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release-21.2: jobs, sql: Avoid jobs/scheduled jobs lock up #78583

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Backport 2/2 commits from #78467.

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Improve scheduled jobs system stability by removing expensive metrics calculations, and redundant existence check in stats compaction jobs. Each of these could/does result in a table scan, perhaps repetitively.

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Release Justification: scheduled job system stability improvements.

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Yevgeniy Miretskiy added 2 commits March 27, 2022 20:57
Scheduled jobs system, by default, ensures that there is only
one instance of the job that is currently executing for the schedule.
As such, it is not necessary to verify the compaction job does not exist
when starting stats compaction job from schedule.

Furthermore, due to the interaction of scheduling system, such
checks results in wide system.jobs table scan, which causes
scheduled job execution to be restarted if any other job modifies
system.jobs table.

Fixes cockroachdb#78465

Release Notes (sql): Stats compaction scheduled job no longer cause intent buildup.
Release Justification: important stability fix to ensure jobs and scheduled
jobs do not lock up when running stats compaction job.
Remove `schedules.round.schedules-ready-to-run` and `schedules.round.num-jobs-running`
metrics from job scheduler.  These metrics are very expensive to compute as they
involve running wider table scans against both `system.jobs` and `system.scheduled_job`.

In addition to being expensive to compute, these metrics are not needed since
the query can be executed directly if needed, and, in addition these metrics are confusing
since these metrics are per node, while the number of running jobs/schedules is cluster wide.
More importantly, they can lead to job scheduler query being more expensive since they increase
the read set of the scheduler transaction, thus causing txn restarts to be more expensive.

Fixes cockroachdb#78447

Release Notes (enterprise): Remove expensive, unnecessary, and never used
`schedules.round.schedules-ready-to-run` and `schedules.round.num-jobs-running` metrics from
job schedulers.

Release Justification: Stability fix for scheduled job system.
@miretskiy miretskiy force-pushed the backport21.2-78467 branch from 010b489 to fd07e3e Compare March 28, 2022 00:58
@miretskiy miretskiy requested review from Azhng and HonoreDB March 28, 2022 14:47
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Reviewed 6 of 6 files at r1, 3 of 3 files at r2, all commit messages.
Reviewable status: :shipit: complete! 0 of 0 LGTMs obtained (waiting on @Azhng)

@miretskiy miretskiy merged commit 48866a2 into cockroachdb:release-21.2 Mar 28, 2022
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