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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-4015:
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Sorry I'm a little late to this discussion but I like the idea of not adding a
new state. Instead, we can just pass the znode version number in the RPC to
the regionservers. Or encode the servername in the znode.
> Refactor the TimeoutMonitor to make it less racy
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>
> Key: HBASE-4015
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4015
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Affects Versions: 0.90.3
> Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
> Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.92.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-4015_1_trunk.patch, Timeoutmonitor with state
> diagrams.pdf
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> The current implementation of the TimeoutMonitor acts like a race condition
> generator, mostly making things worse rather than better. It does it's own
> thing for a while without caring for what's happening in the rest of the
> master.
> The first thing that needs to happen is that the regions should not be
> processed in one big batch, because that sometimes can take minutes to
> process (meanwhile a region that timed out opening might have opened, then
> what happens is it will be reassigned by the TimeoutMonitor generating the
> never ending PENDING_OPEN situation).
> Those operations should also be done more atomically, although I'm not sure
> how to do it in a scalable way in this case.
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