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Redis主键失效原理

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Redis 中的主键失效是如何实现的，即失效的主键是如何删除的？实际上，Redis 删除失效主键的方法主要有两种：

  • 消极方法（passive way），在主键被访问时如果发现它已经失效，那么就删除它

  • 积极方法（active way），周期性地从设置了失效时间的主键中选择一部分失效的主键删除

消极方法(Passive Way)

消极方法也叫惰性删除，在大致了解了 Redis 是如何维护设置了失效时间的主键之后，我们就先来看一看 Redis 是如何实现消极地删除失效主键的。如下代码给出了一个名为 expireIfNeeded 的函数，这个函数在任何访问数据的函数中都会被调用，也就是说 Redis 在实现 GET、MGET、HGET、LRANGE 等所有涉及到读取数据的命令时都会调用它，它存在的意义就是在读取数据之前先检查一下它有没有失效，如果失效了就删除它。惰性删除也即是消极删除(Passive Way)的源代码如下所示：

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int expireIfNeeded(redisDb *db, robj *key) {
    mstime_t when = getExpire(db,key);
    mstime_t now;

    if (when < 0) return 0; /* No expire for this key */

    /* Don't expire anything while loading. It will be done later. */
    if (server.loading) return 0;

    /* If we are in the context of a Lua script, we claim that time is
     * blocked to when the Lua script started. This way a key can expire
     * only the first time it is accessed and not in the middle of the
     * script execution, making propagation to slaves / AOF consistent.
     * See issue #1525 on Github for more information. */
    now = server.lua_caller ? server.lua_time_start : mstime();

    /* If we are running in the context of a slave, return ASAP:
     * the slave key expiration is controlled by the master that will
     * send us synthesized DEL operations for expired keys.
     *
     * Still we try to return the right information to the caller,
     * that is, 0 if we think the key should be still valid, 1 if
     * we think the key is expired at this time. */
    if (server.masterhost != NULL) return now > when;

    /* Return when this key has not expired */
    if (now <= when) return 0;

    /* Delete the key */
    server.stat_expiredkeys++;
    propagateExpire(db,key,server.lazyfree_lazy_expire);
    notifyKeyspaceEvent(NOTIFY_EXPIRED,
        "expired",key,db->id);
    return server.lazyfree_lazy_expire ? dbAsyncDelete(db,key) :
                                         dbSyncDelete(db,key);
}

积极方法(Active Way)

以上我们通过对expireIfNeeded函数的介绍了解了Redis是如何以一种消极的方式删除失效主键的，但是仅仅通过这种方式显然是不够的，因为如果某些失效的主键迟迟等不到再次访问的话，Redis就永远不会知道这些主键已经失效，也就永远也不会删除它们了，这无疑会导致内存空间的浪费。因此，Redis还准备了一招积极的删除方法，该方法利用Redis的时间事件来实现，即每隔一段时间就中断一下完成一些指定操作，其中就包括检查并删除失效主键。实现的代码在expire.c文件中，如下所示：

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void activeExpireCycle(int type) {
    /* This function has some global state in order to continue the work
     * incrementally across calls. */
    static unsigned int current_db = 0; /* Last DB tested. */
    static int timelimit_exit = 0;      /* Time limit hit in previous call? */
    static long long last_fast_cycle = 0; /* When last fast cycle ran. */

    int j, iteration = 0;
    int dbs_per_call = CRON_DBS_PER_CALL;
    long long start = ustime(), timelimit;

    if (type == ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST) {
        /* Don't start a fast cycle if the previous cycle did not exited
         * for time limt. Also don't repeat a fast cycle for the same period
         * as the fast cycle total duration itself. */
        if (!timelimit_exit) return;
        if (start < last_fast_cycle + ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION*2) return;
        last_fast_cycle = start;
    }

    /* We usually should test CRON_DBS_PER_CALL per iteration, with
     * two exceptions:
     *
     * 1) Don't test more DBs than we have.
     * 2) If last time we hit the time limit, we want to scan all DBs
     * in this iteration, as there is work to do in some DB and we don't want
     * expired keys to use memory for too much time. */
    if (dbs_per_call > server.dbnum || timelimit_exit)
        dbs_per_call = server.dbnum;

    /* We can use at max ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC percentage of CPU time
     * per iteration. Since this function gets called with a frequency of
     * server.hz times per second, the following is the max amount of
     * microseconds we can spend in this function. */
    timelimit = 1000000*ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_SLOW_TIME_PERC/server.hz/100;
    timelimit_exit = 0;
    if (timelimit <= 0) timelimit = 1;

    if (type == ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST)
        timelimit = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_FAST_DURATION; /* in microseconds. */

    for (j = 0; j < dbs_per_call; j++) {
        int expired;
        redisDb *db = server.db+(current_db % server.dbnum);

        /* Increment the DB now so we are sure if we run out of time
         * in the current DB we'll restart from the next. This allows to
         * distribute the time evenly across DBs. */
        current_db++;

        /* Continue to expire if at the end of the cycle more than 25%
         * of the keys were expired. */
        do {
            unsigned long num, slots;
            long long now, ttl_sum;
            int ttl_samples;

            /* If there is nothing to expire try next DB ASAP. */
            if ((num = dictSize(db->expires)) == 0) {
                db->avg_ttl = 0;
                break;
            }
            slots = dictSlots(db->expires);
            now = mstime();

            /* When there are less than 1% filled slots getting random
             * keys is expensive, so stop here waiting for better times...
             * The dictionary will be resized asap. */
            if (num && slots > DICT_HT_INITIAL_SIZE &&
                (num*100/slots < 1)) break;

            /* The main collection cycle. Sample random keys among keys
             * with an expire set, checking for expired ones. */
            expired = 0;
            ttl_sum = 0;
            ttl_samples = 0;

            if (num > ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_LOOKUPS_PER_LOOP)
                num = ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_LOOKUPS_PER_LOOP;

            while (num--) {
                dictEntry *de;
                long long ttl;

                if ((de = dictGetRandomKey(db->expires)) == NULL) break;
                ttl = dictGetSignedIntegerVal(de)-now;
                if (activeExpireCycleTryExpire(db,de,now)) expired++;
                if (ttl > 0) {
                    /* We want the average TTL of keys yet not expired. */
                    ttl_sum += ttl;
                    ttl_samples++;
                }
            }

            /* Update the average TTL stats for this database. */
            if (ttl_samples) {
                long long avg_ttl = ttl_sum/ttl_samples;

                /* Do a simple running average with a few samples.
                 * We just use the current estimate with a weight of 2%
                 * and the previous estimate with a weight of 98%. */
                if (db->avg_ttl == 0) db->avg_ttl = avg_ttl;
                db->avg_ttl = (db->avg_ttl/50)*49 + (avg_ttl/50);
            }

            /* We can't block forever here even if there are many keys to
             * expire. So after a given amount of milliseconds return to the
             * caller waiting for the other active expire cycle. */
            iteration++;
            if ((iteration & 0xf) == 0) { /* check once every 16 iterations. */
                long long elapsed = ustime()-start;

                latencyAddSampleIfNeeded("expire-cycle",elapsed/1000);
                if (elapsed > timelimit) timelimit_exit = 1;
            }
            if (timelimit_exit) return;
            /* We don't repeat the cycle if there are less than 25% of keys
             * found expired in the current DB. */
        } while (expired > ACTIVE_EXPIRE_CYCLE_LOOKUPS_PER_LOOP/4);
    }
}

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