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Cao Manh Dat commented on SOLR-13486:
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Thanks [~hossman] it is indeed a serious problem. Should we introduce a
lock/flag to prevent /replication if tlog replay is not finished?
([~shalinmangar] wdyt?)
> race condition between leader's "replay on startup" and non-leader's "recover
> from leader" can leave replicas out of sync (TestCloudConsistency)
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>
> Key: SOLR-13486
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13486
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Hoss Man
> Priority: Major
> Attachments:
> apache_Lucene-Solr-BadApples-NightlyTests-master_61.log.txt.gz,
> apache_Lucene-Solr-BadApples-Tests-8.x_102.log.txt.gz
>
>
> I've been investigating some jenkins failures from TestCloudConsistency,
> which at first glance suggest a problem w/replica(s) recovering after a
> network partition from the leader - but in digging into the logs the root
> cause acturally seems to be a thread race conditions when a replica (the
> leader) is first registered...
> * The {{ZkContainer.registerInZk(...)}} method (which is called by
> {{CoreContainer.registerCore(...)}} & {{CoreContainer.load()}}) is typically
> run in a background thread (via the {{ZkContainer.coreZkRegister}}
> ExecutorService)
> * {{ZkContainer.registerInZk(...)}} delegates to
> {{ZKController.register(...)}} which is ultimately responsible for checking
> if there are any "old" tlogs on disk, and if so handling the "Replaying tlog
> for <URL> during startup" logic
> * Because this happens in a background thread, other logic/requests can be
> handled by this core/replica in the meantime - before it starts (or while in
> the middle of) replaying the tlogs
> ** Notably: *leader's that have not yet replayed tlogs on startup will
> erroneously respond to RTG / Fingerprint / PeerSync requests from other
> replicas w/incomplete data*
> ...In general, it seems scary / fishy to me that a replica can (aparently)
> become *ACTIVE* before it's finished it's {{registerInZk}} + "Replaying tlog
> ... during startup" logic ... particularly since this can happen even for
> replicas that are/become leaders. It seems like this could potentially cause
> a whole host of problems, only one of which manifests in this particular test
> failure:
> * *BEFORE* replicaX's "coreZkRegister" thread reaches the "Replaying tlog
> ... during startup" check:
> ** replicaX can recognize (via zk terms) that it should be the leader(X)
> ** this leaderX can then instruct some other replicaY to recover from it
> ** replicaY can send RTG / PeerSync / FetchIndex requests to the leaderX
> (either on it's own volition, or because it was instructed to by leaderX) in
> an attempt to recover
> *** the responses to these recovery requests will not include updates in the
> tlog files that existed on leaderX prior to startup that hvae not yet been
> replayed
> * *AFTER* replicaY has finished it's recovery, leaderX's "Replaying tlog ...
> during startup" can finish
> ** replicaY now thinks it is in sync with leaderX, but leaderX has
> (replayed) updates the other replicas know nothing about
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