redis系列介绍七-过期策略

这一篇不再是数据结构介绍了,大致的数据结构基本都介绍了,这一篇主要是查漏补缺,或者说讲一些重要且基本的概念,也可能是经常被忽略的,很多讲 redis 的系列文章可能都会忽略,学习 redis 的时候也会,因为觉得源码学习就是讲主要的数据结构和“算法”学习了就好了。
redis 的主要应用就是拿来作为高性能的缓存,那么缓存一般有些啥需要注意的,首先是访问速度,如果取得跟数据库一样快,那就没什么存在的意义,第二个是缓存的字面意思,我只是为了让数据读取快一些,通常大部分的场景这个是需要更新过期的,这里就把我要讲的第一点引出来了(真累,

redis过期策略

redis 是如何过期缓存的,可以猜测下,最无脑的就是每个设置了过期时间的 key 都设个定时器,过期了就删除,这种显然消耗太大,清理地最及时,还有的就是 redis 正在采用的懒汉清理策略和定期清理
懒汉策略就是在使用的时候去检查缓存是否过期,比如 get 操作时,先判断下这个 key 是否已经过期了,如果过期了就删掉,并且返回空,如果没过期则正常返回
主要代码是

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/* This function is called when we are going to perform some operation
* in a given key, but such key may be already logically expired even if
* it still exists in the database. The main way this function is called
* is via lookupKey*() family of functions.
*
* The behavior of the function depends on the replication role of the
* instance, because slave instances do not expire keys, they wait
* for DELs from the master for consistency matters. However even
* slaves will try to have a coherent return value for the function,
* so that read commands executed in the slave side will be able to
* behave like if the key is expired even if still present (because the
* master has yet to propagate the DEL).
*
* In masters as a side effect of finding a key which is expired, such
* key will be evicted from the database. Also this may trigger the
* propagation of a DEL/UNLINK command in AOF / replication stream.
*
* The return value of the function is 0 if the key is still valid,
* otherwise the function returns 1 if the key is expired. */
int expireIfNeeded(redisDb *db, robj *key) {
if (!keyIsExpired(db,key)) return 0;

/* If we are running in the context of a slave, instead of
* evicting the expired key from the database, we return ASAP:
* the slave key expiration is controlled by the master that will
* send us synthesized DEL operations for expired keys.
*
* Still we try to return the right information to the caller,
* that is, 0 if we think the key should be still valid, 1 if
* we think the key is expired at this time. */
if (server.masterhost != NULL) return 1;

/* Delete the key */
server.stat_expiredkeys++;
propagateExpire(db,key,server.lazyfree_lazy_expire);
notifyKeyspaceEvent(NOTIFY_EXPIRED,
"expired",key,db->id);
return server.lazyfree_lazy_expire ? dbAsyncDelete(db,key) :
dbSyncDelete(db,key);
}

/* Check if the key is expired. */
int keyIsExpired(redisDb *db, robj *key) {
mstime_t when = getExpire(db,key);
mstime_t now;

if (when < 0) return 0; /* No expire for this key */

/* Don't expire anything while loading. It will be done later. */
if (server.loading) return 0;

/* If we are in the context of a Lua script, we pretend that time is
* blocked to when the Lua script started. This way a key can expire
* only the first time it is accessed and not in the middle of the
* script execution, making propagation to slaves / AOF consistent.
* See issue #1525 on Github for more information. */
if (server.lua_caller) {
now = server.lua_time_start;
}
/* If we are in the middle of a command execution, we still want to use
* a reference time that does not change: in that case we just use the
* cached time, that we update before each call in the call() function.
* This way we avoid that commands such as RPOPLPUSH or similar, that
* may re-open the same key multiple times, can invalidate an already
* open object in a next call, if the next call will see the key expired,
* while the first did not. */
else if (server.fixed_time_expire > 0) {
now = server.mstime;
}
/* For the other cases, we want to use the most fresh time we have. */
else {
now = mstime();
}

/* The key expired if the current (virtual or real) time is greater
* than the expire time of the key. */
return now > when;
}
/* Return the expire time of the specified key, or -1 if no expire
* is associated with this key (i.e. the key is non volatile) */
long long getExpire(redisDb *db, robj *key) {
dictEntry *de;

/* No expire? return ASAP */
if (dictSize(db->expires) == 0 ||
(de = dictFind(db->expires,key->ptr)) == NULL) return -1;

/* The entry was found in the expire dict, this means it should also
* be present in the main dict (safety check). */
serverAssertWithInfo(NULL,key,dictFind(db->dict,key->ptr) != NULL);
return dictGetSignedIntegerVal(de);
}

这里有几点要注意的,第一是当惰性删除时会根据lazyfree_lazy_expire这个参数去判断是执行同步删除还是异步删除,另外一点是对于 slave,是不需要执行的,因为会在 master 过期时向 slave 发送 del 指令。
光采用这个策略会有什么问题呢,假如一些key 一直未被访问,那这些 key 就不会过期了,导致一直被占用着内存,所以 redis 采取了懒汉式过期加定期过期策略,定期策略是怎么执行的呢

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/* This function handles 'background' operations we are required to do
* incrementally in Redis databases, such as active key expiring, resizing,
* rehashing. */
void databasesCron(void) {
/* Expire keys by random sampling. Not required for slaves
* as master will synthesize DELs for us. */
if (server.active_expire_enabled) {
if (server.masterhost == NULL) {
activeExpireCycle(ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW);
} else {
expireSlaveKeys();
}
}

/* Defrag keys gradually. */
activeDefragCycle();

/* Perform hash tables rehashing if needed, but only if there are no
* other processes saving the DB on disk. Otherwise rehashing is bad
* as will cause a lot of copy-on-write of memory pages. */
if (!hasActiveChildProcess()) {
/* We use global counters so if we stop the computation at a given
* DB we'll be able to start from the successive in the next
* cron loop iteration. */
static unsigned int resize_db = 0;
static unsigned int rehash_db = 0;
int dbs_per_call = CRON_DBS_PER_CALL;
int j;

/* Don't test more DBs than we have. */
if (dbs_per_call > server.dbnum) dbs_per_call = server.dbnum;

/* Resize */
for (j = 0; j < dbs_per_call; j++) {
tryResizeHashTables(resize_db % server.dbnum);
resize_db++;
}

/* Rehash */
if (server.activerehashing) {
for (j = 0; j < dbs_per_call; j++) {
int work_done = incrementallyRehash(rehash_db);
if (work_done) {
/* If the function did some work, stop here, we'll do
* more at the next cron loop. */
break;
} else {
/* If this db didn't need rehash, we'll try the next one. */
rehash_db++;
rehash_db %= server.dbnum;
}
}
}
}
}
/* Try to expire a few timed out keys. The algorithm used is adaptive and
* will use few CPU cycles if there are few expiring keys, otherwise
* it will get more aggressive to avoid that too much memory is used by
* keys that can be removed from the keyspace.
*
* Every expire cycle tests multiple databases: the next call will start
* again from the next db, with the exception of exists for time limit: in that
* case we restart again from the last database we were processing. Anyway
* no more than CRON_DBS_PER_CALL databases are tested at every iteration.
*
* The function can perform more or less work, depending on the "type"
* argument. It can execute a "fast cycle" or a "slow cycle". The slow
* cycle is the main way we collect expired cycles: this happens with
* the "server.hz" frequency (usually 10 hertz).
*
* However the slow cycle can exit for timeout, since it used too much time.
* For this reason the function is also invoked to perform a fast cycle
* at every event loop cycle, in the beforeSleep() function. The fast cycle
* will try to perform less work, but will do it much more often.
*
* The following are the details of the two expire cycles and their stop
* conditions:
*
* If type is ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST the function will try to run a
* "fast" expire cycle that takes no longer than EXPIRE_FAST_CYCLE_DURATION
* microseconds, and is not repeated again before the same amount of time.
* The cycle will also refuse to run at all if the latest slow cycle did not
* terminate because of a time limit condition.
*
* If type is ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW, that normal expire cycle is
* executed, where the time limit is a percentage of the REDIS_HZ period
* as specified by the ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC define. In the
* fast cycle, the check of every database is interrupted once the number
* of already expired keys in the database is estimated to be lower than
* a given percentage, in order to avoid doing too much work to gain too
* little memory.
*
* The configured expire "effort" will modify the baseline parameters in
* order to do more work in both the fast and slow expire cycles.
*/

#define ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_KEYS_PER_LOOP 20 /* Keys for each DB loop. */
#define ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION 1000 /* Microseconds. */
#define ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC 25 /* Max % of CPU to use. */
#define ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_ACCEPTABLE_STALE 10 /* % of stale keys after which
we do extra efforts. */
void activeExpireCycle(int type) {
/* Adjust the running parameters according to the configured expire
* effort. The default effort is 1, and the maximum configurable effort
* is 10. */
unsigned long
effort = server.active_expire_effort-1, /* Rescale from 0 to 9. */
config_keys_per_loop = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_KEYS_PER_LOOP +
ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_KEYS_PER_LOOP/4*effort,
config_cycle_fast_duration = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION +
ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION/4*effort,
config_cycle_slow_time_perc = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC +
2*effort,
config_cycle_acceptable_stale = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_ACCEPTABLE_STALE-
effort;

/* This function has some global state in order to continue the work
* incrementally across calls. */
static unsigned int current_db = 0; /* Last DB tested. */
static int timelimit_exit = 0; /* Time limit hit in previous call? */
static long long last_fast_cycle = 0; /* When last fast cycle ran. */

int j, iteration = 0;
int dbs_per_call = CRON_DBS_PER_CALL;
long long start = ustime(), timelimit, elapsed;

/* When clients are paused the dataset should be static not just from the
* POV of clients not being able to write, but also from the POV of
* expires and evictions of keys not being performed. */
if (clientsArePaused()) return;

if (type == ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST) {
/* Don't start a fast cycle if the previous cycle did not exit
* for time limit, unless the percentage of estimated stale keys is
* too high. Also never repeat a fast cycle for the same period
* as the fast cycle total duration itself. */
if (!timelimit_exit &&
server.stat_expired_stale_perc < config_cycle_acceptable_stale)
return;

if (start < last_fast_cycle + (long long)config_cycle_fast_duration*2)
return;

last_fast_cycle = start;
}

/* We usually should test CRON_DBS_PER_CALL per iteration, with
* two exceptions:
*
* 1) Don't test more DBs than we have.
* 2) If last time we hit the time limit, we want to scan all DBs
* in this iteration, as there is work to do in some DB and we don't want
* expired keys to use memory for too much time. */
if (dbs_per_call > server.dbnum || timelimit_exit)
dbs_per_call = server.dbnum;

/* We can use at max 'config_cycle_slow_time_perc' percentage of CPU
* time per iteration. Since this function gets called with a frequency of
* server.hz times per second, the following is the max amount of
* microseconds we can spend in this function. */
timelimit = config_cycle_slow_time_perc*1000000/server.hz/100;
timelimit_exit = 0;
if (timelimit <= 0) timelimit = 1;

if (type == ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST)
timelimit = config_cycle_fast_duration; /* in microseconds. */

/* Accumulate some global stats as we expire keys, to have some idea
* about the number of keys that are already logically expired, but still
* existing inside the database. */
long total_sampled = 0;
long total_expired = 0;

for (j = 0; j < dbs_per_call && timelimit_exit == 0; j++) {
/* Expired and checked in a single loop. */
unsigned long expired, sampled;

redisDb *db = server.db+(current_db % server.dbnum);

/* Increment the DB now so we are sure if we run out of time
* in the current DB we'll restart from the next. This allows to
* distribute the time evenly across DBs. */
current_db++;

/* Continue to expire if at the end of the cycle more than 25%
* of the keys were expired. */
do {
unsigned long num, slots;
long long now, ttl_sum;
int ttl_samples;
iteration++;

/* If there is nothing to expire try next DB ASAP. */
if ((num = dictSize(db->expires)) == 0) {
db->avg_ttl = 0;
break;
}
slots = dictSlots(db->expires);
now = mstime();

/* When there are less than 1% filled slots, sampling the key
* space is expensive, so stop here waiting for better times...
* The dictionary will be resized asap. */
if (num && slots > DICT_HT_INITIAL_SIZE &&
(num*100/slots < 1)) break;

/* The main collection cycle. Sample random keys among keys
* with an expire set, checking for expired ones. */
expired = 0;
sampled = 0;
ttl_sum = 0;
ttl_samples = 0;

if (num > config_keys_per_loop)
num = config_keys_per_loop;

/* Here we access the low level representation of the hash table
* for speed concerns: this makes this code coupled with dict.c,
* but it hardly changed in ten years.
*
* Note that certain places of the hash table may be empty,
* so we want also a stop condition about the number of
* buckets that we scanned. However scanning for free buckets
* is very fast: we are in the cache line scanning a sequential
* array of NULL pointers, so we can scan a lot more buckets
* than keys in the same time. */
long max_buckets = num*20;
long checked_buckets = 0;

while (sampled < num && checked_buckets < max_buckets) {
for (int table = 0; table < 2; table++) {
if (table == 1 && !dictIsRehashing(db->expires)) break;

unsigned long idx = db->expires_cursor;
idx &= db->expires->ht[table].sizemask;
dictEntry *de = db->expires->ht[table].table[idx];
long long ttl;

/* Scan the current bucket of the current table. */
checked_buckets++;
while(de) {
/* Get the next entry now since this entry may get
* deleted. */
dictEntry *e = de;
de = de->next;

ttl = dictGetSignedIntegerVal(e)-now;
if (activeExpireCycleTryExpire(db,e,now)) expired++;
if (ttl > 0) {
/* We want the average TTL of keys yet
* not expired. */
ttl_sum += ttl;
ttl_samples++;
}
sampled++;
}
}
db->expires_cursor++;
}
total_expired += expired;
total_sampled += sampled;

/* Update the average TTL stats for this database. */
if (ttl_samples) {
long long avg_ttl = ttl_sum/ttl_samples;

/* Do a simple running average with a few samples.
* We just use the current estimate with a weight of 2%
* and the previous estimate with a weight of 98%. */
if (db->avg_ttl == 0) db->avg_ttl = avg_ttl;
db->avg_ttl = (db->avg_ttl/50)*49 + (avg_ttl/50);
}

/* We can't block forever here even if there are many keys to
* expire. So after a given amount of milliseconds return to the
* caller waiting for the other active expire cycle. */
if ((iteration & 0xf) == 0) { /* check once every 16 iterations. */
elapsed = ustime()-start;
if (elapsed > timelimit) {
timelimit_exit = 1;
server.stat_expired_time_cap_reached_count++;
break;
}
}
/* We don't repeat the cycle for the current database if there are
* an acceptable amount of stale keys (logically expired but yet
* not reclained). */
} while ((expired*100/sampled) > config_cycle_acceptable_stale);
}

elapsed = ustime()-start;
server.stat_expire_cycle_time_used += elapsed;
latencyAddSampleIfNeeded("expire-cycle",elapsed/1000);

/* Update our estimate of keys existing but yet to be expired.
* Running average with this sample accounting for 5%. */
double current_perc;
if (total_sampled) {
current_perc = (double)total_expired/total_sampled;
} else
current_perc = 0;
server.stat_expired_stale_perc = (current_perc*0.05)+
(server.stat_expired_stale_perc*0.95);
}

执行定期清除分成两种类型,快和慢,分别由beforeSleepdatabasesCron调用,快版有两个限制,一个是执行时长由ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION限制,另一个是执行间隔是 2 倍的ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION,另外这还可以由配置的server.active_expire_effort参数来控制,默认是 1,最大是 10

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onfig_cycle_fast_duration = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION +
ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION/4*effort

然后会从一定数量的 db 中找出一定数量的带过期时间的 key(保存在 expires中),这里的数量是由

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config_keys_per_loop = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_KEYS_PER_LOOP +
ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_KEYS_PER_LOOP/4*effort
```
控制,慢速的执行时长是
```C
config_cycle_slow_time_perc = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC +
2*effort
timelimit = config_cycle_slow_time_perc*1000000/server.hz/100;

这里还有一个额外的退出条件,如果当前数据库的抽样结果已经达到我们所允许的过期 key 百分比,则下次不再处理当前 db,继续处理下个 db