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What problem does this PR solve?

Cherry-pick #11312 to release-nextgen-202609 to reduce duplicate etcd reads on concurrent GC cache misses and warm GC state caches on NextGen leaders.

Issue Number: ref #11311

What is changed and how does it work?

Coalesce concurrent cache fills, batch safe-point reads, and warm initial GC scopes using an enabled-keyspace index. Tie load cancellation and cleanup to each leadership generation.

Preserve the release branch's interfaces and dependency versions. The backport matches the source patch, with two additional imports required by the release branch: context in endpoint.go and errs in kv_test.go.

Check List

Tests

• Unit test: NextGen basic tests passed for pkg/gc, pkg/storage/endpoint, pkg/storage/kv, server/config, server/cluster, and server.
• Integration test: GC state leader transitions and GC concurrency configuration update/reload passed with nextgen, without_dashboard, and deadlock tags.
• All tests used failpoint instrumentation with cleanup.
• Repository make check passed.

Code changes

• Adds GC keyspace index load and cache warmup concurrency settings.

Release note

Reduce duplicate etcd reads during concurrent GC state cache misses and add background GC state cache warming for NextGen leaders.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added configurable concurrency limits for GC keyspace discovery and GC state-cache warmup. Both settings default to 4 and accept values from 1 to 16.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved GC state loading and cache warmup across leadership changes, helping prevent stale results and allowing interrupted loads to be retried.

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Walkthrough

This change adds configurable GC concurrency, context-aware batched safe-point reads, leadership generations, an enabled-keyspace metadata index, and a bounded GC state-cache warmup campaign.

Changes: GC state loading and warmup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and storage contracts conf/config.toml, server/config/..., pkg/storage/endpoint/..., pkg/storage/kv/...	Adds two validated concurrency settings, context-bound raw transactions, batched safe-point reads, transaction-response validation, and dedicated decoders.
Leadership generations and GC state loading pkg/gc/gc_state_{lifecycle,loader,manager}.go, pkg/gc/*_test.go, tests/server/gc/gc_test.go	Replaces the leadership counter with generation-scoped state, shared load flights, cancellation, generation-aware cache publication, and transfer coverage.
Enabled-keyspace index pkg/gc/enabled_keyspace_{index,loader}.go, pkg/gc/enabled_keyspace_index_test.go	Loads revision-pinned metadata snapshots, applies validated watch progress, and performs bounded concurrent range reads with reload handling.
Warmup campaign and leader runtime pkg/gc/gc_state_warmup*.go, server/server.go, server/cluster/cluster.go, go.mod	Adds warmup workers, joined-load tracking, retries, runtime wiring, generation cleanup, and the direct x/sync dependency declaration.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RaftCluster
  participant GCStateManager
  participant EnabledKeyspaceIndex
  participant GCStateWarmup
  participant GCStateProvider
  RaftCluster->>GCStateManager: start leadership generation
  GCStateManager->>EnabledKeyspaceIndex: start metadata index
  EnabledKeyspaceIndex->>GCStateWarmup: deliver pages and snapshot
  GCStateWarmup->>GCStateProvider: load safe-point batches
  RaftCluster->>GCStateManager: invoke generation cleanup

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Possibly related issues

• tikv/pd#10516 — Covers the release keyspace and GC commit batch addressed by these GC loading and warmup changes.
• tikv/pd#9707 — Covers Next-Gen PD GC API, leadership lifecycle, and safe-point access.

Suggested reviewers: lhy1024, bufferflies, yuhaozhang00

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 1d343

The configuration now tells operators where these settings take effect; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the selected change.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 15.49% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: batching GC state cache loads and warming the cache. The release identifier and issue number add context without making the title unclear.
Description check		The description includes the problem statement, issue reference, implementation summary, test coverage, configuration change, and release note. It is mostly complete and follows the repository templat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Files selected for processing: 29

• conf/config.toml
• go.mod
• pkg/gc/enabled_keyspace_index.go
• pkg/gc/enabled_keyspace_index_test.go
• pkg/gc/enabled_keyspace_loader.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_lifecycle.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_loader.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_loader_test.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_manager_test.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_warmup.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_warmup_retry.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_warmup_scheduler_test.go
• pkg/gc/gc_state_warmup_test.go
• pkg/gc/metrics_test.go
• pkg/storage/endpoint/endpoint.go
• pkg/storage/endpoint/gc_state_batch.go
• pkg/storage/endpoint/gc_state_batch_test.go
• pkg/storage/endpoint/gc_states.go
• pkg/storage/kv/etcd_kv.go
• pkg/storage/kv/kv.go
• pkg/storage/kv/kv_test.go
• server/cluster/cluster.go
• server/config/config.go
• server/config/config_test.go
• server/config/persist_options.go
• server/server.go
• tests/server/config/config_test.go
• tests/server/gc/gc_test.go

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 89.35950% with 103 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 79.88%. Comparing base (9e477d9) to head (1d343bb).

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