On 8/16/23 14:52, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 02:38:26AM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
>> When a server becomes unstable due to system overloading or intermittent
>> partitioning, it may miss some heartbeats and then starts election with
>> a new term, which would disrupt the otherwise healthy cluster formed by
>> the rest of the healthy nodes.  Such situation may exist for a long time
>> until the "flapping" server is shutdown or recovered completely, which
>> can severely impact the availability of the cluster. The pre-vote
>> mechanism introduced in the raft paper section 9.6 can prevent such
>> problems. This patch implements the pre-vote mechanism.
>>
>> Note: during the upgrade, since the old version doesn't recognize the
>> new optional field in the vote rpc (and the ovsdb_parse_finish validates
>> that all fields in the jsonrpc are parsed), an error log may be noticed
>> on old nodes if an upgraded node happens to become candidate first and
>> vote for itself, and the vote request will be discarded. If this happens
>> before enough nodes complete the upgrade, the vote from the upgraded
>> node may not reach the quorum. This results in re-election, and any old
>> nodes should be able to vote and get elected as leader. So, in unlucky
>> cases there can be more leader elections happening during the upgrade.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
> 

Thanks, Han and Simon!

I wrapped a few long lines in the test and applied the change.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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