GitHub user tillrohrmann opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2830
[FLINK-5098] [akka] Detect unreachable remote actors to fail ask calls
eagerly
This PR adds to every sent ask message an additional Identify message which
is used to
detect whether the target actor is actually reachable. The Identify message
allows to
detect unreachable ActorSystems or that an actor is not existing in an
ActorSystem without
having to wait for a timeout. This then allows to fail the ask operation
eagerly.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/tillrohrmann/flink eagerTimeout
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2830.patch
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with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #2830
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commit 0e4f059ca2a1764082851c8e7538483180c3e40b
Author: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
Date: 2016-11-09T14:29:32Z
[FLINK-5098] [akka] Detect unreachable remote actors to fail ask calls
eagerly
This PR adds to every sent ask message an additional Identify message which
is used to
detect whether the target actor is actually reachable. The Identify message
allows to
detect unreachable ActorSystems or that an actor is not existing in an
ActorSystem without
having to wait for a timeout. This then allows to fail the ask operation
eagerly.
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