[jira] [Updated] (YARN-366) Add a tracing async dispatcher to simplify debugging

["Sandy Ryza (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sandy Ryza updated YARN-366:
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    Attachment: YARN-366-3.patch
    
> Add a tracing async dispatcher to simplify debugging
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>                 Key: YARN-366
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-366
>             Project: Hadoop YARN
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: nodemanager, resourcemanager
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.2-alpha
>            Reporter: Sandy Ryza
>            Assignee: Sandy Ryza
>         Attachments: YARN-366-1.patch, YARN-366-2.patch, YARN-366-3.patch, YARN-366.patch
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> Exceptions thrown in YARN/MR code with asynchronous event handling do not contain informative stack traces, as all handle() methods sit directly under the dispatcher thread's loop.
> This makes errors very difficult to debug for those who are not intimately familiar with the code, as it is difficult to see which chain of events caused a particular outcome.
> I propose adding an AsyncDispatcher that instruments events with tracing information.  Whenever an event is dispatched during the handling of another event, the dispatcher would annotate that event with a pointer to its parent.  When the dispatcher catches an exception, it could reconstruct a "stack" trace of the chain of events that led to it, and be able to log something informative.
> This would be an experimental feature, off by default, unless extensive testing showed that it did not have a significant performance impact.

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