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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Robert Nettleton


On May 29, 2015, 7 p.m., John Speidel wrote:
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> (Updated May 29, 2015, 7 p.m.)
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> Review request for Ambari, Robert Nettleton, Sumit Mohanty, Sid Wagle, and 
> Tom Beerbower.
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> Bugs: AMBARI-11542
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-11542
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> Repository: ambari
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> Description
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> When provisioning a cluster via the blueprint api, occasionally a database 
> deadlock is detected. There is retry logic around this code so it doesn't 
> affect the creation of the cluster and a user wouldn't notice this unless 
> they looked at the logs. That being said, this issue involves incorrect 
> transaction demarcation and synchronization and is potentially serious 
> depending on how it is manifested.
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> The fix involves changing the scope of the database transaction as well as 
> synchronization.
> There are currently many issues transaction/synchronization issues in the 
> state layer that need to be addresses, this only deals with this exact use 
> case.
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> Also, this patch strictly deals with correctness and I didn't make an effort 
> to optimize this path.  If this results is a performance regression, there 
> are several approaches that we could take.
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> Diffs
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> ambari-server/src/main/java/org/apache/ambari/server/controller/AmbariManagementControllerImpl.java
>  792b6fe 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/34821/diff/
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> Testing
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> Provison clusters many times via looking for a reported database deadlock.  
> Without this patch, I was able to reproduce the deadlock fairly consistently 
> and with the patch no deadlock occurred across many installs.
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> Unit Tests:
> - tx/synchronization change only so no new unit test
> - currently running full unit test suite and will update review with result 
> summary when completed
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> Thanks,
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> John Speidel
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