[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-04-06 Thread Patrick Hunt (JIRA)

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Patrick Hunt commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:
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I talked with Owen (Hadoop PMC chair), specifically what our options might be. 
He re-iterated 
that we should not accept the code without a grant (as I mentioned earlier).

I reviewed some options with him, such as creating a branch or something, none 
of those options
are particular useful/possible though.

One idea we discussed was using Git to help merge the code. Specifically you 
could create a
git repo from your svn repo, then attach the git repo to a jira (this would be 
the grant). We could
use this to review and experiment with merge. You could then use the ZooKeeper 
git repo
http://git.apache.org/
to merge the results of your changes into the latest trunk code, and generate a 
patch set from that.

Perhaps you can think about this relative to the changes you've made and your 
current status.


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 Key: ZOOKEEPER-30
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 Project: Zookeeper
  Issue Type: New Feature
  Components: quorum
Reporter: Patrick Hunt
Assignee: Mahadev konar
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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-04-03 Thread Andrew Carman (JIRA)

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Andrew Carman commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


We'd be happy to show you what we've got, but we don't think we can deliver it 
as a patch. We've deleted a large number of files, touched every file in zab, 
zab/quorum, and zab/persistence, and changed a lot of the jute generated code. 
We're looking at a way to get you public read access to our repository, but 
until then is there some other way we could get it to you?

We talked with Jean-Luc today and we all thought it might be a good idea for us 
to come back up to LinkedIn at the end of the semester to present our work to 
them. Would the Zookeeper team be available to sit in on our presentation and 
possibly do a code review (like we did last fall, but reversed) on May 11, 12, 
or 13th?

Lastly, we think we've come up with a solution to the returning zxid's problem. 
Instead of returning zxid's when you propose, we'll return a ZabTxnCookie 
object which can be used to identify which proposals came from yourself and 
which came from other nodes. There will be an almost unique local id for each 
proposal, and when it is committed, it will also get the zxid, which can be 
used by the application layer as a unique id. We propose the signature below. 
Any comments or suggestions?

{code:title=ZabTxnCookie.java|borderStyle=solid}
/**
 * An identifier for transactions that should be opaque to the user but useful
 * for comparing if two transactions are the same or not. By design it is used
 * by systems implementing the Zab and ZabCallback interfaces because a
 * ZabTxnCookie will be returned when you make a proposal (and a sync) and
 * then passed when commit is called so that the client can match their
 * proposals with commits.
 */
public class ZabTxnCookie {
/**
 * A unique identifier for each server, this is assigned by the config
 * files when Zab is being set up.
 */
private long serverId;

/**
 * The zxid assigned by the leader to a committed proposal. This will only
 * exist on committed proposals once they are passed to deliver. This CAN
 * be used as a unique identifier for each proposal.
 */
private long zxid;
/**
 * A probably unique identifier for each proposal. Its most significant
 * 32-bits are the bottom 32-bits of the system time in milliseconds when
 * the node starts up (so it's reset each time the server goes down). The
 * bottom 32-bits are just a counter that's incremented on each proposal.
 * So this number will not be unique if the server goes down and starts up
 * exactly n*2^32 milliseconds after the first time (n0).
 */
private long localId;

public boolean equals(ZabTxnCookie other);

/**
 * Returns a unique identifier for this proposal, however the identifier
 * is only valid for proposals that have been committed. So this method
 * should only be called once a transaction is delivered to you, never
 * just after making a proposal. This identifier is guaranteed to be
 * sequentially increasing and unique even across server failures.
 * 
 * @return A unique identifier for this proposal if it has been committed,
 * otherwise this number is invalid.
 */
public long getUniqueId();
}
{code}

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-04-03 Thread Andrew Carman (JIRA)

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Andrew Carman commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


We now have public read access to our codebase:
https://svn.cs.hmc.edu/svn/linkedin08/zab-multibranch/
Feel free to look around. It's still quite fluid as we implement the final few 
features.

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-04-03 Thread Mahadev konar (JIRA)

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Mahadev konar commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


i andrew, 
as pat pointed out that we would not be able to merge an external branch 
without a code grant as we have in patch submissions. 
would it be possible for you guys to break up the patch like -

1) patch for changes in persistence
2) patch for changes in quorum


something liek that? if not creating a single patch is fine... 

We would like to include your changes in Zookeeper but it would be difficult 
for us to find bandwidth to review an external repository. Also it would be 
great if you can include the list of changes (concretely) you have made for Zas 
on this jira.
Also, we should be able to meet with you later in may.. we can discuss that 
outside of this jira... 

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-04-03 Thread Andrew Farmer (JIRA)

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Andrew Farmer commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


Other Andrew here. (I'm also on the HMC clinic team.)

Basically, the issue is that a lot of the changes we made have been kind of 
patch-unfriendly - we've moved and renamed a lot of files, and that can't 
really be reflected well by a patch file. (We tried generating a straight patch 
between our repository and yours, and it ended up being something like 5 MB.)

With that all in mind, though, I'm attaching a REALLY ROUGH patch that simply 
adds our current version of Zab, as well as its respective tests, to the 
current SVN trunk revision of Zookeeper. Hopefully this should resolve the 
legal issues.

What it doesn't do is:

1) It doesn't make Zookeeper use Zab for anything. As a result, there's a lot 
of duplicated code now - Zookeeper *will* need to be modified significantly to 
run against the Zab API.

2) It also doesn't port in some of the changes you folks have made to code 
that's within Zab's ambit. (What's included is basically everything that 
doesn't involve either clients or the data tree: leader election, proposal 
handling, and logging/persistence.)

3) Finally, it's not quite complete. We're still working on implementing syncs, 
as well as doing some further tests.

Hopefully this is enough to start taking a look at, though...

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-03-31 Thread Flavio Paiva Junqueira (JIRA)

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Flavio Paiva Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:
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Andrew, It would be really good for us to see a preliminary patch, just to have 
an idea of how you have implemented a few things.

Although perhaps not exactly appropriate, Ben and I had a discussion offline 
about having or not propose returning a zxid. Currently, only the leader 
proposes, since broadcast messages are requests transformed into idempotent 
transactions. If we follow this model, then returning a zxid is not a problem 
because the leader is the one generating a zxid and a propose call does not 
block in this case.

I understand, however, that you are interested in having Zab in such a way that 
any process in the ensemble can propose. If any process can propose, then it 
might not make sense to have a call to propose returning a zxid. The problem of 
not returning a zxid is that currently the broadcast layer and the application 
layer are tightly coupled and separating them creates a potential problem for 
generating snapshots that we use to recover or bring a new follower up to 
speed. In a little more detail, if we separate the state from the atomic 
broadcast and return no zxid, then the service layer on top of zab will have no 
such a notion of transaction identifiers. We currently use such identifiers to 
generate and guarantee a consistent state transfer. 

 



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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-03-24 Thread Andrew Carman (JIRA)

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Andrew Carman commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


Update: We just got Multi-Zab up and running (our name for the multinode, 
networked version of Zab - basically we moved over all of the quorum 
components). We're working on preliminary testing and have already found and 
fixed a few bugs we introduced. We're continuing now with more thorough testing 
(eventually some performance as well as functionality tests) and code 
maintenance (comments, refactoring, etc). The only features we're missing are 
syncs and the ability to return a zxid when calling propose. Syncs are 
definitely a feature we will add (in the manner they exist now, so we avoid the 
two round trips of atomic broadcast), but we would like some input on returning 
zxid's. 

How should they work? When a Zab node has the propose method called on it, the 
API says it should return a zxid of that proposal. However, the leader has to 
assign the zxid, so we either need the client to wait for the proposal to be 
sent to the leader, assigned a zxid, and sent back out to be voted on, or we 
don't return a zxid. Is there a reason we need to return zxid's? Is it only so 
implementing applications can identify which committed proposals originated 
from themselves? Could we just add a server id and local id instead of having 
to wait for the zxid from the leader?

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-02-16 Thread Flavio Paiva Junqueira (JIRA)

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Flavio Paiva Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:
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Andrew, Thanks for your clarification. As part of the ZooKeeper community, 
you're also part of the ZK team( :-) ). I believe that other members of the 
community, including myself, will be happy to help you out with any issue you 
may have with the integration.  

Regarding the sync operation, I don't think it is a good idea to have it in the 
way you're proposing. Sync is a way to provide cheap linearizable reads; cheap 
in the sense that it doesn't require two rounds of atomic broadcast messages. 
Your solution works, but makes it more expensive unnecessarily.  



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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2009-02-15 Thread Andrew Carman (JIRA)

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Andrew Carman commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


On a separate note, we were looking at the way sync's work in the current 
system and it seems like they don't really fit into the Zab interface as we've 
specified it. We are probably just going to drop them, and leave it up to the 
application using Zab to implement syncing if it needs it. We are fairly sure 
that this is possible by initiating a proposal that just says sync and 
waiting for it to be delivered, but we wanted to check to make sure that this 
would actually, correctly replicate ZK's sync functionality. Does it?

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2008-12-08 Thread Krishna Sankar (JIRA)

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Krishna Sankar commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:
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You are right - the current issue is learners. My question was more deeper, to 
see if there is enough skeleton. Again, am getting up to speed - so you might 
find me rushng in where angels fear to tread ;o)
Am on the road this week - Advanced OSX at BigNerdRanch. Let me get back after 
my return to civilization.
Cheers
k/

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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Carman (JIRA)

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Andrew Carman commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


Harvey Mudd Clinic Team writes:

1) How do you suggest we deal with zxids? They are integral to Zab and ZK, but 
they are currently assigned by ZooKeeperServer. We think they should be moved 
into quorum. Is this what you are suggesting by indicating propose(byte 
message[]) return a zxid (Zab transaction identifier)?

2) Should Zab handle writing the log to a file or is that ZK's responsibility 
when deliver is called?

3) How does propose work more specifically? What is the state of the proposal 
when propose returns? Does it return as soon as the Zab leader has seen it (and 
assigned a zxid) or does it wait for the proposal to be accepted (so a deliver 
never needs to be called).

4) How does the state transfer work? Are we transferring the entire log up to 
that point? Some snapshot?

5) We're also unclear on how the leader (both of ZK and Zab) is going to work. 
I think this may be up in the air (based on the Jira bug) still - in our minds 
the option that makes the most sense is to get rid of the ZK leader, and just 
have a Zab leader. Any further thoughts on this?


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2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Carman (JIRA)

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Andrew Carman commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:


Flavio writes:

1-   It seems right to me to have Zab assigning zxids to requests and being 
the return value of propose;

2-   I see it as being the responsibility of Zab to guarantee that messages 
are correctly delivered by everyone or no one, so I would say that it performs 
the logging. However, I was under the impression that we don't log message 
deliveries. Instead, we log when a server acks a proposal, and this is the 
information we use to recover. I'm just not sure about burying it into Zab. It 
might be best to have it as a separate module;

3-   The proposal must have a zxid assigned as this is the return value. 
Method deliver is a callback;

4-   We don't transfer the whole history of operations up to a point. A 
leader either transfer a snapshot or send the difference of the transaction log 
 to a follower (check FollowerHandler.run() and Follower.followLeader());

5-   After some discussion, we thought that it would be best to constrain 
any atomic broadcast implementation we use to be leader-based. In this case, we 
have a call to Zab to get the leader and we use it for the service as well.


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[jira] Commented: (ZOOKEEPER-30) Hooks for atomic broadcast protocol

2008-12-05 Thread Krishna Sankar (JIRA)

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Krishna Sankar commented on ZOOKEEPER-30:
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I might be way off, but would this be an opportunity to add paxos capability? I 
have some ideas and was thinking of making a proposal, but do not want to 
ramble unless it is relevant here.
Cheers
k/

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