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dd6a411e5e doc: add design docs directory (#49829)
issue: #49831

## What changed

Vendor Milvus design documents into this repository under
`docs/design-docs` as regular tracked files.

- Keep only the design document content and assets under
`docs/design-docs/design_docs/` and `docs/design-docs/assets/`.
- Remove standalone repository metadata from the vendored directory,
such as `README.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `MEP-TEMPLATE.md`, `COMMITTERS`,
`MAINTAINERS`, `OWNERS`, `OWNERS_ALIASES`, and `.gitignore`.
- Document the Milvus design document process in the main
`CONTRIBUTING.md`.
- Update Mergify and `tools/mgit.py` so feature PRs must provide an
in-repo design document path under `docs/design-docs/design_docs/`.

## Why

Milvus feature work should have an associated design document. Keeping
design docs directly in this repository makes them available from a
normal Milvus checkout and lets feature implementations include or link
the related design document in the same repository.

## Verification

- `git diff --check`
- `python3 -m unittest tools/test_mgit_design_doc.py`
- `python3 -m py_compile tools/mgit.py tools/test_mgit_design_doc.py`
- Parsed `.github/mergify.yml` with Python `yaml.safe_load`
- Confirmed `docs/design-docs` only contains `assets/` and
`design_docs/` at the top level

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Signed-off-by: xiaofanluan <xiaofan.luan@zilliz.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-15 18:56:24 +08:00

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DropCollection release resources

Before this enhancement

When dropping a collection

  1. DataNode releases the flowgraph of this collection and drops all the data in a buffer.
  2. DataCoord has no idea whether a collection is dropped or not.
    • DataCoord will make DataNode watch DmChannels of dropped collections.
    • Blob files will never be removed even if the collection is dropped.

For not in used binlogs on blob storage: Why are there such binlogs

  • A failure flush.
  • A failure compaction.
  • Dropped and out-of timetravel collection binlogs.

This enhancement is focused on solving these 2 problems.

Object1 DropCollection

DataNode ignites Flush&Drop receive drop collection msg -> cancel compaction -> flush all insert buffer and delete buffer -> release the flowgraph

Plan 1: Picked

Add a dropped flag in SaveBinlogPathRequest proto.

DataNode

  • Flush all segments in this vChannel, When Flush&Drop, set the dropped flag true.
    • If fails, retry at most 10 times and restart.

DataCoord

  • DataCoord marks segmentInfo as dropped, doesn't remove segmentInfos from etcd.
  • When recovery, check if the segments in the vchannel are all dropped.
    • if not, recover before the drop.
    • if so, no need to recover the vchannel.

Pros: 1. The easiest approach in both DataNode and DataCoord. 2. DataNode can reuse the current flush manager procedure. Cons: 1. The No. rpc call is equal to the No. segments in a collection, expensive.


Plan 2: Enhance later

Add a new rpc FlushAndDrop, it's a vchannel scope rpc.

Pros: 1. much lesser rpc calls, equal to shard-numbers. 2. More clarity of flush procedure in DataNode. Cons: 1. More efforts in DataNode and DataCoord.

message FlushAndDropRequest {
  common.MsgBase base = 1;
  string channelID = 2;
  int64 collectionID = 3;
  repeated SegmentBinlogPaths segment_binlog_paths = 6;
}

message SegmentBinlogPaths {
  int64 segmentID = 1;
  CheckPoint checkPoint = 2;
  repeated FieldBinlog field2BinlogPaths = 2;
  repeated FieldBinlog field2StatslogPaths = 3;
  repeated DeltaLogInfo deltalogs = 4;
}

Object2: DataCoord Garbage Collection (GC) for not in used binlogs

How to clear unknown binlogs?

DataCoord runs a background GC goroutine, triggers every 1 day:

  1. Get all minIO/S3 paths(keys).
  2. Filter out keys not in segmentInfo.
  3. According to the meta of blobs from minIO/S3, remove binlogs that exist more than 1 day.
    • **Why 1 day: **Maybe there are newly uploaded binlogs from flush/compaction

How to clear dropped-collection's binlogs?

  • DataCoord checks all dropped-segments, removes the binlogs recorded if they've been dropped by 1 day.
  • DataCoord keeps the etcd segmentInfo meta.