the maximum index // to expire in a given interval with a timer type expireInterval struct { maxIndex uint64 timer *time.Timer } // NewTombstoneGC is used to construct a new TombstoneGC given // a TTL for tombstones and a tracking granularity. Longer TTLs // ensure correct behavior for more time, but use more storage. // A shorter granularity increases the number of Raft transactions // and reduce how far past the TTL we perform GC. func NewTombstoneGC(ttl, granularity time.Duration) (*TombstoneGC, error) { // Sanity check the inputs if ttl <= 0 || granularity <= 0 { return nil, fmt.Errorf("Tombstone TTL and granularity must be positive") } t := &TombstoneGC{ ttl: ttl, granularity: granularity, expires: make(map[time.Time]*expireInterval), expireCh: make(chan uint64, 1), } return t, nil } // ExpireCh is used to return a channel that streams the next index // that should be expired func (t *TombstoneGC) ExpireCh() <-chan uint64 { return t.expireCh } // Reset is used to clear the TTL timers func (t *TombstoneGC) Reset() { t.expiresLock.Lock() defer t.expiresLock.Unlock() for _, exp := range t.expires { exp.timer.Stop() } t.expires = make(map[time.Time]*expireInterval) } // Hint is used to indicate that keys at the given index have been // deleted, and that their GC should be scheduled. func (t *TombstoneGC) Hint(index uint64) { expires := t.nextExpires() t.expiresLock.Lock() defer t.expiresLock.Unlock() // Check for an existing expiration timer exp, ok := t.expires[expires] if ok { // Increment the highest index to be expired at that time if index > exp.maxIndex { exp.maxIndex = index } return } // Create new expiration time t.expires[expires] = &expireInterval{ maxIndex: index, timer: time.AfterFunc(expires.Sub(time.Now()), func() { t.expireTime(expires) }), } } // PendingExpiration is used to check if any expirations are pending func (t *TombstoneGC) PendingExpiration() bool { t.expiresLock.Lock() defer t.expiresLock.Unlock() return len(t.expires) > 0 } // nextExpires is used to calculate the next experation time func (t *TombstoneGC) nextExpires() time.Time { expires := time.Now().Add(t.ttl) remain := expires.UnixNano() % int64(t.granularity) adj := expires.Add(t.granularity - time.Duration(remain)) return adj } // expireTime is used to expire the entries at the given time func (t *TombstoneGC) expireTime(expires time.Time) { // Get the maximum index and clear the entry t.expiresLock.Lock() exp := t.expires[expires] delete(t.expires, expires) t.expiresLock.Unlock() // Notify the expires channel t.expireCh <- exp.maxIndex }