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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-3789:
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Thanks Stack for the +1.
Also it's important to note that the 0.90 patch breaks rolling restarts because
of the way it changes the closing sequence (which is why this is targeted for
0.92). Apply at your own risk :)
> Cleanup the locking contention in the master
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-3789
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3789
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.90.2
> Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
> Assignee: Jean-Daniel Cryans
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.92.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE-3789-trunk.patch, HBASE-3789-v3-0.90.patch
>
>
> The new master uses a lot of synchronized blocks to be safe, but it only
> takes a few jstacks to see that there's multiple layers of lock contention
> when a bunch of regions are moving (like when the balancer runs). The main
> culprits are regionInTransition in AssignmentManager, ZKAssign that uses
> ZKW.getZNnodes (basically another set of region in transitions), and locking
> at the RegionState level.
> My understanding is that even tho we have multiple threads to handle regions
> in transition, everything is actually serialized. Most of the time, lock
> holders are talking to ZK or a region server, which can take a few
> milliseconds.
> A simple example is when AssignmentManager wants to update the timers for all
> the regions on a RS, it will usually be waiting on another thread that's
> holding the lock while talking to ZK.
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