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Luke Lu commented on HADOOP-9090:
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I think I understand what you're doing now. I'm concerned about creating a 
thread for each record in the publishMetricsNow and the usage of thread 
interrupt/stop, which seems heavy handed and doesn't guaranteed to work either 
(setDaemon(true) on the worker thread would help though). How about make the 
putMetricsImediate call the regular putMetrics and wait for the publish to 
complete? The signalling is slightly tricky in this case. I'm sure you'll 
figure this out, though :)
                
> Refactor MetricsSystemImpl to allow for an on-demand publish system
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-9090
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9090
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: metrics
>            Reporter: Mostafa Elhemali
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HADOOP-9090.2.patch, 
> HADOOP-9090.justEnhanceDefaultImpl.2.patch, 
> HADOOP-9090.justEnhanceDefaultImpl.patch, HADOOP-9090.patch
>
>
> We have a need to publish metrics out of some short-living processes, which 
> is not really well-suited to the current metrics system implementation which 
> periodically publishes metrics asynchronously (a behavior that works great 
> for long-living processes). Of course I could write my own metrics system, 
> but it seems like such a waste to rewrite all the awesome code currently in 
> the MetricsSystemImpl and supporting classes.
> The way I'm proposing to solve this is to:
> 1. Refactor the MetricsSystemImpl class into an abstract base 
> MetricsSystemImpl class (common configuration and other code) and a concrete 
> PeriodicPublishMetricsSystemImpl class (timer thread).
> 2. Refactor the MetricsSinkAdapter class into an abstract base 
> MetricsSinkAdapter class (common configuration and other code) and a concrete 
> AsyncMetricsSinkAdapter class (asynchronous publishing using the SinkQueue).
> 3. Derive a new simple class OnDemandPublishMetricsSystemImpl from 
> MetricsSystemImpl, that just exposes a synchronous publish() method to do all 
> the work.
> 4. Derive a SyncMetricsSinkAdapter class from MetricsSinkAdapter to just 
> synchronously push metrics to the underlying sink.
> Does that sound reasonable? I'll attach the patch with all this coded up and 
> simple tests (could use some polish I guess, but wanted to get everyone's 
> opinion first). Notice that this is somewhat of a breaking change since 
> MetricsSystemImpl is public (although it's marked with 
> InterfaceAudience.Private); if the breaking change is a problem I could just 
> rename the refactored classes so that PeriodicPublishMetricsSystemImpl is 
> still called MetricsSystemImpl (and MetricsSystemImpl -> 
> BaseMetricsSystemImpl).

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