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  1. Hadoop Common
  2. HADOOP-6889

Make RPC to have an option to timeout

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.22.0
    • 0.20.205.0, 0.22.0, 0.23.0
    • ipc
    • None

    Description

      Currently Hadoop RPC does not timeout when the RPC server is alive. What it currently does is that a RPC client sends a ping to the server whenever a socket timeout happens. If the server is still alive, it continues to wait instead of throwing a SocketTimeoutException. This is to avoid a client to retry when a server is busy and thus making the server even busier. This works great if the RPC server is NameNode.

      But Hadoop RPC is also used for some of client to DataNode communications, for example, for getting a replica's length. When a client comes across a problematic DataNode, it gets stuck and can not switch to a different DataNode. In this case, it would be better that the client receives a timeout exception.

      I plan to add a new configuration ipc.client.max.pings that specifies the max number of pings that a client could try. If a response can not be received after the specified max number of pings, a SocketTimeoutException is thrown. If this configuration property is not set, a client maintains the current semantics, waiting forever.

      Attachments

        1. HADOOP-6889-fortrunk-2.patch
          11 kB
          John George
        2. HADOOP-6889-fortrunk.patch
          11 kB
          John George
        3. HADOOP-6889-for-20security.patch
          12 kB
          John George
        4. HADOOP-6889-for20.3.patch
          28 kB
          Matthew Foley
        5. HADOOP-6889-for20.2.patch
          28 kB
          Ravi Prakash
        6. HADOOP-6889-for20.patch
          24 kB
          John George
        7. HADOOP-6889.patch
          24 kB
          John George
        8. ipcTimeout2.patch
          23 kB
          Hairong Kuang
        9. ipcTimeout1.patch
          23 kB
          Hairong Kuang
        10. ipcTimeout.patch
          22 kB
          Hairong Kuang

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