[Impala-ASF-CR] IMPALA-7624: Workaround docker/kernel bug causing test-with-docker to sometimes hang.

["Philip Zeyliger (Code Review)" <ge...@cloudera.org>]

Hello Laszlo Gaal, Csaba Ringhofer, Impala Public Jenkins, 

I'd like you to reexamine a change. Please visit

    http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/11481

to look at the new patch set (#2).

Change subject: IMPALA-7624: Workaround docker/kernel bug causing test-with-docker to sometimes hang.
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IMPALA-7624: Workaround docker/kernel bug causing test-with-docker to sometimes hang.

I've observed that builds of test-with-docker that have "suite
parallelism" sometimes hang when the Docker containers are
being created. (The implementation had multiple threads calling
"docker create" simultaneously.) Trolling the mailing lists,
it's maybe a bug in Docker or the kernel. I've never caught
it live enough to strace it.

A hopeful workaround is to serialize the docker create calls, which is
easy and harmless, given that "docker create" is usually pretty quick
(subsecond) and the overall run time here is hours+.

With this change, I was able to run test-with-docker with
--suite-concurrency=6 on a c5.9xlarge in AWS, with a total runtime of
1h35m.

The hangs are intermittent and cause, in the typical case, inconsistency
in runtimes because less parallelism happens when one of the "docker
create" calls hang. (I've seen them resume after one of the other
containers finishes.) We'll find out with time whether this stabilizes
it or has no effect.

Change-Id: I3e44db7a6ce08a42d6fe574d7348332578cd9e51
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M docker/test-with-docker.py
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)


  git pull ssh://gerrit.cloudera.org:29418/Impala-ASF refs/changes/81/11481/2
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Gerrit-Project: Impala-ASF
Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-MessageType: newpatchset
Gerrit-Change-Id: I3e44db7a6ce08a42d6fe574d7348332578cd9e51
Gerrit-Change-Number: 11481
Gerrit-PatchSet: 2
Gerrit-Owner: Philip Zeyliger <ph...@cloudera.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Csaba Ringhofer <cs...@cloudera.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Impala Public Jenkins <im...@cloudera.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Laszlo Gaal <la...@cloudera.com>