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Issue Number: ref tikv/tikv#20114

Problem: during a noisy-neighbour overload with follower reads and a short read timeout, the store's CPU stays high even after TiKV isolates the noisy tenant.

Applies when:

  • tikv_client_read_timeout is set below ReadTimeoutShort (30 s), for example 200 ms with max_execution_time = 1s. With the default copr timeouts (60 s / 120 s) the retry path never runs, so there's no benefit under defaults.
  • TiKV reports noisy groups, which it does when enable-read-admission-control, enable-write-admission-control or enable-fair-scheduling is on.

Fix: a general fix for any read that would be served by a follower. Stale reads are excluded, since they need no ReadIndex.

  1. Keep a blamed group's reads on the overloaded leader instead of spreading them to followers. Other groups keep their normal routing.
  2. Back off (BoTiKVServerBusy) on a |noisy_tenant ServerIsBusy and retry on the leader.
  3. Back off instead of retrying at once when a read deadline is exceeded and the store blames the request's own group. This covers both the timeout path and the region-error path.

Noisy groups come from HealthFeedback.noisy_groups; an empty list clears them. They also come from the |noisy_tenant suffix on ServerIsBusy. kvproto is temporarily pinned to a fork that adds the field.

TiKV producer: mittalrishabh/tikv#1

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Requests from resource groups identified as noisy can remain pinned to an overloaded leader rather than being redirected to a replica.
    • Store health feedback updates the reported noisy groups, and an empty report clears them. Overload status expires after a short period unless renewed.
    • Noisy-tenant busy responses and timeouts receive dedicated handling, and leader-pinned requests are excluded from client-side slow-score measurements.
  • Monitoring
    • Added metrics for noisy-tenant busy responses, read timeouts, and leader-pinned replica selection.

mittalrishabh and others added 6 commits September 22, 2026 14:04
TiKV now appends `|noisy_tenant` to `ServerIsBusy.reason` when the
rejected request's own resource group is the one an actuator is holding.
On that marker, back off and return to the leader instead of taking the
usual divert-to-a-replica path.

Redirecting such a request is counterproductive: a follower read is
served by asking this same leader for a ReadIndex, so it comes back to
the store that just rejected it and adds raftstore work there. The store
is also left unmarked: it is not slow, one tenant is over its quota, and
a slow verdict is per store, so marking it would steer every other
tenant's reads off a store that is serving them fine. EstimatedWaitMs is
not recorded for the same reason -- it is the whole pool's wait, kept per
store with no group dimension.

pinRetryToLeader clears busyThreshold as well as setting the read type,
because nextForReplicaReadLeader diverts to an idle replica whenever the
leader's estimated wait exceeds the threshold, which is exactly the
state a busy leader is in.

Ported from 8a4c8eb.

Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
TiKV now reports the resource groups a store blames for its own overload in its
health feedback, so a group no longer has to be rejected to be discovered.
Remember the set per store and send that group's reads straight to the leader,
which is the same verdict `onNoisyTenantServerIsBusy` reaches reactively: a
follower read comes back to this leader as a ReadIndex anyway, so diverting only
spends an extra hop to arrive at the store that is already overloaded.

The set is replaced wholesale by each report, so a group stops being pinned as
soon as the store stops naming it. That is what makes a timeout unnecessary
here: the store is the authority and it answers roughly every second.

A store that does not report the set leaves it untouched rather than clearing
it, so an older TiKV keeps exactly today's behaviour and falls back to the
reason suffix. Only a store that does report may clear, by reporting empty --
which is why the field is a nil-able message on the wire.

Stale reads are exempt. That reasoning inverts for them: a stale read is served
from a follower's own state without a ReadIndex, so it is already keeping off
the leader, and pinning it would push the group's load onto the one store that
just said it was overloaded by that group.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
A store that reports a noisy group, or rejects with a noisy-tenant
ServerIsBusy, is now marked overloaded on its StoreHealthStatus rather than
steering only the one request that learned it. While the mark stands, replica
selection resolves every non-stale read on the regions that store leads to the
leader itself, whichever tenant is asking.

It applies to bystanders because a follower read comes back to the leader as a
ReadIndex, and raft carries that over the 1-4 gRPC connections per store pair
that all resource groups share. A bystander's ReadIndex queues behind the noisy
group's raft traffic just the same, and a dropped one waits ~5s for raft to
retry it. Serving from the leader's own lease removes the message rather than
moving it. Stale reads are exempt: they come from a follower's own state with no
ReadIndex, so they already keep off the leader.

The mark is a deadline rather than a flag because the two signals differ. Health
feedback carries the whole set about once a second, so it refreshes the mark and
clears it outright on the first report that blames nobody. A ServerIsBusy is
only a point-in-time rejection with nothing to clear it, so on a store too old
to report the set the mark has to lapse on its own.

pinRetryToLeader is removed. It mutated the request's read type and set
leaderOnly for the remainder of the request, so it could not react to a store
recovering, and it would fail a request outright once the leader stopped being a
candidate. Deciding per attempt falls back to normal selection in that case,
which is also what lets an unreachable leader take the forwarding path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
A configurable-timeout deadline from an overloaded leader means the request sat in
that store's read-pool queue until it expired, which is resource control shedding
the group. isLeaderCandidate treats that flag as disqualifying, so normal selection
diverted the retry to a follower -- nextForReplicaReadLeader even converts it into
a replica read -- but the same group is throttled against the same quota on that
follower, so the retry deadlines again having first spent a ReadIndex to arrive.

Measured on shadow-stg during a 006 ramp: 31.5K/s of TiKV coprocessor
deadline_exceeded against 32.0K/s of retry_leader_follower_external_Select, which
accounted for essentially all of the ~29K/s of read_index raft messages. Server
busy was not the cause: TiKV server_is_busy was 324/s and client-side serverBusy
backoff 3.4K/s.

isOverloadedLeaderCandidate is isLeaderCandidate minus the deadline test. The other
disqualifiers stand, so an unreachable leader still takes the forwarding path, a
peer that answered NotLeader is no longer treated as the leader, a stale epoch
still gets a fresh region, and isExhausted still bounds how often the deadline may
be re-hit before normal selection takes over again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
A ServerIsBusy carrying "deadline is exceeded" takes the configurable-
timeout path: retry the same leader at once, no backoff. TiKV now appends
"|noisy_tenant" to that reason when the deadline was spent on a queue the
requesting group itself filled, so exclude those from the fast path and
let them fall through to the ServerIsBusy backoff.

The check has to come first: the reason carries both markers, and
Contains would match the deadline one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
A configurable-timeout read that deadlines against an overloaded leader
retries that same leader at once, with no backoff. When the store has named
the requesting group in its health feedback, the queue that deadline went on
is of the tenant's own making, so returning straight away only rejoins it.

Take the backoff path in both deadline cases that carry no attribution from
the server: the local RPC deadline in onSendFail, and a DeadlineExceeded
region error. A ServerIsBusy reason already carries "|noisy_tenant" and is
excluded from the fast path separately.

Only the fast-retry case is intercepted. A request without a configurable
timeout already reaches the send-failure backoff, and diverting it here would
skip that path's liveness check.

The leader stays pinned: isOverloadedLeaderCandidate ignores
deadlineErrUsingConfTimeoutFlag on purpose, so recording the flag still does
not send the retry to a follower throttled against the same quota. The one
thing that changes is that the retry now waits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
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The change adds noisy-group health feedback, time-limited store overload tracking, noisy-tenant-aware replica selection and timeout handling, related tests, temporary kvproto replacements, and Prometheus metrics.

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Noisy-tenant overload handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Overload state and feedback
go.mod, integration_tests/go.mod, internal/locate/noisy_groups.go, internal/locate/store_cache.go, internal/locate/noisy_groups_test.go
The project uses a temporary kvproto fork that provides HealthFeedback.NoisyGroups. Stores replace their recorded noisy groups when feedback includes the field and mark themselves overloaded for five seconds when the reported set is non-empty. Tests cover group replacement, clearing, feedback, and overload expiry.
Noisy-tenant request routing
internal/locate/replica_selector.go, internal/locate/region_request.go, internal/locate/region_request3_test.go, metrics/metrics.go
Replica selection and timeout handling identify noisy-tenant requests, mark stores overloaded, pin eligible requests to the leader, and apply backoff. Sync and async paths exclude pinned attempts from client-side slow-score updates. Tests cover both paths. Prometheus counters track noisy-tenant busy responses, read timeouts, and leader-pinned attempts.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HealthFeedback
  participant Store
  participant RegionRequestSender
  participant replicaSelector
  HealthFeedback->>Store: record NoisyGroups
  Store->>Store: set overload deadline
  RegionRequestSender->>replicaSelector: select replica or handle request error
  replicaSelector->>Store: check overload and noisy-group state
  Store-->>replicaSelector: return overload and group state
  replicaSelector->>RegionRequestSender: pin to leader or apply backoff
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Resolve the dependency, feedback-ordering, and leader-routing concerns before merging. The current routing condition does not establish the stated behavior of keeping all tenants on an overloaded leader.

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Overload handling is confined to affected stores and resource groups, but stale feedback can misdirect reads, and applications using the library may not receive the protobuf version the new code requires.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: The client now calls a protobuf getter supplied by a temporary fork, but its module replacement does not propagate to downstream main modules. Consumers selecting a kvproto version without that getter cannot build the updated client.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Out-of-order health responses can restore obsolete noisy groups or clear a newer overload mark, weakening the intended containment of an overloaded group's reads.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Routing-state errors can affect reads in a named resource group across regions whose cached leader uses the affected store. The inspected pinning gate does not establish a route change for unrelated groups or all stores.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The client consumes server health feedback and the request's resource-group name to make a shared routing decision. Unknown store IDs are dropped; individual state fields use atomic storage, but feedback sequence numbers are not checked.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Cancellation prevents a retry when backoff fails, while an overload mark left by an interrupted attempt expires by deadline. This bounds a single mark but does not order later feedback updates.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Apply per-store feedback sequence ordering and publish the group set and overload decision as one coherent routing state.
  • proposed — Align the distributable client's minimum kvproto requirement with a released version that supplies the required generated field before removing the temporary replacement.
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Inline comments:
In `@go.mod`:
- Around line 63-65: Add HealthFeedback.noisy_groups and its generated
GetNoisyGroups API to the official kvproto module, then update go.mod and
integration_tests/go.mod to the resulting official revision and remove both
temporary replace directives. Ensure the public tikv package builds against the
official dependency without relying on the fork.

In `@internal/locate/replica_selector.go`:
- Around line 139-140: Update the condition guarding tryOverloadedLeader in the
replica-selection flow to require s.isReadOnlyReq as well as !s.isStaleRead,
preventing overloaded-leader steering for writes. Add a package-level write test
verifying TiKVNoisyTenantLeaderPinnedCounter does not increase.

In `@internal/locate/store_cache.go`:
- Around line 1166-1168: Update recordHealthFeedback to track the latest
accepted FeedbackSeqNo per store, including feedback that has no NoisyGroups,
and reject older or duplicate feedback before changing state. Only accepted
feedback may call noisyGroups.replace or healthStatus.markOverloaded, preserving
the existing snapshot and overload behavior for newer reports.

In `@metrics/metrics.go`:
- Around line 108-110: Add Go doc comments for the exported variables
TiKVNoisyTenantServerBusyCounter, TiKVNoisyTenantReadTimeoutCounter, and
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// Temporary: fork of kvproto master adding HealthFeedback.noisy_groups.
// Drop once https://github.com/pingcap/kvproto is updated.
replace github.com/pingcap/kvproto => github.com/mittalrishabh/kvproto v0.0.0-20260922195209-09946a827f2a

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<title>Go Modules Reference - The Go Programming Language</title> https://go.dev/ref/mod?id=go-work-file-replace A `go.mod` file is required for the main module, and for any replacement module specified with a local file path. However, a module that lacks an explicit `go.mod` file may still be required as a dependency, or used as a replacement specified with a module path and version; see Compatibility with non-module repositories. ... If the module path appears in a `require` directive and is not replaced, or if the module paths appears on the right side of a `replace` directive, the `go` command may need to download modules with that path, and some additional requirements must be satisfied. ... ### `replace` directive ... A `replace` directive replaces the contents of a specific version of a module, or all versions of a module, with contents found elsewhere. The replacement may be specified with either another module path and version, or a platform-specific file path. ... If a version is present on the left side of the arrow (`=>`), only that specific version of the module is replaced; other versions will be accessed normally. If the left version is omitted, all versions of the module are replaced. ... If the path on the right side of the arrow is an absolute or relative path (beginning with `./` or `../`), it is interpreted as the local file path to the replacement module root directory, which must contain a `go.mod` file. The replacement version must be omitted in this case. ... If the path on the right side is not a local path, it must be a valid module path. In this case, a version is required. The same module version must not also appear in the build list. ... Regardless of whether a replacement is specified with a local path or module path, if the replacement module has a `go.mod` file, its `module` directive must match the module path it replaces. ... `replace` directives only apply in the main module’s `go.mod` file and are ignored in other modules. See Minimal version selection for details. ... If there are multiple main modules, all main modules’ `go.mod` files apply. Conflicting `replace` directives across main modules are disallowed, and must be removed or overridden in a replace in the `go.work file`. ... Note that a `replace` directive alone does not add a module to the module graph. A `require` directive that refers to a replaced module version is also needed, either in the main module’s `go.mod` file or a dependency’s `go.mod` file. A `replace` directive has no effect if the module version on the left side is not required. ... ``` ReplaceDirective = "replace" ( ReplaceSpec | "(" newline { ReplaceSpec } ")" newline ) . ... ReplaceSpec = ModulePath [ Version ] "=>" FilePath newline | ModulePath [ Version ] "=>" ModulePath Version newline . ... FilePath = /* platform-specific relative or absolute file path */ ... The content of a module (including its `go.mod` file) may be replaced using a `replace` directive in a main module’s `go.mod` file or a workspace’s `go.work` file. A `replace` directive may apply to a specific version of a module or to all versions of a module. ... Replacements change the module graph, since a replacement module may have different dependencies than replaced versions. ... ### `replace` directive ... Similar to a `replace` directive in a `go.mod` file, a `replace` directive in a `go.work` file replaces the contents of a specific version of a module, or all versions of a module, with contents found elsewhere. A wildcard replace in `go.work` overrides a version-specific `replace` in a `go.mod` file. ... `replace` directives in `go.work` files override any replaces of the same module or module version in workspace modules. ... When the `go` command downloads a module at a given version directly from a repository, it looks up a repository URL for the module path, maps the version to a revision within the repository, then extracts an archive of the repository at that revision. If the module’s path is equal to the repository root path,…[truncated] <title>Go Modules Reference - The Go Programming Language</title> https://go.dev/ref/mod A `go.mod` file is required for the main module, and for any replacement module specified with a local file path. However, a module that lacks an explicit `go.mod` file may still be required as a dependency, or used as a replacement specified with a module path and version; see Compatibility with non-module repositories. ... If the module path appears in a `require` directive and is not replaced, or if the module paths appears on the right side of a `replace` directive, the `go` command may need to download modules with that path, and some additional requirements must be satisfied. ... ### `replace` directive ... A `replace` directive replaces the contents of a specific version of a module, or all versions of a module, with contents found elsewhere. The replacement may be specified with either another module path and version, or a platform-specific file path. ... If a version is present on the left side of the arrow (`=>`), only that specific version of the module is replaced; other versions will be accessed normally. If the left version is omitted, all versions of the module are replaced. ... If the path on the right side of the arrow is an absolute or relative path (beginning with `./` or `../`), it is interpreted as the local file path to the replacement module root directory, which must contain a `go.mod` file. The replacement version must be omitted in this case. ... If the path on the right side is not a local path, it must be a valid module path. In this case, a version is required. The same module version must not also appear in the build list. ... Regardless of whether a replacement is specified with a local path or module path, if the replacement module has a `go.mod` file, its `module` directive must match the module path it replaces. ... `replace` directives only apply in the main module’s `go.mod` file and are ignored in other modules. See Minimal version selection for details. ... If there are multiple main modules, all main modules’ `go.mod` files apply. Conflicting `replace` directives across main modules are disallowed, and must be removed or overridden in a replace in the `go.work file`. ... Note that a `replace` directive alone does not add a module to the module graph. A `require` directive that refers to a replaced module version is also needed, either in the main module’s `go.mod` file or a dependency’s `go.mod` file. A `replace` directive has no effect if the module version on the left side is not required. ... ``` ReplaceDirective = "replace" ( ReplaceSpec | "(" newline { ReplaceSpec } ")" newline ) . ... ReplaceSpec = ModulePath [ Version ] "=>" FilePath newline | ModulePath [ Version ] "=>" ModulePath Version newline . ... FilePath = /* platform-specific relative or absolute file path */ ... The content of a module (including its `go.mod` file) may be replaced using a `replace` directive in a main module’s `go.mod` file or a workspace’s `go.work` file. A `replace` directive may apply to a specific version of a module or to all versions of a module. ... Replacements change the module graph, since a replacement module may have different dependencies than replaced versions. ... ### `replace` directive ... Similar to a `replace` directive in a `go.mod` file, a `replace` directive in a `go.work` file replaces the contents of a specific version of a module, or all versions of a module, with contents found elsewhere. A wildcard replace in `go.work` overrides a version-specific `replace` in a `go.mod` file. ... `replace` directives in `go.work` files override any replaces of the same module or module version in workspace modules. ... When the `go` command downloads a module at a given version directly from a repository, it looks up a repository URL for the module path, maps the version to a revision within the repository, then extracts an archive of the repository at that revision. If the module’s path is equal to the repository root path,…[truncated] <title>Go Wiki: Go Modules - The Go Programming Language</title> https://go.dev/wiki/Modules - `replace` directive or `gohack` — Use a fork, local copy or exact version of a dependency (details) - `go mod vendor` — Optional step to create a `vendor` directory (details) ... A module is defined by a tree of Go source files with a `go.mod` file in the tree’s root directory. Module source code may be located outside of GOPATH. There are four directives: `module`, `require`, `replace`, `exclude`. ... `exclude` and `replace` directives only operate on the current (“main”) module. `exclude` and `replace` directives in modules other than the main module are ignored when building the main module. The `replace` and `exclude` statements, therefore, allow the main module complete control over its own build, without also being subject to complete control by dependencies. (See FAQ below for a discussion of when to use a `replace` directive). ... ### When should I use the replace directive? ... As described in the ‘go.mod’ concepts section above, `replace` directives provide additional control in the top-level `go.mod` for what is actually used to satisfy a dependency found in the Go source or go.mod files, while `replace` directives in modules other than the main module are ignored when building the main module. ... The `replace` directive allows you to supply another import path that might be another module located in VCS (GitHub or elsewhere), or on your local filesystem with a relative or absolute file path. The new import path from the `replace` directive is used without needing to update the import paths in the actual source code. ... `replace` allows the top-level module control over the exact version used for a dependency, such as: ... - `replace example.com/some/dependency => example.com/some/dependency v1.2.3` ... `replace` also allows the use of a forked dependency, such as: ... - `replace example.com/some/dependency => example.com/some/dependency-fork v1.2.3` ... You can also reference branches, for example: ... - `replace example.com/some/dependency => example.com/some/dependency-fork master` ... One sample use case is if you need to fix or investigate something in a dependency, you can have a local fork and add something like the following in your top-level `go.mod`: ... - `replace example.com/original/import/path => /your/forked/import/path` ... `replace` also can be used to inform the go tooling of the relative or absolute on-disk location of modules in a multi-module project, such as: ... - `replace example.com/project/foo => ../foo` ... Note: if the right-hand side of a `replace` directive is a filesystem path, then the target must have a `go.mod` file at that location. If the `go.mod` file is not present, you can create one with `go mod init`. ... In general, you have the option of specifying a version to the left of the `=>` in a replace directive, but typically it is less sensitive to change if you omit that (e.g., as done in all of the `replace` examples above). ... A `require` directive is needed for each `replace` directive of a direct dependency. When replacing a dependency from a filesystem path, the version of the corresponding require directive is essentially ignored; in this case, the pseudoversion `v0.0.0` is a good choice to make this clear, e.g. `require example.com/module v0.0.0`. ... You can confirm you are getting your expected versions by running `go list -m all`, which shows you the actual final versions that will be used in your build including taking into account `replace` statements. ... See the next FAQ for the details of ... `replace` to work entirely outside of VCS. ... ### Can I work entirely outside of VCS on my local filesystem? ... `go build`, `go test ... If you want to have multiple inter-related modules on your local disk that you want to edit at the same time, then `replace` directives are one approach. Here is a sample `go.mod` that uses a `replace` with a relative path to point the `hello` module at the on-disk location of the `goodbye` module (withou…[truncated] <title>go.mod file reference - The Go Programming Language</title> https://go.dev/doc/modules/gomod-ref - The minimum version of Go required by the current module. - A list of minimum versions of other modules required by the current module. - Instructions, optionally, to replace a required module with another module version or a local directory, to exclude a specific version of a required module, or to ignore specific directories within the module when matching package patterns. ... ( example.com ... othermodule v1.2.3 example.com/ ... module v1.2. ... example.com/thatmodule v1.2. ... replace example.com/thatmodule ... exclude example.com/thismodule v1.3.0 ... You can have Go require a module from a location other than its repository by using the `replace` directive. ... Replaces the content of a module at a specific version (or all versions) with another module version or with a local directory. Go tools will use the replacement path when resolving the dependency. ... ``` replace module-path [module-version] => replacement-path [replacement-version] ``` ... is omitted, all ... replacement-path ... : The path at which Go should look for the required module. This can be a module path or a path to a directory on the file system local to the replacement module. If this is a module path, you must specify a replacement-version value. If this is a local path, you may not use a replacement-version value. ... replacement-version ... : The version of the replacement module. The replacement version may only be specified if replacement-path is a module path (not a local directory). ... When you replace one module path with another, do not change import statements for packages in the module you’re replacing. ... with local code ... The following example specifies that a local directory should be used as ... all versions of the module ... Use the `replace` directive to temporarily substitute a module path value with another value when you want Go to use the other path to find the module’s source. This has the effect of redirecting Go’s search for the module to the replacement’s location. You needn’t change package import paths to use the replacement path. ... Use the `exclude` and `replace` directives to control build-time dependency resolution when building the current module. These directives are ignored in modules that depend on the current module. ... Note that a `replace` directive alone does not add a module to the module graph. A `require` directive that refers to a replaced module version is also needed, either in the main module’s `go.mod` file or a dependency’s `go.mod` file. If you don’t have a specific version to replace, you can use a fake version, as in the example below. Note that this will break modules that depend on your module, since `replace` directives are only applied in the main module. ... ``` require example ... com/mod v0 ... 0.0-replace replace example.com/mod v0 ... 0.0-replace => ./mod ... Use the `exclude` and `replace` directives to control build-time dependency resolution when building the current module (the main module you’re building). These directives are ignored in modules that depend on the current module. <title>cmd/go: `replace` directive for go modules does not work recursively</title> GitHub issue 38665 in golang/go (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) # cmd/go: `replace` directive for go modules does not work recursively - State: closed - Author: ghost - Created: 2020-04-26T00:24:23Z - Updated: 2021-04-27T19:33:51Z - Repository: golang/go - Number: `#38665` ## Labels - NeedsInvestigation - FrozenDueToAge - GoCommand --- ### What version of Go are you using (`go version`)? `1.14` ### Does this issue reproduce with the latest release? YES ### What operating system and processor architecture are you using (`go env`)? Linux, AMD64 ### What did you do? I have the directory structure as follows: ``` top-dir/ |-- module1 | |-- go.mod | `-- test.go |-- module2 | |-- go.mod | `-- test.go `-- module3 |-- go.mod `-- test.go 3 directories, 6 files ``` File `module1/go.mod`: ``` module company.com/module1 go 1.14 replace company.com/module2 => ../module2 require company.com/module2 v0.0.0 ``` File `module1/test.go`: ``` package main import "company.com/module2" func main() { module2.Test() } ``` File `module2/go.mod`: ``` module company.com/module2 go 1.14 replace company.com/module3 => ../module3 require company.com/module3 v0.0.0 ``` File `module2/test.go`: ``` package module2 import "company.com/module3" func Test() { println("this is company.com/module2") module3.Test() } ``` File `module3/go.mod`: ``` module company.com/module3 go 1.14 ``` File `module3/test.go`: ``` package module3 func Test() { println("this is company.com/module3") } ``` Summary: `module1` depends on a local module `module2`, and `module2` depends on another local module `module3`. I use `replace` directive in the two `go.mod` files in `module1` and `module2`. ### What did you expect to see? When I try `go build` in `module1`, it is expected that the compiler find `module2` and `module3` in the local filesystem, rather than fetching them from a remote server. ### What did you see instead? The go compiler succeeded in figuring out the right source of `module2` (in local directory `top-dir/module2`), but failed for `module3`. It attempted to fetch `module3` from the server `company.com`: ``` go: company.com/module2@v0.0.0 requires company.com/module3@v0.0.0: unrecognized import path "company.com/module3": https fetch: Get "https://company.com/module3?go-get=1": x509: certificate signed by unknown authority ``` ## Timeline **magical** commented on 2020-04-26T00:38:07Z: > This is by design. Only `replace` directives in the top-level `go.mod` are considered during the build. - Renamed from "`replace` directive for go modules does not work recursively" to "cmd/go: `replace` directive for go modules does not work recursively" - andybons added label "GoCommand" - andybons added label "NeedsInvestigation" - andybons milestoned **andybons** commented on 2020-04-27T19:30:22Z: > Adding `@bcmills` `@jayconrod` `@matloob` to confirm if it’s by design or not. - jayconrod mentioned - jayconrod subscribed - bcmills mentioned - bcmills subscribed - matloob mentioned - matloob subscribed **bcmills** commented on 2020-04-27T19:33:33Z: > This is by design. Per `go help go.mod`: > > Exclude and replace apply only in the main module&`#39`;s go.mod and are ignored in dependencies. See https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs for details. - bcmills closed - Referenced by issue `#39358`: Proposal: honor replace directives from imported modules in go.mod - golang locked - gopherbot added label "FrozenDueToAge" - smjure subscribed

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Do not publish this module with the temporary replacement.

internal/locate/store_cache.go calls kvrpcpb.HealthFeedback.GetNoisyGroups(). The required official kvproto version does not define that method. The fork does.

A downstream module ignores this repository's replace directive. If it resolves the required official version, a public package such as tikv can fail to compile with an undefined-method error.

The inspected upstream kvproto master also does not contain this API. First add HealthFeedback.noisy_groups to the official module. Then update both go.mod and integration_tests/go.mod to the resulting official revision and remove both replacements.

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In `@go.mod` around lines 63 - 65, Add HealthFeedback.noisy_groups and its
generated GetNoisyGroups API to the official kvproto module, then update go.mod
and integration_tests/go.mod to the resulting official revision and remove both
temporary replace directives. Ensure the public tikv package builds against the
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Comment on lines +139 to +140
if !s.isStaleRead {
s.tryOverloadedLeader(req)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Limit overloaded-leader steering to read requests.

A non-stale write reaches tryOverloadedLeader when the leader is overloaded and eligible. The helper selects the leader, increments TiKVNoisyTenantLeaderPinnedCounter, and rewrites request fields even though writes are already leader-bound.

Gate this path with s.isReadOnlyReq. Add a package-level write test that confirms the pinning metric does not increase.

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-	if !s.isStaleRead {
+	if s.isReadOnlyReq && !s.isStaleRead {
 		s.tryOverloadedLeader(req)
 	}
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if !s.isStaleRead {
s.tryOverloadedLeader(req)
if s.isReadOnlyReq && !s.isStaleRead {
s.tryOverloadedLeader(req)
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In `@internal/locate/replica_selector.go` around lines 139 - 140, Update the
condition guarding tryOverloadedLeader in the replica-selection flow to require
s.isReadOnlyReq as well as !s.isStaleRead, preventing overloaded-leader steering
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Comment on lines +1166 to +1168
if groups := feedback.GetNoisyGroups(); groups != nil {
s.noisyGroups.replace(groups.GetNames())
s.healthStatus.markOverloaded(len(groups.GetNames()) > 0)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Reject stale HealthFeedback before applying snapshot state.

The batch client forwards HealthFeedback before it checks whether the response request is still current. A late response can therefore reach recordHealthFeedback after newer feedback.

recordHealthFeedback ignores FeedbackSeqNo. Because NoisyGroups replaces the complete set, an older report can restore stale groups or clear a newer overload mark. A duplicate non-empty report can also refresh the overload deadline.

Track the latest accepted sequence per store, including feedback without NoisyGroups. Reject older or duplicate feedback before applying noisyGroups.replace and markOverloaded.

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In `@internal/locate/store_cache.go` around lines 1166 - 1168, Update
recordHealthFeedback to track the latest accepted FeedbackSeqNo per store,
including feedback that has no NoisyGroups, and reject older or duplicate
feedback before changing state. Only accepted feedback may call
noisyGroups.replace or healthStatus.markOverloaded, preserving the existing
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TiKVNoisyTenantServerBusyCounter prometheus.Counter
TiKVNoisyTenantReadTimeoutCounter prometheus.Counter
TiKVNoisyTenantLeaderPinnedCounter *prometheus.CounterVec

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Add Go doc comments for the exported metrics.

These variables are exported from the metrics package and are part of the public client API. Add comments that start with each identifier and describe its metric.

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tryOverloadedLeader pinned every tenant's read to an overloaded leader, on the
argument that a follower read returns there as a ReadIndex anyway. That also
moves a bystander's traffic onto the store that just reported it was
overloaded, so the pin is now scoped to the group the store named.

The ServerIsBusy path does not depend on the reported set catching up: a
`|noisy_tenant` rejection names this request's own group, so its retries are
pinned directly. The leader-pinned counter loses its `blamed` label, which
could only read "true" now.

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Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>
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In `@internal/locate/region_request3_test.go`:
- Around line 1078-1080: Update the test call to replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy
to capture and assert both return values: verify err is nil and shouldRetry is
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- Around line 1221-1223: Skip TestNoisyGroupFeedbackPinsToLeader when
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- Around line 736-737: Remove the inaccurate comment above
replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy; it describes pinning every remaining attempt to
the leader, which does not match the method’s noisy-tenant-only behavior.
- Around line 169-174: Update the ServerIsBusy routing comment near
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Comment on lines +1078 to +1080
replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy(bo, rpcCtx, req, &errorpb.ServerIsBusy{
Reason: "scheduler is busy|noisy_tenant",
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Check the result of onServerIsBusy.

The test ignores shouldRetry and err. If the backoff fails, the test still passes, but the request would not be retried. Check both values.

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-	replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy(bo, rpcCtx, req, &errorpb.ServerIsBusy{
+	shouldRetry, err := replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy(bo, rpcCtx, req, &errorpb.ServerIsBusy{
 		Reason: "scheduler is busy|noisy_tenant",
 	})
+	s.Nil(err)
+	s.True(shouldRetry)
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replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy(bo, rpcCtx, req, &errorpb.ServerIsBusy{
Reason: "scheduler is busy|noisy_tenant",
})
shouldRetry, err := replicaSelector.onServerIsBusy(bo, rpcCtx, req, &errorpb.ServerIsBusy{
Reason: "scheduler is busy|noisy_tenant",
})
s.Nil(err)
s.True(shouldRetry)
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In `@internal/locate/region_request3_test.go` around lines 1078 - 1080, Update the
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Comment on lines +1221 to +1223
if readType == kv.ReplicaReadFollower {
s.NotEqual(rpcCtx.Peer.Id, s.leaderPeer, "readType=%v group=%q", readType, g)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Skip TestNoisyGroupFeedbackPinsToLeader under config.NextGen.

This test asserts that ReplicaReadFollower selects a non-leader. NextGen disables replica-read support, so leader routing can make this assertion fail.

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if !leader.store.healthStatus.IsOverloaded() || !isOverloadedLeaderCandidate(leader) {
return
}
if !leader.store.noisyGroups.contains(req.GetResourceControlContext().GetResourceGroupName()) {
return
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Clarify the ServerIsBusy routing comment.

The all-tenant behavior is not intended. tryOverloadedLeader and TiKVNoisyTenantLeaderPinnedCounter explicitly apply only to the blamed group.

The remaining issue is the comment at replica_selector.go:670. A ServerIsBusy-only signal marks overload and pins the current retry, but it does not update noisyGroups. Later selectors are steered only after health feedback reports the group.

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-	// feedback to say the same thing. The store is marked as well, which is
-	// what steers the group's later reads through tryOverloadedLeader.
+	// feedback to say the same thing. This mark does not update noisyGroups;
+	// later selectors are steered only when health feedback reports this group.
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In `@internal/locate/replica_selector.go` around lines 169 - 174, Update the
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signal pins the current retry but does not update noisyGroups; later selectors
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// Pins every remaining attempt to the leader. busyThreshold must go too, or
// nextForReplicaReadLeader diverts to a replica whenever the leader is busy.

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Remove the wrong doc comment above onServerIsBusy.

This comment repeats the pinRetryToLeader description. onServerIsBusy pins to the leader only in the noisy-tenant branch. Remove the comment or replace it with an accurate description.

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-// Pins every remaining attempt to the leader. busyThreshold must go too, or
-// nextForReplicaReadLeader diverts to a replica whenever the leader is busy.
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In `@internal/locate/replica_selector.go` around lines 736 - 737, Remove the
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The prefer-leader slow score gate reads req.ReplicaReadType, and
tryOverloadedLeader only clears req.ReplicaRead, so a pinned request still
counted. Its latency is the blamed group's own throttling, but that score is
per-store with no group dimension, so it would push the store over the slow
threshold and stop every prefer-leader tenant from reading that store's
followers. Attempts the overload logic forced onto the leader are no longer
measured; an attempt normal selection routed still is.

pinRetryToLeader drops option.leaderOnly with it. Setting ReplicaReadLeader
already keeps the retries on the leader while it stays a candidate, and
leaderOnly only took effect once it stopped being one -- turning the follower
that normal selection would have picked into a no-candidate round for the
tenant already in trouble.

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Signed-off-by: rishabh mittal <mittalrishabh@gmail.com>

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🟠 Major · Pin all non-stale reads when the leader is overloaded. · replica_selector.go:177

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Pin all non-stale reads when the leader is overloaded.

tryOverloadedLeader returns when the request group is absent from noisyGroups. Therefore, non-blamed groups keep normal replica selection. This includes routing follower reads away from the overloaded leader and retaining the busy threshold. Remove the group-membership gate and update the bystander assertions in both tests.

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-	if !leader.store.noisyGroups.contains(req.GetResourceControlContext().GetResourceGroupName()) {
-		return
-	}
 	s.target = leader

Update TestNoisyGroupFeedbackPinsToLeader so uds_007 and the empty group also expect the leader, ReplicaRead == false, and BusyThresholdMs == 0. Update TestPinnedLeaderIsKeptOutOfSlowScore so the uds_007 send is not added to the slow score.

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In `@internal/locate/replica_selector.go` at line 177, Update tryOverloadedLeader
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- Line 177: Update tryOverloadedLeader to remove the noisyGroups membership gate
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On the design intent — a few questions before I review the details

I've read this together with the kvproto change, and I'd like to understand the intended scenario before commenting on the mechanics. Most of my questions are really about the same thing: which problem this is meant to solve that the TiKV-side resource control doesn't already solve. Posting the design-level ones here and leaving implementation nits for later.

1. What is the scenario this anchors to?

This is the main thing I'd like to understand, because the justification changes a lot depending on the answer. Concretely:

  • Which deployment profile is this designed for? The fully-enabled one (enable-read-admission-control / enable-write-admission-control / enable-fair-scheduling on, and busy_threshold_ms set by clients), or the defaults? Under the defaults, none of those are on and the per-group CPU rate limit that adjust_group_throttling sets has no executor — the read/write pools run measure_only = true, and admission_decision returns None unless the admission flags are set. Those two worlds imply very different arguments for a client-side change.
  • What was the actual failure? A specific incident, or a modeled scenario? And is the pain:
    • the client spending RPCs on requests TiKV is going to reject anyway,
    • one tenant's local problem turning into replica churn across the cluster,
    • the client misclassifying a resource-control rejection as store slowness,
    • or something else?

If the premise is the fully-enabled config, then the shedding is already per-group and server-side, and the remaining client-side need is attribution plus "don't treat it as store health" — a much smaller thing than what's in the PR. If the premise is the defaults, the shaping argument is stronger, but I think it's worth saying so explicitly, since the defaults are what most users run.

2. Where is the client supposed to learn the attribution from?

Related to the above, because it determines whether HealthFeedback.noisy_groups is load-bearing or redundant. Today the rejection that reaches the client doesn't carry the cause:

  • Read path: AdmissionDecision::Reject → ReadPoolError::Rejected (src/read_pool.rs:151), which is collapsed at src/coprocessor/endpoint.rs:1261 via .map_err(|_| Error::MaxPendingTasksExceeded) — the cause is discarded and merged with the pool-full case, then surfaces as ServerIsBusy with reason "Coprocessor task canceled due to exceeding max pending tasks", indistinguishable from a genuinely overloaded node.
  • Write path: Reject → fail_with_busy → SchedTooBusy → ServerIsBusy (src/storage/txn/scheduler.rs:603-605), but SchedTooBusy also fires for non-resource-control reasons.

So: is the plan to make a resource-control rejection distinguishable on the response (fixing that plumbing), or to rely on HealthFeedback for reads precisely because that path currently loses the cause? If both, which is the source of truth? And if the response path gets a proper signal, is the HealthFeedback field still needed for this purpose?

Also, I'd question encoding this as a |noisy_tenant suffix on ServerIsBusy.reason — that field is free text meant for humans, the sync is maintained by a comment, and it now has to be ordered around the existing strings.Contains(reason, "deadline is exceeded") check in onRegionError. Since kvproto is changing anyway, a structured field seems better than freezing a control-plane contract into a string.

3. What is leader pinning buying?

The stated rationale is that a follower read comes back to the leader as a ReadIndex anyway, so serving from the leader's lease removes a message. That saves a hop, but not the leader's read-pool CPU — and if the overload is CPU-bound, which is what the TiKV-side work assumes, pinning all of a blamed group's reads onto the store that just complained looks like concentrating load rather than relieving it.

So which is the intended win here — "don't amplify one tenant's local problem into cluster-wide replica churn", or "reduce work on the overloaded store"? Those are different claims and I read the code as arguing the first while the comment argues the second. Is there data comparing the two (ReadIndex hop vs. execution CPU moved to the follower)? And if it isn't a clear win in both regimes, would you consider gating or defaulting it off?

4. Is the producer already planned?

tikv/tikv currently emits neither signal — there's no NOISY_TENANT_REASON_SUFFIX and nothing fills HealthFeedback.noisy_groups, and I couldn't find a TiKV PR for it. Is that side in flight? It would be much easier to reason about the client behavior against the real producer, and replace github.com/pingcap/kvproto => github.com/mittalrishabh/kvproto needs to go before merge regardless. (Minor: the PR body's "relate PR on tikv client" link points back at this PR — presumably it should point at the TiKV one.)


None of this is a request to change the approach yet — I'd just like the scenario in §1 pinned down, since it decides whether §2–§3 are load-bearing or just extra surface.

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It fixes this issue - CPU stays flat even under maximum backpressure
Symptom: CPU doesn't drop even at maximum backpressure. By that point the noisy tenant is already throttled to its floor, and the unified read pool has already shrunk, which frees CPU for gRPC.

Cause: the extra load comes from TiKV client retries.

  1. The client has a 200 ms timeout, so within one request deadline it can send up to 4× the original requests.
  2. With prefer-leader on, the client sends the request to a replica on another TiKV node whenever the leader is slow, to spread load. And CPU is consumed by the read_index messages triggered by follower reads.

Fixes:

  1. When a node is overloaded, or returns ServerBusy, TiKV sends the TiKV client the list of noisy-neighbour resource groups.
  2. The TiKV client no longer sends requests on replicas for requests from those groups.
  3. The TiKV client backs off for 1 s after a DeadlineExceeded or ServerBusy error on a noisy-neighbour request.

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Answer to your remaining questions
(enable-read-admission-control / enable-write-admission-control / enable-fair-scheduling on,

[rishabh]TiKV sends noisy neighbor only when these flags are enabled.

So: is the plan to make a resource-control rejection distinguishable on the response (fixing that plumbing), or to rely on HealthFeedback for reads precisely because that path currently loses the cause? If both, which is the source of truth? And if the response path gets a proper signal, is the HealthFeedback field still needed for this purpose?

[rishabh]Separate health check is required because client can timeouts early than TiKV and it sends retries as a follower reads. We want to prevent follower reads on noisy neighbor because follower reads causes read index messages and there is no way in raft to deprioritize/rate limit the read index messages based on resource group. Response path is the live source of truth which decides the retry policy in scenarios where health check is delayed.

Also, I'd question encoding this as a |noisy_tenant suffix on ServerIsBusy.reason — that field is free text meant for humans, the sync is maintained by a comment, and it now has to be ordered around the existing strings.Contains(reason, "deadline is exceeded") check in onRegionError. Since kvproto is changing anyway, a structured field seems better than freezing a control-plane contract into a string.

[rishabh]We already have a precedent in the code to distinguish between deadline_exceeded and queue full for server busy errors. I piggybacked on them. I don't have any problem in adding a new entry in response.

So which is the intended win here — "don't amplify one tenant's local problem into cluster-wide replica churn", or "reduce work on the overloaded store"

[rishabh]Intention is to not take the path which can not be throttled. Follower reads overloads the leader by sending read index messages which can not be throttled.

Is the producer already planned?

[rishabh]Yes, this is the PR mittalrishabh/tikv#1

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Thanks for the follow-up. The ReadIndex argument is much clearer than the PR description. There are still two things I can't reproduce, plus a scope question. (I've split the "why not rate limit ReadIndex on the TiKV side" part into a separate comment.)

1. Which scenario/config is this, and where does "200 ms → up to 4×" come from?

I can't map "the client has a 200 ms timeout" onto anything in client-go. The client defaults are ReadTimeoutShort = 30s / ReadTimeoutMedium = 60s (internal/client/client.go:79-80) and CoprReqTimeout = 60s in client-go (120s in TiDB, config/client.go:246). The only way to get a 200 ms per-attempt read deadline is for the caller to set one: tikv_client_read_timeout → SetKVReadTimeout / task.tikvClientReadTimeout → the timeout passed to SendReqCtx, which client-go copies into both the RPC deadline and Context.MaxExecutionDurationMs (internal/locate/region_request.go:489, txnkv/txnsnapshot/snapshot.go:670; TiDB side pkg/store/driver/txn/snapshot.go:150-151, pkg/store/copr/coprocessor.go:1835).

That matters because the amplification you describe is gated on exactly that value: isReadReqConfigurableTimeout is only true when MaxExecutionDurationMs < ReadTimeoutShort (internal/locate/replica_selector.go:690). With the default copr timeout the path is not armed at all, and the no-backoff onReadReqConfigurableTimeout retry never runs. So:

  • Which knob is the "200 ms" — tikv_client_read_timeout, tikv-client.copr-req-timeout, or the runaway checker's remaining deadline? And what is the tidb_replica_read value in that setup?
  • What is "one request deadline" in "within one request deadline it can send up to 4×"? If the per-attempt deadline is 200 ms, the multiplier is really outer budget / 200 ms, so the outer budget has to be ~800 ms. Which value is that? I can't find an 800 ms default, and the code has no 4× bound: each replica is attempted once per selector (maxAttempt = 1 in ReplicaSelectMixedStrategy.isCandidate), and the hard limits are maxReplicaAttempt = 10 / maxReplicaAttemptTime = 50s (internal/locate/region_request.go:769-770).
  • Is the extra load retries that expire while queued (queue/admission pressure), or retries cancelled mid-execution (real CPU burn)? "CPU stays flat even under maximum backpressure" only follows from the second, and it decides which of your three fixes is the load-reducing one.

2. prefer-leader vs follower reads in general

"With prefer-leader on, the client sends the request to a replica on another TiKV node whenever the leader is slow, to spread load."

I don't think that is prefer-leader. It is load-based replica read: nextForReplicaReadLeader diverts to an idle replica when busyThreshold > 0 && EstimatedWaitTime() > busyThreshold (internal/locate/replica_selector.go:162-177), and TiDB arms it by default from tidb_load_based_replica_read_threshold (1s) in the default tidb_replica_read=leader mode (pkg/store/copr/coprocessor.go:1823, :712).

More generally, the ReadIndex cost is not prefer-leader-specific: follower, leader-and-follower, prefer-leader, load-based replica read and the timeout-induced replica read all produce one. Only stale reads avoid it (which is why you exclude them). The change is likewise mode-agnostic — tryOverloadedLeader runs before the switch s.replicaReadType for every non-stale read, and TestNoisyGroupFeedbackPinsToLeader asserts it for Leader/Follower/Mixed/PreferLeader. So the justification reads as prefer-leader-specific while the fix is general; if the real target is "any read that would be served by a follower", could you say so? It changes how I read the deployment-profile question from my earlier comment.

There is one genuinely prefer-leader-specific effect that you do not mention, and I think it is the strongest client-side argument in the PR: calculateScore only gives the leader flagPreferLeader while !IsSlow() (replica_selector.go:454-459), and the client-side slow score is only fed by PreferLeader requests (region_request.go:1289, :1468). That is a positive loop — overload → latency → slow score → divert to follower → ReadIndex on the overloaded leader → more latency. Your attemptPinnedToOverloadedLeader gate breaks it. Is that the amplification you measured?

3. Whose follower reads are we absorbing?

The pin only fires for the blamed group (noisyGroups.contains(...ResourceGroupName)), so a tenant that is merely a victim of the overload keeps doing follower reads into the same store, and each still costs the leader a ReadIndex. I noticed the commit sequence narrowed exactly this: 6e972619 locate: mark a store overloaded and keep every tenant off its followers → 5e6a9c61 locate: steer only the blamed group to the leader. Was that narrowed because the read-index flood is mostly the noisy group's own retries, or to avoid concentrating everyone's load on the leader? I'd like the blamed-group vs victim-group split of read-index volume, because it decides whether the current scope addresses the symptom at all.

4. What would settle it

The TiKV side now emits per-group read-index latency (tikv_storage_engine_async_request_duration_seconds_by_group{type="snapshot_read_index_propose_wait"|"snapshot_read_index_confirm"}), so this should be cheap to attach:

  • the exact config of the setup (the knobs in §1);
  • ..._propose_wait_count / ..._confirm_count by group, and store CPU, before/after pinning;
  • RPC count per logical read, to check the "4×";
  • the blamed-vs-victim split from §3.

That would make the necessity case verifiable rather than arguable.

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Splitting this out of my previous comment, since it is a separate (TiKV-side) question: why not rate limit ReadIndex in TiKV instead of adding a client-side change?

I agree a leader-side per-group limit on ReadIndex is not available today. ReadIndexContext carries only {id, request, locked, read_index_safe_ts} (components/raftstore/src/store/read_queue.rs:340), raft_cmdpb.ReadIndexRequest only has start_ts/key_ranges, and raftstore has no resource-group reference at all (components/raftstore/src/store/fsm/peer.rs, peer.rs). That is also why the new per-group read-index metric is recorded in src/server/raftkv/mod.rs — the serving node's storage layer is the last place the group is known — and why that panel's own text says it "says which group paid the cost and never which group caused it". Charging a group on the leader would need a raft-protocol change plus per-group QoS in the single-threaded FSM.

That said, "no way to rate limit it in raft" isn't quite the whole picture:

  • A store-level limit is possible; it would just penalise innocent groups, and it delays the work rather than removing it (the queued read-index still occupies the FSM/read state).
  • The follower does know the group, so a serving-side gate is conceivable — at the price of a new client-visible signal, an extra round trip, and the same client change.
  • And a group-granular limit would not cover the victim traffic in §3 above, because the victims are not the noisy group.

I do see why enforcement lands in the replica selector for client-configured tidb_replica_read — for those, the decision is made before any RPC, and the server can only react after the ReadIndex cost is already paid. If the TiKV-side alternatives (carrying group/priority in ReadIndexContext, or store-level read-index backpressure) were considered and rejected, recording the conclusion in the PR would help reviewers accept the placement.

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Which knob is the "200 ms" — tikv_client_read_timeout, tikv-client.copr-req-timeout, or the runaway checker's remaining deadline? And what is the tidb_replica_read value in that setup?
What is "one request deadline" in "within one request deadline it can send up to 4×"? If the per-attempt deadline is 200 ms, the multiplier is really outer budget / 200 ms, so the outer budget has to be ~800 ms. Which value is that? I can't find an 800 ms default, and the code has no 4× bound: each replica is attempted once per selector (maxAttempt = 1 in ReplicaSelectMixedStrategy.isCandidate), and the hard limits are maxReplicaAttempt = 10 / maxReplicaAttemptTime = 50s (internal/locate/region_request.go:769-770).

tikv_client_read_timeout is set to 200 ms and max_execution_timeout is set to 1 s. So it causes 4x retries.

Is the extra load retries that expire while queued (queue/admission pressure), or retries cancelled mid-execution (real CPU burn)? "CPU stays flat even under maximum backpressure" only follows from the second, and it decides which of your three fixes is the load-reducing one.
It happened because request is deprioritized/throttled by the leader. Either client timesout or tikv timeout with 200 ms tikv_client_read_timeout

if the real target is "any read that would be served by a follower",
You are right. It is more generic fix for the follower reads. Follower reads can happen in closest-replicas, prefer-leader, stale reads. With prefer-leader it is more prominent because when node is overloaded, it diverts the traffic to other replica. While in other replica type, it happens only during retries.

That is a positive loop — overload → latency → slow score → divert to follower → ReadIndex on the overloaded leader → more latency. Your attemptPinnedToOverloadedLeader gate breaks it. Is that the amplification you measured?
I don't think it is the positive loop. It is a second order effect. Load is already overloaded and we we are making it worse by sending burst of read index requests from the follower. In my view it is negative loop. Retrying on the follower makes sense when latency latency increases due to EBS, slow network or any reason where CPU is not bottleneck.

Was that narrowed because the read-index flood is mostly the noisy group's own retries,
Yes, read indexes are happening only due to retries of noisy tenant.

The TiKV side now emits per-group read-index latency
see the attached screenshot. read index messages keeep growing while total cpu remains same. Isolation is kicked in and lowering the unified read pool CPU while grpc cpu keeps increasing due to read index messages.
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If the TiKV-side alternatives (carrying group/priority in ReadIndexContext, or store-level read-index backpressure) were considered and rejected, recording the conclusion in the PR would help reviewers accept the placement.

We looked at the TiKV-side alternatives and they are hard to implement correctly. On the leader, throttling can only happen at the granularity of the whole peer FSM. We can't throttle individual traffic inside an FSM, because its messages have to be processed in the order they arrive to stay correct. So a leader-side throttle would stall every tenant's traffic on that region, not just the noisy tenant's ReadIndex requests.
Throttling on the follower side is possible, but I don't think it's enough on its own, so we placed the control on the client side instead.

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The TiKV side now emits per-group read-index latency see the attached screenshot. read index messages keeep growing while total cpu remains same. Isolation is kicked in and lowering the unified read pool CPU while grpc cpu keeps increasing due to read index messages.

One process request on this PR: it links no issue, and the description doesn't state the problem it solves. From the outside it is hard to tell what this change is for, and under which configuration it applies. Could you:

1. Record the scenario and measurements as a standalone issue and link it here. The material is all in your replies now, but it belongs in an issue rather than a comment thread. What I'd expect it to contain:

  • the configuration: tikv_client_read_timeout = 200ms, max_execution_time = 1s, resource-control flags on (enable-read-admission-control / enable-write-admission-control / enable-fair-scheduling), with TiKV-side noisy-group selection behind them;
  • the mechanism: the noisy group's reads are deprioritized on the overloaded leader, time out at 200 ms, are retried without backoff and converted to follower reads, and each of those comes back to the same leader as a ReadIndex;
  • the effect: read-pool isolation does take effect (unified read pool CPU drops) but gRPC/raft CPU keeps climbing on read_index / read_index_resp volume, so the store's CPU stays high — the panels you attached.

tikv/tikv#20114 already exists from the TiKV side, but it currently only restates the claim without this config or these measurements. Filling it in and referencing it from this PR would be enough; a new issue would work too.

2. Update this PR's description to state the problem being solved, consistent with the above, with the issue linked. Right now the body describes the mechanism only: it never mentions the noisy-neighbour + follower-read + short-read-timeout combination, the ReadIndex burst, or the gRPC CPU growth that it is meant to prevent. The body's "relate PR on tikv client" link also points back at this PR rather than at the TiKV producer.

While you are there, it would help to state the applicable configuration explicitly — the configurable read timeout has to be below ReadTimeoutShort (30s) for the retry path to be armed, and the default 60s/120s copr timeout leaves it disarmed — and to position the change as a generic "read that would be served by a follower" fix with stale reads excluded. Otherwise readers will assume the benefit also holds under defaults.

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The TiKV side now emits per-group read-index latency see the attached screenshot. read index messages keeep growing while total cpu remains same. Isolation is kicked in and lowering the unified read pool CPU while grpc cpu keeps increasing due to read index messages.

One process request on this PR: it links no issue, and the description doesn't state the problem it solves. From the outside it is hard to tell what this change is for, and under which configuration it applies. Could you:

1. Record the scenario and measurements as a standalone issue and link it here. The material is all in your replies now, but it belongs in an issue rather than a comment thread. What I'd expect it to contain:

  • the configuration: tikv_client_read_timeout = 200ms, max_execution_time = 1s, resource-control flags on (enable-read-admission-control / enable-write-admission-control / enable-fair-scheduling), with TiKV-side noisy-group selection behind them;
  • the mechanism: the noisy group's reads are deprioritized on the overloaded leader, time out at 200 ms, are retried without backoff and converted to follower reads, and each of those comes back to the same leader as a ReadIndex;
  • the effect: read-pool isolation does take effect (unified read pool CPU drops) but gRPC/raft CPU keeps climbing on read_index / read_index_resp volume, so the store's CPU stays high — the panels you attached.

tikv/tikv#20114 already exists from the TiKV side, but it currently only restates the claim without this config or these measurements. Filling it in and referencing it from this PR would be enough; a new issue would work too.

2. Update this PR's description to state the problem being solved, consistent with the above, with the issue linked. Right now the body describes the mechanism only: it never mentions the noisy-neighbour + follower-read + short-read-timeout combination, the ReadIndex burst, or the gRPC CPU growth that it is meant to prevent. The body's "relate PR on tikv client" link also points back at this PR rather than at the TiKV producer.

While you are there, it would help to state the applicable configuration explicitly — the configurable read timeout has to be below ReadTimeoutShort (30s) for the retry path to be armed, and the default 60s/120s copr timeout leaves it disarmed — and to position the change as a generic "read that would be served by a follower" fix with stale reads excluded. Otherwise readers will assume the benefit also holds under defaults.

updated. thanks

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