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Jeongdae Kim updated HBASE-15871:
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    Description: 
Sometimes in our production hbase cluster, it takes a long time to finish 
memstore flush.( for about more than 30 minutes)

the reason is that a memstore flusher thread calls 
StoreScanner.updateReaders(), waits for acquiring a lock that store scanner 
holds in StoreScanner.next() and backwardseek() in memstore scanner runs for a 
long time.

I think that this condition could occur in reverse scan by the following 
process.

1) create a reversed store scanner by requesting a reverse scan.
2) flush a memstore in the same HStore.
3) puts a lot of cells in memstore and memstore is almost full.
4) call the reverse scanner.next() and re-create all scanners in this store 
because all scanners was already closed by 2)'s flush() and backwardseek() with 
store's lastTop for all new scanners.
5) in this status, memstore is almost full by 2) and all cells in memstore have 
sequenceID greater than this scanner's readPoint because of 2)'s flush(). this 
condition causes searching all cells in memstore, and seekToPreviousRow() 
repeatly seach cells that are already searched if a row has one column. 
(described this in more detail in a attached file.)
6) flush a memstore again in the same HStore, and wait until 4-5) process 
finished, to update store files in the same HStore after flusing.

I searched HBase jira. and found a similar issue. (HBASE-14497) but, 
HBASE-14497's fix can't solve this issue because that fix just changed 
recursive call to loop.(and already applied to our HBase version)

  was:
Sometimes in our production hbase cluster, it takes a long time to finish 
memstore flush.( for about more than 30 minutes)

the reason is that a memstore flusher thread calls 
StoreScanner.updateReaders(), waits for acquiring a lock that store scanner 
holds in StoreScanner.next() and backwardseek() in memstore scanner runs for a 
long time.

I think that this condition could occur in reverse scan by the following 
process.

1) create a reversed store scanner by requesting a reverse scan.
2) flush a memstore in the same HStore.
3) puts a lot of cells in memstore and memstore is almost full.
4) call the reverse scanner.next() and re-create all scanners in this store 
because all scanners was already closed by 2)'s flush() and backwardseek() with 
store's lastTop for all new scanners.
5) in this status, memstore is almost full by 2) and all cells in memstore have 
sequenceID greater than this scanner's readPoint because of 2)'s flush(). this 
condition causes searching all cells in memstore, and seekToPreviousRow() 
repeatly seach cells that are already searched if a row has one column. 
(described this in more detail in a attached file.)
6) flush a memstore again in the same HStore, and wait until 4-5) process 
finished, to update store files in the same HStore after flusing.

I searched HBase jira. and found a similar issue. (HBASE-14497) but, 
HBASE-14497's fix can't solve this issue because that fix just changed 
recursive call to loop.


> Memstore flush doesn't finish because of backwardseek() in memstore scanner.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-15871
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15871
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Scanners
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.2
>            Reporter: Jeongdae Kim
>         Attachments: memstore_backwardSeek().PNG
>
>
> Sometimes in our production hbase cluster, it takes a long time to finish 
> memstore flush.( for about more than 30 minutes)
> the reason is that a memstore flusher thread calls 
> StoreScanner.updateReaders(), waits for acquiring a lock that store scanner 
> holds in StoreScanner.next() and backwardseek() in memstore scanner runs for 
> a long time.
> I think that this condition could occur in reverse scan by the following 
> process.
> 1) create a reversed store scanner by requesting a reverse scan.
> 2) flush a memstore in the same HStore.
> 3) puts a lot of cells in memstore and memstore is almost full.
> 4) call the reverse scanner.next() and re-create all scanners in this store 
> because all scanners was already closed by 2)'s flush() and backwardseek() 
> with store's lastTop for all new scanners.
> 5) in this status, memstore is almost full by 2) and all cells in memstore 
> have sequenceID greater than this scanner's readPoint because of 2)'s 
> flush(). this condition causes searching all cells in memstore, and 
> seekToPreviousRow() repeatly seach cells that are already searched if a row 
> has one column. (described this in more detail in a attached file.)
> 6) flush a memstore again in the same HStore, and wait until 4-5) process 
> finished, to update store files in the same HStore after flusing.
> I searched HBase jira. and found a similar issue. (HBASE-14497) but, 
> HBASE-14497's fix can't solve this issue because that fix just changed 
> recursive call to loop.(and already applied to our HBase version)



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