[jira] Created: (HADOOP-6889) Make RPC to have an option to timeout

["Hairong Kuang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Make RPC to have an option to timeout
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                 Key: HADOOP-6889
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6889
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: ipc
    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
             Fix For: 0.22.0, 0.20-append


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.

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