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Really cool! It looks like some network failures are unavoidable scaling up, so 
resending requests on one end and ensuring unicity on the other seems a solid 
approach.
>From your numbers, it's a pretty dramatic step up and I can't wait to try it.

Is there any significant impact on jobs that wouldn't require the additional 
precautions? In other words, if you take a job that succeeds with current 
trunk, do the communication-heavy phases take considerably longer?

Other than that, only some comments about maintainability.

Thanks!


http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyClient.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22634>

    Unrelated to your changes, but I think these should go in GiraphJob like 
all other config options, even if Netty-specific.



http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyClient.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22635>

    Can you put a more explanatory comment here? You're just making the 
previously hardcoded WAITING_REQUEST_MSECS parameter configurable, right?
    So maybe something like "Waiting interval for outstanding requests to 
finish".



http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyClient.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22636>

    I would turn this 13 into a named constant and briefly explain how you get 
to this number, otherwise this is difficult to maintain.



http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyClient.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22642>

    Well spotted! No reason to synchronize the entire while loop.



http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/RequestServerHandler.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22644>

    I normally don't like having test code paths in non-test classes. Is there 
absolutely no way around this?



http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/ResponseClientHandler.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22645>

    Typo (missing blank).



http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/WorkerIdRequestId.java
<https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/#comment22649>

    Just a matter of taste, but I think we could use a more meaningful name 
here.
    Some ideas: GlobalRequestId (as this is a global, unique identifier), 
WorkerRequestIdPair (super-explicit).
    Also I would specify in the comments that we're referring to the 
destination worker.


- Alessandro Presta


On Aug. 20, 2012, 6:47 p.m., Avery Ching wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 20, 2012, 6:47 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for giraph.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> One of the biggest scalability challenges is getting Giraph to run reliably 
> on a large number of tasks (i.e. > 200). Several problems exist:
> 
> 1) If the connection fails after the initial connection was made, the job 
> will die.
> 2) Requests must be completed exactly once. This is difficult to implement, 
> but required since we cannot have multiple retried requests succeed (i.e. a 
> vertex gets more messages than expected).
> 3) Sometimes there are unresolved addresses, causing failure.
> 
> This patch addresses these issues by re-establishing failed connections and 
> keep tracking of every request sent to every worker. If the request fails or 
> passes a timeout, it will be resent. The server will keep track of requests 
> that succeeded to insure that the same request won't be processed more than 
> once. The structure for keeping track of the succeeded requests on the server 
> is efficient for handling increasing request ids (IncreasingBitSet). For 
> handling unresolved addresses, I added retry logic to keep trying to resolve 
> the problem.
> 
> This patch also adds several unit tests that use fault injection to simulate 
> a lost response or a closed channel exception on the server. It also has 
> unittests for IncreasingBitSet to insure it is working correctly and 
> efficiently.
> 
> This passes all unittests (including the new ones). Additionally, I have some 
> experience results as well.
> 
> Previously, I was unable to run reliably with more than 200 workers. With 
> this change I can reliably run 500+ workers. I also ran with 600 workers 
> successfully. This is a really big reliability win for us.
> 
> I can see the code working to do reconnections and re-issue requests when 
> necessary. It's very cool.
> 
> I.e.
> 
> 2012-08-18 00:16:52,109 INFO org.apache.giraph.comm.NettyClient: 
> checkAndFixChannel: Fixing disconnected channel to 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx.xx.xx.xx:30455, open = false, bound = false
> 2012-08-18 00:16:52,111 INFO org.apache.giraph.comm.NettyClient: 
> checkAndFixChannel: Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:30455!
> 2012-08-18 00:16:52,123 INFO org.apache.giraph.comm.NettyClient: 
> checkAndFixChannel: Fixing disconnected channel to 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, open = false, bound = false
> 2012-08-18 00:16:52,124 INFO org.apache.giraph.comm.NettyClient: 
> checkAndFixChannel: Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:30117!
> 
> 
> This addresses bug GIRAPH-306.
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GIRAPH-306
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/AddressRequestIdGenerator.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/ChannelRotater.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/IncreasingBitSet.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyClient.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyServer.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/NettyWorkerClient.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/RequestDecoder.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/RequestInfo.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/RequestServerHandler.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/ResponseClientHandler.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/WorkerIdRequestId.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/WorkerRequestReservedMap.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/WritableRequest.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/graph/BspServiceMaster.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/graph/BspServiceWorker.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/graph/GiraphJob.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/graph/WorkerInfo.java
>  1374192 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/IncreasingBitSetTest.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/RequestFailureTest.java
>  PRE-CREATION 
>   
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/giraph/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/giraph/comm/RequestTest.java
>  1374192 
> 
> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/6687/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> mvn clean verify
> Lots of large test 500-600 workers with PageRankBenchmark
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Avery Ching
> 
>

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