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Todd Lipcon commented on KUDU-2065:
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351337e adds support for cancelling an RPC while it is mid-transmission.
I think the only remaining improvement we might make here is a cancellation
that actually gets sent to the remote and propagated into the server's
RpcContext, indicating that the client has given up and no longer wants the RPC
to be processed. That seems like a significant new chunk of work, so let's do
it in a separate JIRA if/when we find the need for it?
> Support cancellation for outbound client RPC
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KUDU-2065
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-2065
> Project: Kudu
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: rpc
> Reporter: Michael Ho
> Assignee: Michael Ho
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently, there is no way to cancel an outbound client RPC call in Kudu. The
> following is a proposal to do so. Please feel free to comment on it.
> A new interface {{void Proxy::Cancel()}} will be introduced. It enqueues a
> reactor task which will eventually call {{void OutboundCall::Cancel()}}. A
> new RpcFeature flag {{CANCELLABLE}} will be added to indicate whether the
> server can handle in-flight RPC which is cancelled. More details below. A
> client can specify whether such functionality is needed by setting a bool
> flag in {{RpcController}} passed to the proxy.
> Depending on the state of an OutboundCall, cancellation will happen as
> follows:
> * READY
> ** it hasn't been scheduled yet. Set the cancellation flag in the
> OutboundCall object. When it's eventually scheduled by
> {{Connection::QueueOutboundCall()}}, it will check the cancellation flag
> before assigning a {{call_id}}. If it's set, call
> {{OutboundCall::SetCancelled()}} and return.
> * ON_OUTBOUND_QUEUE
> ** it's on the outbound transfer queue but transfer hasn't started yet.
> {{Connection::WriteHandler()}} will check the cancellation flag before
> initiating a transfer. If it's set, the transfer will be popped from the
> queue and deleted. Call {{OutboundCall::SetCancelled()}} and return.
> * SENDING
> ** some of the payload has already made its way to the other side. To make
> sure the outbound call doesn't hold on to {{sidecars_}} till the end of the
> transfer, the outbound call needs to clear {{sidecars_}} and sends the
> remaining bytes as 0. The entry in CAR map will be removed and
> {{OutboundCall::SetCancelled()}} will be invoked. Please see below on how the
> server will handle this incomplete RPC message.
> * SENT
> ** The payload has been sent. Waiting for a response. Call
> {{OutboundCall::SetCancelled()}}. Incoming response will be dropped on the
> floor.
> * NEGOTIATION_TIMED_OUT
> * TIMED_OUT
> * CANCELLED
> * FINISHED_NEGOTIATION_ERROR
> * FINISHED_ERROR
> * FINISHED_SUCCESS
> ** No-op. Callback has been invoked already.
> {{OutboundCall::SetCancelled()}} will mark {{status_}} to {{Cancelled}}. Set
> the state to {{CANCELLED}}. In addition, it will clear {{side_cars_}}, delete
> {{header_buf_}} and invoke the callback.
> When an OutboundCall already in the {{SENDING}} state is cancelled,
> {{sidecars_}} will be cleared. This provides guarantee to the RPC client that
> the RPC subsystem doesn't have any reference left to payload pointed by
> {{sidecars_}} so the RPC client can safely free them if it's passed in as a
> SliceSideCar. It's freed immediately if it's passed in as FastStringSideCar.
> An in-flight RPC will be cancelled by sending the remainder of the payload
> (encoded in total message length) as 0. An optional bool field is added to
> the request header. If it's set, it's expected that a single byte at the end
> which is 1 if the payload has been cancelled when it was in-flight.
> Potentially, we can do the same treatment for client RPC which times out
> already.
> {noformat}
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | Total message length (4 bytes) |
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | RPC Header protobuf length (variable encoding) |
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | RPC Header protobuf |
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | Main message length (variable encoding) |
> +------------------------------------------------+ --- 0
> | Main message protobuf |
> +------------------------------------------------+ --- sidecar_offsets(0)
> | Sidecar 0 |
> +------------------------------------------------+ --- sidecar_offsets(1)
> | Sidecar 1 |
> +------------------------------------------------+ --- sidecar_offsets(2)
> | Sidecar 2 |
> +------------------------------------------------+ --- ...
> | ... |
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | cancelled | -- true if RPC has been
> cancelled mid-flight
> +------------------------------------------------+
> {noformat}
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