Previously, the checkQuorum flag required an election timeout to
expire before a node could cast its first vote. This change permits
the node to cast a vote at any time when the leader is not known,
including immediately after startup.
Follower has already set its leader ID from
previous append messages from the leader, but
to be consistent, this adds a line to set its
leader id from leader snapshot message.
removeNode reduces the required quorum size, so some pending entries may
be able to commit after it is applied.
Discovered in cockroachdb/cockroach#3642
We need to be able to force an election (on one node) after creating a
new group (cockroachdb/cockroach#1384), but it is difficult to ensure
that our call to Campaign does not race with an election that may be
started by raft itself. A redundant call to Campaign should be a no-op
instead of a panic. (But the panic in becomeCandidate remains, because
we don't want to update the term or change the committed index in this
case)
sendApp accesses the storage several times. Perviously, we
assume that the storage will not be modified during the read
opeartions. The assumption is not true since the storage can
be compacted between the read operations. If a compaction
causes a read entries error, we should not painc. Instead, we
can simply retry the sendApp logic until succeed.
Each progress has a inflighs sliding window. When the progress
is in replicate state, inflights will control the sending speed
of the leader.
The leader can have at most maxInflight number of inflight
messages for each replicate progress. Receving a appResp moves
forward the sliding window. Heartbeat response free one
slot if the window is full.
limit the max size of entries sent per message.
Lower the cost at probing state as we limit the size per message;
lower the penalty when aggressively decrease to a too low next.
This addresses a problem that comes up in the cockroach tests,
in which the order of messages may lead to deadlocks (due to
the fact that we don't have regular heartbeat timers in most
of our tests).
