Tobias Schottdorf 7a8ab37bfd raft: fix correctness bug in CommittedEntries pagination ...

In #9982, a mechanism to limit the size of `CommittedEntries` was
introduced. The way this mechanism worked was that it would load
applicable entries (passing the max size hint) and would emit a
`HardState` whose commit index was truncated to match the limitation
applied to the entries. Unfortunately, this was subtly incorrect
when the user-provided `Entries` implementation didn't exactly
match what Raft uses internally. Depending on whether a `Node` or
a `RawNode` was used, this would either lead to regressing the
HardState's commit index or outright forgetting to apply entries,
respectively.

Asking implementers to precisely match the Raft size limitation
semantics was considered but looks like a bad idea as it puts
correctness squarely in the hands of downstream users. Instead, this
PR removes the truncation of `HardState` when limiting is active
and tracks the applied index separately. This removes the old
paradigm (that the previous code tried to work around) that the
client will always apply all the way to the commit index, which
isn't true when commit entries are paginated.

See [1] for more on the discovery of this bug (CockroachDB's
implementation of `Entries` returns one more entry than Raft's when the
size limit hits).

[1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28918#issuecomment-418174448

2018-09-04 14:52:23 +02:00

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