[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-3018) Make RPCTimeout be as close to "max time to respond to client" as possible

["Sylvain Lebresne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Make RPCTimeout be as close to "max time to respond to client" as possible
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                 Key: CASSANDRA-3018
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3018
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
            Priority: Minor


Quoting a comment of CASSANDRA-2494:
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rpctimeout is working exactly as intended, i.e., to prevent waiting indefinitely for a node that died after we sent it a request. Treating it as "max time to respond to client" has never really been correct. (E.g., in the CL > ONE case we can already wait up to rpctimeout twice, one for the original digest read set, and again for the data read after mismatch.)
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Let's make treating it as "max time to respond to client" more correct. It should be too hard (we just need to grab the time at the start and make every wait depend on how long we still have), and it will be more useful. It probably cannot be perfect, but the goal is not to aim for sub-milisecond precision, but to avoid the "waiting up twice the value 'asked' for".

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