pruning: cleanup retention grid impl + tests + correct docs

package is now at 95% code coverage and the additional tests codify
all behavior specified in the docs

There is a slight change in behavior:
Intervals are now [duration) instead of (duration].
If the leftmost interval is not keep=all, the most recently created
snapshot will be destroyed if there are other snapshots within
that first interval.
Since we recommend keep=all all over the docs, and zrepl 0.3
will put holds on that snapshot if it is being replicated,
I feel like this is an acceptable change in behavior.

refs #292
fixup of 0bbe2befce
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Christian Schwarz
2020-08-30 22:42:40 +02:00
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@@ -93,22 +93,23 @@ Policy ``grid``
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The retention grid can be thought of as a time-based sieve that thins out snapshots as they get older.
The ``grid`` field specifies a list of adjacent time intervals.
Each interval is a bucket with a maximum capacity of ``keep`` snapshots.
The following procedure happens during pruning:
#. The list of snapshots is filtered by the regular expression in ``regex``.
Only snapshots names that match the regex are considered for this rule, all others are not affected.
#. The filtered list of snapshots is sorted by ``creation``.
#. The left edge of the first interval is aligned to the ``creation`` date of the youngest snapshot.
#. A list of buckets is created, one for each interval.
#. The snapshots are placed into the bucket that matches their ``creation`` date.
#. For each bucket
Only snapshots names that match the regex are considered for this rule, all others will be pruned unless another rule keeps them.
#. The snapshots that match ``regex`` are placed onto a time axis according to their ``creation`` date.
The youngest snapshot is on the left, the oldest on the right.
#. The first buckets are placed "under" that axis so that the ``grid`` spec's first bucket's left edge aligns with youngest snapshot.
#. All subsequent buckets are placed adjacent to their predecessor bucket.
#. Now each snapshot on the axis either falls into one bucket or it is older than our rightmost bucket.
Buckets are left-inclusive and right-exclusive which means that a snapshot on the edge of bucket will always 'fall into the right one'.
#. Snapshots older than the rightmost bucket **not kept** by this gridspec.
#. For each bucket, we only keep the ``keep`` oldest snapshots.
#. the contained snapshot list is sorted by creation.
#. snapshots from the list, oldest first, are destroyed until the specified ``keep`` count is reached.
#. all remaining snapshots on the list are kept.
The syntax to describe the list of time intervals ("buckets") is as follows:
The syntax to describe the bucket list is as follows:
::
@@ -131,30 +132,30 @@ The syntax to describe the list of time intervals ("buckets") is as follows:
regex: .*
`
0h 1h 2h 3h 4h 5h 6h 7h 8h
| | | | | | | | |
|-Bucket 1-|------Bucket 2-------|-------Bucket 3------|------------Bucket 4------------|
| keep=all | keep=1 | keep=1 | keep=1 |
0h 1h 2h 3h 4h 5h 6h 7h 8h 9h
| | | | | | | | | |
|-Bucket1-|-----Bucket 2------|------Bucket 3-----|-----------Bucket 4----------|
| keep=all| keep=1 | keep=1 | keep=1 |
Let us consider the following set of snapshots @a-zA-C , taken at an interval of ~15min:
Let us consider the following set of snapshots @a-zA-C:
| a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C |
| a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D |
The `grid` algorithm maps them to their respective buckets:
Bucket 1: a, b, c
Bucket 2: d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Bucket 3: k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r
Bucket 4: q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,A,B,C
Bucket 3: k,l,m,n,o,p
Bucket 4: q,r, q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z
None: A,B,C,D
It then applies the per-bucket pruning logic described above which resulting in the
following list of remaining snapshots.
| a b c d k s |
| a b c j p z |
Note that it only makes sense to grow (not shorten) the interval duration for buckets
further in the past since each bucket acts like a low-pass filter for incoming snapshots