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Timothee Maret commented on SLING-5435: --------------------------------------- bq. Perhaps what might be useful is to group the TopologyEventListeners into those that want synchronization and those that explicitly don't want it? [~egli] +1 It would avoid API consumers to explicitly invoke a synchronisation mechanism should they require it. It could be done without breaking the existing API consumers which rely on repository synchronisation and let components that don't require this sync to smoothly migrate to the alternative support (without sync). > Decouple processes that depend on cluster leader elections from the cluster > leader elections. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SLING-5435 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-5435 > Project: Sling > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: General > Reporter: Ian Boston > > Currently there are many processes in Sling that must complete before a Sling > Discovery cluster leader election is declared complete. These processes > include things like transferring all Jobs from the old leader to the new > leader and waiting for the data to appear visible on the new leader. This > introduces an additional overhead to the leader election process which > introduces a higher than desirable timeout for elections and heartbeat. This > higher than desirable timeout precludes the use of more efficient election > and distributed consensus algorithms as implemented in Etcd, Zookeeper or > implementations of RAFT. > If the election could be declared complete leaving individual components to > manage their own post election operations (ie decoupling those processes from > the election), then faster election or alternative Discovery implementations > such as the one implemented on etcd could be used. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)