[jira] [Commented] (MESOS-422) Master leader election should be more robust to stale ephemeral nodes

["Benjamin Mahler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benjamin Mahler commented on MESOS-422:
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[~xujyan] have you thought about how we might fix this in the new detector / contender code?

> Master leader election should be more robust to stale ephemeral nodes
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MESOS-422
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-422
>             Project: Mesos
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: master
>    Affects Versions: 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0
>            Reporter: Bill Farner
>            Assignee: Yan Xu
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: twitter
>             Fix For: 0.16.0
>
>
> When a leading master exits abruptly, it may fatefully restart and think it's the leader.  If particularly unlucky, this could result in a set of masters that are indefinitely unstable.
> Sequence of events:
> - Master process becomes leader
> - Master process exits, session expiration counter begins
> - Master process restarts, reads leader node contents, and decides it's the leader (based on PID equality)
> - Previous master session expires, node is deleted
> - Master decides a different master is leader, commits suicide
> - Rinse, repeat for newly-created master node
> The salient fact here is that leaders should be concerned with "did i create the leader node" (ignoring node data) while clients want to be apprised of leader's node data.
> Relevant code:
> https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/trunk/src/detector/detector.cpp#L548
> ZK leader election recipe, for reference:
> http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/recipes.html#sc_leaderElection



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