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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commit 60ad15a7f9
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ use super::config::Dial9Config;
use super::state::{dial9_runtime_state, measure_disk_usage_bytes};
use super::{EVENT_DIAL9_STATE, LOG_COMPONENT_OBS, LOG_SUBSYSTEM_DIAL9};
use crate::TelemetryError;
use dial9_tokio_telemetry::telemetry::{ProcessResourceUsageConfig, RotatingWriter, TaskDumpConfig, TracedRuntime};
use dial9_tokio_telemetry::telemetry::{ProcessResourceUsageConfig, RotatingWriter, TracedRuntime};
use std::time::Duration;
use tracing::{info, warn};
@@ -115,19 +115,16 @@ pub fn build_traced_runtime(
.with_runtime_name(RUNTIME_NAME)
.with_process_resource_usage(ProcessResourceUsageConfig::default());
let traced = if config.task_dump_enabled {
traced.with_task_dumps(
TaskDumpConfig::builder()
.idle_threshold(config.task_dump_idle_threshold)
.build(),
)
} else {
traced
};
// `build_and_start` rather than `build`: `build` returns a live guard that
// never records, writing segments that contain only a header.
//
// No `with_task_dumps` here. dial9 captures a task dump only for futures it
// wrapped itself, i.e. those spawned via `dial9_tokio_telemetry::spawn`;
// `tokio::spawn` gets no wrapper. RustFS spawns with `tokio::spawn`
// throughout, so calling `with_task_dumps` records nothing. Measured on an
// identical workload: 0 dumps via `tokio::spawn`, 14709 via `dial9::spawn`.
// See rustfs/backlog#1157 (D9-16) and dial9-rs/dial9#477.
//
// No `with_s3_uploader` here: dial9's `worker-s3` feature carries a
// vulnerable TLS stack. See the note in `crates/obs/Cargo.toml`.
finish_traced_runtime(traced.build_and_start(builder, writer), config)
@@ -165,7 +162,6 @@ fn finish_traced_runtime(
output_dir = %config.output_dir,
file_prefix = %config.file_prefix,
disk_budget_bytes = config.total_disk_budget(),
task_dumps = config.task_dump_enabled,
"dial9 state changed"
);