Hi Lei,

> On Jun 7, 2017, at 11:34 PM, Lei Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Sasha
> 
> It is still problematic due to the max(change ID) scanning.
> 
> One possible way to address it is that, in HMSFollower#run(), it ask
> sentryStore to cache max change IDs of these two tables with in
> sentryStore itself.
> So that each time, when HMSFollower wake up, it refresh sentryStore's
> cached change ID value. And since DB write is fenced, so the cached
> change IDs should be valid during the execution ?

The fencing is a best-effort - it isn’t guaranteed to always fence. There may 
be some delay between the time
 a new leader is elected and the old leader stops processing notifications.

> 
> Do you know whether SentryPolicyStoreProcessor is also fenced by
> leaderMonitor?  SentryPolicyStoreProcessor also has a write path to
> the DB via SentryStore.

No, it isn’t fenced at all. Only HMSFollower is.

- Alex

> 
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Alexander Kolbasov <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Lei,
>> 
>> Thank you for fixing SENTRY-1795. I remember we had some issues earlier with
>> this approach - see some discussion in SENTRY-1706 where you encountered a
>> deadlock issue.
>> 
>> Do you think that this is still a problem or not?
>> 
>> - Sasha
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lei (Eddy) Xu
> Software Engineer, Cloudera

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