NRG (2.11): Remove stepdown channel, handle inline #5344
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The stepdown channel interleaves with other channels such as the apply queue, leader change notifications etc in the
runAs
goroutines in an unpredictable order, so processing a stepdown request might be delayed behind other work. Doing this inline should be safer with stronger guarantees.We originally raised this in #4990 (in v2.10.11) and then reverted it in #5200 (in v2.10.12) as it was slowing down some asset moves. This was also visible in the
TestJetStreamSuperClusterDoubleStreamMove
andTestJetStreamSuperClusterMovingStreamAndMoveBack
unit tests.We believe that the election timer being too eagerly reset was responsible for a slowdown in establishing a new leader and therefore think that the changes in #5315 will have helped here. Both unit tests don't show any particularly different variance in runtimes compared to
main
.Signed-off-by: Neil Twigg neil@nats.io