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ramkrishna.s.vasudevan commented on HBASE-11126:
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Option of introducing new hook is the best. But still I was thinking should we
change the behaviour of the existing hooks in the trunk?
Only preCheckAndPut, preCheckAndDelete, preIncrement and preAppend needs
change. One doubt I had in mind was that should we have a new hook before
preBatchMutate like preDeleteWithRowLock() atleast in cases were we need to
have control on how the delete works. May be the name could be something else
too not with preXXXWithRowLock().
> Add RegionObserver pre hooks that operate under row lock
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> Key: HBASE-11126
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11126
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.99.0, 0.98.3
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>
> The coprocessor hooks were placed outside of row locks. This was meant to
> sidestep performance issues arising from significant work done within hook
> invocations. However as the security code increases in sophistication we are
> now running into concurrency issues trying to use them as a result of that
> early decision. Since the initial introduction of coprocessor upcalls there
> has been some significant refactoring done around them and concurrency
> control in core has become more complex. This is potentially an issue for
> many coprocessor users.
> We should do either:\\
> - Move all existing RegionObserver pre* hooks to execute under row lock.
> - Introduce a new set of RegionObserver pre* hooks that execute under row
> lock, named to indicate such.
> The second option is less likely to lead to surprises.
> All RegionObserver hook Javadoc should be updated with advice to the
> coprocessor implementor not to take their own row locks in the hook. If the
> current thread happens to already have a row lock and they try to take a lock
> on another row, there is a deadlock risk.
> As always a drawback of adding hooks is the potential for performance impact.
> We should benchmark the impact and decide if the second option above is a
> viable choice or if the first option is required.
> Finally, we should introduce a higher level interface for managing the
> registration of 'user' code for execution from the low level hooks. I filed
> HBASE-11125 to discuss this further.
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