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Why this benchmark exists

Amazon S3 has guaranteed strong consistency since December 2020. For a single
object, this means three things:

  • An overwrite replaces the whole object at once. No reader sees part of the old
    object mixed with part of the new one.
  • A read that starts after a PUT or DELETE returns success sees that change.
    This is called read-after-write consistency.
  • A listing that starts after a PUT or DELETE returns success shows that change.
    This is called list-after-write consistency.

Applications now depend on these guarantees. For example, the Hadoop S3A
connector used by Spark relies on them in three ways:

  • It takes file sizes from listings to decide how to split and read data.
  • Its job committers expect every file a task wrote to appear in a listing.
  • It renames a file by copying it and then deleting the original. The deleted
    file must then disappear from listings.

When an S3 server breaks these guarantees, the application does not fail with
an error. It reads old data, reads too few bytes, or skips a file. The breaks
happen only under concurrent load and only for short periods, so a normal
benchmark run does not notice them.

Warp cannot detect them today, because its benchmarks check only the object
size. This PR adds a benchmark that checks the guarantees directly.

What warp atomic does

It overwrites a small set of keys from many threads at once. Every 4 KiB block
of each uploaded object records which PUT wrote it, and the object metadata
records the same PUT. Warp can therefore look at any response on its own and
tell which PUT produced it.

It then checks each operation:

  • GET: the body is complete, has the right length, and comes from a single
    PUT. The metadata and ETag come from that same PUT.
  • GET and STAT: the result is not a PUT that another PUT had already
    replaced before the request started.
  • LIST: a new key appears after its PUT, disappears after its DELETE, and
    overwritten keys show a current size and ETag.

After each successful write, warp sends the next read or listing to a different
host from --host. Each failed check is reported as an error that starts with
atomic <category>:. The README lists every category.

How to test

  1. Run the unit tests. They feed made-up failures to each check:
    go test ./pkg/bench -run TestAtomic
  2. Run warp atomic against a correct S3 server. It reports no violations.
  3. Run it through a proxy that returns old bodies, old headers and old listings,
    and cuts some bodies short. It reports each of those failures.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an atomic benchmark command that checks object consistency during concurrent PUT, GET, STAT, and LIST operations.
    • Configure the number of keys, object and block sizes, operation mix, read-after-write checks, and optional ETag-MD5 validation.
    • Results report consistency violations, including stale reads and incomplete or mismatched objects.
    • Set a seed to repeat each thread’s operation sequence; timing between threads and servers may vary.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Random-size generation now returns the configured maximum when minimum and maximum sizes are equal.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on setup, command options, operation behavior, violation categories, and when reads count as stale.

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This change adds an atomic benchmark that checks S3 object bodies, metadata, ETags, and listings during concurrent operations. It adds CLI configuration, write-history checks, generator size-picker support, tests, and README documentation.

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Atomic benchmark

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generator size-picker support
pkg/generator/generator.go, pkg/generator/generator_test.go, cli/generator.go
Adds SizeFn to return a size-picker function from generator options. The CLI generator setup now builds options through genOptions.
Stamped object verification and write history
pkg/bench/atomic.go, pkg/bench/atomic_test.go
Adds stamped body verification and acknowledged-write history. Read and listing results are classified against recorded writes. Tests cover body faults, history, and pruning.
Benchmark operations and lifecycle
pkg/bench/atomic.go, pkg/bench/atomic_test.go
Adds preparation, weighted PUT/GET/STAT/LIST operations, final verification, violation reporting, and cleanup. Tests cover seeded choices and client selection.
CLI command and usage documentation
cli/atomic.go, cli/cli.go, README.md
Adds the atomic command, its flags, benchmark construction, syntax checks, and registration. Documents benchmark operations, consistency checks, violation categories, stale-read classification, and defaults.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AtomicBenchmark
  participant S3Storage as S3 storage
  participant AtomicHistory as atomicHistory
  AtomicBenchmark->>S3Storage: Write stamped object
  S3Storage-->>AtomicBenchmark: Return write result
  AtomicBenchmark->>AtomicHistory: Record acknowledged write
  AtomicBenchmark->>S3Storage: Read object or list keys
  S3Storage-->>AtomicBenchmark: Return body, metadata, ETag, or listing
  AtomicBenchmark->>AtomicHistory: Classify read or listing result
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The new warp atomic benchmark works as described for its consistency checks. A few rough edges remain. A stalled request can delay shutdown after the run is cancelled. A missing-key report names the prefix instead of the key. A follow-up read can occasionally use the same host that wrote the object, although the README says another host is used. None of these corrupts data or produces false violations, so the change can merge once the owner is aware of them.

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- Around line 396-403: Update atomicHistory.readBegin to take the read timestamp
while holding h.mu and return both the ticket and timestamp, registering the
read before releasing the lock. Update get, stat, and list to use that returned
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- Around line 769-776: Update clientAvoiding so it explicitly selects a client
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warp atomic overwrites a few keys concurrently with self-describing bodies and
checks every GET, STAT and LIST: torn or short bodies, metadata or ETag from a
different PUT, reads of already-replaced PUTs, and list-after-write and
list-after-delete as relied on by Hadoop S3A and Spark committers.
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