A frozen tier is backed by an external object store (like S3) and caches only a
small portion of data on local disks. In this way, users can reduce hardware
costs substantially for infrequently accessed data. For the frozen tier we only
pull in the parts of the files that are actually needed to run a given search.
Further, we don't require the node to have enough space to host all the files.
We therefore have a cache that manages which file parts are available, and which
ones not. This node-level shared cache is bounded in size (typically in relation
to the disk size), and will evict items based on a LFU policy, as we expect some
parts of the Lucene files to be used more frequently than other parts. The level
of granularity for evictions is at the level of regions of a file, and does not
require evicting full files. The on-disk representation that was chosen for the
cold tier is not a good fit here, as it won't allow evicting parts of a file.
Instead we are using fixed-size pre-allocated files and have implemented our own
memory management logic to map regions of the shard's original Lucene files onto
regions in these node-level shared files that are representing the on-disk
cache.
This PR adds the core functionality to searchable snapshots to power such a
frozen tier:
- It adds the node-level shared cache that evicts file regions based on a LFU
policy
- It adds the machinery to dynamically download file regions into this cache and
serve their contents when searches execute.
- It extends the mount API with a new parameter, `storage`, which selects the
kind of local storage used to accelerate searches of the mounted index. If set
to `full_copy` (default, used for cold tier), each node holding a shard of the
searchable snapshot index makes a full copy of the shard to its local storage.
If set to `shared_cache`, the shard uses the newly introduced shared cache,
only holding a partial copy of the index on disk (used for frozen tier).
Co-authored-by: Tanguy Leroux <tlrx.dev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Armin Braun <me@obrown.io>
Co-authored-by: David Turner <david.turner@elastic.co>
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