Many improvements on ring/replication and its configuration:

- Explicit "replication_mode" configuration parameters that takes
  either "none", "2" or "3" as values, instead of letting user configure
  replication factor themselves. These are presets whose corresponding
  replication/quorum values can be found in replication/mode.rs

- Explicit support for single-node and two-node deployments
  (number of nodes must be at least "replication_mode", with "none"
  we can have only one node)

- Ring is now stored much more compactly with 256*8 + n*32 bytes,
  instead of 256*32 bytes

- Support for gateway-only nodes that do not store data
  (these nodes still need a metadata_directory to store the list
  of bucket and keys since those are stored on all nodes; it also
  technically needs a data_directory to start but it will stay
  empty unless we have bugs)

src/rpc/membership.rs

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ pub struct System {
 	rpc_http_client: Arc<RpcHttpClient>,
 	rpc_client: Arc<RpcClient<Message>>,
 
+	replication_factor: usize,
 	pub(crate) status: watch::Receiver<Arc<Status>>,
 	/// The ring
 	pub ring: watch::Receiver<Arc<Ring>>,
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ impl System {
 		rpc_http_client: Arc<RpcHttpClient>,
 		background: Arc<BackgroundRunner>,
 		rpc_server: &mut RpcServer,
+		replication_factor: usize,
 	) -> Arc<Self> {
 		let id = gen_node_id(&metadata_dir).expect("Unable to read or generate node ID");
 		info!("Node ID: {}", hex::encode(&id));
@@ -259,7 +261,7 @@ impl System {
 				.unwrap_or_else(|_| "<invalid utf-8>".to_string()),
 		};
 
-		let ring = Ring::new(net_config);
+		let ring = Ring::new(net_config, replication_factor);
 		let (update_ring, ring) = watch::channel(Arc::new(ring));
 
 		let rpc_path = MEMBERSHIP_RPC_PATH.to_string();
@@ -277,6 +279,7 @@ impl System {
 			state_info,
 			rpc_http_client,
 			rpc_client,
+			replication_factor,
 			status,
 			ring,
 			update_lock: Mutex::new(Updaters {
@@ -543,7 +546,7 @@ impl System {
 		let ring: Arc<Ring> = self.ring.borrow().clone();
 
 		if adv.version > ring.config.version {
-			let ring = Ring::new(adv.clone());
+			let ring = Ring::new(adv.clone(), self.replication_factor);
 			update_lock.update_ring.send(Arc::new(ring))?;
 			drop(update_lock);
 

src/rpc/ring.rs

@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 use garage_util::data::*;
 
-// A partition number is encoded on 16 bits,
-// i.e. we have up to 2**16 partitions.
-// (in practice we have exactly 2**PARTITION_BITS partitions)
-/// A partition id, stored on 16 bits
+/// A partition id, which is stored on 16 bits
+/// i.e. we have up to 2**16 partitions.
+/// (in practice we have exactly 2**PARTITION_BITS partitions)
 pub type Partition = u16;
 
 // TODO: make this constant parametrizable in the config file
@@ -23,11 +22,6 @@ pub const PARTITION_BITS: usize = 8;
 
 const PARTITION_MASK_U16: u16 = ((1 << PARTITION_BITS) - 1) << (16 - PARTITION_BITS);
 
-// TODO: make this constant paraetrizable in the config file
-// (most deployments use a replication factor of 3, so...)
-/// The maximum number of time an object might get replicated
-pub const MAX_REPLICATION: usize = 3;
-
 /// The user-defined configuration of the cluster's nodes
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct NetworkConfig {
@@ -53,40 +47,72 @@ pub struct NetworkConfigEntry {
 	/// geodistribution
 	pub datacenter: String,
 	/// The (relative) capacity of the node
-	pub capacity: u32,
+	/// If this is set to None, the node does not participate in storing data for the system
+	/// and is only active as an API gateway to other nodes
+	pub capacity: Option<u32>,
 	/// A tag to recognize the entry, not used for other things than display
 	pub tag: String,
 }
 
+impl NetworkConfigEntry {
+	pub fn capacity_string(&self) -> String {
+		match self.capacity {
+			Some(c) => format!("{}", c),
+			None => "gateway".to_string(),
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 /// A ring distributing fairly objects to nodes
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Ring {
+	/// The replication factor for this ring
+	pub replication_factor: usize,
+
 	/// The network configuration used to generate this ring
 	pub config: NetworkConfig,
-	/// The list of entries in the ring
-	pub ring: Vec<RingEntry>,
+
+	// Internal order of nodes used to make a more compact representation of the ring
+	nodes: Vec<Uuid>,
+
+	// The list of entries in the ring
+	ring: Vec<RingEntry>,
 }
 
+// Type to store compactly the id of a node in the system
+// Change this to u16 the day we want to have more than 256 nodes in a cluster
+type CompactNodeType = u8;
+
+// The maximum number of times an object might get replicated
+// This must be at least 3 because Garage supports 3-way replication
+// Here we use 6 so that the size of a ring entry is 8 bytes
+// (2 bytes partition id, 6 bytes node numbers as u8s)
+const MAX_REPLICATION: usize = 6;
+
 /// An entry in the ring
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-pub struct RingEntry {
-	/// The prefix of the Hash of object which should use this entry
-	pub location: Hash,
-	/// The nodes in which a matching object should get stored
-	pub nodes: [Uuid; MAX_REPLICATION],
+struct RingEntry {
+	// The two first bytes of the first hash that goes in this partition
+	// (the next bytes are zeroes)
+	hash_prefix: u16,
+	// The nodes that store this partition, stored as a list of positions in the `nodes`
+	// field of the Ring structure
+	// Only items 0 up to ring.replication_factor - 1 are used, others are zeros
+	nodes_buf: [CompactNodeType; MAX_REPLICATION],
 }
 
 impl Ring {
 	// TODO this function MUST be refactored, it's 100 lines long, with a 50 lines loop, going up to 6
 	// levels of imbrication. It is basically impossible to test, maintain, or understand for an
 	// outsider.
-	pub(crate) fn new(config: NetworkConfig) -> Self {
+	pub(crate) fn new(config: NetworkConfig, replication_factor: usize) -> Self {
 		// Create a vector of partition indices (0 to 2**PARTITION_BITS-1)
 		let partitions_idx = (0usize..(1usize << PARTITION_BITS)).collect::<Vec<_>>();
 
 		let datacenters = config
 			.members
 			.iter()
+			.filter(|(_id, info)| info.capacity.is_some())
 			.map(|(_id, info)| info.datacenter.as_str())
 			.collect::<HashSet<&str>>();
 		let n_datacenters = datacenters.len();
@@ -101,6 +127,7 @@ impl Ring {
 		let mut queues = config
 			.members
 			.iter()
+			.filter(|(_id, info)| info.capacity.is_some())
 			.map(|(node_id, node_info)| {
 				let mut parts = partitions_idx
 					.iter()
@@ -119,11 +146,13 @@ impl Ring {
 		let max_capacity = config
 			.members
 			.iter()
-			.map(|(_, node_info)| node_info.capacity)
+			.filter_map(|(_, node_info)| node_info.capacity)
 			.fold(0, std::cmp::max);
 
+		assert!(replication_factor <= MAX_REPLICATION);
+
 		// Fill up ring
-		for rep in 0..MAX_REPLICATION {
+		for rep in 0..replication_factor {
 			queues.sort_by_key(|(ni, _np, _q, _p)| {
 				let queue_data = [&u16::to_be_bytes(rep as u16)[..], ni.as_slice()].concat();
 				fasthash(&queue_data[..])
@@ -138,7 +167,7 @@ impl Ring {
 				let remaining0 = remaining;
 				for i_round in 0..max_capacity {
 					for (node_id, node_info, q, pos) in queues.iter_mut() {
-						if i_round >= node_info.capacity {
+						if i_round >= node_info.capacity.unwrap() {
 							continue;
 						}
 						for (pos2, &qv) in q.iter().enumerate().skip(*pos) {
@@ -166,34 +195,58 @@ impl Ring {
 					// No progress made, exit
 					warn!("Could not build ring, not enough nodes configured.");
 					return Self {
+						replication_factor,
 						config,
+						nodes: vec![],
 						ring: vec![],
 					};
 				}
 			}
 		}
 
+		// Make a canonical order for nodes
+		let nodes = config
+			.members
+			.iter()
+			.filter(|(_id, info)| info.capacity.is_some())
+			.map(|(id, _)| *id)
+			.collect::<Vec<_>>();
+		let nodes_rev = nodes
+			.iter()
+			.enumerate()
+			.map(|(i, id)| (*id, i as CompactNodeType))
+			.collect::<HashMap<Uuid, CompactNodeType>>();
+
 		let ring = partitions
 			.iter()
 			.enumerate()
 			.map(|(i, nodes)| {
 				let top = (i as u16) << (16 - PARTITION_BITS);
-				let mut hash = [0u8; 32];
-				hash[0..2].copy_from_slice(&u16::to_be_bytes(top)[..]);
-				let nodes = nodes.iter().map(|(id, _info)| **id).collect::<Vec<Uuid>>();
+				let nodes = nodes
+					.iter()
+					.map(|(id, _info)| *nodes_rev.get(id).unwrap())
+					.collect::<Vec<CompactNodeType>>();
+				assert!(nodes.len() == replication_factor);
+				let mut nodes_buf = [0u8; MAX_REPLICATION];
+				nodes_buf[..replication_factor].copy_from_slice(&nodes[..]);
 				RingEntry {
-					location: hash.into(),
-					nodes: nodes.try_into().unwrap(),
+					hash_prefix: top,
+					nodes_buf,
 				}
 			})
 			.collect::<Vec<_>>();
 
-		Self { config, ring }
+		Self {
+			replication_factor,
+			config,
+			nodes,
+			ring,
+		}
 	}
 
 	/// Get the partition in which data would fall on
-	pub fn partition_of(&self, from: &Hash) -> Partition {
-		let top = u16::from_be_bytes(from.as_slice()[0..2].try_into().unwrap());
+	pub fn partition_of(&self, position: &Hash) -> Partition {
+		let top = u16::from_be_bytes(position.as_slice()[0..2].try_into().unwrap());
 		top >> (16 - PARTITION_BITS)
 	}
 
@@ -202,7 +255,9 @@ impl Ring {
 		let mut ret = vec![];
 
 		for (i, entry) in self.ring.iter().enumerate() {
-			ret.push((i as u16, entry.location));
+			let mut location = [0u8; 32];
+			location[..2].copy_from_slice(&u16::to_be_bytes(entry.hash_prefix)[..]);
+			ret.push((i as u16, location.into()));
 		}
 		if !ret.is_empty() {
 			assert_eq!(ret[0].1, [0u8; 32].into());
@@ -211,28 +266,38 @@ impl Ring {
 		ret
 	}
 
-	// TODO rename this function as it no longer walk the ring
 	/// Walk the ring to find the n servers in which data should be replicated
-	pub fn walk_ring(&self, from: &Hash, n: usize) -> Vec<Uuid> {
+	pub fn get_nodes(&self, position: &Hash, n: usize) -> Vec<Uuid> {
 		if self.ring.len() != 1 << PARTITION_BITS {
 			warn!("Ring not yet ready, read/writes will be lost!");
 			return vec![];
 		}
 
-		let top = u16::from_be_bytes(from.as_slice()[0..2].try_into().unwrap());
-		let partition_idx = (top >> (16 - PARTITION_BITS)) as usize;
-		// TODO why computing two time in the same way and asserting?
-		assert_eq!(partition_idx, self.partition_of(from) as usize);
-
+		let partition_idx = self.partition_of(position) as usize;
 		let partition = &self.ring[partition_idx];
 
-		let partition_top =
-			u16::from_be_bytes(partition.location.as_slice()[0..2].try_into().unwrap());
-		// TODO is this an assertion on the validity of PARTITION_MASK_U16? If so, it should
-		// probably be a test more than a runtime assertion
-		assert_eq!(partition_top & PARTITION_MASK_U16, top & PARTITION_MASK_U16);
+		let top = u16::from_be_bytes(position.as_slice()[0..2].try_into().unwrap());
+		// Check that we haven't messed up our partition table, i.e. that this partition
+		// table entrey indeed corresponds to the item we are storing
+		assert_eq!(
+			partition.hash_prefix & PARTITION_MASK_U16,
+			top & PARTITION_MASK_U16
+		);
 
-		assert!(n <= partition.nodes.len());
-		partition.nodes[..n].to_vec()
+		assert!(n <= self.replication_factor);
+		partition.nodes_buf[..n]
+			.iter()
+			.map(|i| self.nodes[*i as usize])
+			.collect::<Vec<_>>()
+	}
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+	use super::*;
+
+	#[test]
+	fn test_ring_entry_size() {
+		assert_eq!(std::mem::size_of::<RingEntry>(), 8);
 	}
 }