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debing.sun 725cd268e6 Refactor of ActiveDefrag to reduce latencies (#13814)
This PR is based on: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/1462

## Issue/Problems

Duty Cycle: Active Defrag has configuration values which determine the
intended percentage of CPU to be used based on a gradient of the
fragmentation percentage. However, Active Defrag performs its work on
the 100ms serverCron timer. It then computes a duty cycle and performs a
single long cycle. For example, if the intended CPU is computed to be
10%, Active Defrag will perform 10ms of work on this 100ms timer cron.

* This type of cycle introduces large latencies on the client (up to
25ms with default configurations)
* This mechanism is subject to starvation when slow commands delay the
serverCron

Maintainability: The current Active Defrag code is difficult to read &
maintain. Refactoring of the high level control mechanisms and functions
will allow us to more seamlessly adapt to new defragmentation needs.
Specific examples include:

* A single function (activeDefragCycle) includes the logic to
start/stop/modify the defragmentation as well as performing one "step"
of the defragmentation. This should be separated out, so that the actual
defrag activity can be performed on an independent timer (see duty cycle
above).
* The code is focused on kvstores, with other actions just thrown in at
the end (defragOtherGlobals). There's no mechanism to break this up to
reduce latencies.
* For the main dictionary (only), there is a mechanism to set aside
large keys to be processed in a later step. However this code creates a
separate list in each kvstore (main dict or not), bleeding/exposing
internal defrag logic. We only need 1 list - inside defrag. This logic
should be more contained for the main key store.
* The structure is not well suited towards other non-main-dictionary
items. For example, pub-sub and pub-sub-shard was added, but it's added
in such a way that in CMD mode, with multiple DBs, we will defrag
pub-sub repeatedly after each DB.

## Description of the feature

Primarily, this feature will split activeDefragCycle into 2 functions.

1. One function will be called from serverCron to determine if a defrag
cycle (a complete scan) needs to be started. It will also determine if
the CPU expenditure needs to be adjusted.
2. The 2nd function will be a timer proc dedicated to performing defrag.
This will be invoked independently from serverCron.

Once the functions are split, there is more control over the latency
created by the defrag process. A new configuration will be used to
determine the running time for the defrag timer proc. The default for
this will be 500us (one-half of the current minimum time). Then the
timer will be adjusted to achieve the desired CPU. As an example, 5% of
CPU will run the defrag process for 500us every 10ms. This is much
better than running for 5ms every 100ms.

The timer function will also adjust to compensate for starvation. If a
slow command delays the timer, the process will run proportionately
longer to ensure that the configured CPU is achieved. Given the presence
of slow commands, the proportional extra time is insignificant to
latency. This also addresses the overload case. At 100% CPU, if the
event loop slows, defrag will run proportionately longer to achieve the
configured CPU utilization.

Optionally, in low CPU situations, there would be little impact in
utilizing more than the configured CPU. We could optionally allow the
timer to pop more often (even with a 0ms delay) and the (tail) latency
impact would not change.

And we add a time limit for the defrag duty cycle to prevent excessive
latency. When latency is already high (indicated by a long time between
calls), we don't want to make it worse by running defrag for too long.

Addressing maintainability:

* The basic code structure can more clearly be organized around a
"cycle".
* Have clear begin/end functions and a set of "stages" to be executed.
* Rather than stages being limited to "kvstore" type data, a cycle
should be more flexible, incorporating the ability to incrementally
perform arbitrary work. This will likely be necessary in the future for
certain module types. It can be used today to address oddballs like
defragOtherGlobals.
* We reduced some of the globals, and reduce some of the coupling.
defrag_later should be removed from serverDb.
* Each stage should begin on a fresh cycle. So if there are
non-time-bounded operations like kvstoreDictLUTDefrag, these would be
less likely to introduce additional latency.


Signed-off-by: Jim Brunner
[brunnerj@amazon.com](mailto:brunnerj@amazon.com)
Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson
[madelyneolson@gmail.com](mailto:madelyneolson@gmail.com)
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson
[madelyneolson@gmail.com](mailto:madelyneolson@gmail.com)

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Signed-off-by: Jim Brunner brunnerj@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson madelyneolson@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson madelyneolson@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: ShooterIT <wangyuancode@163.com>
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