Vihang Karajgaonkar created HIVE-15879:
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Summary: Fix HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkPartitionDirs method
Key: HIVE-15879
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15879
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar
Assignee: Vihang Karajgaonkar
HIVE-15803 fixes the msck hang issue in HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkPartitionDirs
method by adding a check to see if the Threadpool has any spare threads. If not
it uses single threaded listing of the files.
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if (pool != null) {
synchronized (pool) {
// In case of recursive calls, it is possible to deadlock with TP.
Check TP usage here.
if (pool.getActiveCount() < pool.getMaximumPoolSize()) {
useThreadPool = true;
}
if (!useThreadPool) {
if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
LOG.debug("Not using threadPool as active count:" +
pool.getActiveCount()
+ ", max:" + pool.getMaximumPoolSize());
}
}
}
}
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Based on the java doc of getActiveCount() below
bq. Returns the approximate number of threads that are actively executing tasks.
it returns only approximate number of threads and it cannot be guaranteed that
it always returns the exact number of active threads. This still exposes the
method implementation to the msck hang bug in rare corner cases.
We could either:
1. Use a atomic counter to track exactly how many threads are actively running
2. Relook at the method itself to make it much simpler. Like eg, look into the
possibility of changing the recursive implementation to an iterative
implementation where worker threads pick tasks from a queue until the queue is
empty.
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