Zhen Ye c7b5c23ff6
enhance: filter the empty timetick from consuming side (#46541)
issue: #46540

Empty timetick is just used to sync up the time clock between different
component in milvus. So empty timetick can be ignored if we achieve the
lsn/mvcc semantic for timetick. Currently, some components need the
empty timetick to trigger some operation, such as flush/tsafe. So we
only slow down the empty time tick for 5 seconds.

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- Core invariant: with LSN/MVCC semantics consumers only need (a) the
first timetick that advances the latest-required-MVCC to unblock
MVCC-dependent waits and (b) occasional periodic timeticks (~≤5s) for
clock synchronization—therefore frequent non-persisted empty timeticks
can be suppressed without breaking MVCC correctness.
- Logic removed/simplified: per-message dispatch/consumption of frequent
non-persisted empty timeticks is suppressed — an MVCC-aware filter
emptyTimeTickSlowdowner (internal/util/pipeline/consuming_slowdown.go)
short-circuits frequent empty timeticks in the stream pipeline
(internal/util/pipeline/stream_pipeline.go), and the WAL flusher
rate-limits non-persisted timetick dispatch to one emission per ~5s
(internal/streamingnode/server/flusher/flusherimpl/wal_flusher.go); the
delegator exposes GetLatestRequiredMVCCTimeTick to drive the filter
(internal/querynodev2/delegator/delegator.go).
- Why this does NOT introduce data loss or regressions: the slowdowner
always refreshes latestRequiredMVCCTimeTick via
GetLatestRequiredMVCCTimeTick and (1) never filters timeticks <
latestRequiredMVCCTimeTick (so existing tsafe/flush waits stay
unblocked) and (2) always lets the first timetick ≥
latestRequiredMVCCTimeTick pass to notify pending MVCC waits;
separately, WAL flusher suppression applies only to non-persisted
timeticks and still emits when the 5s threshold elapses, preserving
periodic clock-sync messages used by flush/tsafe.
- Enhancement summary (where it takes effect): adds
GetLatestRequiredMVCCTimeTick on ShardDelegator and
LastestMVCCTimeTickGetter, wires emptyTimeTickSlowdowner into
NewPipelineWithStream (internal/util/pipeline), and adds WAL flusher
rate-limiting + metrics
(internal/streamingnode/server/flusher/flusherimpl/wal_flusher.go,
pkg/metrics) to reduce CPU/dispatch overhead while keeping MVCC
correctness and periodic synchronization.
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Signed-off-by: chyezh <chyezh@outlook.com>
2026-01-06 20:53:24 +08:00
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