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Stefania commented on CASSANDRA-14554:
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bq.  The other methods on a LifecycleTransaction could simply be marked 
synchronised as well.

If we are synchronizing the LifecycleTransaction methods anyway, I'm not sure I 
understand why we need child transactions. Even in 4.0, where Netty threads 
call {{trackNew}}, I don't think we're adding sstables so frequently to 
introduce contention on a shared, synchronized txn. Considering {{trackNew}} 
performs a file sync as you correctly reminded me, surely this blocks Netty 
threads more than a synchronized {{trackNew}}. Maybe if many sstables are 
created concurrently during streaming, child transactions would make sense. I'm 
still not totally sure.

It's fine with me if we prefer to try a different alternative, the patch is 
available at any time. This code is not changing much so there is little risk 
of the patch getting stale. For info, internally [~snazy] already reviewed the 
patch.


> LifecycleTransaction encounters ConcurrentModificationException when used in 
> multi-threaded context
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-14554
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14554
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Dinesh Joshi
>            Assignee: Dinesh Joshi
>            Priority: Major
>
> When LifecycleTransaction is used in a multi-threaded context, we encounter 
> this exception -
> {quote}java.util.ConcurrentModificationException: null
>  at 
> java.util.LinkedHashMap$LinkedHashIterator.nextNode(LinkedHashMap.java:719)
>  at java.util.LinkedHashMap$LinkedKeyIterator.next(LinkedHashMap.java:742)
>  at java.lang.Iterable.forEach(Iterable.java:74)
>  at 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogReplicaSet.maybeCreateReplica(LogReplicaSet.java:78)
>  at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogFile.makeRecord(LogFile.java:320)
>  at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogFile.add(LogFile.java:285)
>  at 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogTransaction.trackNew(LogTransaction.java:136)
>  at 
> org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LifecycleTransaction.trackNew(LifecycleTransaction.java:529)
> {quote}
> During streaming we create a reference to a {{LifeCycleTransaction}} and 
> share it between threads -
> [https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/5cc68a87359dd02412bdb70a52dfcd718d44a5ba/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/streaming/CassandraStreamReader.java#L156]
> This is used in a multi-threaded context insideĀ {{CassandraIncomingFile}} 
> which is anĀ {{IncomingStreamMessage}}. This is being deserialized in parallel.
> {{LifecycleTransaction}} is not meant to be used in a multi-threaded context 
> and this leads to streaming failures due to object sharing. On trunk, this 
> object is shared across all threads that transfer sstables in parallel for 
> the given {{TableId}} in a {{StreamSession}}. There are two options to solve 
> this - make {{LifecycleTransaction}} and the associated objects thread safe, 
> scope the transaction to a single {{CassandraIncomingFile}}. The consequences 
> of the latter option is that if we experience streaming failure we may have 
> redundant SSTables on disk. This is ok as compaction should clean this up. A 
> third option is we synchronize access in the streaming infrastructure.



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