interfaces.py: modified the return type of RIStatsProvider.get_stats to allow for None as a return value
NEWS.rst, stats.py: documentation of change to get_latencies
stats.rst: now documents percentile modification in get_latencies
test_storage.py: test_latencies now expects None in output categories that contain too few samples for the associated percentile to be unambiguously reported.
fixes#1392
Remove install.html (long since deprecated).
Also replace some obsolete references to install.html with references to quickstart.rst.
Fix some broken internal references within docs/historical/historical_known_issues.txt.
Thanks to Ravi Pinjala and Patrick McDonald.
refs #1227
When blocks terminate (either COMPLETE or CORRUPT/DEAD/BADSEGNUM), the
_shares_from_server dict was being popped incorrectly (using shnum as the
index instead of serverid). I'm still thinking through the consequences of
this bug. It was probably benign and really hard to detect. I think it would
cause us to incorrectly believe that we're pulling too many shares from a
server, and thus prefer a different server rather than asking for a second
share from the first server. The diversity code is intended to spread out the
number of shares simultaneously being requested from each server, but with
this bug, it might be spreading out the total number of shares requested at
all, not just simultaneously. (note that SegmentFetcher is scoped to a single
segment, so the effect doesn't last very long).
No behavioral changes, just updating variable/method names and log messages.
The effects outside these three files should be minimal: some exception
messages changed (to say "server" instead of "peer"), and some internal class
names were changed. A few things still use "peer" to minimize external
changes, like UploadResults.timings["peer_selection"] and
happinessutil.merge_peers, which can be changed later.
I'm skeptical that the test was proceeding correctly but ran out of time. It seems more likely that it had gotten hung. But if we raise the timeout to an even more extravagant number then we can be even more certain that the test was never going to finish.
Pass around IServer instance instead of (peerid, rref) tuple. Replace
"descriptor" with "server". Other replacements:
get_all_servers -> get_connected_servers/get_known_servers
get_servers_for_index -> get_servers_for_psi (now returns IServers)
This change still needs to be pushed further down: lots of code is now
getting the IServer and then distributing (peerid, rref) internally.
Instead, it ought to distribute the IServer internally and delay
extracting a serverid or rref until the last moment.
no_network.py was updated to retain parallelism.
