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This is an automated cherry-pick of #11137

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: Close #11135

balance-region could churn/thrash on a cluster with many near-empty regions (e.g. freshly pre-split tables, mostly unwritten) alongside a few regions that actually hold data — observed in production as repeated, low-value peer moves between otherwise-empty stores.

Two contributing gaps:

  • targetStoreScore()'s delta never accounted for the specific region being evaluated for the move, so a target store's score didn't reflect what it was about to receive until after the move landed.
  • getTolerantResource()'s margin is derived from GetAverageRegionSize(), which averages over every region in the cluster. On a cluster full of empty regions, that average collapses toward zero, so the margin stops damping marginal score differences between otherwise-equivalent stores.

What is changed and how does it work?

Add solver.getRegionScoreDelta(): max(tolerantResource,
candidateRegion.GetApproximateSize()), applied identically to both
sourceStoreScore() and targetStoreScore()'s RegionKind branches.
tolerantResource itself reverts to the original, unmodified
GetAverageRegionSize()-based computation (no RegionKind special-casing),
since the candidate-size awareness now lives entirely in
getRegionScoreDelta() and no longer needs a non-empty-region average to
avoid collapsing toward zero on near-empty clusters — the max() against
the candidate's own size does that job directly.

Applying this symmetrically requires knowing the candidate region
before sourceScore is computed, which it previously wasn't: sourceScore
was evaluated once per source store before a candidate region was even
selected (see the outer loop in balance_region.go's Schedule()). Move
that computation to once the candidate has passed the hot/leader
checks, so both sides can use the same delta.

This also closes the over-balance gap called out in review: when a
candidate region is much larger than tolerantResource, both sides now
raise their bar together, so shouldBalance() can no longer approve a
move that leaves the target heavier than the source after landing
(e.g. source=150, target=0, tolerantResource=10, candidate=100 now
projects to source=50/target=100 and is correctly rejected).

Add TestSingleRegionOnLargeEmptyDiskDoesNotMigrate: a single
non-empty region isolated among many empty regions and stores
correctly stays put instead of being shuffled between equally
"empty-looking" targets.

Add TestBalanceRegionOrdinaryMoveNotBlockedByCandidateSize: ordinary
balancing between several similarly-sized, non-empty regions is not
blocked by the fix above.

Add TestBalanceRegionLargeCandidateDoesNotOvershoot: the over-balance
reproduction above is rejected.

Add TestBalanceRegionRealScheduleDoesNotMoveSoleRegion: drives the
real Schedule() entry point (not the solver methods directly) through
the #11135 scenario in both directions, deterministically.

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Release note

Fix a `balance-region` scheduling issue that could cause repeated, low-value peer moves ("churn") on clusters with many near-empty regions, while preserving normal balancing between ordinary, similarly-sized regions.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved region balancing decisions by accounting for candidate region size when evaluating source and target stores.
    • Improved balancing behavior for near-empty clusters and region-kind scheduling scenarios.
    • Enhanced balancing diagnostics to reflect region-aware scoring, making scheduling decisions easier to understand.

close tikv#11135

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Walkthrough

The scheduler now applies candidate-region size symmetrically to RegionKind scoring and computes the source score after candidate selection. Regression tests cover ordinary moves, oversized candidates, and near-empty clusters. Unresolved merge-conflict markers remain in production and test files.

Changes

Region balance scoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Region-aware scoring delta
pkg/schedule/schedulers/utils.go
RegionKind source and target scores use the larger of tolerant resource and candidate region size. Debug logging reports the same delta.
Candidate-aware source scoring
pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go
The scheduler computes sourceScore after selecting a candidate region. The source-store loop contains an unresolved merge-conflict block.
Balance scheduler regression coverage
pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go
Adds tests for candidate-size scoring, oversized candidates, sole-region placement, and repeated calls through Schedule(). The import block contains an unresolved merge-conflict block.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c368b

The balancing fix cannot be merged yet because unresolved conflict markers prevent the scheduler code and tests from compiling. Resolve the conflicts before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The intended algorithm and regression tests address issue [#11135], but unresolved merge-conflict markers remain in production and test files. The change cannot be merged or reliably verified in its c… Resolve all merge conflicts in pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go and pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go. Preserve the intended candidate-region scoring changes, then run the relevant unit tests and confirm the files comp…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the scheduler area and the main fix for balance-region churn on near-empty clusters.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the issue number, problem statement, implementation details, unit-test coverage, and release note. It is complete enough for review.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The functional changes and regression tests are related to the balance-region churn described in [#11135]. No unrelated APIs, configuration, persistent data, or feature changes are present.
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Explanation

The intended algorithm and regression tests address issue [#11135], but unresolved merge-conflict markers remain in production and test files. The change cannot be merged or reliably verified in its current state.

Resolution

Resolve all merge conflicts in pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go and pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go. Preserve the intended candidate-region scoring changes, then run the relevant unit tests and confirm the files compile.

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In `@pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go`:
- Around line 147-152: Resolve the Git conflict in
pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go lines 147-152 by keeping the
appropriate retryLimit implementation, removing the pre-candidate
solver.sourceScore assignment, and deleting all conflict markers so the later
source-score calculation remains the sole assignment. In
pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go lines 22-32, remove conflict
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Comment on lines +147 to +152
<<<<<<< HEAD
retryLimit := s.retryQuota.getLimit(solver.Source)
solver.sourceScore = solver.sourceStoreScore(s.GetName())
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retryLimit := s.getLimit(solver.Source)
>>>>>>> 1785385c81 (schedulers: fix balance-region churn on near-empty clusters (#11137))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve the remaining Git conflict markers.

The <<<<<<<, =======, and >>>>>>> lines are invalid Go syntax. They prevent the scheduler package and its tests from compiling.

  • pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go#L147-L152: select one retryLimit implementation and remove the pre-candidate sourceScore assignment so lines 200-202 remain the only source-score calculation.
  • pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go#L22-L32: retain each required import once, remove the conflict markers, and apply the required Go import ordering.
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[error] 147-147: expected statement, found '<<'

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[error] 152-152: illegal character U+0023 '#'

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  • pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go#L22-L32
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In `@pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go` around lines 147 - 152, Resolve
the Git conflict in pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region.go lines 147-152 by
keeping the appropriate retryLimit implementation, removing the pre-candidate
solver.sourceScore assignment, and deleting all conflict markers so the later
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pkg/schedule/schedulers/balance_region_test.go lines 22-32, remove conflict
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