Hi,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Prasad Chakka <pra...@facebook.com> wrote:

>  I use a thread specific storage to do something similar. Ie. I keep the
> initialized session in the tss so new threads will not have it initialized.
> Would that work here?
>

I am sorry you misunderstanded  our meaning, we are talking about new
threads with a new session state should be initialized.


>
>
> The Thrift Interface handler is constructed just once for the lifetime of
> the HiveServer. The session object is initialized inside this constructor.
> The SessionState.start() is called only once (in the constructor)
>
> All connections/requests then go through the same handler object – but when
> they run in worker threads – they don’t have a current session object for
> that thread.
>

This the right thing I want to explain.


>
>
> I think the solution here is to initialize TThreadPoolServer using a custom
> implementation of TProcessorFactory. The getProcessor() call can return a
> freshly constructed handler (with new SessionState etc.). This will work in
> all scenarios I think. (btw – the same thread can serve different
> connections – but from reading the code – a getProcessor() call will be made
> for every connection)
>
> (see TThreadPoolServer.WorkerProcess and TThreadPoolServer.serve())
>
This idea will work if the TProcessorFactory could caught the event server
has already accepted a client, I think.



>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Prasad Chakka [mailto:pra...@facebook.com <pra...@facebook.com>]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2009 8:23 PM
> *To:* hive-user@hadoop.apache.org
> *Subject:* Re: thread cofinement session state
>
> I am assuming he is using the same code as MetaStore server. AFAIK,
> TThreadPoolServer is supposed to use a new thread for each connection.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *Joydeep Sen Sarma <jssa...@facebook.com>
> *Reply-To: *<hive-user@hadoop.apache.org>
> *Date: *Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:16:22 -0700
> *To: *<hive-user@hadoop.apache.org>
> *Subject: *RE: thread cofinement session state
>
> (also been reading up on this code a bit just now)
>
> That’s weird. It seems to be using TThreadPoolServer and that seems to just
> service all requests from a single connection in one thread. (and uses the
> same processor I assume that seems to initialize the session state in the
> interface constructor)
>
> Are ur execute calls happening on the same connection?
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> *From:* Min Zhou [mailto:coderp...@gmail.com <coderp...@gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2009 8:03 PM
> *To:* hive-user@hadoop.apache.org
> *Subject:* thread cofinement session state
>
> Hi list,
>    I found each invoke of HiveServer's execute method run in different
> threads. Those threads which execute a HSQL query(not a client connection
> may execute several pieces of queries), have not their own session state.
> when I call SessionState.get(), it will return null beacuse session state on
> this thread hadnot been constructed before. see also fragment of
> ExecDriver.java:
>
>   public static String getRealFiles(Configuration conf) {
>     // fill in local files to be added to the task environment
>     SessionState ss = SessionState.get();  // return ss will get null !!!
>    ...
>   }
>
> Is it a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Min
> --
> My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and
> bytecode based virtual machine.
>
> http://coderplay.javaeye.com
>
>


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