Before this PR, the timeout caused by leader election returns:
```
14:45:37 etcd2 | 2015-08-12 14:45:37.786349 E | etcdhttp: got unexpected
response error (etcdserver: request timed out)
```
After this PR:
```
15:52:54 etcd1 | 2015-08-12 15:52:54.389523 E | etcdhttp: etcdserver:
request timed out, possibly due to leader down
```
It uses heartbeat interval and election timeout to estimate the
commit timeout for internal requests.
This PR helps etcd survive under high roundtrip-time environment,
e.g., globally-deployed cluster.
Follow the simple rule in the atomic package:
"On both ARM and x86-32, it is the caller's responsibility to arrange
for 64-bit alignment of 64-bit words accessed atomically. The first word
in a global variable or in an allocated struct or slice can be relied
upon to be 64-bit aligned."
Tested on a system with /proc/cpuinfo reporting:
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3
tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc0d
CPU revision : 1
The behavior accelarates the happen of the first-time leader election,
so the cluster could elect its leader fast. Technically, it could
help to reduce `electionMs - heartbeatMs` wait time for the first leader election.
Main usage:
1. Quick start for the local cluster when setting a little longer
election timeout
2. Quick start for the global cluster, which sets election timeout to
its maximum 50s.
When it waits for apply to be done, it should stop the loop if it
receives stop signal.
This helps to print out panic information. Before this PR, if the panic
happens when server loop is applying entries, server loop will wait for
raft loop to stop forever.
After this PR, only cluster's interface Cluster is exposed, which makes
code much cleaner. And it avoids external packages to rely on cluster
struct in the future.
The PR extracts types.Cluster from etcdserver.Cluster. types.Cluster
is used for flag parsing and etcdserver config.
There is no need to expose etcdserver.Cluster public, which contains
lots of etcdserver internal details and methods. This is the first step
for it.
Stop raftNode goroutine before stopping server goroutine, so
server.Stop does stop all underlying stuffs elegantly now. This fixes
the problem that previous-round lock on WAL may not be released when
etcd is restarted.
Do not aggressively compact raft log entries. After a snapshot,
etcd server can compact the raft log upto snapshot index. etcd server
compacts to an index smaller than snapshot to keep some entries in memory.
The leader can still read out the in memory entries to send to a slightly
slow follower. If all the entries are compacted, the leader will send the
whole snapshot or read entries from disk if possible.
