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[jira] [Commented] (ZOOKEEPER-975) new peer goes in LEADING state even if ensemble is online

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Flavio Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-975:
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Hi Vishal, Apart from not having a test, it is +1 for me. Looks good.

> new peer goes in LEADING state even if ensemble is online
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-975
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-975
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.2
>            Reporter: Vishal K
>            Assignee: Vishal K
>             Fix For: 3.4.0
>
>         Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-975.patch, ZOOKEEPER-975.patch, ZOOKEEPER-975.patch2, ZOOKEEPER-975.patch3
>
>
> Scenario:
> 1. 2 of the 3 ZK nodes are online
> 2. Third node is attempting to join
> 3. Third node unnecessarily goes in "LEADING" state
> 4. Then third goes back to LOOKING (no majority of followers) and finally goes to FOLLOWING state.
> While going through the logs I noticed that a peer C that is trying to
> join an already formed cluster goes in LEADING state. This is because
> QuorumCnxManager of A and B sends the entire history of notification
> messages to C. C receives the notification messages that were
> exchanged between A and B when they were forming the cluster.
> In FastLeaderElection.lookForLeader(), due to the following piece of
> code, C quits lookForLeader assuming that it is supposed to lead.
> 740                             //If have received from all nodes, then terminate
> 741                             if ((self.getVotingView().size() == recvset.size()) &&
> 742                                     (self.getQuorumVerifier().getWeight(proposedLeader) != 0)){
> 743                                 self.setPeerState((proposedLeader == self.getId()) ?
> 744                                         ServerState.LEADING: learningState());
> 745                                 leaveInstance();
> 746                                 return new Vote(proposedLeader, proposedZxid);
> 747
> 748                             } else if (termPredicate(recvset,
> This can cause:
> 1.  C to unnecessarily go in LEADING state and wait for tickTime * initLimit and then restart the FLE.
> 2. C waits for 200 ms (finalizeWait) and then considers whatever
> notifications it has received to make a decision. C could potentially
> decide to follow an old leader, fail to connect to the leader, and
> then restart FLE. See code below.
> 752                             if (termPredicate(recvset,
> 753                                     new Vote(proposedLeader, proposedZxid,
> 754                                             logicalclock))) {
> 755 
> 756                                 // Verify if there is any change in the proposed leader
> 757                                 while((n = recvqueue.poll(finalizeWait,
> 758                                         TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)) != null){
> 759                                     if(totalOrderPredicate(n.leader, n.zxid,
> 760                                             proposedLeader, proposedZxid)){
> 761                                         recvqueue.put(n);
> 762                                         break;
> 763                                     }
> 764                                 }
> In general, this does not affect correctness of FLE since C will
> eventually go back to FOLLOWING state (A and B won't vote for
> C). However, this delays C from joining the cluster. This can in turn
> affect recovery time of an application.
> Proposal: A and B should send only the latest notification (most
> recent) instead of the entire history. Does this sound reasonable?

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