fix(obs): remove the dial9 task-dump switch that could never work; correct measured claims (#4688)

* fix(obs): remove the dial9 task-dump switch that could never do anything

Measured on a bench host (Linux x86_64) against the code merged in #4663: with
`RUSTFS_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_ENABLED=true`, a `dial9-taskdump` build, and
`--cfg tokio_taskdump`, dial9 recorded **zero** TaskDump events.

dial9 captures a task dump only for futures it wrapped itself — those spawned
through `dial9_tokio_telemetry::spawn`, which is where `TaskDumped<F>` gets
applied. `tokio::spawn` gets no wrapper, and RustFS spawns with `tokio::spawn`
throughout. Same workload, same binary, only the spawner changed:

    tokio::spawn   ->      0 dumps
    dial9::spawn   ->  14709 dumps, all with callchains

Upstream documents this (README line 151) and tracks the doc gap at
dial9-rs/dial9#477. I did not read it before wiring `with_task_dumps` in #4663,
and so shipped exactly the kind of lying configuration knob that PR set out to
delete. Remove it: the two environment variables, the config fields, the
`with_task_dumps` call, and the `dial9-taskdump` feature — whose only effect was
to constrain the build to Linux while recording nothing.

Re-adding it only makes sense together with migrating the paths under
investigation to dial9's spawner. Tracked as D9-16 in rustfs/backlog#1157.

Also drop the `--cfg tokio_taskdump` requirement from the Makefile. Measured:
dumps are captured with and without it (14709 vs 14674, within noise), and
upstream never asked for it. That requirement was mine, invented and untested.

Cargo.lock loses tokio's `backtrace` dependency, which `tokio/taskdump` pulled in.

Co-Authored-By: heihutu <heihutu@gmail.com>

* docs(obs): replace guessed dial9 retention numbers with measured ones

Three corrections, all to claims I wrote in #4663 without measuring them.

"Under a high poll rate that budget can wrap in minutes" was a guess. Measured on
a single-node 4-drive cluster under warp mixed (66 MiB/s, 110 obj/s, 32 concurrent):
13023 events/s, 0.16 MiB/s, so the default 1 GiB budget wraps after roughly 108
minutes. Even at ten times the throughput that is ~11 minutes. State the measured
rate and how to scale it instead.

dial9 was described as the tool for drive stalls. It is not. RustFS does disk I/O
on the blocking pool and through io_uring, never on an async worker, so a slow
drive never lengthens a poll. Injecting 200 ms of latency on one of four drives
cut throughput by 64% and left the poll distribution unchanged (polls >= 5 ms:
49 -> 56; p999: 2.67 ms -> 2.75 ms). Enabling dial9's CPU and sched profilers
does not help: sched events are per-worker only, and the CPU profiler samples
on-CPU while a stalled drive is an off-CPU wait. Say so plainly, and point at
the `rustfs_io_*` metrics instead.

What dial9 *is* good for, on the same traces: single polls of 418-625 ms with no
fault injected at all — real worker stalls nothing else in the obs stack surfaces.
Lead with that.

Also link the two upstream issues filed for the gaps we documented:
dial9-rs/dial9#658 (writer death unobservable) and #659 (worker-s3 CVEs).

Measurements: rustfs/backlog#1157 (D9-11, D9-13, D9-18).

Co-Authored-By: heihutu <heihutu@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: heihutu <heihutu@gmail.com>
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@@ -22,14 +22,12 @@
use super::state::dial9_runtime_state;
use rustfs_config::{
DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ENABLED, DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_FILE_PREFIX, DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_MAX_FILE_SIZE,
DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_OUTPUT_DIR, DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ROTATION_COUNT, DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_ENABLED,
DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_IDLE_THRESHOLD_MS, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ENABLED, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_FILE_PREFIX,
ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_MAX_FILE_SIZE, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_OUTPUT_DIR, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ROTATION_COUNT, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_S3_BUCKET,
ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_S3_PREFIX, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_ENABLED, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_IDLE_THRESHOLD_MS,
DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_OUTPUT_DIR, DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ROTATION_COUNT, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ENABLED,
ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_FILE_PREFIX, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_MAX_FILE_SIZE, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_OUTPUT_DIR,
ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ROTATION_COUNT, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_S3_BUCKET, ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_S3_PREFIX,
};
use rustfs_utils::{get_env_bool, get_env_opt_str, get_env_opt_u64, get_env_opt_usize, get_env_str};
use std::path::PathBuf;
use std::time::Duration;
use tracing::warn;
use super::{EVENT_DIAL9_STATE, LOG_COMPONENT_OBS, LOG_SUBSYSTEM_DIAL9};
@@ -92,12 +90,6 @@ pub struct Dial9Config {
/// Optional key prefix for uploaded segments
pub s3_prefix: Option<String>,
/// Whether to capture async backtraces for tasks that stall
pub task_dump_enabled: bool,
/// Mean idle duration for task-dump Poisson sampling
pub task_dump_idle_threshold: Duration,
}
impl Default for Dial9Config {
@@ -110,8 +102,6 @@ impl Default for Dial9Config {
rotation_count: DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_ROTATION_COUNT,
s3_bucket: None,
s3_prefix: None,
task_dump_enabled: DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_ENABLED,
task_dump_idle_threshold: Duration::from_millis(DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_IDLE_THRESHOLD_MS),
}
}
}
@@ -165,12 +155,6 @@ impl Dial9Config {
rotation_count,
s3_bucket,
s3_prefix,
task_dump_enabled: get_env_bool(ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_ENABLED, DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_ENABLED),
task_dump_idle_threshold: Duration::from_millis(
get_env_opt_u64(ENV_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_IDLE_THRESHOLD_MS)
.filter(|ms| *ms > 0)
.unwrap_or(DEFAULT_RUNTIME_DIAL9_TASK_DUMP_IDLE_THRESHOLD_MS),
),
};
dial9_runtime_state().record_config(&config);