[jira] Updated: (CASSANDRA-2105) Fix the read race condition in CFStore for counters

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

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Sylvain Lebresne updated CASSANDRA-2105:
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    Remaining Estimate: 4h
     Original Estimate: 4h

> Fix the read race condition in CFStore for counters 
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2105
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2105
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
>            Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
>              Labels: counters
>             Fix For: 0.8
>
>   Original Estimate: 4h
>  Remaining Estimate: 4h
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> There is a (known) race condition during counter read. Indeed, for standard
> column family there is a small time during which a memtable is both active and
> pending flush and similarly a small time during which a 'memtable' is both
> pending flush and an active sstable. For counters that would imply sometime
> reconciling twice during a read the same counterColumn and thus over-counting.
> Current code changes this slightly by trading the possibility to count twice a
> given counterColumn by the possibility to miss a counterColumn. Thus it trades
> over-counts for under-counts.
> But this is no fix and there is no hope to offer clients any kind of guarantee
> on reads unless we fix this.

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