The point of this branch is to always track Nix master, so we are
proactively ready to upgrade to the next Nix release when it is ready.
Flake lock file updates:
• Updated input 'nix':
'github:NixOS/nix/50f8f1c8bc019a4c0fd098b9ac674b94cfc6af0d' (2023-11-27)
→ 'github:NixOS/nix/c3827ff6348a4d5199eaddf8dbc2ca2e2ef46ec5' (2023-12-07)
• Added input 'nix/libgit2':
'github:libgit2/libgit2/45fd9ed7ae1a9b74b957ef4f337bc3c8b3df01b5' (2023-10-18)
For the record, here is the Nix 2.19 version:
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/2.19-maintenance/src/libstore/serve-protocol.cc,
which is what we would initially use.
It is a more complete version of what Hydra has today except for one
thing: it always unconditionally sets the start/stop times.
I think that is correct at the other end seems to unconditionally
measure them, but just to be extra careful, I reproduced the old
behavior of falling back on Hydra's own measurements if `startTime` is
0.
The only difference is that the fallback `stopTime` is now measured from
after the entire `BuildResult` is transferred over the wire, but I think
that should be negligible if it is measurable at all. (And remember,
this is fallback case I already suspect is dead code.)
This is just C++ changes without any Perl / Frontend / SQL Schema
changes.
The idea is that it should be possible to redeploy Hydra with these
chnages with (a) no schema migration and also (b) no regressions. We
should be able to much more safely deploy these to a staging server and
then production `hydra.nixos.org`.
Extracted from #875
Co-Authored-By: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
Co-Authored-By: Alexander Sosedkin <monk@unboiled.info>
Co-Authored-By: Andrea Ciceri <andrea.ciceri@autistici.org>
Co-Authored-By: Charlotte 🦝 Delenk Mlotte@chir.rs>
Co-Authored-By: Sandro Jäckel <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
The previous implementation was O(N²lg(N)) due to sorting the full
runnables priority list once per runnable being scheduled. While not
confirmed, this is suspected to cause performance issues and
bottlenecking with the queue runner when the runnable list gets large
enough.
This commit changes the dispatcher to instead only sort runnables per
priority once per dispatch cycle. This has the drawback of being less
reactive to runnable priority changes: the previous code would react
immediately, while this might end up using "old" priorities until the
next dispatch cycle. However, dispatch cycles are not supposed to take
very long (seconds, not minutes/hours), so this is not expected to have
much or any practical impact.
Ideally runnables would be maintained in a sorted data structure instead
of the current approach of copying + sorting in the scheduler. This
would however be a much more invasive change to implement, and might
have to wait until we can confirm where the queue runner bottlenecks
actually lie.
We were using protocol version 6 but requesting version 4. The only
reason that this worked was because of a broken version check in
'nix-store --serve'. That was fixed in
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/c2d74569269d9642448a701aa6efe08ec0fe6f00,
which had the side-effect of breaking hydra-queue-runner.
NOTE: I'm well-aware that we have to be careful with this to avoid new
regressions on hydra.nixos.org, so this should only be merged after
extensive testing from more people.
Motivation: I updated Nix in my deployment to 2.9.1 and decided to also
update Hydra in one go (and compile it against the newer Nix). Given
that this also updates the C++ code in `hydra-{queue-runner,eval-jobs}`
this patch might become useful in the future though.
On hydra.nixos.org the queue runner had child processes that were
stuck handling an exception:
Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f501f7fe640 (LWP 1413473) "bld~v54h5zkhmb3"):
#0 futex_wait (private=0, expected=2, futex_word=0x7f50c27969b0 <_rtld_local+2480>) at ../sysdeps/nptl/futex-internal.h:146
#1 __lll_lock_wait (futex=0x7f50c27969b0 <_rtld_local+2480>, private=0) at lowlevellock.c:52
#2 0x00007f50c21eaee4 in __GI___pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=0x7f50c27969b0 <_rtld_local+2480>) at ../nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:115
#3 0x00007f50c1854bef in __GI___dl_iterate_phdr (callback=0x7f50c190c020 <_Unwind_IteratePhdrCallback>, data=0x7f501f7fb040) at dl-iteratephdr.c:40
#4 0x00007f50c190d2d1 in _Unwind_Find_FDE () from /nix/store/65hafbsx91127farbmyyv4r5ifgjdg43-glibc-2.33-117/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#5 0x00007f50c19099b3 in uw_frame_state_for () from /nix/store/65hafbsx91127farbmyyv4r5ifgjdg43-glibc-2.33-117/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#6 0x00007f50c190ab90 in uw_init_context_1 () from /nix/store/65hafbsx91127farbmyyv4r5ifgjdg43-glibc-2.33-117/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#7 0x00007f50c190b08e in _Unwind_RaiseException () from /nix/store/65hafbsx91127farbmyyv4r5ifgjdg43-glibc-2.33-117/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#8 0x00007f50c1b02ab7 in __cxa_throw () from /nix/store/dd8swlwhpdhn6bv219562vyxhi8278hs-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#9 0x00007f50c1d01abe in nix::parseURL (url="root@cb893012.packethost.net") at src/libutil/url.cc:53
#10 0x0000000000484f55 in extraStoreArgs (machine="root@cb893012.packethost.net") at build-remote.cc:35
#11 operator() (__closure=0x7f4fe9fe0420) at build-remote.cc:79
...
Maybe the fork happened while another thread was holding some global
stack unwinding lock
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71744). Anyway, since
the hanging child inherits all file descriptors to SSH clients,
shutting down remote builds (via 'child.to = -1' in
State::buildRemote()) doesn't work and 'child.pid.wait()' hangs
forever.
So let's not do any significant work between fork and exec.
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