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Ming Ma commented on HDFS-6184:
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Thanks, Esteban. Regarding #2, yes, we can use servicerpc. So the idea is to
make the number of servicerpc handlers big enough based on the # of DNs in the
cluster so that there is no way servicerpc queue will ever be full even if all
DNs' rpc call into NNs are blocked by the NN's global lock. That should work.
> Better health check from ZKFC
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>
> Key: HDFS-6184
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6184
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: namenode
> Reporter: Ming Ma
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> We have seen several false positives in terms of when ZKFC considers NN to be
> unhealthy. Some of these triggers unnecessary failover. Examples,
> 1. SBN checkpoint caused ZKFC's RPC call into NN timeout. The consequence
> isn't bad; just that SBN will quit ZK membership and rejoin it later. But it
> is unnecessary. The reason is checkpoint acquires NN global write lock and
> all rpc requests are blocked. Even though HAServiceProtocol.monitorHealth
> doesn't need to acquire NN lock; it still needs to user service rpc queue.
> 2. When ANN is busy, sometimes the global lock can block other requests.
> ZKFC's RPC call timeout. This will trigger failover. The question is even if
> after the failover, the new ANN might run into similar issue.
> We can increase ZKFC to NN timeout value to mitigate this to some degree. If
> ZKFC can be more accurate in judgment if NN is health or not and can predict
> the failover will help, that will be useful. For example, we can,
> 1. Have ZKFC made decision based on NN thread dump.
> 2. Have a dedicated rpc pool for ZKFC > NN. Given health check doesn't need
> to acquire NN global lock; so it can go through even if NN is doing
> checkpointing or very busy.
> Any comments?
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