[release-20.0] [release-21.0] Increase health check buffer size (#17636…

…) (#17640)

Signed-off-by: Manan Gupta <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: vitess-bot[bot] <108069721+vitess-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

go/vt/discovery/healthcheck.go

@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ var (
 	// How much to sleep between each check.
 	waitAvailableTabletInterval = 100 * time.Millisecond
 
+	// Size of channel buffer for each subscriber
+	broadcastChannelBufferSize = 2048
+
 	// HealthCheckCacheTemplate uses healthCheckTemplate with the `HealthCheck Tablet - Cache` title to create the
 	// HTML code required to render the cache of the HealthCheck.
 	HealthCheckCacheTemplate = fmt.Sprintf(healthCheckTemplate, "HealthCheck - Cache")
@@ -640,7 +643,7 @@ func (hc *HealthCheckImpl) recomputeHealthy(key KeyspaceShardTabletType) {
 func (hc *HealthCheckImpl) Subscribe() chan *TabletHealth {
 	hc.subMu.Lock()
 	defer hc.subMu.Unlock()
-	c := make(chan *TabletHealth, 2)
+	c := make(chan *TabletHealth, broadcastChannelBufferSize)
 	hc.subscribers[c] = struct{}{}
 	return c
 }
@@ -659,6 +662,8 @@ func (hc *HealthCheckImpl) broadcast(th *TabletHealth) {
 		select {
 		case c <- th:
 		default:
+			// If the channel is full, we drop the message.
+			log.Warningf("HealthCheck broadcast channel is full, dropping message for %s", topotools.TabletIdent(th.Tablet))
 		}
 	}
 }

go/vt/discovery/healthcheck_test.go

@@ -1475,6 +1475,50 @@ func TestDebugURLFormatting(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Contains(t, wr.String(), expectedURL, "output missing formatted URL")
 }
 
+// TestConcurrentUpdates tests that concurrent updates from the HealthCheck implementation aren't dropped.
+// Added in response to https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/17629.
+func TestConcurrentUpdates(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := utils.LeakCheckContext(t)
+	var mu sync.Mutex
+	// reset error counters
+	hcErrorCounters.ResetAll()
+	ts := memorytopo.NewServer(ctx, "cell")
+	defer ts.Close()
+	hc := createTestHc(ctx, ts)
+	// close healthcheck
+	defer hc.Close()
+
+	// Subscribe to the healthcheck
+	// Make the receiver keep track of the updates received.
+	ch := hc.Subscribe()
+	totalCount := 0
+	go func() {
+		for range ch {
+			mu.Lock()
+			totalCount++
+			mu.Unlock()
+			// Simulate a somewhat slow consumer.
+			time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	// Run multiple updates really quickly
+	// one after the other.
+	totalUpdates := 10
+	for i := 0; i < totalUpdates; i++ {
+		hc.broadcast(&TabletHealth{})
+	}
+	// Unsubscribe from the healthcheck
+	// and verify we process all the updates eventually.
+	hc.Unsubscribe(ch)
+	defer close(ch)
+	require.Eventuallyf(t, func() bool {
+		mu.Lock()
+		defer mu.Unlock()
+		return totalUpdates == totalCount
+	}, 5*time.Second, 100*time.Millisecond, "expected all updates to be processed")
+}
+
 func tabletDialer(ctx context.Context, tablet *topodatapb.Tablet, _ grpcclient.FailFast) (queryservice.QueryService, error) {
 	connMapMu.Lock()
 	defer connMapMu.Unlock()