Previously, we issued a GET to the root container for every object PUT,
POST, and DELETE. This puts load on the container server, potentially
leading to timeouts, error limiting, and erroneous 404s (!).
Now, cache the complete set of 'updating' shards, and find the shard for
this particular update in the proxy. Add a new config option,
recheck_updating_shard_ranges, to control the cache time; it defaults to
one hour. Set to 0 to fall back to previous behavior.
Note that we should be able to tolerate stale shard data just fine; we
already have to worry about async pendings that got written down with
one shard but may not get processed until that shard has itself sharded
or shrunk into another shard.
Also note that memcache has a default value limit of 1MiB, which may be
exceeded if a container has thousands of shards. In that case, set()
will act like a delete(), causing increased memcache churn but otherwise
preserving existing behavior. In the future, we may want to add support
for gzipping the cached shard ranges as they should compress well.
Change-Id: Ic7a732146ea19a47669114ad5dbee0bacbe66919
Closes-Bug: 1781291