GitHub user onurkaraman opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3413
KAFKA-5502: read current brokers from zookeeper upon processing broker
change
Dong Lin's testing of the 0.11.0 release revealed a controller-side
performance regression in clusters with many brokers and many partitions when
bringing up many brokers simultaneously.
The regerssion is caused by KAFKA-5028: a Watcher receives WatchedEvent
notifications from the raw ZooKeeper client EventThread. A WatchedEvent only
contains the following information:
- KeeperState
- EventType
- path
Note that it does not actually contain the current data or current set of
children associated with the data/child change notification. It is up to the
user to do this lookup to see the current data or set of children.
ZkClient is itself a Watcher. When it receives a WatchedEvent, it puts a
ZkEvent into its own queue which its own ZkEventThread processes. Users of
ZkClient interact with these notifications through listeners (IZkDataListener,
IZkChildListener). IZkDataListener actually expects as input the current data
of the watched znode, and likewise IZkChildListener actually expects as input
the current set of children of the watched znode. In order to provide this
information to the listeners, the ZkEventThread, when processing the ZkEvent in
its queue, looks up the information (either the current data or current set of
children) simultaneously sets up the next watch, and passes the result to the
listener.
The regression introduced in KAFKA-5028 is the time at which we lookup the
information needed for the event processing.
In the past, the lookup from the ZkEventThread during ZkEvent processing
would be passed into the listener which is processed immediately after. For
instance in ZkClient.fireChildChangedEvents:
```
List<String> children = getChildren(path);
listener.handleChildChange(path, children);
```
Now, however, there are multiple listeners that pass information looked up
by the ZkEventThread into a ControllerEvent which gets processed potentially
much later. For instance in BrokerChangeListener:
```
class BrokerChangeListener(controller: KafkaController) extends
IZkChildListener with Logging {
override def handleChildChange(parentPath: String, currentChilds:
java.util.List[String]): Unit = {
import JavaConverters._
controller.addToControllerEventQueue(controller.BrokerChange(currentChilds.asScala))
}
}
```
In terms of impact, this:
- increases the odds of working with stale information by the time the
ControllerEvent gets processed.
- can cause the cluster to take a long time to stabilize if you bring up
many brokers simultaneously.
In terms of how to solve it:
- (short term) just ignore the ZkClient's information lookup and repeat the
lookup at the start of the ControllerEvent. This is the approach taken in this
ticket.
- (long term) try to remove a queue. This basically means getting rid of
ZkClient. This is likely the approach that will be taken in KAFKA-5501.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/onurkaraman/kafka KAFKA-5502
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3413.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #3413
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commit 585defde3400e62faaa65c5175e6db9e82c8ad18
Author: Onur Karaman <okara...@linkedin.com>
Date: 2017-06-22T20:05:29Z
KAFKA-5502: read current brokers from zookeeper upon processing broker
change
Dong Lin's testing of the 0.11.0 release revealed a controller-side
performance regression in clusters with many brokers and many partitions when
bringing up many brokers simultaneously.
The regerssion is caused by KAFKA-5028: a Watcher receives WatchedEvent
notifications from the raw ZooKeeper client EventThread. A WatchedEvent only
contains the following information:
- KeeperState
- EventType
- path
Note that it does not actually contain the current data or current set of
children associated with the data/child change notification. It is up to the
user to do this lookup to see the current data or set of children.
ZkClient is itself a Watcher. When it receives a WatchedEvent, it puts a
ZkEvent into its own queue which its own ZkEventThread processes. Users of
ZkClient interact with these notifications through listeners (IZkDataListener,
IZkChildListener). IZkDataListener actually expects as input the current data
of the watched znode, and likewise IZkChildListener actually expects as input
the current set of children of the watched znode. In order to provide this
information to the listeners, the ZkEventThread, when processing the ZkEvent in
its queue, looks up the information (either the current data or current set of
children) simultaneously sets up the next watch, and passes the result to the
listener.
The regression introduced in KAFKA-5028 is the time at which we lookup the
information needed for the event processing.
In the past, the lookup from the ZkEventThread during ZkEvent processing
would be passed into the listener which is processed immediately after. For
instance in ZkClient.fireChildChangedEvents:
```
List<String> children = getChildren(path);
listener.handleChildChange(path, children);
```
Now, however, there are multiple listeners that pass information looked up
by the ZkEventThread into a ControllerEvent which gets processed potentially
much later. For instance in BrokerChangeListener:
```
class BrokerChangeListener(controller: KafkaController) extends
IZkChildListener with Logging {
override def handleChildChange(parentPath: String, currentChilds:
java.util.List[String]): Unit = {
import JavaConverters._
controller.addToControllerEventQueue(controller.BrokerChange(currentChilds.asScala))
}
}
```
In terms of impact, this:
- increases the odds of working with stale information by the time the
ControllerEvent gets processed.
- can cause the cluster to take a long time to stabilize if you bring up
many brokers simultaneously.
In terms of how to solve it:
- (short term) just ignore the ZkClient's information lookup and repeat the
lookup at the start of the ControllerEvent. This is the approach taken in this
ticket.
- (long term) try to remove a queue. This basically means getting rid of
ZkClient. This is likely the approach that will be taken in KAFKA-5501.
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