Part of cockroachdb#65957. Changefeed backfills, given their scan-heavy nature, can be fairly CPU-intensive. In cockroachdb#89656 we introduced a roachtest demonstrating the latency impact backfills can have on a moderately CPU-saturated cluster. Similar to what we saw for backups, this CPU heavy nature can elevate Go scheduling latencies which in turn translates to foreground latency impact. This commit integrates rangefeed catchup scan with the elastic CPU limiter we introduced in cockroachdb#86638; this is one of two optional halves of changefeed backfills. The second half is the initial scan -- scan requests issued over some keyspan as of some timestamp. For that we simply rely on the existing slots mechanism but now setting a lower priority bit (BulkNormalPri) -- cockroachdb#88733. Experimentally we observed that during initial scans the encoding routines in changefeedccl are the most impactful CPU-wise, something cockroachdb#89589 can help with. We leave admission integration of parallel worker goroutines to future work (cockroachdb#90089). Unlike export requests rangefeed catchup scans are non-premptible. The rangefeed RPC is a streaming one, and the catchup scan is done during stream setup. So we don't have resumption tokens to propagate up to the caller like we did for backups. We still want CPU-bound work going through admission control to only use 100ms of CPU time, to exercise better control over scheduling latencies. To that end, we introduce the following component used within the rangefeed catchup iterator. // Pacer is used in tight loops (CPU-bound) for non-premptible // elastic work. Callers are expected to invoke Pace() every loop // iteration and Close() once done. Internally this type integrates // with elastic CPU work queue, acquiring tokens for the CPU work // being done, and blocking if tokens are unavailable. This allows // for a form of cooperative scheduling with elastic CPU granters. type Pacer struct func (p *Pacer) Pace(ctx context.Context) error { ... } func (p *Pacer) Close() { ... } Release note: None

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Commits on Nov 3, 2022

kvadmission: carve out package for AC<->KV integration

roachprod: simplify grafana-url computation

kv,rangefeed: integrate catchup scans with elastic cpu

kvclient: use NormalPri for system-table rangefeed ..