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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-7078: --------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4578 > Support fencing tokens to filter out outdated messages > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-7078 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7078 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Distributed Coordination > Reporter: Till Rohrmann > Assignee: Till Rohrmann > Labels: flip-6 > Fix For: 1.4.0 > > > In order to guard against split brain situations, it is important that RPC > calls are guarded with a fencing token. The sender attaches his fencing token > to a RPC message which is then used on the receiver side to compare against > the expected fencing token. An example is the leader session ID which we > attach to all critical RPC messages. > So far, in the Flip-6 code base we send fencing tokens explicitly. This is > not only cumbersome but also error-prone because you have to do it for all > RPCs. Therefore, it would be better if we could automatically compare fencing > tokens for a given RPC from a given source. This should ideally happen on the > level of the RPC server. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)