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bq. But the gain with bulk assignment is its faster which we wanted in
HBASE-5914.
Yes. We are keeping bulk assigns, its just that the suggested patch favors the
single-assign letting it do retries whereas the original patch wants to do all
via bulk assign canceling any ongoing single-assigns.
bq. Only after the RS changes to OPENING the znode of the regions belongs to
the RS.
Yes, this is the case for znode states. The problem is the PENDING_OPEN state,
an in-memory state kept in RegionState. It exists across the sending of the
rpc open to the regionserver until the OPENING callback comes into the master
saying the regionserver has moved the znode from OFFLINE to OPENING. This is
the the messy state.
bq. Infact this behaviour of using the owner of the node is the logic behind
how we do processRIT on a master restart.
The context is different I think; there is no ongoing retry of single-assign
here. Its a cleaner case.
bq. But what if the RS goes down before sending the RPC call to RS and that is
where the retry logic comes, which i feel is really needed.
Do you mean the master sending the RPC?
> Regions's in OPENING state from failed regionservers takes a long time to
> recover
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>
> Key: HBASE-6060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6060
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: master, regionserver
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: rajeshbabu
> Fix For: 0.96.0, 0.94.1, 0.92.3
>
> Attachments: 6060-94-v3.patch, 6060-94-v4.patch, 6060-94-v4_1.patch,
> 6060-94-v4_1.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk_2.patch,
> 6060-trunk_3.patch, 6060_alternative_suggestion.txt,
> 6060_suggestion2_based_off_v3.patch, 6060_suggestion_based_off_v3.patch,
> 6060_suggestion_toassign_rs_wentdown_beforerequest.patch,
> HBASE-6060-92.patch, HBASE-6060-94.patch
>
>
> we have seen a pattern in tests, that the regions are stuck in OPENING state
> for a very long time when the region server who is opening the region fails.
> My understanding of the process:
>
> - master calls rs to open the region. If rs is offline, a new plan is
> generated (a new rs is chosen). RegionState is set to PENDING_OPEN (only in
> master memory, zk still shows OFFLINE). See HRegionServer.openRegion(),
> HMaster.assign()
> - RegionServer, starts opening a region, changes the state in znode. But
> that znode is not ephemeral. (see ZkAssign)
> - Rs transitions zk node from OFFLINE to OPENING. See
> OpenRegionHandler.process()
> - rs then opens the region, and changes znode from OPENING to OPENED
> - when rs is killed between OPENING and OPENED states, then zk shows OPENING
> state, and the master just waits for rs to change the region state, but since
> rs is down, that wont happen.
> - There is a AssignmentManager.TimeoutMonitor, which does exactly guard
> against these kind of conditions. It periodically checks (every 10 sec by
> default) the regions in transition to see whether they timedout
> (hbase.master.assignment.timeoutmonitor.timeout). Default timeout is 30 min,
> which explains what you and I are seeing.
> - ServerShutdownHandler in Master does not reassign regions in OPENING
> state, although it handles other states.
> Lowering that threshold from the configuration is one option, but still I
> think we can do better.
> Will investigate more.
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