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Anoop Sam John commented on HBASE-16643:
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bq.It appears to me that you assume first action for forward scan is 
seek/reseek() and first action for reverse scan is 
backwardSeek/seekToPreviousRow(). This helps you to avoid using two heaps 
variants.
Ya this is what Ram checked and confirmed..  I dont think any logic abt first 
calling seek / backwardSeek has changed recently. This is the core of the read 
flow and very rarely change.  Ram pls double confirm.

> Reverse scanner heap creation may not allow MSLAB closure due to improper ref 
> counting of segments
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-16643
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16643
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>            Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.0.0
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-16643.patch, HBASE-16643_1.patch, 
> HBASE-16643_2.patch, HBASE-16643_3.patch, HBASE-16643_4.patch, 
> HBASE-16643_5.patch, HBASE-16643_6.patch
>
>
> In the reverse scanner case,
> While doing 'initBackwardHeapIfNeeded' in MemstoreScanner for setting the 
> backward heap, we do a 
> {code}
> if ((backwardHeap == null) && (forwardHeap != null)) {
>         forwardHeap.close();
>         forwardHeap = null;
>         // before building the heap seek for the relevant key on the scanners,
>         // for the heap to be built from the scanners correctly
>         for (KeyValueScanner scan : scanners) {
>           if (toLast) {
>             res |= scan.seekToLastRow();
>           } else {
>             res |= scan.backwardSeek(cell);
>           }
>         }
> {code}
> forwardHeap.close(). This would internally decrement the MSLAB ref counter 
> for the current active segment and snapshot segment.
> When the scan is actually closed again we do close() and that will again 
> decrement the count. Here chances are there that the count would go negative 
> and hence the actual MSLAB closure that checks for refCount==0 will fail. 
> Apart from this, when the refCount becomes 0 after the firstClose if any 
> other thread requests to close the segment, then we will end up in corrupted 
> segment because the segment could be put back to the MSLAB pool. 



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